Elois Jenssen

Eloise Jensson (birth name: Elois Jenssen W. ) ( born November 5, 1922 in Palo Alto, California, † February 14, 2004 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California ) was an American costume designer, the 1951 Academy Award for the best Costume design in the color film Samson and Delilah ( 1949) by Cecil B. DeMille received.

Biography

Eloise Jensson began her career as a costume designer in film production in 1947 with the thriller Dishonored Lady by Robert Stevenson.

In 1951, she won the Oscar for Best Costume Design along with Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Gile Steele, Gwen Wakeling and for the costumes in Samson and Delilah ( 1949) by CB DeMille.

More than thirty years later she was again nominated for the Academy Awards in 1983 for an Oscar for best costume design that is together with Rosanna Norton for the Disney movie Tron ( 1982) by Steven Lisberger. For this purpose, the two also got the Saturn Award for Best Costume of the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films.

Other well-known productions, designed and formed by their costumes were the television series I Love Lucy ( 1953 and 1955 ) with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, and my angel and I ( Forever Darling, 1956) by Alexander Hall, also with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in the lead roles.