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Thomas Little is a Art Direction, Set Dressing Artist and Property Master American born on 28 august 1886 at Ogden (USA)

Thomas Little

Thomas Little
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Nationality USA
Birth 28 august 1886 at Ogden (USA)
Death 5 march 1985 (at 98 years) at Santa Monica (USA)

Thomas Little (August 27, 1886 in Ogden, Utah – March 5, 1985 in Santa Monica, California) was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Oscars for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category. His credits include The Keys of the Kingdom, The Fan, Belles on Their Toes, What Price Glory?, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Pride of St. Louis, and The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Best films

The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
(Set Decoration)
All About Eve (1950)
(Set Decoration)
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
(Set Decoration)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
(Set Decoration)
The Black Swan (1942)
(Set Decoration)
Forever Amber (1947)
(Set Decoration)

Usually with

Darryl F. Zanuck
Darryl F. Zanuck
(156 films)
Lyle Wheeler
Lyle Wheeler
(145 films)
Ben Nye
Ben Nye
(132 films)
Roger Heman Sr.
Roger Heman Sr.
(126 films)
Richard Day
Richard Day
(105 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Thomas Little (345 films)

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Art

The Girl Next Door, 1h32
Directed by Richard Sale
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes La bande dessinée, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Dan Dailey, June Haver, Dennis Day, Billy Gray, Cara Williams, Natalie Schafer
Roles Set Decoration
Rating63% 3.190623.190623.190623.190623.19062
A popular performer, Jeannie Laird decides to buy her first house and celebrate with a big party. The guests' enjoyment is interfered with by the happenings at the home of the next door neighbor, Bill Carter.
The I Don't Care Girl, 1h18
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Biography, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Musical films, Children's films
Actors Mitzi Gaynor, Oscar Levant, Julie Newmar, Warren Stevens, David Wayne, Craig Hill
Roles Set Decoration
Rating60% 3.049213.049213.049213.049213.04921
The story of vaudeville performer Eva Tanguay (Mitzi Gaynor) is told to a couple of writers who plan to do a script about her for Hollywood producer George Jessel.
Treasure of the Golden Condor, 1h30
Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors Cornel Wilde, Constance Smith, Finlay Currie, Walter Hampden, Anne Bancroft, George Macready
Roles Set Decoration
Rating60% 3.049793.049793.049793.049793.04979
Jean-Paul (Cornel Wilde), is a Frenchman, who is cheated of his birthright by his deceitful uncle Marquis de St. Malo (George Macready).
Monkey Business, 1h32
Directed by Howard Hawks
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Hugh Marlowe, Henri Letondal
Roles Set Decoration
Rating68% 3.4480353.4480353.4480353.4480353.448035
Dr. Barnaby Fulton (Cary Grant), an absent-minded research chemist for the Oxly chemical company, is trying to develop an elixir of youth. He is urged on by his commercially minded boss, Oliver Oxly (Charles Coburn). One of Dr. Fulton's chimpanzees, Esther, gets loose in the laboratory, mixes a beaker of chemicals, and pours the mix into the water cooler. The chemicals have the rejuvenating effect Fulton is seeking.
5 Fingers
5 Fingers (1952)
, 1h48
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films, Children's films
Actors James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie, Walter Hampden, Oskar Karlweis, Herbert Berghof
Roles Set Decoration
Rating75% 3.7971153.7971153.7971153.7971153.797115
In neutral Turkey in 1944, German ambassador Franz von Papen (John Wengraf) and his British counterpart Sir Frederic Taylor (Walter Hampden) attend a reception and encounter Countess Anna Staviska (Danielle Darrieux), who is a Frenchwoman and the widow of a Polish count. Now destitute, the countess volunteers to become a spy for a fee, but she is turned down.
Belles on Their Toes, 1h29
Directed by Henry Levin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Myrna Loy, Jeanne Crain, Debra Paget, Jeffrey Hunter, Edward Arnold, Hoagy Carmichael
Roles Set Decoration
Rating64% 3.249163.249163.249163.249163.24916
Belles on Their Toes recounts the story of the Gilbreth family after the death of efficiency expert Frank Gilbreth, husband of Dr. Lillian Gilbreth and father to twelve children.
Don't Bother to Knock, 1h16
Directed by Roy Ward Baker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Children's films
Actors Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft, Elisha Cook, Jr., Donna Corcoran, Jim Backus
Roles Set Decoration
Rating68% 3.4468253.4468253.4468253.4468253.446825
Lyn Lesley (Anne Bancroft), the bar singer at New York's McKinley Hotel, wonders if airline pilot Jed Towers (Richard Widmark) will show up. She had ended their six-month relationship with a letter. When Jed does register at the hotel, she explains that she sees no future with him because he lacks an understanding heart.
With a Song in My Heart, 1h57
Directed by Walter Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Aviation films, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Susan Hayward, Rory Calhoun, David Wayne, Thelma Ritter, Robert Wagner, Helen Westcott
Roles Set Decoration
Rating66% 3.344363.344363.344363.344363.34436
Ms. Jane Froman (Susan Hayward) is a humble staff singer at a Cincinnati radio stations, but in no time rises to the uppermost rungs of network radio fame. Jane gratefully marries her agent Don Ross (David Wayne), but soon both realize they're not truly in love.
Les Miserables, 1h41
Directed by Lewis Milestone, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Robert Newton, Edmund Gwenn, Sylvia Sidney, Cameron Mitchell
Roles Set Decoration
Rating67% 3.3893253.3893253.3893253.3893253.389325
The film greatly differs from the novel. Entire episodes and many characters are dropped, including the Thénardiers and Enjolras. The character of Robert is entirely new.
Way of a Gaucho, 1h27
Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Gene Tierney, Rory Calhoun, Richard Boone, Hugh Marlowe, Everett Sloane, Chuck Roberson
Roles Set Decoration
Rating63% 3.190643.190643.190643.190643.19064
In 1875 Argentina, a young gaucho kills another man in a duel. His prison sentence is commuted to join the army. He serves under the tough Major Salinas, but soon grows tired of military life and deserts. He becomes Val Verde and leads a band of gauchos to resist the increasing encroachment of railroad agents into the Pampas. In the meantime Salinas quits the army and becomes chief of police, so he can continue his vendetta against him. After falling in love with an aristocratic woman, Martin decides to escape with her to Chile, crossing the Andes on horseback. On the way Teresa tells him that she is pregnant, so they decide to return and get married instead, because of her safety and that for them is inconceivable for the child to be raised without a legitimate last name. When they arrive at the Cathedral, the police follows them so Martin has to escape again, leaving Teresa in the care of Father Fernandez. That night Miguel talks with Teresa about a deal he reached with the Governor, in which Martin voluntarily turns himself in, in exchange for a 3 year prison sentence and a clean slate. Teresa tells Miguel where Martin is hiding, but Salinas also follows, prompting a horse chase through a cattle run, that causes Miguel to fall from his horse and be trampled to death by the herd of cows. That same night, Martin returns filled with guilt to meet Teresa and while she offers to escape to Brazil or Europe, he declines and tells her to meet him at noon at the Cathedral. The next day Father Fernandez arranges a meeting alone with Salinas, where Martin agrees to turn himself in and face the consequences of his actions, as long as he can first marry Teresa as a free man.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro, 1h54
Directed by Henry King, Roy Ward Baker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about writers, Political films, Children's films
Actors Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Susan Hayward, Hildegard Knef, Leo G. Carroll, Marcel Dalio
Roles Set Decoration
Rating60% 3.048633.048633.048633.048633.04863
The film begins with the opening words of Hemingway's story: "Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngje Ngi,' the House of God. Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude."
Viva Zapata!, 1h53
Directed by Elia Kazan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Adventure, Historical, Western
Themes Political films, Children's films
Actors Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn, Joseph Wiseman, Alan Reed, Margo
Roles Set Decoration
Rating72% 3.645993.645993.645993.645993.64599
Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando) is part of a delegation sent to complain about injustices to corrupt longtime President Porfirio Díaz (Fay Roope), but Díaz dismisses their concerns, and tries to bribe their leader, offering him some land which Zapata rejects. As a result, Zapata is driven to open rebellion, along with his brother Eufemio (Anthony Quinn). He in the south and Pancho Villa (Alan Reed) in the north unite under the leadership of naive reformer Francisco Madero (Harold Gordon).
Deadline - U.S.A., 1h27
Directed by Richard Brooks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Children's films
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter, Ed Begley, Warren Stevens, Paul Stewart
Roles Set Decoration
Rating71% 3.595033.595033.595033.595033.59503
Ed Hutcheson is the crusading managing editor of a large metropolitan newspaper called The Day. He is steadfastly loyal to publisher Margaret Garrison, the widow of the paper's founder, but Mrs. Garrison is on the verge of selling the newspaper to interests who plan to permanently cease its operation.
Night Without Sleep, 1h17
Directed by Roy Ward Baker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Linda Darnell, Gary Merrill, Hildegard Knef, June Vincent, Hugh Beaumont, Donald Randolph
Roles Set Decoration
Rating59% 2.9547852.9547852.9547852.9547852.954785
A composer, Richard Morton experiences blackouts and cannot account for his actions. He seems to recall a woman's screams and a conversation with his wife, Emily, but it's all a blur.