Marjorie Best
10 kwietnia 1903 — 14 czerwca 1997 (94 years)
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Marjorie Best (10 April 1903 – 14 June 1997) was an American Hollywood costume designer known for her period designs.
Best was born in Jacksonville, Illinois and studied at the Chouinard Art Institute. She taught school briefly before going to work for the Western Costume Company in 1926. She later moved to United Costumers. When that company was purchased by Warner Bros. in 1936, she was given a position in the studio's wardrobe department.
Her first film as a costume designer was Silver River (1948). She earned an Academy Award for costume design in 1949 for her collaboration on the Errol Flynn film Adventures of Don Juan. She was nominated in 1956 for Giant, in 1960 for Sunrise at Campobello, and in 1965 for The Greatest Story Ever Told, the same year she retired.
Best died on June 14, 1997 in Toluca Lake, California of a heart ailment.
Marjorie Best (10 April 1903 – 14 June 1997) was an American Hollywood costume designer known for her period designs.
Best was born in Jacksonville, Illinois and studied at the Chouinard Art Institute. She taught school briefly before going to work for the Western Costume Company in 1926. She later moved to United Costumers. When that company was purchased by Warner Bros. in 1936, she was given a position in the studio's wardrobe department.
Her first film as a costume designer was Silver River (1948). She earned an Academy Award for costume design in 1949 for her collaboration on the Errol Flynn film Adventures of Don Juan. She was nominated in 1956 for Giant, in 1960 for Sunrise at Campobello, and in 1965 for The Greatest Story Ever Told, the same year she retired.
Best died on June 14, 1997 in Toluca Lake, California of a heart ailment.
Filmografia
| 1965 | The Greatest Story Ever Told · as Costume Designer |
| 1963 | Spencer's Mountain · as Costume Design |
| 1962 | State Fair · as Costume Design |
| 1962 | Tender Is the Night · as Costume Design |
| 1961 | The Comancheros · as Costume Design |
| 1961 | The Sins of Rachel Cade · as Costume Design |
| 1960 | The Dark at the Top of the Stairs · as Costume Design |
| 1960 | Sunrise at Campobello · as Costume Design |
| 1960 | Sergeant Rutledge · as Costume Design |
| 1960 | Guns of the Timberland · as Costume Design |
| 1959 | Yellowstone Kelly · as Costume Design |
| 1959 | The Miracle · as Costume Design |
| 1959 | The Nun's Story · as Costume Design |
| 1959 | Rio Bravo · as Costume Design |
| 1959 | The Hanging Tree · as Costume Design |
| 1958 | Born Reckless · as Costume Design |
| 1958 | The Left Handed Gun · as Costume Design |
| 1958 | Fort Dobbs · as Costume Design |
| 1958 | Darby's Rangers · as Costume Designer |
| 1958 | Lafayette Escadrille · as Costume Design |
| 1957 | Band of Angels · as Costume Design |
| 1957 | Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend · as Costume Design |
| 1957 | The Big Land · as Costume Designer |
| 1956 | Giant · as Costume Design |
| 1956 | The Burning Hills · as Costume Design |
| 1956 | Santiago · as Costume Designer |
| 1954 | The Silver Chalice · as Costume Design |
| 1954 | King Richard and the Crusaders · as Costume Design |
| 1954 | His Majesty O'Keefe · as Costume Design |
| 1953 | The Eddie Cantor Story · as Costume Designer |
| 1953 | Blowing Wild · as Wardrobe SupervisorNa Plex |
| 1953 | The Charge at Feather River · as Costume Design |
| 1952 | The Iron Mistress · as Costume Design |
| 1952 | Carson City · as Wardrobe Designer |
| 1952 | The Crimson Pirate · as Costume Design |
| 1952 | Room for One More · as Costume Design |
| 1951 | Distant Drums · as Wardrobe Designer |
| 1951 | I'll See You in My Dreams · as Costume Design |
| 1951 | Fort Worth · as Wardrobe Master |
| 1951 | Along the Great Divide · as Wardrobe Designer |
| 1951 | Raton Pass · as Costume Design |
| 1950 | The West Point Story · as Wardrobe Designer |
| 1950 | Rocky Mountain · as Costume Design |
| 1950 | The Great Jewel Robber · as Costume Design |
| 1950 | The Flame and the Arrow · as Costume Design |
| 1950 | Bright Leaf · as Wardrobe Supervisor |
| 1950 | The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady · as Costume Design |
| 1950 | Montana · as Costume Design |
| 1949 | Look for the Silver Lining · as Costume Design |
| 1948 | Adventures of Don Juan · as Wardrobe Supervisor |
| 1948 | Silver River · as Costume Designer |
| 1947 | Life with Father · as Costume DesignNa Plex |
| 1946 | The Time, the Place and the Girl · as Costume Designer |
| 1943 | The Desert Song · as Costume Designer |
| 1938 | The Adventures of Marco Polo · as Costume DesignerNa Plex |