Helen Rose
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Helen Rose (February 2, 1904 – November 9, 1985) was an American costume designer and clothing designer who spent the bulk of her career with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Helen Rose was born on February 2, 1904, to William Bromberg and Ray Bobbs in Chicago, Illinois of German and Russian descent. She attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and then designed nightclub and stage costumes for various acts. She moved to Los Angeles in 1929, where she designed outfits for Fanchon and Marco and later the Ice Follies. In the early 1940s she spent two years working for 20th Century Fox, where she designed wardrobes for musical selections. In 1943 MGM hired her in the wake of Adrian's departure and by the late 1940s Rose was promoted to chief designer at the studio. Rose won two Academy Awards for Best Costume Design, for The Bad and the Beautiful in 1952 and for I'll Cry Tomorrow in 1955. She was nominated a further eight times and was also very well known for designing famous wedding dresses of the era. She designed the famous wedding dress of Grace Kelly when she married Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956. She also designed clothing for Elizabeth Taylor in the movies Father of the Bride and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as well as Elizabeth Taylor's wedding dress when she married Conrad "Nicky" Hilton. In the late 1960s, Rose left the studio to open her own design business and continued to provide fancy attire for the famed and the wealthy. She also wrote a fashion column. She wrote two books - her autobiography Just Make Them Beautiful in 1976 and "The Glamorous World of Helen Rose". In the 1970s Rose also staged a traveling fashion show featuring some of her MGM-designed costumes that was called "The Helen Rose Show". Helen was married to Harry V. Rose, whose birth name was Harry Rosenstein (1902–1993), and they had a daughter. She died in Palm Springs, California in 1985.
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Forbidden Planet (1956)
Costume Design
High Society (1956)
Costume Design
Party Girl (1958)
Costume Design
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Costume Design
Father of the Bride (1950)
Costume Design
Summer Stock (1950)
Costume Design
On the Town (1949)
Costume Design
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Costume Design
The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
Costume Design
The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963)
Costume Design
Mogambo (1953)
Costume Design
Tea and Sympathy (1956)
Costume Design
BUtterfield 8 (1960)
Costume Design
Bannerline (1951)
Costume Design
The Cobweb (1955)
Costume Design
Royal Wedding (1951)
Costume Design
Designing Woman (1957)
Costume Design
The Gazebo (1959)
Costume Design
Hit the Deck (1955)
Costume Design
Silk Stockings (1957)
Costume Design
Father's Little Dividend (1951)
Costume Design
Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)
Costume Design
The Harvey Girls (1946)
Costume Design
Ask Any Girl (1959)
Costume Design
The Merry Widow (1952)
Costume Design
Stormy Weather (1943)
Costume Design
How Sweet It Is! (1968)
Costume Design
The Tender Trap (1955)
Costume Design
Good News (1947)
Costume Design
The Swan (1956)
Costume Design
The Opposite Sex (1956)
Costume Design
Athena (1954)
Costume Design
Words and Music (1948)
Costume Design
Deep in My Heart (1954)
Costume Design
Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
Costume Design
Coney Island (1943)
Costume Design
Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
Costume Design
Goodbye Charlie (1964)
Costume Design
Skirts Ahoy! (1952)
Costume Design
The Story of Three Loves (1953)
Costume Design
All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960)
Costume Design
The Long, Long Trailer (1954)
Costume Design
Glory Alley (1952)
Costume Design
Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
Costume Design
The Mating Game (1959)
Costume Design
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
Costume Design
Green Fire (1954)
Costume Design
Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)
Costume Design
Interrupted Melody (1955)
Costume Design
Torch Song (1953)
Costume Design
Dangerous When Wet (1953)
Costume Design
Bachelor in Paradise (1961)
Costume Design
The Unknown Man (1951)
Costume Design
Two Loves (1961)
Costume Design
A Life of Her Own (1950)
Costume Design
The Tunnel of Love (1958)
Costume Design
I Love Melvin (1953)
Costume Design
I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)
Costume Design
Latin Lovers (1953)
Costume Design
Three Little Words (1950)
Costume Design
Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957)
Costume Design
Right Cross (1950)
Costume Design
It Started with a Kiss (1959)
Costume Design
The Glass Slipper (1955)
Costume Design
Rose Marie (1954)
Costume Design
Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)
Costume Design
Her Twelve Men (1954)
Costume Design
Ada (1961)
Costume Design
The Unfinished Dance (1947)
Costume Design
Two Weeks with Love (1950)
Costume Design
Invitation (1952)
Costume Design
Homecoming (1948)
Costume Design
No Questions Asked (1951)
Costume Design
The Honeymoon Machine (1961)
Costume Design
Sombrero (1953)
Costume Design
Too Young to Kiss (1951)
Costume Design
Texas Carnival (1951)
Costume Design
Go Naked in the World (1961)
Costume Design
To Please a Lady (1950)
Costume Design
The Reformer and the Redhead (1950)
Costume Design
The Toast of New Orleans (1950)
Costume Design
Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943)
Costume Design
East Side, West Side (1949)
Costume Design
Remains to Be Seen (1953)
Costume Design
Gaby (1956)
Costume Design
Pagan Love Song (1950)
Costume Design
Nancy Goes to Rio (1950)
Costume Design
Big City (1948)
Costume Design
Grounds for Marriage (1951)
Costume Design
The Power and the Prize (1956)
Costume Design
The Light Touch (1951)
Costume Design
Count Your Blessings (1959)
Costume Design
Love Is Better Than Ever (1952)
Costume Design
The Big Hangover (1950)
Costume Design
Callaway Went Thataway (1951)
Costume Design
Duchess of Idaho (1950)
Costume Design
Don't Go Near the Water (1957)
Costume Design
Everything I Have Is Yours (1952)
Costume Design
The Belle of New York (1952)
Costume Design