Renié
Renié Conley (actually: Irene Brouillet, born July 31, 1901 in Republic, Washington, † June 12, 1992 in Los Angeles County, California ) was an American costume designer who at the Oscar ceremony 1964 Oscar for Best Costume Design for the film Cleopatra received.
Life
After schooling studied costume design at the Chouinard Renié Art Institute in Los Angeles and at the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA), before she then worked as a costume designer at theaters. After illustrator for costume designs for the film production companies Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer ( MGM) and Paramount Pictures worked for some time, she was a costume designer for RKO Pictures in 1936 for films such as Miss Kitty ( Kitty Foyle ) with stars like Ginger Rogers.
In 1950, she left RKO Pictures and then was initially co-worker of 20th Century Fox, before she worked as a freelance costume designer in 1954.
In 1952 she was first nominated by Charles Le Maire for the Oscar for Best Costume Design, and indeed for the black and white movie The Model and the Marriage Broker ( 1951). In 1954 he along with Le Maire another Oscar nomination for the black and white film companion of his life ( The President's Lady, 1953) as well as in 1960 for the color film Fisherman of Galilee (The Big Fisherman, 1959). In 1955 she was also one of the first costume designers for the Anaheim Disneyland Resort opened and there among other things designed the gowns for several topics.
At the Academy Awards in 1964 they finally got together with Irene Sharaff Vittorio Nino Novarese and the Oscar for best costume design in the color film Cleopatra (1963).
One final nomination for an Oscar in this category received Renié 1979 for the costumes in The Lord of the caravan ( caravan, 1978). One of her latest works she delivered for Kathleen Turner in Warmblood - In Cold Blood ( Body Heat, 1981). In addition, she was a founder and later president of the Costume Designers Guild, the Guild of costume designers, and also a lecturer for Costume Design in Los Angeles.
Renié Conley died on 12 June 1992 in her home and was survived by her husband, Leland Hawes Conley. She left behind a son, Truman Van Dyke Jr., and two grandchildren and great-grandchildren.