Biography Outline

• Saul Bass: “My initial thoughts about what a title can do was to set mood and the prime underlying core of the film’s story, to express the story in some metaphorical way. I saw the title as a way of conditioning the audience, so that when the film actually began, viewers would already have an emotional resonance with it”
• Bass, Saul (8 May 1920-25 Apr. 1996)
• Born in New York City to Aaron Bass and Pauline Feldman Bass
• After graduating from public high school in 1936 he received a scholarship to the Art Students League in New York City, where he studied until 1939.
• He had already launched his career as a freelance graphic designer after leaving high school, and he continued that career in New York until 1946
  Brooklyn College during the academic year 1944-1945
  
• 1946 Bass decided to move to the West Coast and settled in Los Angeles
  
• AT&T, Quaker Oats, Minolta, and the Bell Telephone Company
  Designed interior of air planes for United Airlines Exxon Corporation
  Otto Preminger's film Carmen Jones in 1954
  The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
  Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
  West Side Story (1961)
  A Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
  Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
  Spartacus (1960)
  Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), and Psycho (1960)
  
• Why Man Creates, collaboration with wife Elaine Makatura, won an Academy Award for best documentary short subject in 1964
  
• 1960s withdrawn from film work - corporate clients
  
• 1987 Broadcast News.
  Several box-office hits, including Goodfellas (1990), Cape Fear (1991), and The Age of Innocence (1993),
  
• Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
  
• A few months before his death, the School of Visual Arts in New York City honored him with a retrospective exhibition
  
• Saul Bass died in 1996, in Los Angeles, leaving behind a flourishing
  design empire with Bass Yager Associates