Trained at the Parsons School of Fine Arts, costume designer Gilbert M. Adrian -- usually billed simply as Adrian -- was discovered by, of all people, songwriter Irving Berlin. After attending a showing of Adrian's creations in Paris, Berlin hired the 18-year-old couturier to do the costumes for the 1921 Broadway presentation The Music Box Revue. After working on two subsequent editions of the Revue, Adrian was invited to Hollywood by Natacha Rambova, the art-director wife of screen star Rudolph Valentino. He designed the wardrobe for Valentino's The Eagle (1925), then joined Cecil B. De Mille's production company. In 1928, Adrian signed on at MGM, where, as chief costume designer, he helped define "the look" for Garbo, Norma Shearer, Jean Harlow, and Joan Crawford. It was Crawford who graciously noted that her reputation as a fashion trendsetter was the by-product of Adrian's genius. In 1941, Adrian left MGM after an argument concerning the studio's intention to "deglamorize" Garbo in Two-Faced Woman (1941). He moved to New York to set up his own independent fashion house which over the next 15 years serviced several Hollywood studios. In 1945, he won the New York Fashion Critics' prestigious Winnie Award. Retiring to his ranch in Brazil with his actress-wife Janet Gaynor in 1953, Adrian returned to the states in 1959 to design the costumes for the upcoming Broadway musical Camelot. During the preliminary stages of this project, Adrian died suddenly at the age of 54; his death was later ruled a suicide.
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Lovely to Look At
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1952 | |||
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Rope
Costume Designer |
1948 | |||
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Smart Woman
Costume Designer |
1948 | |||
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Possessed
Costume Designer |
1947 | |||
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Humoresque
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1946 | |||
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Flight for Freedom
Costume Designer |
1943 | |||
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Hi Diddle Diddle
Costume Designer |
1943 | |||
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His Butler's Sister
Costume Designer |
1943 | |||
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Shadow of a Doubt
Costume Designer |
1943 | |||
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Keeper of the Flame
Costume Designer |
1942 | |||
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They Got Me Covered
Costume Designer |
1942 | |||
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We Were Dancing
Costume Designer |
1942 | |||
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Woman of the Year
Costume Designer |
1942 | |||
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A Woman's Face
Costume Designer |
1941 | |||
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Blossoms in the Dust
Costume Designer |
1941 | |||
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Come Live with Me
Costume Designer |
1941 | |||
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Costume Designer |
1941 | |||
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Lady Be Good
Costume Designer |
1941 | |||
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Rage in Heaven
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1941 | |||
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Smilin' Through
Costume Designer |
1941 | |||
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The Chocolate Soldier
Costume Designer |
1941 | |||
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The Feminine Touch
Costume Designer |
1941 | |||
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Two-Faced Woman
Costume Designer |
1941 | |||
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When Ladies Meet
Costume Designer |
1941 | |||
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Ziegfeld Girl
Costume Designer |
1941 | |||
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Bitter Sweet
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1940 | |||
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Boom Town
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1940 | |||
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Broadway Melody of 1940
Costume Designer |
1940 | |||
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Comrade X
Costume Designer |
1940 | |||
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Escape
Costume Designer |
1940 | |||
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I Take This Woman
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1940 | |||
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New Moon
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1940 | |||
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Pride and Prejudice
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1940 | |||
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Susan and God
Costume Designer |
1940 | |||
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The Mortal Storm
Costume Designer |
1940 | |||
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The Philadelphia Story
Costume Designer |
1940 | |||
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Waterloo Bridge
Costume Designer |
1940 | |||
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Balalaika
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1939 | |||
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Broadway Serenade
Costume Designer |
1939 | |||
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Idiot's Delight
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1939 | |||
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It's a Wonderful World
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1939 | |||
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Lady of the Tropics
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1939 | |||
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Ninotchka
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1939 | |||
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The Ice Follies of 1939
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1939 | |||
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The Wizard of Oz
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1939 | |||
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The Women
Costume Designer |
1939 | |||
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Dramatic School
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1938 | |||
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Marie Antoinette
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1938 | |||
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Sweethearts
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1938 | |||
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The Girl of the Golden West
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1938 | |||
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The Shining Hour
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1938 | |||
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The Shopworn Angel
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1938 | |||
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Three Loves Has Nancy
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1938 | |||
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Between Two Women
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1937 | |||
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Broadway Melody of 1938
Costume Designer |
1937 | |||
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Double Wedding
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1937 | |||
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Mannequin
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1937 | |||
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Maytime
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1937 | |||
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Parnell
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1937 | |||
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The Bride Wore Red
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1937 | |||
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The Firefly
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1937 | |||
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The Last Gangster
Costume Designer |
1937 | |||
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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Costume Designer |
1937 | |||
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Born to Dance
Costume Designer |
1936 | |||
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Camille
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1936 | |||
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Love on the Run
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1936 | |||
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Romeo and Juliet
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1936 | |||
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Rose Marie
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1936 | |||
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San Francisco
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1936 | |||
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The Gorgeous Hussy
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1936 | |||
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The Great Ziegfeld
Costume Designer |
1936 | |||
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Wife vs. Secretary
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1936 | |||
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China Seas
Costume Designer |
1935 | |||
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Forsaking All Others
Costume Designer |
1935 | |||
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I Live My Life
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1935 | |||
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Mark of the Vampire
Costume Designer |
1935 | |||
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Naughty Marietta
Costume Designer |
1935 | |||
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No More Ladies
Costume Designer |
1935 | |||
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Reckless
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1935 | |||
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Chained
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1934 | |||
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Hollywood Party
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1934 | |||
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Nana
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1934 | |||
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Operator 13
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1934 | |||
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Outcast Lady
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1934 | |||
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Paris Interlude
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1934 | |||
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Rip Tide
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1934 | |||
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Sadie McKee
Costume Designer |
1934 | |||
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street
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1934 | |||
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The Cat and the Fiddle
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1934 | |||
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The Girl from Missouri
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1934 | |||
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The Merry Widow
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1934 | |||
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The Painted Veil
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1934 | |||
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The Women in His Life
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1934 | |||
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Bombshell
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1933 | |||
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Dancing Lady
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1933 | |||
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Dinner at Eight
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1933 | |||
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Gabriel Over the White House
Costume Designer |
1933 | |||
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Going Hollywood
Costume Designer |
1933 | |||
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Hold Your Man
Costume Designer |
1933 | |||
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Made on Broadway
Costume Designer |
1933 | |||
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Midnight Mary
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1933 | |||
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Peg O' My Heart
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1933 | |||
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Penthouse
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1933 | |||
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Queen Christina
Costume Designer |
1933 | |||
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Reunion in Vienna
Costume Designer |
1933 | |||
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Secrets
Costume Designer |
1933 | |||
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Stage Mother
Costume Designer |
1933 | |||
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Storm at Daybreak
Costume Designer |
1933 | |||
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The Secret of Madame Blanche
Costume Designer |
1933 | |||
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Today We Live
Costume Designer |
1933 | |||
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When Ladies Meet
Costume Designer |
1933 | |||
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Arsene Lupin
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1932 | |||
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As You Desire Me
Costume Designer |
1932 | |||
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Blondie of the Follies
Costume Designer |
1932 | |||
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But the Flesh Is Weak
Costume Designer |
1932 | |||
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Grand Hotel
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1932 | |||
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Letty Lynton
Costume Designer |
1932 | |||
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Mata Hari
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1932 | |||
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Polly of the Circus
Costume Designer |
1932 | |||
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Rasputin and the Empress
Costume Designer |
1932 | |||
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Red Dust
Costume Designer |
1932 | |||
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Smilin' Through
Costume Designer |
1932 | |||
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Strange Interlude
Costume Designer |
1932 | |||
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The Huddle
Costume Designer |
1932 | |||
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The Mask of Fu Manchu
Costume Designer |
1932 | |||
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Unashamed
Costume Designer |
1932 | |||
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Washington Masquerade
Costume Designer |
1932 | |||
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A Free Soul
Costume Designer |
1931 | |||
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Dance Fools Dance
Costume Designer |
1931 | |||
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Five and Ten
Costume Designer |
1931 | |||
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Laughing Sinners
Costume Designer |
1931 | |||
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Possessed
Costume Designer |
1931 | |||
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Private Lives
Costume Designer |
1931 | |||
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Strangers May Kiss
Costume Designer |
1931 | |||
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This Modern Age
Costume Designer |
1931 | |||
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A Lady's Morals
Costume Designer |
1930 | |||
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Anna Christie
Costume Designer |
1930 | |||
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Dynamite
Costume Designer |
1930 | |||
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In Gay Madrid
Costume Designer |
1930 | |||
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Let Us Be Gay
Costume Designer |
1930 | |||
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Madame Satan
Costume Designer |
1930 | |||
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Montana Moon
Costume Designer |
1930 | |||
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New Moon
Costume Designer |
1930 | |||
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Not So Dumb
Costume Designer |
1930 | |||
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Our Blushing Brides
Costume Designer |
1930 | |||
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Paid
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1930 | |||
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Passion Flower
Costume Designer |
1930 | |||
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Redemption
Costume Designer |
1930 | |||
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Romance
Costume Designer |
1930 | |||
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The Divorcée
Costume Designer |
1930 | |||
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The Lady of Scandal
Costume Designer |
1930 | |||
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The Rogue Song
Costume Designer |
1930 | |||
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This Mad World
Costume Designer |
1930 | |||
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A Single Man
Costume Designer |
1929 | |||
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Devil May Care
Costume Designer |
1929 | |||
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Marianne
Costume Designer |
1929 | |||
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Our Modern Maidens
Costume Designer |
1929 | |||
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The Godless Girl
Costume Designer |
1929 | |||
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The Kiss
Costume Designer |
1929 | |||
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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Costume Designer |
1929 | |||
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The Single Standard
Costume Designer |
1929 | |||
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The Thirteenth Chair
Costume Designer |
1929 | |||
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The Trial of Mary Dugan
Costume Designer |
1929 | |||
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The Unholy Night
Costume Designer |
1929 | |||
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Their Own Desire
Costume Designer |
1929 | |||
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Untamed
Costume Designer |
1929 | |||
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Wild Orchids
Costume Designer |
1929 | |||
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A Lady of Chance
Costume Designer |
1928 | |||
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A Woman of Affairs
Costume Designer |
1928 | |||
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Stand and Deliver
Costume Designer |
1928 | |||
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Chicago
Costume Designer |
1927 | |||
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Dress Parade
Costume Designer |
1927 | |||
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Fighting Eagle
Costume Designer |
1927 | |||
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His Dog
Costume Designer |
1927 | |||
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The Angel of Broadway
Costume Designer |
1927 | |||
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The Forbidden Woman
Costume Designer |
1927 | |||
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Vanity
Costume Designer |
1927 | |||
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Wise Wife
Costume Designer |
1927 | |||
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The Volga Boatmen
Costume Designer |
1926 | |||
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Walking Back
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1926 | |||
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Her Sister from Paris
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1925 | |||
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The Eagle
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