Alexander Golitzen, (Moscow, February 28, 1908 - San Diego, July 26, 2005) oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies. Saint Basils Cathedral and Spasskaya Tower of Moscow Kremlin at Red Square. ... February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... San Diego County in the Southwest corner of California. ... July 26 is the 207th day (208th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 158 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...

Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian revolution. Via Siberia and China, they arrived in Seattle, where Alexander graduated from high school. He then attended the University of Washington, where he archieved a degree in architecture. The phrase Russian Revolution can refer to the following events in the history of Russia. ... Siberia Siberia (Russian: , common English transliterations: Sibir’, Sibir; from the Tatar for “sleeping land”) is a vast region of Russia and northern Kazakhstan constituting almost all of northern Asia. ... City nickname Emerald City City bird Great Blue Heron City flower Dahlia City mottos The City of Flowers The City of Goodwill City song Seattle, the Peerless City Mayor Greg Nickels County King County Area   - Total   - Land   - Water   - % water 369. ... Japanese high school students in uniform High school, or Secondary school, is the last segment of compulsory education in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan (Republic of China) (only junior high school) and the United States. ... The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a major public research university in the Seattle metropolitan area. ... Architecture (in Greek αρχή = first and τέχνη = craftsmanship) is the art and science of designing buildings and structures. ...

He started his art direction career in Los Angeles, as an assistent to Alexander Toluboff, an art director for MGM. He started working with Walter Wanger (a producer) in 1939 and they worked together for many movies. Starting in 1942, and continuing for the next 30 years, he became a unit art director, and later a supervising art director at Universal, overseeing dozens of productions. This article is about the largest city in California. ... MGM logo Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM, is a large media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of cinema and television programs. ... In the entertainment industry, a producer is generally in charge of, or helps to coordinate, the financial, legal, administrative, technological, and artistic aspects of a production. ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... Universal has several meanings: For the concept of a universal in metaphysics, see Universal (metaphysics). ...

Alexander Golitzen earned an Oscar nomination for Foreign Correspondent (1940), and received an Oscar (shared with John B. Goodman) for Phantom in 1943. Oscar in Irish mythology was the warrior son of Oisín and Niamh. ... Foreign Correspondent is a 1940 film which tells the story of an American reporter who becomes involved in espionage in England during World War II. It stars Joel McCrea, George Sanders, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, Albert Bassermann and Robert Benchley. ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ...

He was nominated for an Academy Award for his work on Sundown (1941), Arabian Nights (1942), The Climax (1944), Flower Drum Song (1961), That Touch of Mink (1962), Gambit (1966), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), Sweet Charity (1969), Airport (1970), and Earthquake (1974). Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (كتاب ألف ليلة و ليلة in Arabic or هزار و یک شب in Persian), also known as The book of a Thousand Nights and a Night, 1001 Arabian Nights, or simply the Arabian Nights, is a piece of classic Arabic literature in... This article is about the year. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Flower Drum Song is a Broadway musical with a score by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, and a book by Hammerstein and Joseph Fields, based on the novel by C.Y. Lee. ... 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... That Touch of Mink is a 1962 romantic comedy starring Cary Grant & Doris Day. ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... Thoroughly Modern Millie is a musical comedy. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sweet Charity, based on Fellinis play Nights of Cabiria, is a musical directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse; it tells the story of an optimistic young woman named Charity. ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Earthquake is the title of a blockbuster 1974 film that was among several successful so-called disaster movies of the 1970s that places an all-star cast in life and death situations. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ...

Alexander was married for 72 years with Frances, who survied him. They had a daughter Chyntia, a son Peter, five grandchildren and a gread-granddaughter.

External Links

• IMDb entry.
• Obituary.