Adele Palmer

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Adele Palmer (born October 21, 1915 in Santa Ana , California , † July 1, 2008 in Santa Barbara , California) was an American costume designer for film.

Life

Born in 1915 in Santa Ana, California as the daughter of Rena C. and Theadore Palmer, the costume designer began her career as a sketch artist for Vera West at Universal Pictures . From 1938 she worked for the small but independent production company Republic Pictures . Over the years, she has worked there as a cloakroom and costume designer in more than 300 film productions, including mainly B-Westerns. For the biopic Revenge for the Alamo (1939) about the politician and General Sam Houston , she designed her first costumes with Edith Head . Palmer was often responsible for the costume design of films with John Wayne , such as the war film Alarm in the Pacific (1944) and the two John Ford films Rio Grande (1950) and The Sieger (1952). When Republic increasingly restricted production of films in the 1950s, Palmer moved to 20th Century Fox in 1957 . There she worked several times with Charles Le Maire , for example for Mark Robson's social drama Embers under the Ashes (1957), before ending her career in 1959. For Jean Negulesco's film drama All my dreams , one of the last films for which Palmer designed the costume design, and which treated taboo topics like embers under the ashes , she was nominated for an Oscar in 1960 in the category Best Costume Design (Color Film) . However, she was defeated by Elizabeth Haffenden , who received the award for Ben Hur .

Palmer was married to Thomas P. Wilder from 1949 until his death in 2002. She had two younger sisters, Frances Jonetta and Mollie Joan. Her brother was the film editor Norman Palmer (1918-2013). Adele Palmer died in Santa Barbara, California in 2008 at the age of 92. Her grave is in the Santa Barbara Cemetery.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1939: Revenge for the Alamo ( Man of Conques )
  • 1939: Zero Hour ( The Zero Hour )
  • 1940: Dark Command ( Dark Command )
  • 1941: Sis Hopkins
  • 1941: Mercy Island
  • 1944: Alarm in the Pacific ( The Fighting Seabees )
  • 1945: Hitchhike to Happiness
  • 1945: San Francisco Lilly
  • 1945: Love in the Wild ( Dakota )
  • 1946: Cards, Bullets, Bandits ( Plainsman and the Lady )
  • 1947: The Black Rider ( Angel and the Badman )
  • 1947: I Can Only Give My Heart One Time ( Northwest Outpost )
  • 1947: Hyenas of the Prairie ( Wyoming )
  • 1947: Burning border ( The Fabulous Texan )
  • 1948: The Avenger of Los Angeles ( Old Los Angeles )
  • 1948: The Rough Horsemen of the Fearless Legion ( The Gallant Legion )
  • 1948: Legacy of the Executioner ( Moonrise )
  • 1948: The looters of Nevada ( The Plunderers )
  • 1948: In the Wake of the Red Witch ( Wake Of The Red Witch )
  • 1949: head price $ 5000 ( Hellfire )
  • 1949: The blonde Tiger ( Too Late for Tears )
  • 1949: With bad luck and brimstone ( Brimston )
  • 1949: In the Last Second ( The Fighting Kentuckian )
  • 1950: Fuming guns ( Singing Guns )
  • 1950: Rio Grande
  • 1951: Apache battle on the black mountains ( Oh! Susanna )
  • 1952: The winner ( The Quiet Man )
  • 1952: The Lion of Arizona ( Toughest Man in Arizona )
  • 1952: The most beautiful of Montana ( Montana Belle )
  • 1953: The Rebel of Java ( Fair Wind to Java )
  • 1953: For Whom the sun is shining ( The Sun Shines Bright )
  • 1953: Company Panthersprung ( Flight Nurse )
  • 1955: The Avenger of Silbersee ( Timberjack )
  • 1955: The Rats of Chicago ( I Cover the Underworld )
  • 1955: The Barricades of San Antone ( The Last Command )
  • 1955: A man alone ( A Man Alone )
  • 1955: The last Indians ( The Vanishing American )
  • 1956: The Black Mustang ( Stranger at My Door )
  • 1956: The Devil of Colorado ( The Maverick Queen )
  • 1956: Laramie's Death Gorge ( Dakota Incident )
  • 1956: Duel at the Apache Pass ( Thunder Over Arizona )
  • 1956: Lisbon secret center ( Lisbon )
  • 1957: Embers under the ashes ( Peyton Place )
  • 1958: The Long, Hot Summer ( The Long, Hot Summer )
  • 1958: Hell, where's your horror ( In Love and War )
  • 1959: Pirates of the South ( The Sound and the Fury )
  • 1959: The compulsion to evil ( Compulsion )
  • 1959: Angels on a Hot Pavement ( Say One for Me )
  • 1959: All my dreams ( The Best of Everything )
  • 1959: FBI secret agent ( The FBI Story )

Awards

literature

  • Palmer, Adele . In: Elizabeth Leese: Costume Design in the Movies: An Illustrated Guide to the Work of 157 Great Designers . Dover Publications, 1991, ISBN 0-486-26548-X , pp. 87-88.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. ancestry.com
  2. ↑ cf. Adele Palmer Wilder in the Find a Grave database
personal data
SURNAME Palmer, Adele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Ana , California
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 2008
Place of death Santa Barbara , California