Golden Age Of Hollywood Costumes Designers
Irene: A Designer from the Golden Age of Hollywood: The MGM Years 1942-49
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Hollywood's Golden Age was graced with thousands of breathtaking looks by a designer who was known simply as Irene. Based on unprecedented access to the records and remembrances of Irene's personal artist, Virginia Fisher, this insider's look tells the story of Irene's years at MGM studios. Marvelously illustrated with more than 150 original sketches and photography from the time period, Irene's exhilarating story, filled with memories that have a cloying edge and are, at times, chilling, comes to life in this thoroughly researched resource on her career and legacy. From her early years as a designer with a successful dress shop catering to Hollywood clientele to her ascendancy at MGM studios to the beginning of her own label, Irene, Inc., this volume captures Irene's struggles and triumphs surrounding her time at MGM. Complete with a filmography of Irene's designs and full of insightful cameos by stars like Judy Garland, Lana Turner, and others, this is the ideal book for film and costume historians, fashion designers, and fans of Hollywood's Golden Age.
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Glamour and Mischief!: "Hollywood's "Undercover Costume Designer" Michael Woulfe takes a lighthearted look at dressing the stars of the Golden Age-and working for eccentric Howard Hughes"
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The Golden Age of Hollywood was truly a showcase for costume designers, some of whom—like Michael Woulfe—were lesser-known but made distinctive contributions to the glamour of this illustrious period. Michael takes the reader on his journey from a starstruck Brooklyn boy to a Hollywood costume designer who learns that Judy Garland has personally requested him to design her gowns for the gala film premiere of A Star Is Born. As in all fairytales, the journey is filled with joys and struggles—from Michael’s first film assignment dressing Sylvia Sidney in Blood on the Sun, his encounters with nastiness under the glittery surface of Hollywood, and the madness of working under the personal direction of Howard Hughes at RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. At the age of twenty-seven, Michael was one of the youngest costume designers in history to receive screen credit as Gown Designer. As head designer on more than sixty films, he created glamorous wardrobes and gowns for Hollywood stars and legends such as Claudette Colbert, Laraine Day, Ava Gardner, Judy Garland, Susan Hayward, Janet Leigh, Marilyn Monroe, Terry Moore, Debbie Reynolds, Jane Russell, Jean Simmons, Barbara Stanwyck, Sylvia Sydney, Claire Trevor, and Loretta Young. Howard Hughes taxed Michael’s endurance to the limit during their more than 25-year relationship that began at RKO Radio Pictures and ended at Hughes Productions. Hughes’s frequent meddling created exasperating and zany adventures for Michael, while his constant demands to show maximum cleavage often stifled creativity and culminated in the censorship of The French Line, Son of Sinbad, and The Conqueror. Michael’s film credits at RKO also include the studio’s first big-budget Technicolor film Tycoon starring John Wayne and Laraine Day, My Forbidden Past starring Ava Gardner, and Clash by Night starring Barbara Stanwyck and co-starring Marilyn Monroe. “Glamour and Mischief!” is the firs... [Read More]
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- Best Choice - #2 Golden Age Of Hollywood Costumes Designers
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They Had Fashions Then: 14 Looks at the Most Glorious Costume Designers of Hollywood's Golden Age by Cynthia Brideson (2015-12-25)
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- Best Choice - #3 Golden Age Of Hollywood Costumes Designers
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Barbie 50th Anniversary Pink Label Collection- Barbie As Marilyn Monroe Blonde Ambition
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- BARBIE DOLL AS MARILYN MONROE BLONDE AMBITION COLLECTION PINK LABEL
- From Hollywood's Golden Era, blonde beauty Barbie doll as Marilyn Monroe wears flowing golden lame inspired by a gown from American costume designer William
- Barbie doll as Marilyn Monroe is the debut doll in the Blonde Ambition Collection, celebrating some of the most iconic blondes in American
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BARBIE DOLL AS MARILYN MONROE BLONDE AMBITION COLLECTION PINK LABEL COLLECTION - From Hollywood's Golden Era, blonde beauty Barbie doll as Marilyn Monroe wears flowing golden lame inspired by a gown from American costume designer William Travilla. Barbie doll as Marilyn Monroe is the debut doll in the Blonde Ambition Collection, celebrating some of the most iconic blondes in American history!
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- Best Choice - #4 Golden Age Of Hollywood Costumes Designers
- Checked on 05/04/2023
- Based on 49 Reviews
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