Mary Wills

Mary Wills (born July 4, 1914 , † February 7, 1997 in Sedona , Arizona ) was an American costume designer who once won the Oscar for best costume design and was nominated six more times for this award.

biography

Costume of Bette Davis in the film The Virgin Queen (1955)

Mary Wills began her career as a costume designer in the Hollywood film industry in 1944 with Belle of the Yukon and has helped set up more than 30 films over the course of her career.

At the Academy Awards in 1953 , she and Antoni Clavé and Barbara Karinska were nominated for the first time for the Oscar for best costume design for the color film Hans Christian Andersen and the Dancer (1952). This was followed by Oscar nominations for best costumes in 1956 together with Charles Le Maire in the color film The Virgin Queen (1955), 1957 with C. Le Maire in the black and white film Modern Youth (Teenage Rebel, 1956), 1959 with C. Le Maire for A Certain Smile (A Certain Smile, 1958) and in 1960 with C. Le Maire in the black and white film The Diary of Anne Frank (1959).

At the Academy Awards in 1963 , she finally received the Oscar for the best costume design in the color film Die Wunderwelt der Gebrüder Grimm (1962).

Most recently, Mary Wills was nominated for an Oscar in 1977 for the costumes in Jesus of Nazareth (The Passover Plot) .

Mary Wills, who also created the costumes for Carousel (1956) and A Lure for the Beast (1962), has worked with film directors such as Charles Vidor , Henry Koster , Edmund Goulding , Henry King , Jean Negulesco , George Stevens , J . Lee Thompson , Henry Levin , George Pal and Michael Campus together.

Web links

• Mary Wills in the Internet Movie Database (English)