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Hans Dreier

Born: 21 August 1885, Bremen
Died: 1966

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Highlighted works

Dishonored

Josef von Sternberg’s erotically charged WWI espionage romance with Marlene Dietrich.
Double Indemnity

An insurance salesman (Fred MacMurray) is seduced into murder and fraud in Billy Wilder’s classic dark thriller, adapted from the novel by James M. Cain.
Sunset Blvd.

The most caustic of European émigré directors, Wilder explored the movie industry and the delusions of stardom in Hollywood’s great poison pen letter to itself.
The Lady Eve

Glamorous conwoman Barbara Stanwyck gets millionaire boffin Henry Fonda in her sights in Preston Sturges’s sparkling screwball comedy.
Duck Soup

Classic Marx Brothers comedy as two small countries find themselves on the brink of war.

Filmography

1951

A Place in the Sun

Art Direction
1950

No Man of Her Own

Art Director
1950

Mr. Music

Art Director
1950

September Affair

Art Director
1950

My Friend Irma Goes West

Art Director
1950

Riding High

Art Director
1950

Let's Dance

Art Director
1950

Branded

Art Director
1950

Sunset Blvd.

Art Direction
1950

Fancy Pants

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1950

Union Station

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1950

The Furies

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1950

Dark City

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1949

My Friend Irma

Art Director
1949

Chicago Deadline

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1949

Dear Wife

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1949

Copper Canyon

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1949

Paid in Full

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1949

The File on Thelma Jordon

Art Director
1949

Captain Carey, U.S.A.

Art Director
1949

Appointment with Danger

Art Director
1949

Red, Hot, And Blue

Art Director
1949

The Great Lover

Art Director
1949

Samson and Delilah

Art Direction
1948

The Emperor Waltz

Art Direction
1948

Streets of Laredo

Art Direction
1948

Sorrowful Jones

Art Director
1948

The Paleface

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1948

The Great Gatsby

Art Director
1948

Beyond Glory

Art Director
1948

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Art Director
1948

A Foreign Affair

Art Director
1948

Whispering Smith

Art Director
1948

Sorry, Wrong Number

Art Direction
1947

Paris in the Spring

Art Director
1947

Variety Girl

Art Director
1947

Suddenly It's Spring

Art Director
1947

Road to Rio

Art Direction
1947

The Big Clock

Art Director
1947

My Favorite Brunette

Art Director
1946

California

Art Direction
1946

Welcome Stranger

Art Director
1946

O.S.S.

Art Director
1946

Blue Skies

Art Direction
1946

The Virginian

Art Director
1946

To Each His Own

Art Director
1945

Road to Utopia

Art Director
1945

The Lost Weekend

Art Direction
1945

Kitty

Art Director
1945

Hold That Blonde!

Art Director
1945

Duffy's Tavern

Art Director
1945

Kitty

Art Director
1945

The Blue Dahlia

Art Direction
1944

Hail the Conquering Hero

Art Director
1944

The Great Moment

Art Direction
1944

Till We Meet Again

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1944

Practically Yours

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1944

Lady in the Dark

Art Director
1944

Double Indemnity

Art Director
1944

The Man in Half Moon Street

Art Director
1944

Going My Way

Art Direction
1944

Here Come the Waves

Art Director
1944

Frenchman's Creek

Art Director
1943

Ministry of Fear

Art Direction
1943

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Art Direction by
1943

Five Graves to Cairo

Art Direction
1943

The Uninvited

Art Director
1943

True to Life

Art Director
1943

Hostages

Art Director
1943

No Time for Love

Art Director
1943

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

Art Director
1942

Holiday Inn

Art Direction
1942

Star Spangled Rhythm

Art Direction
1942

Wake Island

Art Direction
1942

Fly-by-night

Art Director
1942

The Palm Beach Story

Art Director
1942

The Glass Key

Art Director
1942

I Married a Witch

Art Direction
1942

The Forest Rangers

Art Director
1942

My Favorite Blonde

Art Direction
1942

Road to Morocco

Art Direction
1942

This Gun for Hire

Art Director
1942

The Major and the Minor

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1942

Sweater Girl

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1942

Lucky Jordan

Art Director
1941

Road to Zanzibar

Art Director
1941

Night in New Orleans

Art Director
1941

Shepherd of the Hills

Art Direction by
1941

I Wanted Wings

Art Direction
1941

Sullivan's Travels

Art Director
1941

Reap the Wild Wind

Art Direction by
1941

The Great Man's Lady

Art Direction
1941

Victory

Art Director
1941

The Lady Has Plans

Art Director
1941

Caught in the Draft

Art Director
1941

Hold Back the Dawn

Art Director
1941

Birth of the Blues

Art Director
1941

The Lady Eve

Art Director
1940

Rhythm on the River

Art Direction
1940

The Biscuit Eater

Art Director
1940

Christmas in July

Art Director
1940

Buck Benny Rides Again

Art Director
1940

The Great McGinty

Art Director
1940

Arise, My Love

Art Director
1940

The Ghost Breakers

Art Director
1940

Road to Singapore

Art Director
1940

Dr. Cyclops

Art Director
1940

North West Mounted Police

Art Direction by
1939

Hotel Imperial

Art Director
1939

The Star Maker

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1939

Bulldog Drummond's Bride

Art Direction
1939

Geronimo

Art Director
1939

Union Pacific

Art Director
1939

Television Spy

Art Director
1939

Some Like It Hot

Art Director
1939

Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police

Art Director
1939

Paris Honeymoon

Art Director
1939

Never Say Die

Art Director
1939

The Gracie Allen Murder Case

Art Director
1939

The Magnificent Fraud

Art Director
1939

Zaza

Art Director
1939

Beau Geste

Art Director
1939

Midnight

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1939

Man about Town

Art Director
1939

Remember the Night

Art Director
1939

St. Louis Blues

Art Director
1939

What a Life

Art Director
1939

Golden Gloves

Art Director
1939

Persons in Hiding

Art Director
1939

Disputed Passage

Art Director
1938

Bulldog Drummond in Africa

Art Director
1938

The Big Broadcast of 1938

Art Direction by
1938

Bulldog Drummond's Peril

Art Director
1938

Give Me a Sailor

Art Director
1938

Bulldog Drummond's Revenge

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1938

Dangerous to Know

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1938

Artists and Models Abroad

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1938

College Swing

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1938

Spawn of the North

Art Director
1938

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

Art Director
1938

Arrest Bulldog Drummond!

Art Director
1938

The Texans

Art Director
1938

Prison Farm

Art Director
1938

Tip-off Girls

Art Director
1938

You and Me

Art Director
1938

Illegal Traffic

Art Director
1937

Souls at Sea

Art Director
1937

True Confession

Art Director
1937

High, Wide and Handsome

Art Director
1937

King of Gamblers

Art Director
1937

Make Way for Tomorrow

Art Direction by
1937

Artists and Models

Art Director
1937

Bulldog Drummond Comes Back

Art Director
1937

Wells Fargo

Art Director
1937

Angel

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1937

Bulldog Drummond Escapes

Art Director
1937

Hold 'em Navy

Art Director
1937

Swing High, Swing Low

Art Director
1936

The Plainsman

Art Director
1936

The General Died at Dawn

Art Director
1936

Desire

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1936

Forgotten Faces

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1936

The Princess Comes Across

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1936

The Milky Way

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1936

Murder with Pictures

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1936

Anything Goes

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1936

Poppy

Art Direction by
1936

Klondike Annie

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1936

Champagne Waltz

Art Director
1936

The Return of Sophie Lang

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1936

Till We Meet Again

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1936

Rhythm on the Range

Art Direction by
1936

The Texas Rangers

Art Direction by
1935

The Big Broadcast of 1936

Art Director
1935

Goin' To Town

[Art Director]
1935

Man on the Flying Trapeze

[Art Director]
1935

All the King's Horses

[Art Director]
1935

Hands across the Table

Art Director
1935

Enter Madame!

[Art Director]
1935

Peter Ibbetson

Art Director
1935

People Will Talk

[Art Director]
1935

Paris in Spring

[Artistic Sets]
1935

Ruggles of Red Gap

[Art Director]
1935

The Devil Is a Woman

[Art Director]
1934

Wharf Angel

Art Director
1934

Limehouse Blues

[Art Director]
1934

Bolero

[Art Director]
1934

Six of a Kind

[Art Director]
1934

Menace

[Art Director]
1934

Belle of the Nineties

[Art Director]
1934

The Scarlet Empress

[Art Director]
1934

Behold My Wife!

[Art Director]
1934

Now and Forever

[Art Director]
1934

Death Takes a Holiday

[Art Director]
1934

It's a Gift

[Art Director]
1934

You're Telling Me!

Art Director
1934

We're Not Dressing

Art Director
1934

Shoot the Works

[Art Director]
1933

I'm No Angel

[Art Director]
1933

White Woman

[Art Director]
1933

The Song of Songs

[Art Director]
1933

Design for Living

[Art Director]
1933

Tillie and Gus

[Art Director]
1933

Duck Soup

[Art Direction]
1932

Trouble in Paradise

Art Director
1932

The Man I Killed

Art Director
1932

Shanghai Express

Art Director
1932

One Hour with You

[Art Director]
1931

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

[Art Director]
1931

Dishonored

[Art Director]
1931

An American Tragedy

[Art Director]
1930

Monte Carlo

[Art Director]
1930

Morocco

[Art Director]
1929

Betrayal

Art Director
1929

Thunderbolt

Art Director
1929

The Love Parade

[Art Director]
1929

The Case of Lena Smith

Art Director
1929

A Dangerous Woman

Art Director
1928

The Patriot

Art Director
1928

The Dragnet

Art Director
1928

The Docks of New York

Art Director
1928

The Last Command

Sets
1927

Underworld

Set Designer
1924

Forbidden Paradise

Art Director
1921

DANTON

Art Director

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