1. Cleon Francis "Throck" Throckmorton was an American painter, theatrical designer, producer, and architect.
12 Facts About Cleon Throckmorton
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Cleon Throckmorton's set designs were featured in over six hundred productions.
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Cleon Throckmorton was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2002.
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Cleon Throckmorton's mother was an artist employed by the US Department of Agriculture.
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Cleon Throckmorton developed an interest in painting, and studied painting with portraitist Charles Webster Hawthorne and Alexis Many.
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Cleon Throckmorton completed the sketches and sets in only three days, and the play opened to rave reviews on November 1,1920.
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Cleon Throckmorton became an event planner, created murals for restaurants and nightclubs, and designed private homes.
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Cleon Throckmorton did pioneering television work designing simulations of historical events, battles, and other events that could not be filmed.
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Cleon Throckmorton became the first art director for the Columbia Broadcasting System during the early years of television.
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Cleon Throckmorton died at 68 years old on October 23,1965.
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Cleon Throckmorton did not contest the divorce, and Kathryn did not seek alimony.
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Immediately after his divorce from Kathryn Mullin, Cleon Throckmorton married his second wife, silent movie actress Juliet Brenon on March 13,1927.