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Orson Welles said that the consummate designer of film architecture on a grand scale William Cameron Menzies was a man 'impossible to over-praise'. Influenced by German expressionism and the work of great European directors, Menzies was known for his visual flair and timeless innovation, who pre-planned the colour and design of each film through a series of continuity sketches that made clear camera angles, lighting and the actors' positions for each scene. Here is the long-awaited book on Hollywood's first and greatest production designed, a job title David O. Selznick invented for his extraordinary Academy Award-winning work on 'Gone with the Wind', which Menzies effectively co-directed. Menzies won the first ever Academy Award for Art Direction, jointly for The Dove (1927) and Tempest (1928). He was a director of 14 films and producer of 12 and changed how the movies were and still made in a career that spanned four decades from the 1920s to the 1950s. His more than 120 films include Rosita (1923), Things to Come (1936), Foreign Correspondent (1940), Kings Row (1942), Mr Lucky (1943), The Pride of the Yankees (1943), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Address Unknown (1944), It's A Wonderful Life (1947), Invaders from Mars (1953), and Around the World in 80 Days (1956). Now acclaimed film historian and biographer James Curtis writes of Menzies' life and work as the most influential designer in the history of film. His artistry encompassed the large, scenic drawings for Douglas Fairbanks' The Thief of Baghdad (1924) which created a new standard for beauty on the screen, and whose exotic fairy tale sets are still regarded as pure genius. Read of the design and supervision of John Barrymore's Beloved Rogue of 1927 in the waning days of silent films, and his extraordinary, opulent appointments for Gone with the Wind of 1939. Dozens of the drawings are reproduced, many in colour including a late watercolour rendering of Tara and David O. Selznick's 'Dreamhouse' for the film. It was Menzies who defined and solidified the role of art director collaborating with other producers like Sam Goldwyn, W. D. Griffith, Alfred Hitchcock and Frank Capra, and with actors like Ingrid Bergman, W. C. Fields, Cary Grant, Clark Gable, Barbara Stanwyck, Ronald Reagan, Gary Cooper, Vivian Leigh and David Niven. Interviewing colleagues, actors, directors, friends and family and with full access to the original collection of artwork, scrapbooks and unpublished writing. 416 pages with roughcut edges, highly desirable in the USA in this US first edition,

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