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128 P E R S P E C T I V E | N OV E M B E R / D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 6 reshoots In this studio publicity photograph, a young Dorothea Holt sits at the drawing board, showing her sketch for PHANTOM LADY (Universal, 1944, designed by Robert Clatworthy and John B. Goodman) to the film's producer, Joan Harrison. Ms. Holt, a graduate of the USC School of Architecture, one of only five women in a class of one hundred, went on to further study at Art Center School, where she developed a luminous water-color wash technique that complemented her innate sense of dramatic lighting. She was among the first women to work in a Hollywood Art Department when she was hired to assist William Cameron Menzies at Selznick Studios in 1937 on films such as THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER (1938) and GONE WITH THE WIND (1939). Over a long career, she was rarely out of work, drawing for many of the finest Production Designers: Henry Bumstead, Bob Boyle, Mac Johnson, Eugène Lourié and many others. Walt Disney personally hired her to work on Disneyland and she helped design New Orleans Square, the Blue Bayou Restaurant, Mr. Disney's private apartment and the beautiful mosaics in Cinderella's palace. In 2008, she was made a Disney Legend. After she died in 2009, survived by Harry Redmond, her husband for sixty-nine years, the Art Directors Guild inducted Dorothea Holt Redmond into its Hall of Fame.