Marcel Escoffier

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Marcel Delphin Escoffier (born November 29, 1910 in Monaco , † January 9, 2001 in Ariccia , Italy ) was a Monegasque-French costume designer .

Live and act

Escoffier was considered an outstanding couturier of French post-war film. He received his training at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs de Paris and then worked as an assistant to Christian Bérard . At first he worked on Parisian theaters, after the war also on German and American venues ( Broadway and the Met ). His trips to the opera brought him together with Herbert von Karajan and Maria Callas .

Until the end of the war in 1945, Escoffier only rarely worked in film, his most important phase of work began that year when he first worked with Jean Cocteau on the fairy tale film Once Upon a Time . Until the end of the 1940s, Escoffier continued to cooperate frequently with Cocteau, until Cocteau largely turned away from the cinema again after Orpheus . In the following two decades, Marcel Escoffier mainly created costumes for elaborate historical fabrics or literature adaptations. He created his most comprehensive creations for large-scale entertainment productions such as Fanfan, der Husar , Lola Montez , Der Kurier des Zaren , Die Elenden , Lady L. , Madame Sans-Gêne and Mayerling . After his extensive costume designs for Franco Zeffirelli's ambitious four-part television series Jesus von Nazareth (1976), Marcel Escoffier, who had recently lived in Italy for a long time, withdrew into private life. He died near Rome in early 2001 .

Filmography

  • 1938: Three Waltzes (Trois valses)
  • 1939: The white slave (L'Esclave blanche)
  • 1942: Carmen
  • 1945: Once upon a time (La Belle et la Bête)
  • 1946: The Idiot (L'Idiot)
  • 1947: Ruy Blas, the Queen's lover (Ruy Blas)
  • 1948: The double-headed eagle (L'aigle à deux têtes)
  • 1948: The Secret of Mayerling (Le Secret de Mayerling)
  • 1949: Orpheus (Orphée)
  • 1949: Singoalla (Singoalla)
  • 1950: ballerina (ballerina)
  • 1950: God needs people (Dieu a besoin des hommes)
  • 1951: Nez de cuir
  • 1952: Fanfan, the Hussar (Fanfan la Tulipe)
  • 1952: The Empress's Violets (Les Violettes impériales)
  • 1953: Lucrezia Borgia (Lucrèce Borgia)
  • 1953: Love, women and soldiers (Destinées)
  • 1953: La Belle de Cadix
  • 1954: Longing (Senso)
  • 1954: A woman conquers the world (La Belle Otéro)
  • 1954: Madame Dubarry (Madame Du Barry)
  • 1955: Nana
  • 1955: Lola Montez
  • 1956: The Tsar's Courier (Michel Strogoff)
  • 1956: The fashion king (Le Couturier de ces dames)
  • 1957: The king's best man (La Tour, prends garde!)
  • 1957: Whenever the light goes out (Pot-Bouille)
  • 1957: The Misery (Les misérables)
  • 1960: The Princess of Cleve (La Princesse de Clèves)
  • 1960: ... and dying of lust (Et mourir de plaisir)
  • 1961: Madame Sans-Gêne (Madame Sans-Gêne)
  • 1963: The indifferent (Gli indifferenti)
  • 1963: La Bohème
  • 1965: Lady L.
  • 1967: Woman lures seven times (Woman Times Seven)
  • 1967: Father of the family (Il padre di famiglia)
  • 1968: Mayerling
  • 1968: Phèdre
  • 1970: Musketeer with blow and stab
  • 1973: The trip to Palermo (Il viaggio)
  • 1977: Jesus of Nazareth (four-part TV series)

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 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 580.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . Volume 2. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001. p. 580.

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personal data
SURNAME Escoffier, Marcel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Escoffier, Marcel Delphin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Monegasque-French costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Monaco , Monaco
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 2001
Place of death Ariccia , Italy