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Years active
  
1934-1968

Name
  
Samuel Comer


Role
  
Set decorator

Children
  
Anjanette Comer

Born
  
July 13, 1893 (
1893-07-13
)
Topeka, Kansas

Died
  
December 27, 1974, La Jolla, San Diego, California, United States

Awards
  
Academy Award for Best Production Design, Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White

Set decorated
  
Breakfast at Tiffany's, Sunset Boulevard

Similar People
  
Hal Pereira, Hans Dreier, Arthur Krams, John Meehan, Anjanette Comer

Sam Comer (July 13, 1893 – December 27, 1974) was a set decorator who worked on over 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Best Art Direction.

He guided his niece, Anjanette Comer into "the biz."

Academy Awards

Won
  • The Rose Tattoo (1955)
  • Sunset Boulevard (1950)
  • Samson and Delilah (1949)
  • Frenchman's Creek (1944)
    • Nominated
  • Hud (1963)
  • Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
  • Come Blow Your Horn (1963)
  • The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962)
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
  • Summer and Smoke (1961)
  • Visit to a Small Planet (1960)
  • It Started in Naples (1960)
  • Career (1959)
  • Vertigo (1958)
  • Funny Face (1957)
  • The Proud and Profane (1956)
  • The Ten Commandments (1956)
  • To Catch a Thief (1955)
  • The Country Girl (1954)
  • Sabrina (1954)
  • Red Garters (1954)
  • Kitty (1945)
  • Love Letters (1945)
  • No Time for Love (1943)
  • Take a Letter, Darling (1942)
  • Hold Back the Dawn (1941)

    • References

    Samuel M. Comer Wikipedia
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