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Helen Rose
Chicago, Illinois, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Helen Rose (February 2, 1904 – November 9, 1985) was an American costume designer and clothing designer who spent the bulk of her career wit…
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
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1975
Elizabeth Taylor: An Intimate Portrait
Movie Self
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1968
How Sweet It Is!
Movie Costume Design
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1964
Goodbye Charlie
Movie Costume Design
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1963
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Movie Costume Design
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1961
Bachelor in Paradise
Movie Costume Design
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1961
Ada
Movie Costume Design
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1961
The Honeymoon Machine
Movie Costume Design
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1961
Two Loves
Movie Costume Design
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1961
Go Naked in the World
Movie Costume Design
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1960
BUtterfield 8
Movie Costume Design
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1960
All the Fine Young Cannibals
Movie Costume Design
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1959
The Gazebo
Movie Costume Design
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1959
Ask Any Girl
Movie Costume Design
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1959
It Started with a Kiss
Movie Costume Design
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1959
The Mating Game
Movie Costume Design
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1959
Count Your Blessings
Movie Costume Design
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1958
The Tunnel of Love
Movie Costume Design
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1958
Party Girl
Movie Costume Design
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1958
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Movie Costume Design
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1958
The Reluctant Debutante
Movie Wardrobe Supervisor
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1958
The High Cost of Loving
Movie Costume Mistress
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1957
Don't Go Near the Water
Movie Costume Design
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1957
Silk Stockings
Movie Costume Design
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1957
Designing Woman
Movie Costume Design
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1957
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
Movie Costume Design
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1956
The Opposite Sex
Movie Costume Design
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1956
Tea and Sympathy
Movie Costume Design
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1956
The Power and the Prize
Movie Costume Design
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1956
High Society
Movie Costume Design
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1956
The Wedding in Monaco
Movie Costume Designer
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1956
Gaby
Movie Costume Design
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1956
The Swan
Movie Costume Design
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1956
Forbidden Planet
Movie Costume Design
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1956
Meet Me in Las Vegas
Movie Costume Design
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1955
I'll Cry Tomorrow
Movie Costume Design
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1955
The Tender Trap
Movie Costume Design
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1955
It's Always Fair Weather
Movie Costume Designer
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1955
The Cobweb
Movie Costume Design
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1955
Love Me or Leave Me
Movie Costume Design
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1955
Interrupted Melody
Movie Costume Design
