Mary Wills

Mary Wills (* July 4, 1914; † 7 February 1997 in Sedona, Arizona) was an American costume designer, who won the Oscar for Best Costume Design once and six times was nominated for this award.

Biography

Mary Wills began her career as a costume designer in the film industry in Hollywood 1944 Belle of the Yukon and was involved in the course of their career at the facilities of more than 30 films.

At the Academy Awards in 1953 she was nominated for the first time with Clavé and Barbara Karinska for an Oscar for Best Costume Design, and indeed for the color film Hans Christian Andersen and the Showgirl ( 1952). This was followed by Oscar nominations for the best costumes in 1956 along with Charles Le Maire in the ink film The Virgin Queen (1955), 1957 C. Le Maire in black and white film Modern Youth ( Teenage Rebel, 1956), 1959 C. Le Maire, a certain smile (A Certain Smile, 1958 ) and in 1960 with C. Le Maire in black and white movie the Diary of Anne Frank (1959).

At the Academy Awards in 1963 they finally won the Oscar for Best Costume Design in the color film The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm ( 1962).

Last Mary Wills was nominated for an Oscar in 1977 and indeed for the costumes in Jesus of Nazareth ( The Passover Plot ) ( 1977).

Mary Wills, who also created the costumes for Carousel (1956) and A Cape Fear (1962), worked in the course of their work with film directors such as Charles Vidor, Henry Koster, Edmund Goulding, Henry King, Jean Negulesco, George Stevens, J. Lee Thompson, Henry Levin, George Pal and Michael Campus together.