Citizen Kane
In Our Time: Culture
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The Art Director of Gling
When you do have hope, it begins again as realism. So it establishes this very familiar texture. The decoration and the set design of her apartment is so perfectly naturalistic. We now know that the art director was Perry Ferguson. His name has never been much discussed. There's a tradition in Hollywood that the head of the art department got their name on every film. It's an old tradition in Hollywood. He had a fabulous art department ready in Gling to answer his wishes. That has never been properly celebrated. Wells didn't put those things there. Yes, because that's that.
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