Jean Louis

Jean Louis (born Jean Louis Berthauldt, October 5, 1907, Paris, France- - April 20, 1997, Palm Springs, California, USA) was a French-born, Hollywood costume designer and an Academy Award winner for Costume Design. Louis worked as head designer for Columbia Pictures from 1944 to 1960. His most famous works include Rita Hayworth's black satin strapless dress from "Gilda" (1946), Marlene Dietrich's celebrated beaded souffle stagewear for her cabaret world tours, as well as the sheer, sparkling gown Marilyn Monroe wore when she sang "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to John F. Kennedy in 1962.

In 1993, six years after the death of his first wife, Louis married former client Loretta Young.

Academy Award Nominations

* 1950 - Film: Born Yesterday
* 1952 - Film: Affair in Trinidad
* 1953 - Film: From Here to Eternity
* 1954 - Film: It Should Happen To You
* 1954 - Film: A Star Is Born
* 1956 - Film: The Solid Gold Cadillac; Won
* 1955 - Film: Queen Bee
* 1957 - Film: Pal Joey
* 1958 - Film: Bell, Book and Candle
* 1961 - Film: Judgment at Nuremberg
* 1961 - Film: Back Street
* 1965 - Film: Ship of Fools
* 1966 - Film: Gambit
* 1967 - Film: Thoroughly Modern Millie

Actresses Designed For

*Rita Hayworth in "Tonight and Every Night", 1945, "Gilda", 1946, "Affair in Trinidad", 1952, "Miss Sadie Thompson" and "Salome", 1953
*Irene Dunne in "Together Again", 1944
*Claudette Colbert in "Tomorrow is Forever" 1946
*Judy Holliday in "Born Yesterday", 1950 and "The Solid Gold Cadillac", 1956
*Gloria Grahame in "The Big Heat", 1953
*Deborah Kerr in "From Here to Eternity", 1953
*Judy Garland in "A Star is Born", 1954
*Joan Crawford in "Queen Bee", 1955
*Kim Novak in "Picnic", 1955, and "Bell, Book, and Candle", 1958
* Kim Novak and Rita Hayworth in "Pal Joey", 1957
*Lana Turner in "Imitation of Life", 1959
*Doris Day in "Pillow Talk" (1959) and "Send Me No Flowers" (1964)
*Loretta Young for "The Loretta Young Show", Television series, 1953-1961
*Marlene Dietrich in "The Monte Carlo Story", 1957, and "Judgement at Nuremberg", 1961
*Susan Hayward in "Back Street", 1961
*Marilyn Monroe in "The Misfits", 1961, and "Something's Got to Give" (unfinished), 1962
*Shirley MacLaine in "Gambit", 1966
*Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore, and Carol Channing in "Thoroughly Modern Millie", 1967
*Eva Gabor for "Green Acres" Television series, 1965-1967