EXECUTIVE SUITE (1953)
An excellent film about the inner workings of a major furniture company.
Starring William Holden, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, Walter Pidgeon, Shelley Winters, paul Douglas, Louis Calhern, Dean Jagger and Nina Foch.
Directed by Robert Wise
There's a number of scenes at Holden/Allyson's home and furniture is nice. A bubble lamp and very contemporary 1953 furniture.
Not a bad cast, either!
That was
COME BLOW YOUR HORN. It was period, but like BOYS NIGHT OUT, I don't remember any significant pieces of quality furniture.
However, check out MY LITTLE MARGIE, the TV comedy with Gale Storm and Charles Farrell. Even though the program takes place in NYC, the outside of their upscale apartment building and the furniture in their beautiful apartment screams California modern. I believe there's Glenn of California and similar quality pieces used to furnish the sets.
Everything about that great old comedy screams Southern California, but it's suppose to take place in NYC!
While I think I get a sense...
While I think I get a sense of what your question is leading toward, rockybird, I seem to recall that most period movie sets I saw of the 50s through the 70s tended to highlight period furniture styles other than Modern:
empire
queen anne
rococo
duncan phyfe
to name just a few.
But I didn't go to a lot of movies back then. Beaver Cleaver, I could tell you, lounged in a provincial wingback far as I can remember, rather than an Eames 670.
Dennis the Menace, he did too.
The Offence (1972)
Sidney Lumet's grim and brutal drama is set in the typical Britain "New-Town" of Bracknell, Berkshire. Like Clockwork Orange a must see for anyone interested in urban regeneration and post-war British Urbanism and it's social implications - Lots of raw concrete!
In my opinion one of Connery's best performances...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070468/board?p=2
Mon Oncle
French movie by Jacques Tati (1958). Un chef d'oeuvre (a masterpiece)!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmTnJFLZJtA
The look you want
"Down with Love" (2003): not an art film by any means, but an idealized 1962 production design that somebody put a lot of work into.
For more nearly realistic but still stylish decor, view any of the Woody Allen movies with sets by Santo Loquasto.
The best subterranean hideout of all time (fantasy division) can be seen in "Danger Diabolik" (1968).
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