Four Costume Designers to Be Inducted Into Hall of Fame at Costume Designers Guild Awards, Mar. 16.Entertainment Editors LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 25, 2003 Four legendary Costume Designers -- Clare West, Natacha Rambova, Mitchell Leisen and Wayne Finkelman -- will be inducted into the Costume Designers Guild's Hall of Fame during the Guild's Fifth Annual Awards Sunday, March 16, at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel. West, Rambova, Leisen and Finkelman join previous Hall of Fame inductees Travis Banton Travis Banton (August 18, 1894 - February 2, 1958) was the chief designer at Paramount Pictures. He is considered one of the most important Hollywood costume designers of the 1930s. He was born in Waco, Texas. Travis moved to New York City as a child. , Edith Head Edith Head (October 28, 1897 РOctober 24, 1981) was an American costume designer who had a long career in Hollywood that garnered her more Academy Awards than any other woman in history. , Dorothy Jeakins Dorothy Jeakins (1914 - 1995) was a three-time Academy Award-winning costume designer. She got her start working on WPA projects and as a Disney artist in the 1930s. Her fashion career began as a designer at I. Magnin's, where she was spotted by director Victor Fleming. , Irene Sharaff Irene Sharaff (January 23 1910 - August 10 1993) was an award-winning American costume designer. Background Sharaff was born in Boston and studied at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts, the Art Students League of New York, and the Acad̩mie de la Grande Chaumi̬re , Adrian, Walter Plunkett, Orry-Kelly, Jean Louis Jean Louis (born Jean Louis Berthauldt, October 5, 1907, Paris, France - April 20, 1997, Palm Springs, California, USA) was a U.S. costume designer and multiple Academy Award nominee in Costume Design. and Helen Rose. Anjelica Huston will host the ceremonies. At the March 16th ceremony, marking the 50th anniversary of the Guild, Excellence in Costume Design awards for 2002 will be presented in categories of film, television and Commercial. A Bvlgari Career Achievement Award for Film will go to Ann Roth; Career Achievement Award for Television to Rita Riggs; The President's Award to Piero Tosi and the Distinguished Actor Award to Dustin Hoffman. Clare West was one of the industry's first Costume Designers. She worked for two years designing costumes for D. W. Griffith's epic film, "Intolerance." West teamed up with Mitchell Leisen to design costumes for DeMille's "Male and Female" in 1921 and went on to create further designs on "The Ten Commandments." Natacha Rambova (1897-1966), educated in Europe, was the wife for three years of legendary silent screen star Rudolph Valentino. She was a dancer with a Russian troupe before becoming a costume and set designer for DeMille. She designed costumes for famed actress Alla Nazimova. Rambova went on to design costumes and sets for "Camille." Mitchell Leisen (1898-1972) originally came to Hollywood to be an actor but was sidetracked into an immensely successful career as a designer of costumes and sets by Cecil B. DeMille Noun 1. Cecil B. DeMille - United States film maker remembered for his extravagant and spectacular epic productions (1881-1959) Cecil Blount DeMille, DeMille . He went on to become equally successful as a producer and director. His costume design credits through the '20s, '30s and '40s include "Robin Hood," "The Thief of Baghdad," "The Sign of the Cross," "Taming of the Shrew shrew, common name for the small, insectivorous mammals of the family Soricidae, related to the moles. Shrews include the smallest mammals; the smallest shrews are under 2 in. (5.1 cm) long, excluding the tail, and the largest are about 6 in. (15 cm) long. ," "Forbidden Fruit" and "Lady In The Dark." Wayne A. Finkelman (1947-1994), born in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of but reared and educated in Rome, was one of the industry's outstanding Costume Designers dating back to the '70s working on such films as "Quigley Down Under," "Two Jakes," "Bird on a Wire," "Wildcats" and "The Golden Child." He began his film career in 1977 working on designs for Italian actresses Ornella Muti, Monica Vitti and Eleanora Giorgio. |
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