Cedric Gibbons is considered one of the most influential art production directors in the history of American film. Gibbons led the MGM art department from 1924 to 1956, but his most creative years were 1928-1939 when his movie settings invoked the Art Deco and streamline moderne styles. A Gibbons film’s elegant production designs offered a welcome distraction to Depression-era moviegoers and he created a new template from which interior designers would create “moderne” spaces for wealthy clients. This multimedia presentation and lecture will be given by John Thomas, President of the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles and co-author of Long Beach Art Deco.

Museum re-opens at 7 p.m.
Program begins at 7:30 p.m.

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