Dorothea Holt Redmond (1910 - 2009) American
Mixed Media on Paper
Measure 8 1/2"in H x 12 1/2"in W and 13 1/4"in H x 16 3/4"in W with frame

Known for: Illustration, storyboard artist, movie production design
Name variants: Dorothea Holt
Biography: Dorothea Holt Redmond (May 18, 1910 - February 27, 2009) was an illustrator and production designer noted for her work on Alfred Hitchcock films. Known as the first woman production designer, Redmond entered the industry in 1938. She worked on more than 30 films, including Gone with the Wind and The Ten Commandments, as well as seven Hitchcock productions, among them Rebecca, Rear Window and To Catch a Thief. She was hired by Selznick International Pictures in 1938, making her what the Los Angeles Times reported" of motion-picture production design. Out of resentment, male co-workers demanded that she work in a walled-off area separated from theirs. Redmond's illustrations would be used by Hitchcock and his art directors to define the tone of a scene for cameramen and other crew members. The 2007 book Casting a Shadow described how her renderings of a sequence in Hitchcock's 1943 film Shadow of a Doubt were influential in adding suspense by adding an element of threat to a quiet town. She was hired by what is now Walt Disney Imagineering in 1966. There she helped design portions of Disneyland and the Walt Disney World Resort, including a residence in New Orleans Square intended for Walt Disney himself. The area was used as a gallery after Disney's death in 1966, but the space above the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction was converted into an apartment called the Disneyland Dream Suite based on her original design that has been used by randomly selected guests at the resort since January 2008. She also designed many other aspects of the stores and eateries in New Orleans Square. Holt met her future husband, Harry Redmond, Jr., at Selznick International Pictures studio during the late 1930s. She was designing the pre-production interior sets for Gone With The Wind and Rebecca, while Redmond was working for David O. Selznick on the set of The Prisoner of Zenda at the time of their meeting. The couple married in 1940. Together, they designed and constructed a home in the Hollywood Hills based on a design that she completed with her husband after the original architect had died. Holt Redmond died at age 98 on February 27, 2009, due to congestive heart failure at her home in the Hollywood Hills. She was survived by her husband, a son and daughter, three granddaughters and three great-grandsons. Her husband, Harry Redmond, died on May 23, 2011, at the age of 101.

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