Charles Le Maire

Charles Le Maire ( LeMaire ) ( born April 22, 1897 in Chicago, Illinois, † June 8, 1985 in Palm Springs, California ) was an American costume designer, who won the Oscar for Best Costume Design three times.

Biography

Le Maire was initially in the 1920s Costume in Musical revues and mid-1920s, even in some silent films before he was in the mid -1930s worked exclusively in film. Throughout his career in the film industry, he worked with at the base of over 200 movies.

At the Academy Awards in 1951 he won an Oscar for best costume design and together with the legendary Edith Head for the black and white film All About Eve (1950 ) by Joseph L. Mankiewicz for the first time. In 1952, he was responsible for designing the costumes in the film drama A stranger calls on responsible ( Phone Call from a Stranger ).

At the Academy Awards in 1952, he was then nominated two times and indeed with Edward Stevenson for the color film David and Bathsheba (1951 ) by Henry King and together with Renié for the black and white movie The Model and the Marriage Broker ( 1951) by George Cukor. In 1953 he was again nominated for Best Costume Design in the two categories. This time for the ink film with a song in the heart (1952 ) by Walter Lang on the one hand, on the other hand with Dorothy Jeakins for the black and white film My Cousin Rachel ( 1952) by Henry Koster. Also nominated two times he was at the Academy Awards in 1954, and indeed for the color film Like a Millionaire (1953 ) by Jean Negulesco with William Travilla and secondly Marry again with Renié for the black and white film companion of his life (1953 ) by Henry Levin.

For his third nomination in 1954, the color film The Robe (1953 ) by Henry Koster, he got together with Emile Santiago his second Oscar for Best Costume Design.

After that, he was nominated in 1955 for the costume designs in two color films: To a rhythm in the blood ( 1954) by Walter Lang along with Travilla and Miles White, on the other hand together with René Hubert for Desirée ( 1954) by Henry Koster.

At the Academy Awards in 1956, he not only won his third Oscar for the costumes of the ink film Splendored Thing (1955 ) by Henry King, but was also, along with Mary Wills also nominated for The Virgin Queen (1955 ) by Henry Koster.

After that, he was nominated in 1957 along with Mary Wills for the black and white film Modern Art (1956, Teenage Rebel ) by Edmund Goulding, 1958 for the love of my life ( 1957) by Leo McCarey, 1959 together with Mary Wills for A certain smile ( A Certain Smile, 1958) by Jean Negulesco, and finally at the Oscar ceremony in 1960 again with Mary Wills for the black and white film the Diary of Anne Frank (1959 ) by George Stevens.

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