- Nickname
- Don the Remarkable!
- Donald J. Remacle is known for Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992), My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988) and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1982).
- Don Remacle enrolled in the design program at the famed Pasadena Playhouse. Employed as a scenic artist at CBS Television City at Fairfax Avenue and Beverly Boulevard, Don transferred into, joining, the set decorating department. Don Remacle's primary set decorating account was "The Sonny and Cher Variety Comedy Hour Show", and "The Young And The Restless", and was given other commercial assignments. Offered the set decorating position on a Summer 1979 NBC TV Movie (of The Week) "Christmas Lilies Of The Field", produced by the Osmond Family Studio in Provo, Utah, Don Remacle resigned from his CBS Staff position, relocating with the Utah based production company. Upon completion of the "Christmas Lilies Of The Field", Don was immediately hired by MCA-Universal Studios' Bill DeCinzes art department to become the set decorator for the TV series "The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo".
- The 1985 ABC television pilot for the programming network's daily version of the successful 1969-1974 anthology comedy prime time series "Love, American Style," produced by Paramount, was retitled "New Love, American Style." The anthology comedy pilot and the ensuing daily series was video taped at the ABC Hollywood Television Studio, Talmadge & Prospect Avenue lot. Al Simon, producer of the pilot, hired his art department design team, production designer Hub Braden and set decorator Don Remacle. The production's set designs for the series, after submission for the pilot's set construction budget approval, was denied by the ABC New York City daytime programming executive. The ABC Hollywood Scenic division did not have any stock walls, nor door and window units in the ABC inventory to assemble the designed sets. Providing the pilot with sets required all new construction. Instead of building new scenery for the pilot, ABC's NY daytime programming executive arranged with ABC's daily drama series "General Hospital" producer Gloria Monty to use the soap show's existing inventory of stage sets. Al Simon, upon learning that the pilot's sets would utilize existing sets from the Hollywood based daytime drama "General Hospital" instructed Braden, to work with "General Hospital" art director Jim Ellingwood, in selecting sets from the "General Hospital" set inventory, not to conflict with the "General Hospital's" daily story-line set schedule. The agreement with Gloria Monty specified "General Hospital" sets were not to be altered, painted, nor re-wallpapered. The five a.m. morning studio load-in, positioning of the sets on the studio stage for decorating and lighting, was smooth and an uneventful load-in, with the production's staff visiting and observing the stage activity. At 11:30 a.m., the set dressing still on stage dollies, the New York daytime executive confronted Al Simon that "his scenery" was shabby! The ABC executive announced that her New York scenic designer Tom John would supervise his art department; to direct the "look" of her new daytime anthology comedy pilot series. Al Simon broke the unexpected news to Braden and Remacle that Tom John would be arriving to take over, to dictate changes with the scenery's color palette and decorating. This decision was a blow to Hub and Don, neither expected such a devastating evaluation of their initial effort to prepare the pilot's set design needs; Braden and Remacle immediately walked off the studio stage leaving Al Simon with his "look" problem.
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