Hervey Libbert (1901–1953) was an American

art director Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...

. He was employed by

Tiffany Pictures Tiffany Pictures, which also became Tiffany-Stahl Productions for a time, was a Hollywood motion picture studio in operation from 1921 until 1932. It is considered a Poverty Row studio, whose films had lower budgets, lesser-known stars, and overal ...

in the late silent and early

sound era A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before ...

on films such as '' Lucky Boy'' and '' Peacock Alley''.Ankerich p.333

Selected filmography

* ''

The Mystic ''The Mystic'' is a 1925 American MGM silent drama film directed by Tod Browning, who later directed MGM's ''Freaks'' (1932). It was co-written by Browning and Waldemar Young, writing a similar storyline to their earlier 1925 hit film ''The Un ...

'' (1925) * ''

The House of Scandal ''The House of Scandal'' is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by King Baggot and starring Pat O'Malley, Dorothy Sebastian and Gino Corrado.Munden p.366 Cast * Pat O'Malley as Pat Regan * Dorothy Sebastian as Ann Rourke * Harry Murray ...

'' (1928) * ''

The Man in Hobbles ''The Man in Hobbles'' is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by George Archainbaud and starring John Harron, Lila Lee and Lucien Littlefield.Babington & Barr p.133 The film's sets were designed by the art director Hervey Libbert. Cast ...

'' (1928) * ''

Ladies of the Night Club ''Ladies of the Night Club'' is a 1928 American comedy film directed by George Archainbaud and starring Ricardo Cortez, Barbara Leonard and Lee Moran.Munden p.413 It was produced during the transition to sound film and is essentially a silent fil ...

'' (1928) * ''

Painted Faces ''Painted Faces'' (Chinese: 七小福) is a 1988 Hong Kong biographical drama film co-written and directed by Alex Law and starring Sammo Hung as his mentor, Master Yu Jim-yuen of the China Drama Academy. For his portrayal as Master Yu, Hung ...

'' (1929) * '' Lucky Boy'' (1929) * ''

Mister Antonio ''Mister Antonio'' is a 1929 love story based on a 1916 Booth Tarkington Broadway play of the same name. Leo Carrillo stars in the title role of Antonio Camaradino, originated on Broadway by Otis Skinner, as a hurdy-gurdy street artist who falls ...

'' (1929) * ''

The Lost Zeppelin ''The Lost Zeppelin'' is a 1929 sound adventure film directed by Edward Sloman and produced and distributed by Tiffany- Stahl. The film stars Conway Tearle, Virginia Valli and Ricardo Cortez. Tearle plays a navy officer modeled on U. S. Navy Co ...

'' (1929) * ''

Journey's End ''Journey's End'' is a 1928 dramatic play by English playwright R. C. Sherriff, set in the trenches near Saint-Quentin, Aisne, towards the end of the First World War. The story plays out in the officers' dugout of a British Army infantry comp ...

'' (1930) * '' Peacock Alley'' (1930) * '' Kathleen Mavourneen'' (1930)

References

Bibliography

* Ankerich, Michael G. ''Mae Murray: The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips''. University Press of Kentucky, 2012. * Bradley, Edwin M. ''Unsung Hollywood Musicals of the Golden Era: 50 Overlooked Films and Their Stars, 1929-1939''. McFarland, 2016.

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* 1901 births 1953 deaths American art directors People from Indiana {{US-film-bio-stub