Helen Rose Hollywood Designer Extrordinaire!
1904-1985
Helen Rose was born in Chicago on 2nd February 1904. She studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In 1929 she moved to Los Angeles, California.
Her first professional job in designing was for Fanchon and Marco's "Ice Follies". This duo supervised costumes for musical sequences in Fox musicals and in 1943 Helen designed for Hello Frisco Hello, Coney Island and Stormy Weather.
After Adrian left, Helen got a contract from MGM and became one of the very few women to become head costume designer at a major studio. She went on to make costumes for more than 200 films right up to 1968...click here to continue reading from The Fashion of History website
Research Helen Rose on the web!
- Wikipedia
- Short history provided:
A native of Chicago, she began designing nightclub and stage costumes at age 15. She also costumed for an ice show before moving to Hollywood in the early 40s where she spent two years working for 20th Century Fox. In the late 60's... - History of Fashion
- Short history provided:
1904-1985
Helen Rose was born in Chicago on 2nd February 1904. She studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In 1929 she moved to Los Angeles, California... - filmreference.com
- I love this website because it gives the reader an easily digestible visual time line as well as a brief history of the costume designer.
Films as Costume Designer:
1943
Coney Island (W. Lang) (co); Hello Frisco, Hello (Humberstone) (co); Stormy Weather (Stone)
1946
The Harvey Girls (Sidney) (co); Two Sisters from Boston (Koster) (co); Ziegfeld Follies (Minnelli) (co); Till the Clouds Roll By (Whorf) (co)
1947
Good News (Walters) (co); Merton of the Movies (Alton) (co); The Unfinished Dance (Koster)... - IMBD website
- Provides the costume designer's full resume of movies with links to all of them.
Overview
Date of Birth:
2 February 1904, Chicago, Illinois, USA more
Date of Death:
9 November 1985, Palm Springs, California, USA. more
Trivia:
Started designing stage and nightclub costumes at the age of 15. more
Awards:
Won 2 Oscars. Another 8 nominations more ... - MSN Movies
- Provides brief history with links to movies that she worked on:
Biography:Costume designer "Helen Rose" spent the bulk of her career with MGM studios where she clothed the stars of 200 films. A native of Chicago, she began designing nightclub and stage costumes at age 15. She also costumed for an ice show before moving to Hollywood in the early '40... - Turner Classic Movies
- Provides resume of movies Helen worked on plus the bonus of being able to view original trailers! This site also provides 7 original costume sketch images she did for Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956) Wowza!
- Vintage Fashion Guild Label Resource
- Gives a brief history of the designer plus images of her label from the 50's. Great resource for history and images of vintage labels.
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Helen Rose
The following is a slide show of dresses and movie posters from movies that Helen Rose has worked on.
Movies that Helen Rose designed for
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The Merry Widow (1934)
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance Awards: Won Osca more...1 point
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