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Van Nest Polglase

Scenographer / Production Designer | * 08/25/1898 († 70, 12/20/1968) | Brooklyn, New York City, New York (United States of America (USA))
Van Nest Polglase (August 25, 1898 – December 20, 1968) was an American art director. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. Best remembered as head of the design department at RKO Pictures, he worked on 333 films between 1925 and 1957. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and died in Los Angeles, California. His death notice noted that he was "survived by his son Dr. Van Nest Polglase and 2 grandchildren", his wife, Helen, having predeceased him six months earlier. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Comedies | Romance / Love | Drama

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Wealthy, sheltered Lina McLaidlaw is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Johnnie Aysgarth. Though warned that Johnnie is little more than a fortune hunter, Lina marries him anyway and remains ...

Suspicion

NR

1941 | 3.6/5 | 1h 39min
Mystery, Romance / Love, Thriller
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A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss. ...

Gilda

NR

1946 | 3.8/5 | 1h 50min
Drama, Romance / Love, Thriller
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Newspaper magnate, Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for th ...

Citizen Kane

PG

1941 | 4.0/5 | 1h 59min
Mystery, Drama
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Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont be ...

Top Hat

Certification unknown

1935 | 3.7/5 | 1h 41min
Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
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Awards & Nominations for Van Nest Polglase

4x Academy Award for Best Production Design 2x Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black and White
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Movies with Van Nest Polglase as Crew(294)

Art/Production Design1957 The River's Edge
Art/Art Direction1956 Slightly Scarlet
Art/Art Direction1955 Tennessee's Partner
Art/Art Direction1955 Pearl of the South Pacific
Art/Art Direction1955 Escape to Burma
Art/Art Direction1954 Silver Lode
Art/Art Direction1954 Passion
Art/Production Design1950 The Man Who Cheated Himself
Art/Production Design1950 Never Fear
Art/Art Direction1950 The Fireball
Art/Production Design1950 The Admiral Was a Lady
Art/Production Design1950 Johnny One-Eye
Art/Production Design1949 The Crooked Way
Art/Art Direction1946 Gilda
Art/Art Direction1946 The Thrill of Brazil
Art/Art Direction1945 A Song to Remember
Art/Art Direction1945 Kiss and Tell
Art/Art Direction1945 She Wouldn't Say Yes
Art/Art Direction1944 Together Again
Art/Production Design1943 The Fallen Sparrow
Art/Art Direction1943 What a Woman
Art/Art Direction1941 Six-Gun Gold
Art/Art Direction1941 Citizen Kane
Art/Art Direction1941 Footlight Fever
Art/Art Direction1941 Dude Cowboy
Art/Art Direction1941 The Devil and Miss Jones
Art/Art Direction1941 Hurry, Charlie, Hurry
Art/Art Direction1941 Repent at Leisure
Art/Art Direction1941 Along the Rio Grande
Art/Art Direction1941 They Met in Argentina
Art/Art Direction1941 Suspicion
Art/Art Direction1941 Parachute Battalion
Art/Art Direction1941 The Saint In Palm Springs
Art/Art Direction1941 Play Girl
Art/Art Direction1941 The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Art/Art Direction1941 Weekend for Three
Art/Art Direction1941 Tom, Dick and Harry
Art/Art Direction1941 The Bandit Trail
Art/Art Direction1941 Look Who's Laughing
Art/Art Direction1941 Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Art/Art Direction1941 Father Takes a Wife
Art/Art Direction1941 Lady Scarface
Art/Art Direction1941 All That Money Can Buy
Art/Art Direction1941 The Gay Falcon
Art/Art Direction1941 Cyclone on Horseback
Art/Art Direction1941 A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Art/Art Direction1940 Mexican Spitfire
Art/Art Direction1940 Dance, Girl, Dance
Art/Art Direction1940 The Marines Fly High
Art/Art Direction1940 Legion of the Lawless
Art/Art Direction1940 Curtain Call
Art/Art Direction1940 You Can't Fool Your Wife
Art/Art Direction1940 Little Orvie
Art/Art Direction1940 I'm Still Alive
Art/Art Direction1940 One Crowded Night
Art/Art Direction1940 Men Against the Sky
Art/Art Direction1940 They Knew What They Wanted
Art/Art Direction1940 The Fargo Kid
Art/Art Direction1940 Primrose Path
Art/Art Direction1940 My Favorite Wife
Art/Art Direction1940 Triple Justice
Art/Art Direction1940 Millionaires in Prison
Art/Art Direction1940 Millionaire Playboy
Art/Art Direction1940 Vigil in the Night
Art/Art Direction1940 Lucky Partners
Art/Art Direction1940 Bullet Code
Art/Art Direction1940 Married and in Love
Art/Art Direction1940 The Saint's Double Trouble
Art/Art Direction1940 The Saint Takes Over
Art/Art Direction1940 Cross-Country Romance
Art/Art Direction1940 Mexican Spitfire Out West
Art/Art Direction1940 A Bill of Divorcement
Art/Art Direction1940 Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Art/Art Direction1940 Stranger on the Third Floor
Art/Art Direction1940 Prairie Law
Art/Art Direction1940 Kitty Foyle
Art/Art Direction1940 Stage to Chino
Art/Art Direction1939 The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Art/Art Direction1939 5th Ave Girl
Art/Art Direction1939 Conspiracy
Art/Art Direction1939 Trouble in Sundown
Art/Art Direction1939 The Rookie Cop
Art/Art Direction1939 Gunga Din
Art/Art Direction1939 The Marshal Of Mesa City
Art/Art Direction1939 The Spellbinder
Art/Art Direction1939 Beauty for the Asking
Art/Art Direction1939 Bachelor Mother
Art/Art Direction1939 Arizona Legion
Art/Art Direction1939 In Name Only
Art/Art Direction1939 Allegheny Uprising
Art/Art Direction1939 Racketeers of the Range
Art/Art Direction1939 Twelve Crowded Hours
Art/Art Direction1939 The Saint Strikes Back
Art/Art Direction1939 Almost a Gentleman
Art/Art Direction1939 The Girl and the Gambler
Art/Art Direction1939 That's Right - You're Wrong
Art/Art Direction1939 Love Affair
Art/Art Direction1939 Reno
Art/Art Direction1939 Bad Lands
Art/Art Direction1939 Sued for Libel
Art/Art Direction1939 The Day the Bookies Wept
Art/Art Direction1939 Pacific Liner
Art/Art Direction1939 Panama Lady
Art/Art Direction1939 Timber Stampede
Art/Art Direction1939 The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Art/Art Direction1939 Five Came Back
Art/Art Direction1939 The Fighting Gringo
Art/Art Direction1938 Lawless Valley
Art/Art Direction1938 Crashing Hollywood
Art/Art Direction1938 Room Service
Art/Art Direction1938 Border G-Man
Art/Art Direction1938 Joy of Living
Art/Art Direction1938 Carefree
Art/Art Direction1938 Night Spot
Art/Art Direction1938 The Mad Miss Manton
Art/Art Direction1938 Everybody's Doing It
Art/Art Direction1938 Vivacious Lady
Art/Art Direction1938 Bringing Up Baby
Art/Art Direction1938 Condemned Women
Art/Art Direction1938 Blind Alibi
Art/Art Direction1938 Tarnished Angel
Art/Art Direction1938 Go Chase Yourself
Art/Art Direction1938 The Saint in New York
Art/Art Direction1938 Law of the Underworld
Art/Art Direction1938 Sky Giant
Art/Art Direction1938 Annabel Takes a Tour
Art/Art Direction1938 Double Danger
Art/Art Direction1938 Crime Ring
Art/Art Direction1938 This Marriage Business
Art/Art Direction1938 Having Wonderful Time
Art/Art Direction1938 Fugitives for a Night
Art/Art Direction1938 Painted Desert
Art/Art Direction1938 The Affairs of Annabel
Art/Art Direction1938 A Man to Remember
Art/Art Direction1938 Next Time I Marry
Art/Art Direction1938 The Law West of Tombstone
Art/Art Direction1938 Blond Cheat
Art/Art Direction1938 Mr. Doodle Kicks Off
Art/Art Direction1937 Super-Sleuth
Art/Art Direction1937 Hitting a New High
Art/Art Direction1937 Quick Money
Art/Art Direction1937 Sea Devils
Art/Art Direction1937 China Passage
Art/Art Direction1937 Quality Street
Art/Art Direction1937 Danger Patrol
Art/Art Direction1937 There Goes My Girl
Art/Art Direction1937 Criminal Lawyer
Art/Art Direction1937 The Soldier and the Lady
Art/Art Direction1937 New Faces of 1937
Art/Art Direction1937 Annapolis Salute
Art/Art Direction1937 You Can't Buy Luck
Art/Art Direction1937 Saturday's Heroes
Art/Art Direction1937 On Again-Off Again
Art/Art Direction1937 Wise Girl
Art/Art Direction1937 A Damsel in Distress
Art/Art Direction1937 We Who Are About to Die
Art/Art Direction1937 She's Got Everything
Art/Art Direction1937 High Flyers
Art/Art Direction1937 The Big Shot
Art/Art Direction1937 The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Art/Art Direction1937 Shall We Dance
Art/Art Direction1937 Stage Door
Art/Art Direction1937 Racing Lady
Art/Art Direction1937 Forty Naughty Girls
Art/Art Direction1937 Music for Madame
Art/Art Direction1937 There Goes the Groom
Art/Art Direction1937 The Woman I Love
Art/Art Direction1937 Don't Tell the Wife
Art/Art Direction1937 We're on the Jury
Art/Art Direction1937 The Toast of New York
Art/Art Direction1937 Border Cafe
Art/Art Direction1937 They Wanted to Marry
Art/Art Direction1937 Living on Love
Art/Art Direction1937 Breakfast for Two
Art/Art Direction1936 The Last Outlaw
Art/Art Direction1936 M'Liss
Art/Art Direction1936 Love on a Bet
Art/Art Direction1936 Walking on Air
Art/Art Direction1936 That Girl From Paris
Art/Art Direction1936 Bunker Bean
Art/Art Direction1936 Swing Time
Art/Art Direction1936 The Plough and the Stars
Art/Art Direction1936 Chatterbox
Art/Art Direction1936 Make Way for a Lady
Art/Art Direction1936 Mary of Scotland
Art/Art Direction1936 Silly Billies
Art/Art Direction1936 Wanted: Jane Turner
Art/Art Direction1936 Winterset
Art/Art Direction1936 Murder on a Bridle Path
Art/Art Direction1936 The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Art/Art Direction1936 The Bride Walks Out
Art/Art Direction1936 A Woman Rebels
Art/Art Direction1936 Two in the Dark
Art/Art Direction1936 The Lady Consents
Art/Art Direction1936 The Big Game
Art/Art Direction1935 To Beat the Band
Art/Art Direction1935 Village Tale
Art/Art Direction1935 Romance in Manhattan
Art/Art Direction1935 Break of Hearts
Art/Art Direction1935 She
Art/Art Direction1935 A Dog of Flanders
Art/Art Direction1935 Old Man Rhythm
Art/Art Direction1935 Hooray for Love
Art/Art Direction1935 Chasing Yesterday
Art/Art Direction1935 The Arizonian
Art/Art Direction1935 Roberta
Art/Art Direction1935 The Nitwits
Art/Art Direction1935 Jalna
Art/Art Direction1935 Top Hat
Art/Art Direction1935 Seven Keys to Baldpate
Art/Art Direction1935 Captain Hurricane
Art/Art Direction1935 In Person
Art/Art Direction1935 Star of Midnight
Art/Art Direction1935 Annie Oakley
Art/Art Direction1935 I Dream Too Much
Art/Art Direction1935 Enchanted April
Art/Art Direction1935 His Family Tree
Art/Art Direction1935 Alice Adams
Art/Art Direction1935 We're Only Human
Art/Art Direction1935 The Three Musketeers
Art/Art Direction1935 Sylvia Scarlett
Art/Art Direction1935 The Rainmakers
Art/Art Direction1935 Hot Tip
Art/Art Direction1935 Another Face
Art/Art Direction1935 The Informer
Art/Art Direction1935 Murder on a Honeymoon
Art/Art Direction1935 The Return Of Peter Grimm
Art/Art Direction1934 West of the Pecos
Art/Art Direction1934 Their Big Moment
Art/Art Direction1934 Finishing School
Art/Art Direction1934 Long Lost Father
Art/Art Direction1934 The Richest Girl in the World
Art/Art Direction1934 The Silver Streak
Art/Art Direction1934 The Fountain
Art/Art Direction1934 Let's Try Again
Art/Art Direction1934 His Greatest Gamble
Art/Art Direction1934 The Meanest Gal in Town
Art/Art Direction1934 Sing and Like it
Art/Art Direction1934 Cockeyed Cavaliers
Art/Art Direction1934 The Lost Patrol
Art/Art Direction1934 Bachelor Bait
Art/Art Direction1934 This Man Is Mine
Art/Art Direction1934 The Age of Innocence
Art/Art Direction1934 Down to Their Last Yacht
Art/Art Direction1934 Dangerous Corner
Art/Art Direction1934 The Life of Vergie Winters
Art/Art Direction1934 The Little Minister
Art/Art Direction1934 Hat, Coat and Glove
Art/Art Direction1934 Man of Two Worlds
Art/Art Direction1934 Of Human Bondage
Art/Art Direction1934 Strictly Dynamite
Art/Art Direction1934 Two Alone
Art/Art Direction1934 The Gay Divorcee
Art/Art Direction1934 By Your Leave
Art/Art Direction1934 Success at Any Price
Art/Art Direction1934 Spitfire
Art/Art Direction1934 Anne of Green Gables
Art/Art Direction1934 Red Morning
Art/Art Direction1934 Where Sinners Meet
Art/Art Direction1934 Murder on the Blackboard
Art/Art Direction1934 Lightning Strikes Twice
Art/Art Direction1934 We're Rich Again
Art/Art Direction1934 Kentucky Kernels
Art/Art Direction1934 Wednesday's Child
Art/Art Direction1934 Keep 'Em Rolling
Art/Art Direction1934 Stingaree
Art/Art Direction1934 Hips, Hips, Hooray!
Art/Art Direction1934 Gridiron Flash
Art/Supervising Art Director1933 King Kong
Art/Set Decoration1933 Christopher Strong
Art/Art Direction1933 Ann Vickers
Art/Art Direction1933 If I Were Free
Art/Art Direction1933 The Right To Romance
Art/Settings1933 Before Dawn
Art/Art Direction1933 Topaze
Art/Settings1933 Bed of Roses
Art/Art Direction1933 Little Women
Art/Set Decoration1933 Rafter Romance
Art/Settings1933 Sweepings
Art/Art Direction1933 Our Betters
Art/Art Direction1933 The Great Jasper
Art/Art Direction1933 After Tonight
Art/Art Direction1933 Ace of Aces
Art/Set Decoration1933 The Silver Cord
Art/Art Direction1933 The Past of Mary Holmes
Art/Settings1933 Blind Adventure
Art/Art Direction1933 Flying Down to Rio
Art/Settings1933 Morning Glory
Art/Art Direction1933 Chance at Heaven
Art/Art Direction1933 Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
Art/Set Decoration1932 The Animal Kingdom
Art/Art Direction1930 The Life of the Party
Art/Art Direction1925 Stage Struck
Art/Art Direction1925 A Kiss in the Dark

Born: Thursday, 08/25 1898 (August) in Brooklyn, New York City, New York (United States of America (USA))
Died: Friday, 12/20 1968 (December) in Los Angeles (aged: 70)
Zodiac sign: Virgo (Chinese zodiac sign: Dog)
Other names for Van Nest Polglase (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Van Nest Poglase"
Van Nest Polglase frequently works together with these people:
Roy Webb (101x, Crew)
Walter Plunkett (83x, Crew)
Mel Berns (74x, Crew)
Vernon L. Walker (64x, Crew)
Renié (62x, Crew)
Pandro S. Berman (62x, Crew)
Darrell Silvera (58x, Crew)
Max Steiner (50x, Crew)
J. Roy Hunt (46x, Crew)
Nicholas Musuraca (45x, Crew)
Edward Stevenson (44x, Crew)
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