Charles LeMaire - Movie and Film Biography, Credits and Filmography

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1934 - 1962

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1897 in Chicago, IL

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June 8, 1985 in Palm Springs, CA

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by Hal Erickson biography

Chicagoan Charles LeMaire started out as a vaudeville performer in an act with actor/singer Walter Woolf King. LeMaire forsook performing to become a Broadway costume designer in 1921; he gained fame for dressing (or rather, undressing) the "glorified" American girls in The Ziegfeld Follies, and also worked on the productions of such Ziegfeld imitators as George White and Earl Carroll. In movies sporadically since 1925, LeMaire was instrumental in convincing the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to set up an Oscar category for costume design; he eventually earned several statuettes for his own work. For 17 years (1943-1960), Charles LeMaire was in charge of 20th Century-Fox's wardrobe department, servicing everything from the Betty Grable musicals to the Biblical epic The Robe (1953).

Title	Year	Editors' Rating		User Rating
Walk on the Wild Side Costume Designer	1962
The Marriage-Go-Round Costume Designer	1960
Compulsion Costume Designer	1959
The Diary of Anne Frank Costume Designer	1959
The Man Who Understood Women Costume Designer	1959
The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker Costume Designer	1959
Thunder in the Sun Costume Designer	1959
Warlock Costume Designer	1959
Woman Obsessed Costume Designer	1959
A Certain Smile Costume Designer	1958
From Hell to Texas Costume Designer	1958
Mardi Gras Costume Designer	1958
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! Costume Designer	1958
Ten North Frederick Costume Designer	1958
The Bravados Costume Designer	1958
The Fly Costume Designer	1958
The Gift of Love Costume Designer	1958
The Hunters Costume Designer	1958
The Young Lions Costume Designer	1958
An Affair to Remember Costume Designer	1957
Bernardine Costume Designer	1957
Desk Set Costume Designer	1957
Forty Guns Costume Designer	1957
Kiss Them for Me Costume Designer	1957
Oh, Men! Oh, Women! Costume Designer	1957
Peyton Place Costume Designer	1957
The Enemy Below Costume Designer	1957
The Sun Also Rises Costume Designer	1957
Top Secret Affair Costume Designer	1957
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Costume Designer	1957
23 Paces to Baker Street Costume Designer	1956
Between Heaven and Hell Costume Designer	1956
Bigger Than Life Costume Designer	1956
D-Day, the Sixth of June Costume Designer	1956
Hilda Crane Costume Designer	1956
Love Me Tender Costume Designer	1956
Teenage Rebel Costume Designer	1956
The Girl Can't Help It Costume Designer	1956
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Costume Designer	1956
House of Bamboo Costume Designer	1955
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing Costume Designer	1955
Soldier of Fortune Costume Designer	1955
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing Costume Designer	1955
The Left Hand of God Costume Designer	1955
The Seven Year Itch Costume Designer	1955
The View from Pompey's Head Costume Designer	1955
The Virgin Queen Costume Designer	1955
A Woman's World Costume Designer	1954
Demetrius and the Gladiators Costume Designer	1954
Desiree Costume Designer	1954
Gorilla at Large Costume Designer	1954
Hell and High Water Costume Designer	1954
Prince Valiant Costume Designer	1954
River of No Return Costume Designer	1954
The Egyptian Costume Designer	1954
The Siege at Red River Costume Designer	1954
There's No Business Like Show Business Costume Designer	1954
A Blueprint for Murder Costume Designer	1953
How to Marry a Millionaire Costume Designer	1953
The Kid from Left Field Costume Designer	1953
The President's Lady Costume Designer	1953
The Robe Costume Designer	1953
Treasure of the Golden Condor Costume Designer	1953
Vicki Costume Designer	1953
Deadline U.S.A. Costume Designer	1952
Diplomatic Courier Costume Designer	1952
My Cousin Rachel Costume Designer	1952
My Pal Gus Costume Designer	1952
Pony Soldier Costume Designer	1952
The Pride of St. Louis Costume Designer	1952
The Snows of Kilimanjaro Costume Designer	1952
Way of a Gaucho Costume Designer	1952
We're Not Married Costume Designer	1952
What Price Glory? Costume Designer	1952
With a Song in My Heart Costume Designer	1952
David and Bathsheba Costume Designer	1951
Fixed Bayonets Costume Designer	1951
I Can Get It for You Wholesale Costume Designer	1951
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain Costume Designer	1951
People Will Talk Costume Designer	1951
The Frogmen Costume Designer	1951
The Model and the Marriage Broker Costume Designer	1951
You're in the Navy Now Costume Designer	1951
All About Eve Costume Designer	1950
An American Guerrilla in the Philippines Costume Designer	1950
Halls of Montezuma Costume Designer	1950
My Blue Heaven Costume Designer	1950
Three Came Home Costume Designer	1950
Under My Skin Costume Designer	1950
Wabash Avenue Costume Designer	1950
When Willie Comes Marching Home Costume Designer	1950
Where the Sidewalk Ends Costume Designer	1950
Down to the Sea in Ships Costume Designer	1949
House of Strangers Costume Designer	1949
Pinky Costume Designer	1949
The Fan Costume Designer	1949
Whirlpool Costume Designer	1949
You're My Everything Costume Designer	1949
The Luck of the Irish Costume Designer	1948
Captain from Castile Costume Designer	1947
Daisy Kenyon Costume Designer	1947
Forever Amber Costume Designer	1947
Kiss of Death Costume Designer	1947
Mother Wore Tights Costume Designer	1947
The Razor's Edge Costume Designer	1946
George White's Scandals Costume Designer	1935
George White's Scandals Costume Designer	1934

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