Dorothy Jeakins

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Dorothy Jeakins (born January 11, 1914 in San Diego , California , † November 21, 1995 in Santa Barbara , California) was an American costume designer who received the Oscar for best costume design three times .

biography

Costume of Ingrid Bergman in the film Johanna von Orleans (1948)

Dorothy Jeakins was abandoned by her parents as a child and attended schools in Los Angeles and San Diego. In order to finance her studies at Otis College of Art and Design , she also lived as a maid with families. Jeakins became a member of the Southern California Arts Project and found her first job as a painter in the paint department of Walt Disney Studios . She developed fashion designs for the I. Magnin concern. There the film director Victor Fleming became aware of her and engaged her for his next film Johanna von Orleans (1948).

For Joan of Arc , her first job as a costume designer, Jeakins and Barbara Karinska received the Oscar for best costume design in color film at the 1949 Academy Awards . A second Oscar for best costume design followed in 1951 when she was honored with Edith Head , Eloise Jensson , Gile Steele and Gwen Wakeling for the color film Samson and Delilah (1949) by Cecil B. DeMille . Dorothy Jeakins designed costumes for a particularly large number of costume and period films in the decades that followed, although she also designed designs for many films set in the present.

At the Academy Awards in 1953 she was nominated for two Oscars: on the one hand, together with Edith Head and Miles White for the costumes in the color film The Biggest Show in the World (1952) by DeMille, and on the other hand, together with Charles Le Maire for the black and white film My Cousin Rachel (1952) by Henry Koster . At the Academy Awards in 1957 , along with Edith Head, Ralph Jester , John Jensen and Arnold Friberg, another nomination for the color film The Ten Commandments (1956) by CB DeMille followed. After she was three times for the Tony Award for Best Costume Design in the Broadway - productions Major Barbara (1957), Too Late The phalarope (1957) and The World of Suzie Wong nominated (1959).

Further nominations for the Oscar for best costume design followed in 1962 in the black and white film Infam (1961) by William Wyler and in 1963 in the color film Music Man (1961) by Morton DaCosta . At the Academy Awards in 1965 she finally received her third Oscar for best costume design in the black and white film Night of the Iguana (1964) by John Huston . This was followed by further Oscar nominations for the best costume design at the 1966 Academy Awards in the color film My Songs - My Dreams (1965) by Robert Wise , in 1967 in the color film Hawaii (1966) by George Roy Hill and in 1974 together with Moss Mabry for As We Were ( 1973) by Sydney Pollack .

After she also received the Women in Film Crystal Award in 1987 , she was last nominated at the 1988 Academy Awards for the Oscar for best costume design in The Dead (1987), the last directorial work by John Huston. For this film, director John Huston convinced her to come back from her retirement. In addition to her designs for film and theater, Jeakins was also the curator of the fashion and textile department of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from 1967 .

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dorothy Jeakins (IMDb Bio). Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Dorothy Jeakins. Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Brendan Kilty SC says: Huston Meets Joyce. In: Irish America. June 13, 2014, Retrieved September 2, 2019 (American English).
  4. ↑ Dorothy Jeakins. Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Jeakins, Dorothy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH San Diego , California , USA
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1995
Place of death Santa Barbara , California , USA