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For the botanist, see Charles Antoine Lemaire.
Charles LeMaire 
Born April 22 1897
ChicagoDied June 8 1985
Palm Springs, California (aged 88)Nationality 
United StatesField Costume designer Awards Academy Awards Charles LeMaire (1897–1985) was an American costume designer. Despite his French sounding name, he was born in Chicago.
LeMaire's early career was as a vaudeville performer, but he became a costume designer for such Broadway productions as Ziegfeld Follies and The Five O'Clock Girl. By 1925 he turned to the movies. LeMaire was instrumental in persuading the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to institute a costume design Oscar. In a career spanning 37 years and nearly 300 films, he earned a total of four Academy Awards and an additional 12 nominations.
LeMaire died of heart failure in 1985.
Filmography
- The Razor's Edge (1946)
- Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
- A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
- The Gunfighter (1950)
- All About Eve (1950)1
- David and Bathsheba (1951)1
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
- The Robe (1953)1
- Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)
- Love is a Many Splendored Thing (1955)1
- Carousel (1956)
- Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
^1 Oscar win ^2 Oscar nomination
External links
Academy Award for Costume Design (1948–1960) 1948–1956
Black & White
/ Color separate1948 (Black & white): Roger K. Furse / (Color): Dorothy Jeakins and Barbara Karinska • 1949 (bw): Edith Head and Gile Steele / (c): Marjorie Best, Leah Rhodes and William Travilla • 1950 (bw): Edith Head, Charles LeMaire / (c): Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssen, Gile Steele, Gwen Wakeling • 1951 (bw): Edith Head /(c): Orry-Kelly, Walter Plunkett, Irene Sharaff • 1952 (bw): Helen Rose / (c): Marcel Vertès • 1953 (bw): Edith Head / (c): Charles LeMaire, Emile Santiago • 1954 (bw): Edith Head / (c): Sanzo Wada • 1955 (bw): Helen Rose / (c): Charles LeMaire • 1956 (bw): Jean Louis / (c): Irene Sharaff
1957–1958 1957: Orry-Kelly • 1958: Cecil Beaton
1959–1966
Black & White
/ Color separate1959 (bw): Orry-Kelly / (c): Elizabeth Haffenden • 1960 (bw): Edith Head and Edward Stevenson / (c): Arlington Valles
Complete list · (1948–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001–2020) Categories:- 1897 births
- 1985 deaths
- People from Chicago, Illinois
- American costume designers
- Academy Award winners
- Vaudeville performers
- Film biography stubs
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