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Alexander Golitzen, (Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
, February 28, 1908 - San Diego, July 26, 2005) oversaw art direction
Art director

The term art director is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in advertising, publishing, film industry and television, the Internet, and video games....
 on more than 300 movies.

Prince Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution
Russian Revolution of 1917

The Russian Revolution is the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union....
. Travelling via Siberia
Siberia

Siberia , is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of North Asia and for the most part currently serving as the massive central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, having served in the same capacity previously for the Soviet Union from its beginning, and the Russian Empire beginning in the 16th century....
 and China
China

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, they arrived in Seattle, where Alexander graduated from high school
High school

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. He then attended the University of Washington
University of Washington

University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, Washington, United States. Also known as Washington and locally as UW or the U, it is the largest university in the northwestern United States and the oldest public university on the west coast....
, where he achieved a degree in architecture
Architecture

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.

He started his art direction career in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

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, as an assistant to Alexander Toluboff
Alexander Toluboff

Alexander Toluboff was a Polish-born American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
, an art director for MGM.






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Alexander Golitzen, (Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
, February 28, 1908 - San Diego, July 26, 2005) oversaw art direction
Art director

The term art director is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in advertising, publishing, film industry and television, the Internet, and video games....
 on more than 300 movies.

Prince Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution
Russian Revolution of 1917

The Russian Revolution is the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union....
. Travelling via Siberia
Siberia

Siberia , is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of North Asia and for the most part currently serving as the massive central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, having served in the same capacity previously for the Soviet Union from its beginning, and the Russian Empire beginning in the 16th century....
 and China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
, they arrived in Seattle, where Alexander graduated from high school
High school

High school is the name used in some parts of the world to describe an institution which provides all or part of secondary education. The term originated in Scotland and spread to the New World countries as the high prestige that the Scottish educational system had at the time led several countries to employ Scottish educators to develop the...
. He then attended the University of Washington
University of Washington

University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, Washington, United States. Also known as Washington and locally as UW or the U, it is the largest university in the northwestern United States and the oldest public university on the west coast....
, where he achieved a degree in architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
.

He started his art direction career in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
, as an assistant to Alexander Toluboff
Alexander Toluboff

Alexander Toluboff was a Polish-born American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
, an art director for MGM. He started working with Walter Wanger
Walter Wanger

Walter Wanger was an Academy Award-winning United States film producer. An intellectual and a socially conscious movie executive who produced provocative message movies and glittering romantic melodramas, Wanger's career started at Paramount Pictures in the 1920s and led him to work at virtually every major studio as either a contract produc...
 (a producer
Film producer

A film producer is someone who creates the conditions for making film. The producer initiates, co-ordinates, supervises and controls matters such as fund-raising, hiring key personnel and arranging for distributors....
) in 1939 and they worked together for many movies. Starting in 1942, and continuing for the next 30 years, he became a unit art director
Art director

The term art director is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in advertising, publishing, film industry and television, the Internet, and video games....
, and later a supervising art director at Universal
Universal Studios

Universal Studios , a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is one of the six Worldwide major American film studios. Its production studios are located at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California....
, overseeing dozens of productions.

Alexander Golitzen earned an Oscar
Academy Awards

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 nomination for Foreign Correspondent
Foreign Correspondent (film)

Foreign Correspondent is a Cinema of the United States Thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock which tells the story of an American reporter who tries to expose enemy spies in United Kingdom, a series of events involving a continent-wide conspiracy that eventually leads to the events of a fictionalized Second World War....
 (1940), and received three Oscars for Phantom of the Opera
Phantom of the Opera (1943 film)

Phantom of the Opera is a Universal horror starring Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster and Claude Rains, directed by Arthur Lubin, and filmed in Technicolor....
 in 1943, Spartacus in 1960 and To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird (film)

To Kill a Mockingbird is an Cinema of the United States drama film based on the To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It was directed by Robert Mulligan and stars Gregory Peck in the role of Atticus Finch ....
 in 1962.

He was nominated for an Academy Award
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
 for his work on Sundown
Sundown (film)

Sundown is a 1941 in film war film directed by Henry Hathaway. It was nominated for three Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Academy Award for Original Music Score and Academy Award for Best Art Direction by Alexander Golitzen and Richard Irvine....
 (1941), Arabian Nights
Arabian Nights (1942 film)

Arabian Nights is a 1942 adventure film starring Sabu Dastagir, Maria Montez, Jon Hall and Leif Erickson and directed by John Rawlins . The film is derived from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights but owes more to the imagination of Universal Pictures than the original Arabian stories....
 (1942), The Climax (1944), Flower Drum Song
Flower Drum Song (film)

Flower Drum Song is a 1961 Academy Award nominated film adaptation of the 1958 Broadway theatre musical theatre play Flower Drum Song, written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II....
 (1961), That Touch of Mink
That Touch of Mink

That Touch of Mink is a romantic comedy starring Cary Grant and Doris Day. The film co-stars Gig Young, John Astin, Audrey Meadows, and Dick Sargent....
 (1962), Gambit (1966), Thoroughly Modern Millie
Thoroughly Modern Millie

This article is about the 1967 film. For the Broadway musical, see Thoroughly Modern Millie .Thoroughly Modern Millie is a 1967 in film musical film comedy film directed by George Roy Hill and starring Julie Andrews, James Fox, Mary Tyler Moore, John Gavin, Carol Channing, Beatrice Lillie , Pat Morita and Jack Soo....
 (1967), Sweet Charity
Sweet Charity (film)

Sweet Charity is a 1969 in film musical movie directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, written by Neil Simon, and starring Shirley MacLaine....
 (1969), Airport
Airport (film)

Airport is a 1970 in film film based on the 1968 Arthur Hailey Airport . This film, which earned over $100,000,000 at the box office, focuses on an airport manager trying to keep his airport open during a snowstorm, while a suicidal bomber plots to blow up a Boeing 707 in flight....
 (1970), and Earthquake
Earthquake (film)

Earthquake is a 1974 in film USA disaster film that achieved huge box-office success, continuing the disaster film genre of the 1970s where recognizable all-star casts attempt to survive life or death situations....
 (1974).

Alexander was married for 72 years to Frances, who survived him. They had a daughter Cynthia, a son Peter, five grandchildren and a great-granddaughter.

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