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8 4 P E R S P E C T I V E | S E P T E M B E R / O C T O B E R 2 0 2 2 RESHOOTS B Y N I K K I R U D L O F F, A S S O C I AT E E D I T O R S E L E C T I O N S F R O M T H E A D G A R C H I V E S CO U RT E SY O F T H E A D G CO L L E C T I O N S AT T H E M A R GA R E T H E R R I C K L I B RA RY, A . M . P. A . S . A. THIS DRAWING BY ERNST FEGTÉ DEPICTS AN APARTMENT INTERIOR. IT WAS MADE WITH CARCOAL AND OPAQUE WATERCOLOR ON ILLUSTRATION BOARD. The film noir Mr. Ace opened in 1946, starring George Raft and Sylvia Sidney. The plot involves a ruthless society woman seeking office who falls in love with a political boss whose help she needs to win. This illustration was done by the Production Designer Ernst Fegté in charcoal and opaque watercolor on illustration board. Fegté was born in Germany and studied art at Hamburg University. He started working in German cinema creating set murals. He moved to New York and created backgrounds for productions. By the late 1920s, he relocated to Los Angeles and worked for Paramount Studios as the Supervising Art Director. Some films of his include The Cocoanuts (29), Animal Crackers (30), The General Died at Dawn (36), The Lady Eve (41), I Married a Witch (42), The Palm Beach Story (42), The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (43) and The Uninvited (44). In the mid-1940s, Ernst left Paramount and worked on psychological thrillers, science fiction and some TV. Notable works include Specter of the Rose (46) and Destination Moon (50), Adventures of Superman (TV 52- 53), Cavalcade of America (53-54), Medic (55-56) and Sergeant Preston of the Yukon (57-58). He won an Academy Award for Art Direction for Frenchman's Creek (44) and was nominated for Five Graves to Cairo (43), The Princess and the Pirate (44) and Destination Moon (50). He was also nominated for an Emmy Award in 1956 for Art Direction on Medic. A