Anthea Sylbert

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Anthea Sylbert (born October 6, 1939 in New York City , United States ) is an American costume designer , film producer and screenwriter .

Life

Anthea Sylbert received her artistic training at the Parsons School of Design in her hometown New York. Her first jobs took her to the city's fashion industry. Subsequently, in the early 1960s, she was also brought in for theater productions on Broadway .

In 1967 Anthea Sylbert switched to film, where she continued her work as a costume designer. Anthea Sylbert initially supplied a number of urban, commercially not particularly successful productions, but her work on two Roman Polański productions, Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown , earned her a lot of recognition. Anthea Sylbert was nominated for an Oscar each for her costume designs for the latter film and for Fred Zinnemann 's women's and contemporary drama Julia , both traveling back in time to the 1930s .

After seven abstinence from film, Anthea Sylbert returned to the cinema in 1984 and began producing films exclusively with Goldie Hawn for the next eight years . Most of the time, Hawn was at her side in the role of co-producer. After they both produced Power of Love together , they parted ways, and Anthea Sylbert only produced television films. She also wrote the script for the last two productions (1998/99) together with her husband, the actor Richard Romanus . At the age of 60, Anthea Sylbert finally retired from the film business.

In her younger years Anthea Sylbert was married to the film architect Paul Sylbert . Her brother-in-law at the time was the film architect and two-time Oscar winner Richard Sylbert .

Filmography

Costume design

production

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 7: R - T. Robert Ryan - Lily Tomlin. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 577.

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personal data
SURNAME Sylbert, Anthea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American costume designer, film producer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City