Río and co-designed their house with Douglas Honnold in Santa Monica, an intricate Art Deco residence influenced by Rudolf Schindler. The couple divorced in 1941. In October 1944, he married actress Hazel Brooks, with whom he remained until his death. Gibbons' niece Veronica "Rocky" Balfe was Gary Cooper's wife and briefly an actress known as Sandra Shaw. Gibbons' second cousin Frederick "Royal" Gibbons—a musician, orchestra conductor, and entertainer who worked with him at MGM—was the father of Billy Gibbons of the rock band ZZ Top. Despite holding a US birth certificate, Gibbons claimed on census forms that he was born in Ireland and that his family emigrated to the US during his early childhood. His press marriage announcement also stated that he was a native of Ireland. The reasons for this misstatement are unknown. Gibbons died in Los Angeles on July 26, 1960, after a long illness, at age 70, and was buried under a modest marker, at the Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles. Dorothy Kilgallen, journalist and gossip columnist, a friend of his second wife, reported his age as 65 at the time of his death. Legacy Gibbons' set designs, particularly those in such films as Born to Dance (1936) and Rosalie (1937), heavily inspired motion picture theater architecture in the late 1930s through 1950s. Among the classic examples are the Loma Theater in San Diego, the Crest theaters in Long Beach and Fresno, and the Culver Theater in Culver City, some of which are still extant. The style is sometimes referred to as Art Deco or as Art Moderne. The style is also found in the theaters that were managed by the Skouras brothers, whose designer Carl G. Moeller used the sweeping scroll-like details in his creations. The iconic Oscar statuettes that Gibbons designed, which were first awarded in 1929, are still being presented to winners at Academy Awards ceremonies each year. Gibbons was inducted into the Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame in February 2005. Academy Awards Awards for Art Direction The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929) The Merry Widow (1934) Pride and Prejudice (1940) Blossoms in the Dust (1941) Gaslight (1944) The Yearling (1946) Little Women (1949) An American in Paris (1951) The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) Julius Caesar (1953) Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) Nominations for Art Direction When Ladies Meet (1933) Romeo and Juliet (1936) The Great Ziegfeld (1936) Conquest (1937)