Dorothy Jeakins

Dorothy Jeakins ( born January 11, 1914 in San Diego, California, † November 21, 1995 in Santa Barbara, California ) was an American costume designer who won the Oscar for Best Costume Design three times.

Biography

Dorothy Jeakins was the same for her first work as a costume designer together with Barbara Karinska at the Oscar ceremony 1949 Oscar for Best Costume Design in the color film Joan of Arc (1948 ) by Victor Fleming.

A second Oscar for best costume design followed in 1951 when she was together with Edith Head, Eloise Jensson, Gile Steele, Gwen Wakeling and for the color film Samson and Delilah (1949 ) awarded by Cecil B. DeMille.

At the Academy Awards in 1953 she was nominated for two Oscars and indeed equal to one along with Edith Head and Miles White for the costumes in the color film The Greatest Show on Earth (1952 ) by CB DeMille, on the other hand, along with Charles Le Maire for the black and white film My Cousin Rachel ( 1952) by Henry Koster.

At the Academy Awards in 1957 along with Edith Head, Ralph Jester, John Jensen and Arnold Friberg was followed by another nomination for the color film The Ten Commandments (1956 ) by CB DeMille. Subsequently, she was three times for a Tony Award for Best Costume Design at the Broadway productions Major Barbara (1957 ), Too Late The Phalarope (1957 ) and The World of Suzie Wong ( 1959) nominated.

Other nominations for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design was followed in 1962 in the black and white movie The Children's Hour ( 1961) by William Wyler and 1963 in the ink film Music Man ( 1961) by Morton DaCosta.

At the Academy Awards 1965, she finally received for Best Costume Design in the black and white film The Night of the Iguana ( 1964) by John Huston her third Oscar.

Subsequently other Oscar nominations for Best Costume Design at the Academy Awards in 1966 in the color film The Sound of Music - My Dreams (1965 ) by Robert Wise, 1967 in Technicolor Hawaii ( 1966) by George Roy Hill and in 1974 together with Moss Mabry for The Way We Were ( 1973) by Sydney Pollack.

After she received the Women in Film Crystal Award in 1987, she was last at the Academy Awards in 1988 for an Oscar for Best Costume Design in The Dead - The Dead (1987 ), the latest directorial effort from John Huston, nominated.

Other movies with her ​​costumes were designed by The Marshal ( 1969) by Henry Hathaway, Young Frankenstein ( 1974) by Mel Brooks and On Golden Pond (1981 ) by Mark Rydell.

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