Mary Grant Price

Mary Grant Price (20 February 1917 in Broadhaven, Pembrokeshire,Wales^[1] – 2 March 2002 in Boston, Massachusetts^[2]) was an American costume designer of Welsh birth who worked in theatre and film. She worked professionally under the name Mary Grant. She began her career on Broadway in the mid 1930s, first as an assistant to Raoul Pene Du Bois, and later as a lead designer during the 1940s. In 1943 she began working in film and spent much of the 1940s and 1950s designing costumes for Hollywood motion pictures. She was a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Life and career

Price studied dance for one semester at the University of Washington before moving to New York City to study design. She began her career as an assistant designer to Raoul Pene Du Bois in 1935 at the age of 18. She also worked during the late 1930s and early 1940s as an assistant to Miles White. She worked with these two men on several notable Broadway shows, including the original productions of DuBarry Was a Lady(1939), Sons o' Fun (1941), and Oklahoma! (1943) among others. As head designer, she designed costumes for eight Broadway shows, including Mexican Hayride (1944) and Marinka (1945).

Between 1943-1972 Grant designed costumes for 14 motion pictures, beginning with Follies Girl in 1943. While working on the 1948 film Up in Central Park she met actor Vincent Price. She became Price's second wife and is the mother of Victoria Price (b. 1962) and the stepmother of Vincent Barrett Price (b. 1940). The couple divorced in 1974.

In November 2011 daughter Victoria was guest of honour at the annual Abertoir Horror Film Festival in Aberystwyth.^[1]

Filmography

• Follies Girl (1943)
• The Princess and the Pirate (1944)
• Wonder Man (1945)
• Up in Central Park (1948)
• Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven (1948)
• Bride of Vengeance (1949)
• Red Stallion in the Rockies (1949)
• We're No Angels (1955)
• The Vagabond King (1956)
• The Bachelor Party (1957)
• Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
• Separate Tables (1958)
• The Devil's Disciple (1959)
• An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe (1972)

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Vincent Price’s Welsh links will thrill at horror festival" at walesonline.co.uk
2. ^ Myrna Oliver (March 07, 2002). "Mary Grant Price, 85; Designed Costumes for Film and Stage". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2002/mar/07/local/me-price7. 

External links

• Mary Grant at the Internet Movie Database
• Mary Grant at the Internet Broadway Database

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Name	Price, Mary Grant
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Date of birth	20 February 1917
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Date of death	2 March 2002
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