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Helen Rose

2 februari 1904 — 9 november 1985 (81 years)
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Helen Rose (February 2, 1904 – November 9, 1985) was an American costume designer and clothing designer who spent the bulk of her career with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Helen Rose was born on February 2, 1904, to William Bromberg and Ray Bobbs in Chicago, Illinois of German and Russian descent. She attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and then designed nightclub and stage costumes for various acts. She moved to Los Angeles in 1929, where she designed outfits for Fanchon and Marco and later the Ice Follies. In the early 1940s she spent two years working for 20th Century Fox, where she designed wardrobes for musical selections. In 1943 MGM hired her in the wake of Adrian's departure and by the late 1940s Rose was promoted to chief designer at the studio.

Rose won two Academy Awards for Best Costume Design, for The Bad and the Beautiful in 1952 and for I'll Cry Tomorrow in 1955. She was nominated a further eight times and was also very well known for designing famous wedding dresses of the era. She designed the famous wedding dress of Grace Kelly when she married Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956. She also designed clothing for Elizabeth Taylor in the movies Father of the Bride and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as well as Elizabeth Taylor's wedding dress when she married Conrad "Nicky" Hilton.

In the late 1960s, Rose left the studio to open her own design business and continued to provide fancy attire for the famed and the wealthy. She also wrote a fashion column. She wrote two books - her autobiography Just Make Them Beautiful in 1976 and "The Glamorous World of Helen Rose". In the 1970s Rose also staged a traveling fashion show featuring some of her MGM-designed costumes that was called "The Helen Rose Show".

Helen was married to Harry V. Rose, whose birth name was Harry Rosenstein (1902–1993), and they had a daughter. She died in Palm Springs, California in 1985.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Royal Wedding
    Royal Wedding1951
  • The Last Time I Saw Paris
    The Last Time I Saw Paris1954
  • Vader plukt de vruchten
    Vader plukt de vruchten1951
  • Till the Clouds Roll By
    Till the Clouds Roll By1946
  • Good News
    Good News1947

Known For

  • Klatergoud
    Klatergoud1952
  • De man aan de top
    De man aan de top1954
  • I'll Cry Tomorrow
    I'll Cry Tomorrow1955
  • Trouwen is hou'en
    Trouwen is hou'en1957
  • De moorddadige echtgenoot
    De moorddadige echtgenoot1959
  • Onderbroken melodie
    Onderbroken melodie1955
  • Dream Wife
    Dream Wife1953
  • The Merry Widow
    The Merry Widow1952
  • The Power and the Prize
    The Power and the Prize1956

Cinematografie

1975
Elizabeth Taylor - An Intimate Portrait · as Self
1960
Here's Hollywood · as Self
1953
The 25th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Winner For Costume Design Black & White Film