One of my first job's was with Anton Grot's it was on the film set of Mildred Pierce, as a set stills photographer, I would take still shots of the film set construction as it went up, built on the film set at the old Warner Bros. Studio backlot on Sunset Boulevard. When producer Jerry Wald read Mildred Pierce shortly after it was published in 1941, he knew it could make a good movie. He also knew it would be an uphill battle to turn it into a screenplay that would be acceptable by Production C

I had been interested in art director Anton Grot's work for a while. He worked on many films with Curtiz, and is credited on numerous other Warner features in the thirties and forties. It's been really hard to find information on Grot, but I did come across a blog which features several of his drawings. As far as I can tell, most of them were done for Captain Blood, but it looks like at least one was for Mildred Pierce, and the last one is probably for Elizabeth and Essex or The Sea Hawk (the tw

I was also fortunate enough to land a part time job working as a darkroom accent for, Consolidated Film Industries. Consolidated Film Industries was a film laboratory and film processing company, and was one of the leading film laboratories in the Los Angeles area for many decades. CFI processed negatives and made prints for motion pictures industry, where I worked for four years. I was just 16 years old when I started.Gladys Baker, the mother of Marilyn Monroe, worked for Consolidated as a nega

I was born in Los Angeles on August 8, 1928. Like most youngsters, he had a favourite playground: it happened to be the old Warner Bros. Studio on Sunset Boulevard where my uncial workedas a production manager, I was also fortunate enough to land a part time job working as a darkroom accent for, Consolidated Film Industries.Consolidated Film Industries was a film laboratory and film processing company, and was one of the leading film laboratories in the Los Angeles area for many decades. CFI pro