Dorothea Holt Redmond
Production Designer, Film crewmember
1910 – 2009
Who was Dorothea Holt Redmond?
Dorothea Holt Redmond was an illustrator and production designer noted for her work on Alfred Hitchcock films. Known as the first woman production designer, Redmond entered the industry in 1938. She worked on more than 30 films, including Gone with the Wind and The Ten Commandments, as well as seven Hitchcock productions, among them Rebecca, Rear Window and To Catch a Thief.
She was born in Los Angeles on May 18, 1910, to Mary and Harry Holt, who was a co-owner Western Lithograph Co. She attended the University of Southern California, where she studied architecture and was awarded a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1933. She attended what is now the Art Center College of Design, and was awarded a degree in illustration in 1936, and later taught at the school.
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- Born
- May 18, 1910
Los Angeles - Spouses
- Harry Redmond, Jr.
(1940 - 2009)
- Harry Redmond, Jr.
- Profession
- Education
- University of Southern California
- Died
- Feb 27, 2009
Hollywood Hills
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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