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Robert Fletcher (August 23, 1922 – April 5, 2021) was an American costume and set designer. He was best known for designing costumes for major ballet and opera companies in addition to films, television specials, and New York stage plays. [1]
She appeared in several movies, usually with aquatic themes, and as the star of the 1916 film A Daughter of the Gods was the first major actress to appear nude in a Hollywood production. Kellermann was an advocate of health, fitness, and natural beauty throughout her life.
Nuta Kotlyarenko (Ukrainian: Нута Котляренко; December 15, 1902 – May 9, 1984), known professionally as Nudie Cohn, was a Ukrainian-American tailor who designed decorative rhinestone-covered suits, known popularly as "Nudie Suits", and other elaborate outfits for some of the most famous celebrities of his era.
Indian saree made from chiffon fabric, inspired by the evening dresses of Hollywood starlets. Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, a second influence vied with Paris couturiers as a wellspring for ideas: the American cinema. [7] As Hollywood movies gained their popularities, general public idolized movie stars as their role models.
[3] [5] He later taught at the School of Fine and Applied Arts in his mid-20s, helping to educate Travis Banton and Adrian (both later Hollywood costume designers), [6] [7] [a] and was a member of the jury in the school's 1918 costume design show. [11] Although he won admission to Yale University, he never attended. [12]
The roulette mechanism is a hybrid of a gaming wheel invented in 1720 and the Italian game Biribi. [2] A primitive form of roulette, known as 'EO' (Even/Odd), was played in England in the late 18th century using a gaming wheel similar to that used in roulette. [3] The game has been played in its present form since as early as 1796 in Paris.
The costume Oscar that year, however, went to Miloš Forman's Amadeus. [11] Roth's costumes for three distinct time frames in The English Patient (1996) earned her first Oscar. According to producer Saul Zaentz, Roth worked for half her usual salary on the film "because she believed in the screenplay."
Helen Rose was born on February 2, 1904, to William Bromberg and Ray Bobbs in Chicago, Illinois of German Jewish and Russian Jewish descent. [1]She attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and then designed nightclub and stage costumes for various acts. [2]