- Willy Pogany was born on August 24, 1882 in Szeged, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was an art director, known for Wonder Bar (1934), Palmy Days (1931) and Dames (1934). He was married to Elaine Pogany. He died on July 30, 1955.
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- Designer of the swimming pool at the St. George Hotel in Brooklyn Heights (New York), at the time the largest salt-water pool in the world.
- Hungarian-born illustrator of children's books, painter in oils and watercolour, author of instructional books on drawing, creator of famous murals, designer of sets for opera and ballet and occasional Hollywood art director. A graduate of Budapest Technical University, he worked for Samuel Goldwyn at United Artists from 1927, creating giant-size props for the massive ice cream factory set in Eddie Cantor's Kid Millions (1934). For the most part, he devoted himself to book and magazine illustrations ('American Weekly', 'Metropolitan', etc.), designing movie posters and advertisements for such products as Palmolive soap.
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