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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1904-02-02 (121 years old)

Place of Birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Helen Rose

Biography:

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.

Known For

Acting

1975

Costume & Make-Up

1968

How Sweet It Is! as Costume Design

1964

Goodbye Charlie as Costume Design

1963

1961

Two Loves as Costume Design
Bachelor in Paradise as Costume Design
The Honeymoon Machine as Costume Design
Go Naked in the World as Costume Design
Ada as Costume Design

1960

BUtterfield 8 as Costume Design

1959

The Mating Game as Costume Design
Count Your Blessings as Costume Design
Ask Any Girl as Costume Design

1958

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Costume Design
The High Cost of Loving as Costume Mistress
The Reluctant Debutante as Wardrobe Supervisor
Party Girl as Costume Design
The Tunnel of Love as Costume Design

1957

Don't Go Near the Water as Costume Design
Silk Stockings as Costume Design
Designing Woman as Costume Design
Ten Thousand Bedrooms as Costume Design

1956

Forbidden Planet as Costume Design
The Opposite Sex as Costume Design
Gaby as Costume Design
The Power and the Prize as Costume Design
The Swan as Costume Design
Tea and Sympathy as Costume Design
Meet Me in Las Vegas as Costume Design
High Society as Costume Design

1955

Love Me or Leave Me as Costume Design
I'll Cry Tomorrow as Costume Design
Jupiter's Darling as Costume Designer
Hit the Deck as Costume Design
It's Always Fair Weather as Costume Designer
The Glass Slipper as Costume Design
Interrupted Melody as Costume Design
The Cobweb as Costume Design
The Tender Trap as Costume Design

1954

Her Twelve Men as Costume Design
The Long, Long Trailer as Costume Design
The Last Time I Saw Paris as Costume Design
Rose Marie as Costume Design
Green Fire as Costume Design
Deep in My Heart as Costume Design
Executive Suite as Costume Designer
Athena as Costume Design

1953

Easy to Love as Costume Designer
Escape from Fort Bravo as Costume Design
Latin Lovers as Costume Design
Dangerous When Wet as Costume Design
Remains to Be Seen as Costume Design
The Story of Three Loves as Costume Design
Jeopardy as Costume Designer
Mogambo as Costume Design
Give a Girl a Break as Costume Designer
I Love Melvin as Costume Design
The Girl Who Had Everything as Costume Designer
Sombrero as Costume Design

1952

Skirts Ahoy! as Costume Design
The Merry Widow as Costume Design
Holiday for Sinners as Costume Mistress
Glory Alley as Costume Design
Invitation as Costume Design
The Bad and the Beautiful as Costume Design
The Belle of New York as Costume Design
Million Dollar Mermaid as Costume Design
Love Is Better Than Ever as Costume Design
Everything I Have Is Yours as Costume Design

1951

The Unknown Man as Costume Design
The Strip as Costume Designer
Callaway Went Thataway as Costume Design
Callaway Went Thataway as Wardrobe Designer
Bannerline as Costume Design
Texas Carnival as Costume Design
Grounds for Marriage as Costume Design
Father's Little Dividend as Costume Design
Too Young to Kiss as Costume Design
The Light Touch as Costume Design
Royal Wedding as Costume Design

1950

Duchess of Idaho as Costume Design
Nancy Goes to Rio as Costume Design
A Life of Her Own as Costume Design
The Toast of New Orleans as Costume Design
Annie Get Your Gun as Costume Design
Two Weeks with Love as Costume Design
Three Little Words as Costume Design
Pagan Love Song as Costume Design
The Big Hangover as Costume Design
Right Cross as Costume Design
To Please a Lady as Costume Design
Summer Stock as Costume Design
Father of the Bride as Costume Design

1949

The Stratton Story as Costume Designer
East Side, West Side as Costume Design
On the Town as Costume Design

1948

Big City as Costume Design
Words and Music as Costume Design
Homecoming as Costume Design
A Date with Judy as Costume Designer

1947

Good News as Costume Design
The Unfinished Dance as Costume Design

1946

The Harvey Girls as Costume Design
Two Sisters from Boston as Costume Designer
Till the Clouds Roll By as Costume Designer

1945

Ziegfeld Follies as Costume Design

1943

Hello, Frisco, Hello as Costume Design
Stormy Weather as Costume Design
Coney Island as Costume Design