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Oenslager, Donald (Mitchell)
Oenslager, Donald [Mitchell] (1902–75), designer. Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, he studied at Harvard under George Pierce Baker, then began his theatrical career as an actor. Oenslager turned to set design in 1924 and went on to create the scenery for such memorable productions as Good News! (1927), The New Moon (1928), Follow Thru (1928), Girl Crazy (1930), The Farmer Takes a Wife (1934), Anything Goes (1934), Stage Door (1936), Johnny Johnson (1936), You Can't Take It with You (1936), Of Mice and Men (1937), The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939), Margin for Error (1939), My Sister Eileen (1940), Claudia (1941), Born Yesterday (1946), Goodbye, My Fancy (1948), Sabrina Fair (1953), Coriolanus (1954), Janus (1955), A Majority of One (1959), and A Far Country (1961). Although much of his work for the commercial theatre was traditional, he is generally linked with the major developers of modern American stage design. Oenslager was for many years on the faculty of the Yale School of Drama and was the author of Scenery Then and Now (1936).
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Oenslager, Donald (Mitchell)." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Oenslager, Donald (Mitchell)." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-OenslagerDonaldMitchell.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Oenslager, Donald (Mitchell)." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-OenslagerDonaldMitchell.html |
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Oenslager, Donald Mitchell
Oenslager, Donald Mitchell (1902–75), American scene designer, who worked under George Pierce Baker at Harvard. In 1923 he went to Europe to study scenic production there, and on his return to America worked with the Provincetown Players and the Greenwich Village Theatre. With Robert Edmond Jones, Jo Mielziner, and Lee Simonson, he may be said to have contributed to the creation of a new age of stagecraft in the United States, and he left a permanent mark on the contemporary theatre there. He designed sets for a number of major drama productions (as well as operas and ballets), among them Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men (1937); Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma in 1941 for Katharine Cornell, Pygmalion in 1945 for Cedric Hardwicke, and Major Barbara in 1956 for Charles Laughton; also for Ibsen's Peer Gynt in 1951, Coriolanus in 1954, and Spigelgass's A Majority of One (1959). He was active up to the time of his death, and was for many years Professor of Scenic Design in the Yale Department of Drama.
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Oenslager, Donald Mitchell." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Oenslager, Donald Mitchell." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-OenslagerDonaldMitchell.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Oenslager, Donald Mitchell." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-OenslagerDonaldMitchell.html |
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