Marco Montedoro was considered a child prodigy. From a family of musicians, he was sent to Paris as a teenager to perfect his drawing and painting skills. In 1913 he became artistic director of the Metropole in Berlin. He returned to Paris in 1923 and designed for the Palace, les Ambassadeurs, the Moulin Rouge and the Folies Bergère. In the early 1930s he left for New York and designed for the Shuberts, then from 1932 to 1947 in collaboration with Vincente Minnelli he became a designer at Radio City Music Hall.