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J A N U A R Y / F E B R U A R Y 2 0 2 5 | P E R S P E C T I V E 1 1 N E W S ADG Hall of Fame: Carl Jules Weyl B Y D AV I D M O R O N G , E D I T O R This year's inductee into the ADG Hall of Fame will be Carl Jules Weyl. Born in Stuttgart, Germany, Weyl studied architecture in Berlin, Munich and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris before immigrating to the US in March of 1912 to pursue a career in architecture here in America. He worked as an architect throughout the 1920s, designing numerous buildings in Hollywood, including the Palace Theater (1926), Baine Building (1926), Hollywood Studio Building (1927) and Hollywood Brown Derby (1928). When the Great Depression hit and building commissions dried up, Weyl found work as an Art Director at Warner Bros. His consistent work at the studio led to Weyl being offered The Adventures of Robin Hood. Weyl created several beautiful sets for this classic, including the interior of Nottingham Castle with the now-famous circular stone staircase and Sherwood Forest. His efforts on this film were recognized with the first of his two Academy Award nominations. After Robin Hood, Carl Weyl worked primarily on designing sets for Warner Bros. leading players, notably for the films of Errol Flynn and Bette Davis. All This, and Heaven Too, The Letter, The Great Lie, Watch on the Rhine and The Corn Is Green were all Bette Davis films designed by Weyl. Casablanca remains Carl Weyl's most famous set, even though the set required very little new construction with many of the exteriors of Rick's Café being taken from older sets. During the 1940s, Weyl worked on many excellent dramas, including Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940), Kings Row (1942), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Mission to Moscow (which earned him his second Oscar nomination), Saratoga Trunk (1945) and The Big Sleep (1946). His final film was Escape Me Never (1947), completed before he passed away at the age of 57 in 1948. A. CARL JULES WEYL. B. THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (1938). C. THE TRAIN STATION FROM CASABLANCA (1942). B C A