Background
He was born in Brooklyn, New York and died in Los Angeles, California.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York and died in Los Angeles, California.
He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. Best remembered as head of the design department at Radio-Keith-Orpheum Pictures, he worked on 333 films between 1925 and 1957. On his return to New York in 1919, he signed with Famous Players—Lasky (Paramount) whose art director Wiard Ihnen had recommended him as a draftsman, but Polglase turned his hand to design and soon relocated to Hollywood where he designed one of the first American Art Déco sets for The Magnificent Flirt (1928) and worked for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer until 1932 when Polglase was recruited to Radio-Keith-Orpheum by David O. Selznick.