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5 days ago · In 1930, del Río met Cedric Gibbons, an art director at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and one of the most influential men in Hollywood, at a party at Hearst Castle. The couple began a romance and married on August 6, 1930. Shortly after her marriage, del Río fell seriously ill with a severe kidney infection. The doctors recommended long bed rest.
4 days ago · The design for the award statuette—a knight standing on a reel of film and holding a sword—is credited to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) art director Cedric Gibbons. Sculptor George Stanley was commissioned to create the original statuette based on Gibbons’s design.
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5 days ago · A great example of what makes a noir film noir, Act of Violence is a postwar revenge story that doesn’t involve private detectives, organized crime or massive conspiracies. Instead, an ‘upwardly mobile’ new family looking forward to living the Good Life is destroyed from within by a dark secret.
1 day ago · A member of the ASC since 1927, Folsey served as Society president in 1956-’57. After he retired in 1976 with 162 screen credits to his name, he went on to lecture at the American Film Institute. He died on Nov. 1, 1988, in Santa Monica, Calif., just eight months after being honored by the ASC.
3 days ago · What are gibbons singing about? Gibbons belong to a group of animals called primates. They are small apes that live in South East Asia. When they communicate with each other they sound like...
3 days ago · Amid the hullaballoo, the chief minister, while taking to X on Monday, had said that no decision was taken to relocate hoolock gibbons from the Sonja Wildlife Rescue Centre in Garo Hills to the upcoming state zoo at Umtrew, Ri-Bhoi.
4 days ago · Gibbons, Cedric, amer. scenograf irskog podrijetla (Dublin, 1893 – Hollywood, 1960). Studirao arhitekturu, na filmu isprva pomoćnik scenografa u studiju Th. A. Edisona, potom postaje scenograf u produkcijama S. Goldwyna.
