Helen Rose

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Helen Rose (actually Helen Bromberg ; born February 2, 1904 in Chicago , Illinois , † November 9, 1985 in Palm Springs , California ) was an American costume and fashion designer who won two Oscar for best costume design and eight more Time was nominated for this award. She has also designed wedding dresses for Grace Kelly , Elizabeth Taylor , Debbie Reynolds and other film actresses.

Life

Helen Bromberg grew up with her parents and two younger siblings in Cook County , Illinois , and began designing costumes for theaters and nightclubs as a dressmaker at the age of 15 .

In the mid-1930s she began working as a costume designer in the Hollywood film industry and, after We're in the Legion Now (1936), was involved in setting up around 150 films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer until the end of the 1960s .

At the 1952 Academy Awards , she and Gile Steele were nominated for the Oscar for the best costume design for the first time, for the color film The Great Caruso (1951). In 1953 she not only won her first Oscar for costumes in the black and white film City of Illusions (1952), but was also nominated with Gile Steele for the Oscar for costumes in the color film The Merry Widow (1952).

Further nominations for the Oscar in the category Best Costume Design followed in 1954 with Herschel McCoy for the black-and-white film You and No Others (1953), 1955 for the black-and-white film Die Intriganten (1954) and 1956 for the color film Interrupted Melodie (1955). At the Academy Awards in 1956 , she also received her second Oscar for best costumes; this time for the color film And Tomorrow I'll Cry (1955).

Subsequently, she was nominated three more times for the Oscar for best costumes in black and white films: 1957 for The Power and the Prize ( The Power and the Prize ) in 1960 for the pain in the ass and finally at the Academy Awards in 1967 for face without a name .

Other well-known films with costumes designed by her were This is New York (1949), A Gift from Heaven (1951), Hearts in Fever (1953) and The Top Ten Thousand (1956). Over the course of her 30-year career, she has worked with film directors such as Richard Thorpe , Curtis Bernhardt , Robert Wise , Daniel Mann , Henry Koster , George Marshall , Delbert Mann , Sidney Sheldon , Stanley Donen , Gene Kelly , Vincente Minnelli and Charles Walters .

Helen Rose also worked as a fashion designer and designed wedding dresses for actresses such as Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor and Debbie Reynolds. After leaving MGM, she founded her own fashion company in the late 1960s, wrote a book and a column, and performed her designs at various fashion shows .

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SURNAME Rose, Helen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bromberg, Helen (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American costume and fashion designer
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois , USA
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1985
Place of death Palm Springs , California , USA