Van Nest Polglase

From Wikipedia Van Nest Polglase (25 August 1898 – 20 December 1968) was an American art director. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. Best remembered as head of the design department at RKO Pictures, he worked on 333 films between 1925 and 1957. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and died in Los Angeles, California. His death notice noted that he was "survived by his son Dr. Van Nest Polglase and 2 grandchildren", his wife, Helen, having predeceased him six months earlier.

Crew

We Who Are About to Die

Fifth Avenue Girl

Bringing Up Baby

Production Design

The Law West of Tombstone

Condemned Women

The Admiral Was a Lady

Production Design

Legion of the Lawless

Timber Stampede

Trouble in Sundown

Vigil in the Night

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

Racketeers of the Range

The Lady Consents

The Woman I Love

Saturday's Heroes

Forty Naughty Girls

Mexican Spitfire Out West

Mexican Spitfire

The Girl and the Gambler

Parachute Battalion

Men Against the Sky

Law of the Underworld

Annapolis Salute

On Again—Off Again

Crashing Hollywood

Everybody's Doing It

There Goes My Girl

Go Chase Yourself

Having Wonderful Time

The Plough and the Stars

Cyclone on Horseback

The Affairs of Annabel

Fugitives for a Night

Mr. Doodle Kicks Off

A Man to Remember

Tarnished Angel

Annabel Takes a Tour

Next Time I Marry

Twelve Crowded Hours

The Saint Strikes Back

Almost a Gentleman

The Spellbinder

The Day the Bookies Wept

Married and in Love

The Saint's Double Trouble

The Marines Fly High

The Saint Takes Over

A Bill of Divorcement

Cross-Country Romance

I'm Still Alive

Millionaires in Prison

The Saint In Palm Springs

Footlight Fever

Tom, Dick and Harry

The Mexican Spitfire's Baby

Criminal Lawyer

Don't Tell the Wife

We're Only Human

They Wanted to Marry

This Marriage Business

A Dog of Flanders

The River's Edge

Production Design

Star of Midnight

Where Sinners Meet

Wanted: Jane Turner

Hitting a New High

Flying Down to Rio

The Gay Divorcee

Make Way for a Lady

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

The Lost Patrol

Sylvia Scarlett

Along the Rio Grande

The Animal Kingdom

Christopher Strong

They Knew What They Wanted

Supervising Art Director

Murder on the Blackboard

Breakfast for Two

The Life of the Party

The Bride Walks Out

The Mad Miss Manton

The Marshal Of Mesa City

Bachelor Mother

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

To Beat the Band

Two in the Dark

Murder on a Bridle Path

Romance in Manhattan

Finishing School

Beauty for the Asking

Wednesday's Child

Chasing Yesterday

Captain Hurricane

Mary of Scotland

Production Design

The Crooked Way

Production Design

The Thrill of Brazil

She Wouldn't Say Yes

A Song to Remember

Look Who's Laughing

Weekend for Three

All That Money Can Buy

The Bandit Trail

Father Takes a Wife

Hurry, Charlie, Hurry

They Met in Argentina

You Can't Buy Luck

Cockeyed Cavaliers

This Man Is Mine

Slightly Scarlet

The Great Jasper

Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men

Chance at Heaven

The Right To Romance

A Kiss in the Dark

The Meanest Gal in Town

Man of Two Worlds

Long Lost Father

Hips, Hips, Hooray!

Keep 'Em Rolling

Success at Any Price

Sing and Like It

Strictly Dynamite

The Life of Vergie Winters

Let's Try Again

Of Human Bondage

We're Rich Again

His Greatest Gamble

Hat, Coat and Glove

Their Big Moment

Down to Their Last Yacht

The Age of Innocence

The Richest Girl in the World

Dangerous Corner

Kentucky Kernels

Anne of Green Gables

Lightning Strikes Twice

The Silver Streak

West of the Pecos

The Little Minister

That Girl from Paris

A Damsel in Distress

Dance, Girl, Dance

Headline Shooter

My Favorite Wife

We're on the Jury

Stranger on the Third Floor

I Dream Too Much

The Silver Cord

Enchanted April

The Three Musketeers

Break of Hearts

Seven Keys to Baldpate

Millionaire Playboy

The Return Of Peter Grimm

Hooray for Love

Repent at Leisure

The Past of Mary Holmes

The Toast of New York

His Family Tree

One Crowded Night

She's Got Everything

The Man Who Cheated Himself

Production Design

New Faces of 1937

Tennessee's Partner

There Goes the Groom

You Can't Fool Your Wife

Follow the Fleet

Blind Adventure

Murder on a Honeymoon

Pearl of the South Pacific

The Fighting Gringo

The Fallen Sparrow

Production Design

The Soldier and the Lady

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Saint in New York

Allegheny Uprising

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

Music for Madame

The Last Outlaw

The Devil and Miss Jones

That's Right – You're Wrong

Escape to Burma

A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob

Lovers in Quarantine

Professional Sweetheart

The Plot Thickens

Fight for Your Lady