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Marjorie Best Born April 10, 1903
Jacksonville, Illinois, USADied June 14, 1997 (aged 94)
Toluca Lake, California, USAOccupation costume designer Years active 1938 - 1965 Marjorie Best (10 April 1903 – 14 June 1997) was an American Hollywood costume designer best known for her period designs.
Best was born in Jacksonville, Illinois and studied at the Chouinard Art Institute. She taught school briefly before going to work for the Western Costume Company in 1926. She later moved to United Costumers. When that company was purchased by Warner Bros. in 1936, she was given a position in the studio's wardrobe department.
Her first film as a costume designer was Silver River (1948). She earned an Academy Award for costume design in 1949 for her collaboration on the Errol Flynn film Adventures of Don Juan. She was nominated in 1956 for Giant, in 1960 for Sunrise at Campobello, and in 1965 for The Greatest Story Ever Told, the same year she retired.
Best died on June 14, 1997 in Toluca Lake, California of a heart ailment.
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Academy Award for Costume Design (1948–1960) 1948–1956
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/ 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
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/ 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:- Best Costume Design Academy Award winners
- American costume designers
- Chouinard Art Institute alumni
- 1903 births
- 1997 deaths
- People from Illinois
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