Person

Helen Rose

Costume & Make-Up · 1904–1985 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

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

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  High Society

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  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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  On the Town

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  The Courtship of Eddie's Father

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  The Bad and the Beautiful

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  Father of the Bride

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  Party Girl

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  Silk Stockings

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  BUtterfield 8

  Costume Design

• 1975Elizabeth Taylor: An Intimate PortraitSelf
• 1968How Sweet It Is!Costume Design
• 1964Goodbye CharlieCostume Design
• 1963The Courtship of Eddie's FatherCostume Design
• 1961Bachelor in ParadiseCostume Design
• 1961AdaCostume Design
• 1961The Honeymoon MachineCostume Design
• 1961Two LovesCostume Design
• 1961Go Naked in the WorldCostume Design
• 1960BUtterfield 8Costume Design
• 1960All the Fine Young CannibalsCostume Design
• 1959The GazeboCostume Design
• 1959Ask Any GirlCostume Design
• 1959It Started with a KissCostume Design
• 1959The Mating GameCostume Design
• 1959Count Your BlessingsCostume Design
• 1958The Tunnel of LoveCostume Design
• 1958Party GirlCostume Design
• 1958Cat on a Hot Tin RoofCostume Design
• 1958The Reluctant DebutanteWardrobe Supervisor
• 1958The High Cost of LovingCostume Mistress
• 1957Don't Go Near the WaterCostume Design
• 1957Silk StockingsCostume Design
• 1957Designing WomanCostume Design
• 1957Ten Thousand BedroomsCostume Design
• 1956The Opposite SexCostume Design
• 1956Tea and SympathyCostume Design
• 1956The Power and the PrizeCostume Design
• 1956High SocietyCostume Design
• 1956The Wedding in MonacoCostume Designer
• 1956GabyCostume Design
• 1956The SwanCostume Design
• 1956Forbidden PlanetCostume Design
• 1956Meet Me in Las VegasCostume Design
• 1955I'll Cry TomorrowCostume Design
• 1955The Tender TrapCostume Design
• 1955It's Always Fair WeatherCostume Designer
• 1955The CobwebCostume Design
• 1955Love Me or Leave MeCostume Design
• 1955Interrupted MelodyCostume Design
• 1955The Glass SlipperCostume Design
• 1955Hit the DeckCostume Design
• 1955Jupiter's DarlingCostume Designer
• 1954Green FireCostume Design
• 1954Deep in My HeartCostume Design
• 1954The Last Time I Saw ParisCostume Design
• 1954AthenaCostume Design
• 1954Her Twelve MenCostume Design
• 1954Executive SuiteCostume Designer
• 1954Rose MarieCostume Design
• 1954The Long, Long TrailerCostume Design
• 1953Escape from Fort BravoCostume Design
• 1953Easy to LoveCostume Designer
• 1953Give a Girl a BreakCostume Designer
• 1953Torch SongCostume Design
• 1953MogamboCostume Design
• 1953Latin LoversCostume Design
• 1953Dangerous When WetCostume Design
• 1953Remains to Be SeenCostume Design
• 1953SombreroCostume Design
• 1953JeopardyCostume Designer
• 1953The Girl Who Had EverythingCostume Designer
• 1953The Story of Three LovesCostume Design
• 1953I Love MelvinCostume Design
• 1952The Bad and the BeautifulCostume Design
• 1952Million Dollar MermaidCostume Design
• 1952Everything I Have Is YoursCostume Design
• 1952The Merry WidowCostume Design
• 1952Holiday for SinnersCostume Mistress
• 1952Glory AlleyCostume Design
• 1952Skirts Ahoy!Costume Design
• 1952Love Is Better Than EverCostume Design
• 1952The Belle of New YorkCostume Design
• 1952InvitationCostume Design
• 1951The Light TouchCostume Design
• 1951Too Young to KissCostume Design
• 1951The Unknown ManCostume Design
• 1951Callaway Went ThatawayCostume Design
• 1951BannerlineCostume Design
• 1951Texas CarnivalCostume Design
• 1951The StripCostume Designer
• 1951No Questions AskedCostume Design
• 1951Father's Little DividendCostume Design
• 1951Royal WeddingCostume Design
• 1951Grounds for MarriageCostume Design
• 1950Pagan Love SongCostume Design
• 1950Two Weeks with LoveCostume Design
• 1950To Please a LadyCostume Design
• 1950Right CrossCostume Design
• 1950A Life of Her OwnCostume Design
• 1950Summer StockCostume Design
• 1950The Toast of New OrleansCostume Design
• 1950Duchess of IdahoCostume Design
• 1950Three Little WordsCostume Design
• 1950The Big HangoverCostume Design
• 1950Father of the BrideCostume Design
• 1950Annie Get Your GunCostume Design
• 1950The Reformer and the RedheadCostume Design
• 1950Nancy Goes to RioCostume Design
• 1949East Side, West SideCostume Design
• 1949On the TownCostume Design
• 1949The Stratton StoryCostume Designer
• 1949Take Me Out to the Ball GameCostume Design
• 1949Act of ViolenceCostume Designer
• 1948Words and MusicCostume Design
• 1948A Date with JudyCostume Designer
• 1948HomecomingCostume Design
• 1948Big CityCostume Design
• 1947Good NewsCostume Design
• 1947The Unfinished DanceCostume Design
• 1946Till the Clouds Roll ByCostume Designer
• 1946Two Sisters from BostonCostume Designer
• 1946The Harvey GirlsCostume Design
• 1945Ziegfeld FolliesCostume Design
• 1943Stormy WeatherCostume Design
• 1943Coney IslandCostume Design
• 1943Hello, Frisco, HelloCostume Design