Carmen Dillon was an English film art director and production designer who won an Oscar for the Olivier version of Hamlet.
10 Facts About Carmen Dillon
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Carmen Dillon was one of six children, for whom their Catholic parents paid to be well educated.
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Carmen Dillon went to the New Hall Convent School in Chelmsford.
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Carmen and her sisters Teresa and Agnes Dillon were left to fulfil their parent's ambitions for them.
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Carmen Dillon initially worked as an architect and designer, and was invited to design the cover for the newly formed Electrical Association for Women.
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Carmen Dillon became an art director and production designer, and won an Oscar for Laurence Olivier's 1948 film of Hamlet.
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None of the three Carmen Dillon sisters married, and they spent 42 years together in a large flat in Kensington.
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Tess Carmen Dillon had led the physics department at Queen Elizabeth College.
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In 1985 Carmen retired to Hove with her sister Una, who had founded Dillons Booksellers.
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Carmen Dillon outlived her sister and died in 2000 with no survivors.