Jean Louis
Jean Louis (born October 5, 1907 in Paris , † April 20, 1997 in Palm Springs , California ; actually Jean Louis Berthault ) was a French - American costume and fashion designer .
Live and act
Jean Louis studied fashion design in Paris and moved to New York in the early 1930s . There he worked for the successful jewelry and fashion designer Hattie Carnegie for seven years .
He was then chief designer at Columbia Pictures between 1944 and 1960 , where he often designed the film costumes for Columbia's greatest star at the time, Rita Hayworth . Jean Louis went down in film history with his famous black satin dress, which Hayworth wore in the title role of the classic film Gilda . For Hayworth's famous Dance of the Seven Veils in the Bible adaptation Salome , he invented a kind of body tights made of skin-colored nylon , which should suggest a certain nudity to the viewer without actually exposing Hayworth.
His stage dresses for Marlene Dietrich and her one-woman show , which, according to critics of the London press, were "the greatest achievement in the theater world since the invention of the trapdoor" , also caused a sensation .
From 1961 Jean Louis worked as a freelance designer for film productions.
The skin- tight dress he designed, which Marilyn Monroe wore together with an ermine stole at the birthday party of US President John F. Kennedy in Madison Square Garden in 1962 and sang " Happy Birthday, Mr. President " , is also very well known . This gown sold for $ 4.8 million at auction in 2016.
Jean Louis was married twice in his life. In 1993, six years after the death of his first wife, he married his former customer, actress Loretta Young .
Other works (selection)
- Rita Hayworth in Tonight and Every Night (1945), Gilda (1946), A Goddess on Earth (1947), The Lady of Shanghai (1948), Love Nights in Seville (1948), Affair in Trinidad (1952), Salome (1953) , Purgatory (1953), Playing with Fire (1957), Pal Joey (1957) and You Came to Cordura (1959)
- Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday (1950) and The woman in golden Cadillac (1956)
- Gloria Grahame in Hot Iron (1953) and Greed for Life (1954)
- Deborah Kerr in Forever Damned (1953)
- Judy Garland in A New Star in the Sky (1954)
- Joan Crawford in Shackled Marriage (1955)
- Kim Novak in Picnic (1955), My Bride Is Psychic (1958) and Pal Joey (1957)
- Lana Turner in As Long As There Are People (1959)
- Doris Day in Bettgeflüster (1959), What This Woman Does (1963), Don't Send Me Flowers (1964), The Devil's Wife of Texas (1967)
- Marlene Dietrich in The Monte Carlo Story (1957) and The Judgment of Nuremberg (1961)
- Marilyn Monroe in Misfits (1961) and Something's Got to Give (1962)
- Shirley MacLaine in The Cherry Bar Girl (1966)
- Julie Andrews , Mary Tyler Moore and Carol Channing in Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
Awards
Between 1950 and 1967, Jean Louis was nominated thirteen times for an Oscar in the category of best costume design . In 1957 he won the coveted trophy for the film costumes of The Woman in the Golden Cadillac ( The Solid Gold Cadillac ). He received further Oscar nominations for the following films:
- 1950: Born Yesterday ( Born Yesterday )
- 1952: Affair in Trinidad ( Affair in Trinidad )
- 1953: From Here to Eternity ( From Here to Eternity )
- 1954: The Incredible Story of Gladys Glover ( It Should Happen To You )
- 1954: A new star in the sky ( A Star Is Born )
- 1955: Marriage in Shackles ( Queen Bee )
- 1957: Pal Joey ( Pal Joey )
- 1958: My Bride Is Psychic ( Bell, Book and Candle )
- 1961: Judgment at Nuremberg ( Judgment at Nuremberg )
- 1961: Paris terminus ( Back Street )
- 1965: The Ship of Fools ( Ship of Fools )
- 1966: The girl from the cherry bar ( Gambit )
- 1967: Modern Millie - searched Rich man ( Thoroughly Modern Millie )
Web links
- Jean Louis (engl.)
- Katz's Film Encyclopedia - Jean Louis (engl.)
Remarks
- ↑ Rita Hayworth in Gilda (1946)
- ↑ boulevard-der-stars-berlin.de
- ↑ Marlene Dietrich
- ↑ Marilyn Monroe (1962)
- ↑ today.com , accessed December 19, 2016
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Louis, Jean |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Berthault, Jean Louis (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French-American costume and fashion designer |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1907 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 1997 |
Place of death | Palm Springs |