Milo Anderson

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Milo Leon Anderson (born May 9, 1910 in Chicago , Illinois , United States ; † November 3, 1984 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American costume designer whose work “played a decisive role in the most important ' Warner Bros. ' productions of the 30s and 40s. "

Live and act

After a short training period at the University of California in Los Angeles, Anderson got his first job at the age of 20 from film producer Samuel Goldwyn and soon made a name for himself as a talented tailor. In the following year, Warner Bros. hired Milo Anderson, who soon became the most important costume designer of this young company. Anderson designed the robes for a number of lavish and ambitious biographies, literary adaptations, as well as historical, adventure and costume films by important continental European directors such as Michael Curtiz and Wilhelm Dieterle , including Unter Piratenflagge , Louis Pasteur and Robin Hood, King of the Vagabonds . In the following decade, the 1940s, designs for far less elaborate suits, work clothes and uniforms were added to various westerns, crime and war films. His work includes more than 170 productions.

Paul Muni , James Cagney , Humphrey Bogart , Edward G. Robinson and, again and again, Errol Flynn were among the most famous men, whom Milo Anderson dressed several times in the central 20 years of working in film . Among the actresses who wore Anderson's robes were mainly Jane Wyman , but also Olivia de Havilland , Marlene Dietrich , Joan Crawford , the then young actress Doris Day and the then teenager Elizabeth Taylor . In the course of the early 1950s, Milo Anderson gradually withdrew from the film business and from then on devoted himself to a new artistic challenge: numerous celebrities based in Beverly Hills hired the experienced artist as an interior designer.

Filmography (selection)

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 1: A - C. Erik Aaes - Jack Carson. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 100.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 1: A - C. Erik Aaes - Jack Carson. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 100.

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personal data
SURNAME Anderson, Milo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anderson, Milo Leon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois , United States
DATE OF DEATH 3rd November 1984
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States