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Explore the Hollywood Backdrop Collection, from celebrated classics to rarely seen backdrops that reveal the artistry of Hollywood filmmaking.

Film
- Brigadoon
- Ben-Hur
- Cairo
- Kim
- Marnie
- National Velvet
- North by Northwest
- North to Alaska
- Rich, Young, and Pretty
- The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
- The Glass Bottom Boat
- The Law and the Lady
- The Outrage
- The Prodigal
- Meet Me In St Louis
- The Shoes of the Fisherman
- The Sound of Music
- The Student Prince
- Tip on a Dead Jockey
- Two Loves
- Two Weeks in Another Town
- Week-End at the Waldorf
- Young Bess
Artist(s)
- Jaroslav Gebr
- Duncan Alanson Spencer
- John Harold Coakley
- Peter Stetzenko
- Don MacDonald
- Clem Hall
- Benjamin A. Resella
- Ronald Verne Strang
- Verne Edward Strang
- Andy MacPhee
- Wally Reid
- Fred Tuch
- Albert Joseph Londraville
- Leo Atkinson
- Gordon Butcher
- John Gary Coakley
- John H. Coakley
- Michael Denering
- Jim Dobson
- Wilbur and Warren Ferrell
- Joseph Francuz
- Jeroslav Gebr
- George Gibson
- David Addison Helms
- F. Wayne Hill
- Bill Jekel
- Al Londraville
- Bob Oberbeck
- Clark Provins
- Art Rider
- William J. Smart
- Duncan Spencer
- Harry Tepker
Director
- Frank Tashlin
- Robert Z. Leonard
- George Sidney
- Michael Anderson
- Clarence Brown
- Henry Hathaway
- Colin Higgins
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Edwin H. Knopf
- Vincente Minnelli
- Martin Ritt
- Victor Saville
- Richard Thorpe
- Norman Taurog
- Franik Tashlin
- Charles Walters
- Robert Wise
- William Wyler
- W. S. Van Dyke
- Fred Zinnemann
Art Director
- Lemuel Ayers
- George Milo
- Carroll Clark
- Marvin Aubrey Davis
- Hans Peters
- E. Preston Ames
- Robert Francis Boyle
- Edward Carfagno
- Daniel B. Cathcart
- Duncan Cramer
- George Davis
- Randall Duell
- Cedric Gibbons
- William A. Horning
- Tambi Larson
- Boris Leven
- Arthur Lonergan
- Urie McCleary
- Norman Newberry
- Merrill Pye
- Jack Martin Smith
- Leonid Vasian
Style
- Interior Architecture
- Exterior Architecture
- Landscape
- Sistine Chapel
Decade
- 1930s
- 1940s
- 1950s
- 1960s
- 1970s
- 1980s
- 1990s – Present
Studio
- 20th Century Fox
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Unknown studio backdrops
- RKO
- Miller-Milkis-Boyett Productions
- Universal Studios

Texas Performing Arts’ Hollywood Backdrop Collection is made possible by the generous donations of J.C. Backings, the Art Directors Guild Archives Backdrop Recovery Project, and Susan and Robert Morse.

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