Films with Art Deco Design

Metropolis

what is the first movie?

Art Deco furniture is almost always uncomfortable. Shame.

Our Dancing Daughters, with Joan Crawford

Bombshell with Jean Harlow

Easy Living, with Jean Arthur

The Single Standard, with Greta Garbo

Grand Hotel, with Greta Garbo

Dinner at Eight, with Jean Harlow

[quote]what is the first movie?

A Woman of Affairs

Page Miss Glory

Flying Down to Rio

Reaching For the Moon

Monkey Business

R3 true, but so is mid- century modern. At least Art Deco looks fabulous, whereas mcm looks awful.

Mid-century modern is not uncomfortable. They placed an emphasis on comfort. Have you sat on an Eames Lounge Chair?

R9 that’s just one lounge chair. The rest is uncomfortable by today’s standards.

I also disagree with you, r8/r10. My whole place is done in mid-century modern antiques, and they're very comfortable. I choose carefully.

^^ Doris Day

"The Black Cat" from 1934.

Even Karloff's hairline was Deco.

Most of the Busby Berkeley films. Some of the Fred and Ginger ones too.

"Lilies of the Field", a lost 1930 film starring Corrine Griffith. The "Mechanical Ballet" featured Griffith as a hood ornament.

Saarinen womb chairs are just about the most comfortable chairs in existence. Mid Century Modern design is the best.

Private Lives, the 1930's version A Night at The Opera, Marx Brothers

An homage, r15.

Madam Satan (1930)

Metropolis - 1927

Lost Horizon.....

Step into the light.

"The Women," 1939

OP look at films art directed or completely directed by Mitchell Leisen. Sometimes its a baroque Deco, its always luxurious and heavenly. Uber gay.

Have a look at Madame Satan as well.

Roland Anderson worked for DeMille and brought a neo-classical inspired, but Deco, to any local decor he executed. He made it all the way to Breakfast at Tiffanys. A long career.

"Broadway", a lurid Universal musical from 1929. The lavish finale (photo) was filmed in two-strip Technicolor.

Flash Gordon

Most of Jessie Matthews' movies.

If you’ll permit some (British) television, “Agatha Christie’s Poirot”

More on our rotound Belgian ami.

HG Wells Things to Come.

"The Hudsucker Proxy"

HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT

Victor Victoria is Deco perfecto

Thanks, OP. I was delighted to find you had posted this thread.

Trouble in Paradise (1932), art direction by Hans Dreier:

One Hour With You (1932), also Hans Dreier:

r37: THAT CLOCK!!!!!!

"Page Miss Glory" an ultra-Decofabulous Warner Brothers cartoon of 1936. "Moderne Art conceived and designed by Leadora Congdon"

Cleopatra

After the Thin Man

Barbra Streisand's art deco guesthouse in Malibu. Madonna bought the "Adam & Eve" painting from her a year later.

History is Made at Night is one of my favorite movies. If you're ever in a mood for sheer romance, this movie delivers.

The chemistry between Boyer and Arthur is sublime.

I seem to remember the movie Dance With A Stranger had an interesting Art Deco apt in it but I can’t find any pictures of it.

R44, yes. It's devastating. 100 years ago I was listening to an "identify the movie from a sound clip" contest on the radio. I'd only heard of HIMAN then, but those two voices were unmistakable and I won a free haircut. When I finally saw it, I was stunned.

Director Mitchell Leisen, mentioned above, got his start in Hollywood working as a set and costume designer for DeMille. That his partly his work at r41 above, DeMille's Cleopatra.

Paramount and MGM had by far the best, most stylish and most glamorous design departments in Hollywood's golden age, both sets and costumes.

Grand Hotel