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Mielziner, Jo (1901–76), American scene designer, who was for a short time an actor. His first stage designs were done for the Lunts in Molnár's The Guardsman (1924), after which he was responsible for the décor of a wide variety of plays, among them Romeo and Juliet in 1934 for Katharine Cornell and Hamlet in 1936 for John Gielgud; Winterset (1935), The Wingless Victory (1936), and High Tor (1937) by Maxwell Anderson; The Glass Menagerie (1945), A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Summer and Smoke (1948), and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), by Tennessee Williams; Death of a Salesman (1949), by Arthur Miller; and a number of musicals, including The Boys from Syracuse (1938), Finian's Rainbow (1947), Guys and Dolls (1950), and The King and I (1951). He was also responsible for the design of the Washington Square Theatre and for the décor of its productions of Miller's After the Fall and Behrman's But for Whom Charlie (both 1964); with the Finnish architect Eero Saarinen he designed the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at the Lincoln Center.

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