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May 10, 2002 · Jacques Mapes, art director for such stylish musicals as “Singin’ in the Rain” and producing partner of the late Ross Hunter, has died. He was 88. Mapes died Saturday in his sleep at his ...
May 2, 2002 · Bio: Jacque Mapes, longtime studio art director and set decorator whose career began at RKO in 1939 and later included a long personal and professional relationship with producer Ross Hunter, died Saturday of natural causes at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 88.
Jacque Mapes, longtime studio art director and set decorator whose career began at RKO in 1939 and later included a long personal and professional relationship with producer Ross Hunter, died...
In 1977, he was nominated a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series for producing Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers (1976) (he shared the nomination with his long-time professional and personal partner, Jacques Mapes). He produced A Family Upside Down (1978) with Fred Astaire and Helen Hayes, and Suddenly, Love (1979) with Cindy ...
Jacque Mapes and Hunter met at a private Hollywood party during the 1940s. One of them was then Tyrone Power 's male lover, and the other was Errol Flynn 's lover. Hunter later recalled, "I remember I was at the top of the stairs, and there stood Jacque.
Ross Hunter passed away on March 10, 1996. He left behind his partner, Mapes, who survived him by seven years; and an astonishing legacy of escapism and glamour which, for all its artifice, continues to entertain, enthrall, and, yes, inspire, half a century later.
May 14, 2002 · Jacques Mapes, an art director for the 1952 movie musical ''Singin' in the Rain'' who later became a television and film producer, died on Saturday. He was 88. He grew up in the Los Angeles...
