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Wiard Ihnen is a Production Design and Costume Design American born on 4 august 1897 at New York City (USA)

Wiard Ihnen

Wiard Ihnen
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Birth name Wiard Boppo Ihnen
Nationality USA
Birth 4 august 1897 at New York City (USA)
Death 22 june 1979 (at 81 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Wiard B. "Bill" Ihnen (August 5, 1897 – June 22, 1979) was an American art director.

Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of an architect, he first studied his father's profession at Columbia University. He later attended the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. Ihnen was married to Edith Head from 1940 until his death from prostate cancer in 1979, aged 81.

Biography

Après des études suivies notamment à l'École des beaux-arts de Paris, Wiard Ihnen débute comme décorateur de cinéma en 1919-1920, sur des productions de la Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, dont A Society Exile de George Fitzmaurice (1919, avec Elsie Ferguson et Henry Stephenson) et Docteur Jekyll et M. Hyde de John S. Robertson (avec John Barrymore dans les rôles-titre). Après deux derniers films muets sortis en 1923, il intègre un cabinet d'architecture jusqu'à la fin de l'année 1928, où il rejoint alors Hollywood.

De 1929 à 1934, à la Paramount Pictures, il contribue par exemple à Monte-Carlo d'Ernst Lubitsch (1930, avec Jack Buchanan et Jeanette MacDonald), Blonde Vénus de Josef von Sternberg (1932, avec Marlène Dietrich et Herbert Marshall) et La Soupe au canard de Leo McCarey (1933, avec les Marx Brothers).

De 1939 à 1943, il est directeur artistique à la 20th Century Fox et participe entre autres au western Le Retour de Frank James (1940, avec Henry Fonda et Gene Tierney) et au drame Chasse à l'homme (1941, avec Walter Pidgeon et Joan Bennett), tous deux réalisés par Fritz Lang, ainsi qu'à La Pagode en flammes d'Henry Hathaway (1942, avec Gene Tierney et George Montgomery). Le dernier de ses films à la Fox est Le Président Wilson d'Henry King (avec Alexander Knox dans le rôle-titre), sorti en 1944.

De 1945 à 1953, au sein de la compagnie William Cagney Productions, Wiard Ihnen travaille sur quatre films ayant pour vedette James Cagney (frère du producteur), depuis Du sang dans le soleil de Frank Lloyd (1945, avec Sylvia Sidney) jusqu'à Un lion dans les rues de Raoul Walsh (1953, avec Barbara Hale et Anne Francis), auxquels s'ajoute le western Fort Invincible de Gordon Douglas (avec Gregory Peck et Ward Bond).

Trois autres westerns notables figurent à son actif, La Chevauchée fantastique de John Ford (1939, avec John Wayne et Claire Trevor), L'Ange des maudits (1952, où il retrouve l'actrice Marlène Dietrich et le réalisateur Fritz Lang), et Le Roi et Quatre Reines de Raoul Walsh (son avant-dernier film, 1956, avec Clark Gable et Eleanor Parker).

Le dernier de sa soixantaine de films américains (parmi lesquels figurent des productions de diverses autres compagnies que celles pré-citées) est Le Héros du Pacifique de Robert Montgomery (avec James Cagney personnifiant l'amiral William F. Halsey), sorti en 1960.

Durant sa carrière, il obtient trois nominations à l'Oscar des meilleurs décors, dont deux gagnés en 1945 et 1946, respectivement pour Le Président Wilson et Du sang dans le soleil déjà évoqués.

De 1940 jusqu'à sa mort (d'un cancer de la prostate) en 1979, Wiard Ihnen est marié à la costumière Edith Head (1897-1981).

Best films

Wilson (1944)
(Art Direction)
Stagecoach (1939)
(Assistant Art Director)
Jane Eyre (1943)
(Art Direction)
Dancing Pirate (1936)
(Art Direction)

Usually with

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Thomas Little
(13 films)
Richard Day
Richard Day
(11 films)
Travis Banton
Travis Banton
(10 films)
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Leon Shamroy
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Wiard Ihnen (45 films)

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Art

The King and Four Queens, 1h26
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance, Western
Actors Clark Gable, Eleanor Parker, Barbara Nichols, Jo Van Fleet, Jean Willes, Jay C. Flippen
Roles Production Design
Rating60% 3.0467253.0467253.0467253.0467253.046725
The story involves a middle-aged cowboy adventurer (Clark Gable) who learns that a stolen fortune remains buried on a ranch that serves as home to four gorgeous young widows and their battle-axe mother-in-law; the drifter turns on the charm.
Our Mr. Sun, 54minutes
Directed by Frank Capra, William T. Hurtz
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Animation
Actors Eddie Albert, Lionel Barrymore, Marvin Miller, Sterling Holloway
Roles Set Designer
Rating73% 3.653813.653813.653813.653813.65381
The film opens with Dr. Research (Dr. Frank C. Baxter) and the Writer (Eddie Albert) meeting Father Time (Lionel Barrymore) and Mr. Sun (Marvin Miller) who explain that time started a few billion years ago and that the Sun is a star. Mr. Sun explains that he was worshipped as various gods (Shamash, Mithra, Ra and Apollo) until Anaxagoras proclaimed the Sun was a very hot stone and not a god. Logic and reasoning were the beginning of the end of worshiping the Sun as algebra and the astrolabe were used to study the heavens.
The Indian Fighter, 1h25
Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Kirk Douglas, Elsa Martinelli, Walter Matthau, Diana Douglas, Walter Abel, Lon Chaney, Jr.
Roles Art Direction
Rating62% 3.1472053.1472053.1472053.1472053.147205
Johnny Hawks is a man who made his name fighting Indians. Returning to the West after the Civil War he must now keep wronged Sioux warriors from massacring the Oregon-bound wagon train he is leading and the nearby fort.
This Is My Love, 1h31
Directed by Stuart Heisler
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Linda Darnell, Rick Jason, Dan Duryea, Faith Domergue, Connie Russell, Jerry Mathers
Roles Production Design
Rating64% 3.2347153.2347153.2347153.2347153.234715
Vida Dove lives with younger sister Evelyn and brother-in-law Murray Myer, working in a diner he owns. A former beau of hers, Murray fell in love with her sister, married her, then became paralyzed from a car crash. He now suffers from frequent convulsions and is bitter and cruel to Vida, calling her a spinster and cajoling her to marry and move out.
A Lion Is in the Streets, 1h28
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors James Cagney, Barbara Hale, Anne Francis, Warner Anderson, John McIntire, Jeanne Cagney
Roles Production Design
Rating60% 3.047533.047533.047533.047533.04753
Charismatic roving peddler Hank Martin (James Cagney) falls in love at first sight with schoolteacher Verity Wade (Barbara Hale) and soon marries her. On their wedding day, he rents a ramshackle home from his upper class lawyer friend Jules Bolduc (Warner Anderson). Hank rounds up some of his many friends to fix up the place, but Verity begins to realize that he is not as nice as he appears to be; while they do the work, he sees nothing wrong in going inside to read a law book. He confides to her that it is all a matter of manipulating people the right way.
I, the Jury, 1h27
Directed by Harry Essex
Origin USA
Genres Noir, Crime
Actors Biff Elliot, Preston Foster, Peggie Castle, Margaret Sheridan, Alan Reed, Mary Anderson
Roles Art Direction
Rating60% 3.047463.047463.047463.047463.04746
Shortly before Christmas in New York City, one-armed insurance investigator Jack Williams (Robert Swanger) is looking at a college yearbook photo of John Hansen when someone slips into his apartment and shoots him to death. Hot-headed private investigator Mike Hammer (Biff Elliot), Jack's war buddy, vows to avenge his friend's death despite a warning from Pat Chambers (Preston Foster), captain of the homicide squad, to let the police handle the case. Pat is unable to calm Mike, who roughs up a wisecracking reporter before leaving the crime scene. Knowing that Mike will forge ahead with an investigation regardless of his advice, Pat urges the offended reporter to publish an article disclosing that Mike is on the job.
Rancho Notorious, 1h29
Directed by Fritz Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Actors Marlene Dietrich, John Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer, George Reeves, Gloria Henry, William Frawley
Roles Production Design
Rating67% 3.3964253.3964253.3964253.3964253.396425
Wyoming ranch hand Vern Haskell is enraged when his fiancee Beth Forbes is abused and murdered during a store robbery. He sets out after the two thieves, first with a posse, then by himself. He finds one of them, Whitey, shot in the back by his partner after a quarrel. Whitey's dying words, "Chuck-a-luck", are the only clue to the second man's identity.
Only the Valiant, 1h45
Directed by Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Gregory Peck, Barbara Payton, Ward Bond, Gig Young, Lon Chaney, Jr., Neville Brand
Roles Production Design
Rating64% 3.2455953.2455953.2455953.2455953.245595
Gregory Peck, in a role he considered a low-point of his career, plays Captain Richard Lance, a by-the-book West Point graduate who is not very popular with the men under his command.
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, 1h42
Directed by Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Mob film, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors James Cagney, Barbara Payton, Helena Carter, Ward Bond, Luther Adler, Barton MacLane
Roles Production Design
Rating70% 3.544073.544073.544073.544073.54407
Ralph Cotter is a career criminal who escapes from prison, then murders his partner-in-crime. Along the way he attempts to woo his ex-partner's sister (Barbara Payton) by threatening to expose her role in his escape.
The Time of Your Life, 1h45
Directed by H. C. Potter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors James Cagney, William Bendix, Wayne Morris, Jeanne Cagney, Broderick Crawford, Ward Bond
Roles Production Design
Rating61% 3.098163.098163.098163.098163.09816
Joe est un pilier de bar qui passe ses journées à boire du champagne dans le bar de Nick. Un jour, une femme dénommée Kitty se joint aux habitués et tombe bientôt amoureuse de Tom, un ami de Joe. Tom et Kitty se marient. Peu après, arrive un inconnu qui déstabilise le groupe des habitués.
Tomorrow Is Forever, 1h45
Directed by Irving Pichel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Melodrama, Romance
Actors Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, George Brent, Lucile Watson, Richard Long, Natalie Wood
Roles Production Design
Rating72% 3.6414353.6414353.6414353.6414353.641435
The movie tells the story of Elizabeth (Colbert) and John (Welles), a married couple recently separated when John goes off to fight in World War I. When Elizabeth receives notice of John's death, she marries another man (George Brent). John, however, is still alive, and later returns, but after being disfigured in the war he has undergone plastic surgery, making him almost unrecognizable. He has also adopted an eight-year old daughter (Wood). When he finds out that he has a son with Elizabeth, he is faced with the dilemma of whether or not to reveal his true identity.
Along Came Jones, 1h30
Directed by Stuart Heisler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, Dan Duryea, William Demarest, Lane Chandler, Frank Sully
Roles Art Direction
Rating64% 3.2448553.2448553.2448553.2448553.244855
Easygoing Melody Jones (Gary Cooper) and his friend George Fury (William Demarest) wander into a town. Jones is mistaken for a wanted bandit named Monte Jarrad (Dan Duryea), which causes him no end of trouble. Meanwhile, the real Jarrad is hiding out in the home of his girl, Cherry de Longpre (Loretta Young). At first, she tries to use the newcomer to distract the townsfolk, but as she gets to know Jones, her feelings start to change.
It's a Pleasure
Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Michael O'Shea, Iris Adrian, Marie McDonald, Bill Johnson, Gus Schilling, Cheryl Walker
Roles Art Direction
Rating59% 2.9526752.9526752.9526752.9526752.952675
C'est un plaisir est un film de 1945 avec Sonja Henie. Don Martin est un joueur de hockey vedette avec les Wildcats jusqu'à ce qu'il soit exclu du hockey pour avoir frappé un arbitre. Grâce aux actions de Chris, Don est en mesure d'obtenir un emploi avec le spectacle sur glace de Buzz Fletcher en tant qu'acte de nouveauté.Ld
Wilson
Wilson (1944)
, 2h34
Directed by Otto Brower, Henry King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Historical, Musical, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films, Children's films
Actors Charles Coburn, Alexander Knox, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell, Cedric Hardwicke, Ruth Nelson
Roles Art Direction
Rating63% 3.194243.194243.194243.194243.19424
The story begins in 1909, a time when Wilson (Alexander Knox) is best known as the head of Princeton University and the author of several books on the democratic process. Urged into running for Governor of New Jersey by the local political machine, Wilson soon proves that he is his own man, beholden to no one-and that he is dedicated to the truth at any cost.