Lionel Banks

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With over 200 films to his credit, Lionel Banks (born June 22, 1901, Salt Lake City, Utah - died March 20, 1950, Los Angeles, California) was a hard-working art director from 1935 to 1949. In that time he worked on such films as Leo McCarey’s The Awful Truth (1937), Howard Hawks’ South American set Only Angels Have Wings (1939) and his rapid fire comedy classic the following year His Girl Friday, most of the Blondie B-movies, Alexander Hall’s turn of the century fantasy Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) and Charles Vidor’s lush Chopin biopic, A Song to Remember in 1945.

Banks was nominated for an Oscar seven times, for Holiday (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Arizona (1940), Ladies in Retirement (1941), The Talk of the Town (1942), Address Unknown and Cover Girl (both 1944), but never won.

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Art

1949

Siren of Atlantis as Set Designer

1948

Moonrise as Art Direction

1947		Magic Town as Production Design
1947		Ramrod as Production Design
1947		The Perfect Marriage as Art Direction

1946

Heartbeat as Production Design

1945		Guest Wife as Art Direction
1945		A Song to Remember as Art Direction
1945		Tonight and Every Night as Art Direction

1944		Cyclone Prairie Rangers as Art Direction
1944		One Mysterious Night as Art Direction
1944		Strange Affair as Art Direction
1944		The Impatient Years as Art Direction
1944		Cry of the Werewolf as Art Direction
1944		The Soul of a Monster as Art Direction
1944		Secret Command as Art Direction
1944		Swing in the Saddle as Art Direction
1944		Once Upon a Time as Art Direction
1944		She's a Soldier Too as Art Direction
1944		Address Unknown as Art Direction
1944		The Black Parachute as Art Direction
1944		Cover Girl as Art Direction
1944		Two-Man Submarine as Art Direction
1944		Sailor's Holiday as Art Direction
1944		Nine Girls as Art Direction
1944		The Ghost That Walks Alone as Art Direction

1943		What a Woman as Art Direction
1943		Klondike Kate as Art Direction
1943		The Chance of a Lifetime as Art Direction
1943		Footlight Glamour as Art Direction
1943		Dangerous Blondes as Art Direction
1943		Sahara as Art Direction
1943		Destroyer as Art Direction
1943		Passport to Suez as Art Direction
1943		First Comes Courage as Art Direction
1943		Appointment in Berlin as Art Direction
1943		It's a Great Life as Art Direction
1943		The Desperadoes as Art Direction
1943		The More the Merrier as Art Direction
1943		Murder in Times Square as Art Direction
1943		After Midnight with Boston Blackie as Art Direction
1943		Something to Shout About as Art Direction
1943		Power of the Press as Art Direction
1943		City Without Men as Art Direction

1942		A Night to Remember as Art Direction
1942		You Were Never Lovelier as Art Direction
1942		The Lone Prairie as Art Direction
1942		Overland to Deadwood as Art Direction
1942		My Sister Eileen as Art Direction
1942		Counter-Espionage as Art Direction
1942		The Talk of the Town as Art Direction
1942		Blondie for Victory as Art Direction
1942		Parachute Nurse as Art Direction
1942		Atlantic Convoy as Art Direction
1942		Submarine Raider as Art Direction
1942		Meet the Stewarts as Art Direction
1942		Not a Ladies' Man as Art Direction
1942		The Wife Takes a Flyer as Art Direction
1942		Blondie's Blessed Event as Art Direction
1942		Alias Boston Blackie as Art Direction
1942		The Man Who Returned to Life as Art Direction
1942		Cadets on Parade as Art Direction
1942		Blondie Goes to College as Art Direction

1941		Confessions of Boston Blackie as Art Direction
1941		Secrets of the Lone Wolf as Art Direction
1941		You Belong to Me as Art Direction
1941		The Blonde from Singapore as Art Direction
1941		Roaring Frontiers as Art Direction
1941		The Officer and the Lady as Art Direction
1941		You'll Never Get Rich as Art Direction
1941		Harmon of Michigan as Art Direction
1941		Ladies in Retirement as Art Direction
1941		Mystery Ship as Art Direction
1941		Our Wife as Art Direction
1941		The Devil Commands as Art Direction
1941		Here Comes Mr. Jordan as Art Direction
1941		Blondie in Society as Art Direction
1941		Sweetheart of the Campus as Art Direction
1941		Time Out for Rhythm as Art Direction
1941		She Knew All the Answers as Art Direction
1941		Penny Serenade as Art Direction
1941		The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance as Art Direction
1941		Blondie Goes Latin as Art Direction
1941		The Face Behind the Mask as Art Direction

1940		Arizona as Art Direction
1940		The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date as Art Direction
1940		Blondie Plays Cupid as Art Direction
1940		So You Won't Talk? as Art Direction
1940		Glamour for Sale as Art Direction
1940		Before I Hang as Art Direction
1940		The Lady in Question as Art Direction
1940		Blondie Has Servant Trouble as Art Direction
1940		The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady as Art Direction
1940		Island of Doomed Men as Art Direction
1940		The Doctor Takes a Wife as Art Direction
1940		The Man with Nine Lives as Art Direction
1940		Blondie on a Budget as Art Direction
1940		The Lone Wolf Strikes as Art Direction
1940		His Girl Friday as Art Direction
1940		Cafe Hostess as Art Direction
1940		Music in My Heart as Art Direction

1939		The Amazing Mr. Williams as Art Direction
1939		Blondie Brings Up Baby as Art Direction
1939		Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Art Direction
1939		Golden Boy as Art Direction
1939		Five Little Peppers And How They Grew as Art Direction
1939		Behind Prison Gates as Art Direction
1939		Blondie Takes a Vacation as Art Direction
1939		Only Angels Have Wings as Art Direction
1939		Blind Alley as Art Direction
1939		The Lady and the Mob as Art Direction
1939		Let Us Live as Art Direction
1939		Blondie Meets the Boss as Art Direction
1939		The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt as Art Direction

1938		Blondie as Art Direction
1938		Adventure in Sahara as Art Direction
1938		You Can't Take It with You as Assistant Art Director
1938		Holiday as Assistant Art Director
1938		Penitentiary as Art Direction

1937		Murder in Greenwich Village as Art Direction
1937		The Awful Truth as Art Direction