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William Cameron Menzies was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and educated at Yale and the Art Students League in New York City. He first worked creating advertising illustrations, children’s books, and magazine layouts. After WWI, his friend Anton Grot brought him to Fort Lee Studios in New Jersey and taught him the elements of motion picture design, including forced perspective and continuity sketching.

Anton Grot dominated art direction at Warner Bros. beginning in the twenties until his retirement at the end of the forties. In films such as Gold Diggers of 1933, Grot did as much to set the style of Warner’s musicals as did their more famous choreographer, Busby Berkeley.

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Lyle Wheeler was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, and studied industrial design and architecture at USC. After his graduation, he worked alternately as an architect, an industrial designer, and a magazine illustrator until Cedric Gibbons hired him as a sketch artist at MGM. He rose to the position of assistant art director, but left MGM in 1935 to become an art director for David O. Selznick at his new studio.