Dorothea Redmond Dies
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Dorothea Holt Redmond, an illustrator and production designer who helped
visualize several Alfred Hitchcock films and worked with Walt Disney to design a
private apartment in Disneyland's New Orleans Square, has died. She was 98.Redmond died of congestive heart failure Feb. 27 at her longtime home in the
Hollywood Hills, said her daughter, Lynne Jackson.In Hollywood, Redmond broke ground in 1938 as the first woman to invade the
"heretofore exclusively male field" of motion-picture production design, at
David O. Selznick's studio, The Times reported that year. Her male colleagues so
resented her, they insisted that Redmond's work space be walled off from theirs,
her daughter recalled.…
About a week before Redmond's death, a private exhibit of her artwork opened at
Walt Disney Imagineering's Information Research Center in Glendale.In addition to her daughter and husband, Redmond is survived by a son, Lee
Redmond; three granddaughters; and three great-grandsons.Services were private.
Instead of flowers, the family suggests donating to the Motion Picture &
Television Fund, www.mptvfund.org.
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