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Helen Rose (February 2, 1904 β November 9, 1985) was an American costume designer and clothing designer who spent the bulk of her career with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Helen Rose was born on February 2, 1904, to William Bromberg and Ray Bobbs in Chicago, Illinois of German and Russian descent. She attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and then designed nightclub and stage costumes for various acts. She moved to Los Angeles in 1929, where she designed outfits for Fanchon and Marco and later the Ice Follies. In the early 1940s she spent two years working for 20th Century Fox, where she designed wardrobes for musical selections. In 1943 MGM hired her in the wake of Adrian's departure and by the late 1940s Rose was promoted to chief designer at the studio.
Rose won two Academy Awards for Best Costume Design, for The Bad and the Beautiful in 1952 and for I'll Cry Tomorrow in 1955. She was nominated a further eight times and was also very well known for designing famous wedding dresses of the era. She designed the famous wedding dress of Grace Kelly when she married Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956. She also designed clothing for Elizabeth Taylor in the movies Father of the Bride and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as well as Elizabeth Taylor's wedding dress when she married Conrad "Nicky" Hilton.
In the late 1960s, Rose left the studio to open her own design business and continued to provide fancy attire for the famed and the wealthy. She also wrote a fashion column. She wrote two books - her autobiography Just Make Them Beautiful in 1976 and "The Glamorous World of Helen Rose". In the 1970s Rose also staged a traveling fashion show featuring some of her MGM-designed costumes that was called "The Helen Rose Show".
Helen was married to Harry V. Rose, whose birth name was Harry Rosenstein (1902β1993), and they had a daughter. She died in Palm Springs, California in 1985.
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Elizabeth Taylor: An Intimate Portrait (1975)
How Sweet It Is! (1968)
Goodbye Charlie (1964)
The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963)
Bachelor in Paradise (1961)
Ada (1961)
The Honeymoon Machine (1961)
Two Loves (1961)
BUtterfield 8 (1960)
All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960)
Ask Any Girl (1959)
The Mating Game (1959)
Count Your Blessings (1959)
The Tunnel of Love (1958)
Party Girl (1958)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
The Reluctant Debutante (1958)
The High Cost of Loving (1958)
Don't Go Near the Water (1957)
Silk Stockings (1957)
Designing Woman (1957)
Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957)
The Opposite Sex (1956)
Tea and Sympathy (1956)
High Society (1956)
Gaby (1956)
The Swan (1956)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)
I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)
The Tender Trap (1955)
It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
The Cobweb (1955)
Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
Interrupted Melody (1955)
The Glass Slipper (1955)
Hit the Deck (1955)
Jupiter's Darling (1955)
Deep in My Heart (1954)
The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
Athena (1954)
Her Twelve Men (1954)
Executive Suite (1954)
Rose Marie (1954)
The Long, Long Trailer (1954)
Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)
Easy to Love (1953)
Give a Girl a Break (1953)
Mogambo (1953)
Latin Lovers (1953)
Dangerous When Wet (1953)
Remains to Be Seen (1953)
Sombrero (1953)
Jeopardy (1953)
The Girl Who Had Everything (1953)
The Story of Three Loves (1953)
I Love Melvin (1953)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)
Everything I Have Is Yours (1952)
The Merry Widow (1952)
Holiday for Sinners (1952)
Glory Alley (1952)
Skirts Ahoy! (1952)
Love Is Better Than Ever (1952)
The Belle of New York (1952)
The Light Touch (1951)
Too Young to Kiss (1951)
Callaway Went Thataway (1951)
The Unknown Man (1951)
Bannerline (1951)
Texas Carnival (1951)
The Strip (1951)
Father's Little Dividend (1951)
Royal Wedding (1951)
Pagan Love Song (1950)
Two Weeks with Love (1950)
To Please a Lady (1950)
Right Cross (1950)
A Life of Her Own (1950)
The Toast of New Orleans (1950)
Duchess of Idaho (1950)
Three Little Words (1950)
Father of the Bride (1950)
Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
The Reformer and the Redhead (1950)
Nancy Goes to Rio (1950)
East Side, West Side (1949)
On the Town (1949)
The Stratton Story (1949)
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
Words and Music (1948)
A Date with Judy (1948)
Homecoming (1948)
Big City (1948)
Good News (1947)
The Unfinished Dance (1947)
Two Sisters from Boston (1946)
The Harvey Girls (1946)
Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
Stormy Weather (1943)
Coney Island (1943)
Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943)
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Known ForCostume & Make-Up
GenderFemale
Birthday1904-02-02
Deathday1985-11-09 (81 years old)
Birth PlaceChicago, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
AwardsAcademy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White
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