George James "Neje" Hopkins
(23 March 23, 1896 - February 11, 1985) U.S.A.
Hollywood set designer
Born at Pasadena, California, he began his career working with Theda Bara, with whom he remained close friends. He moved to films in 1917, working as an art director for various studios. During his long career, Hopkins had been nominated for the Oscars thirteen times.
He claimed to have been the lover of William Desmond Taylor during or before the time of Taylor's famous unsolved murder. On the 1922 morning that Taylor's body was found, Charles Eyton instructed Hopkins to remove a basket of documents from the murder scene, and Hopkins obeyed. Hopkins' unpublished 1981 autobiography, Caught in the Act, was used as a major source for Charles Higham's book on the Taylor murder.
"Neje" died in Los Angeles, California.
His work include:
- This Is the Army (1943)
- Deception (1946)
- Task Force (1949)
- I Confess (1953)
- A Star Is Born (1954)
- East of Eden (1955)
- Auntie Mame (1958)
- My Fair Lady (1964)
- The Great Race (1965)
- None But the Brave (1965)
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
- Hello, Dolly! (1969)
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