Norma Koch
Norma Koch ( * March 27, 1898; † July 29, 1979 in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, New York) was an American costume designer who once won the Oscar for Best Costume Design, and was nominated twice more for these Oscar had.
Life
Norma Cook began her career as a costume designer in the film industry in Hollywood in 1946 with the film An elegant crook (A Scandal in Paris) and worked until 1972 at the costume outfit from almost forty films.
At the Academy Awards in 1963 she won the Oscar for best costume design in black and white film in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962 ) by Robert Aldrich starring Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Victor Buono in the lead roles.
In 1965 she was nominated for the Oscar, and indeed for the costumes in the black and white film Lullaby for a dead body ( 1964) by Robert Aldrich starring Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland and Joseph Cotten. The film was a sequel to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? thought, with Joan Crawford fell ill at the beginning of the shooting and was replaced by Olivia de Havilland. Another nomination for the Academy Award for the best costumes she got together with Bob Mackie and Ray Aghayan at the Academy Awards in 1973 for her last film Lady Sings the Blues ( 1972), one directed by Sidney J. Furie film biography about the jazz singer Billie Holiday with Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams and Richard Pryor in the lead roles.