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{{Short description|American costume designer (1904–1985)}}
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==Career==
==Career==
Helen Rose was born on February 2, 1904 to William Bromberg and Ray Bobbs in Chicago, Illinois of German and Russian Jewish descent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.seraphicpress.com/remembering-legendary-costume-designer-helen-rose/|first=Robert J.|last=Avrech|title=Remembering Legendary Costume Designer Helen Rose|website=seraphicpress.com|date=April 4, 2014|access-date=January 9, 2021}}</ref> She attended the [[Chicago Academy of Fine Arts]] and then designed nightclub and stage costumes for various acts.<ref name="Haugland">{{cite book|author=H. Kristina Haugland|title=Grace Kelly: icon of style to royal bride|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JE5ITOBYBJUC&pg=PT14|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2006}}</ref> 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 (costume designer)|Adrian]]'s departure, and by the late 1940s, Rose was promoted to chief designer at the studio.<ref name="Haugland"/> In 1956 she designed the wedding dress worn by Grace Kelly, when she married Prince Rainier of Monaco. In the late 1960s, Rose left the studio to open her own design business and continued to provide 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".<ref>{{cite web|title=Helen Rose|url=http://vintagefashionguild.org/fashion-history/helen-rose/|access-date=May 2, 2011|work=Vintage Fashion Guild}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Folkart|first=Burt A.|date=November 12, 1985|title=Film Costume Designer Helen Rose Dies|url=https://articles.latimes.com/1985-11-12/local/me-5029_1_helen-rose|access-date=May 2, 2011|work=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>
Helen Rose was born on February 2, 1904, to William Bromberg and Ray Bobbs in Chicago, Illinois of German Jewish and Russian Jewish descent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.seraphicpress.com/remembering-legendary-costume-designer-helen-rose/|first=Robert J.|last=Avrech|title=Remembering Legendary Costume Designer Helen Rose|website=seraphicpress.com|date=April 4, 2014|access-date=January 9, 2021|archive-date=November 30, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130083658/http://www.seraphicpress.com/remembering-legendary-costume-designer-helen-rose/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
She attended the [[Chicago Academy of Fine Arts]] and then designed nightclub and stage costumes for various acts.<ref name="Haugland">{{cite book|author=H. Kristina Haugland|title=Grace Kelly: icon of style to royal bride|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JE5ITOBYBJUC&pg=PT14|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2006}}{{Dead link|date=July 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 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 (costume designer)|Adrian]]'s departure, and by the late 1940s, Rose was promoted to chief designer at the studio.<ref name="Haugland"/>
In 1956, Rose designed the wedding dress worn by Grace Kelly for her marriage to [[Rainier III, Prince of Monaco]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/56621.html|title=Grace Kelly's Wedding Dress and Accessories|access-date=14 February 2022|website= Philadelphia Museum of Art}}</ref>
In the late 1960s, Rose left the studio to open her own design business and continued to provide 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".<ref>{{cite web|title=Helen Rose|url=http://vintagefashionguild.org/fashion-history/helen-rose/|access-date=May 2, 2011|work=Vintage Fashion Guild}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Folkart|first=Burt A.|date=November 12, 1985|title=Film Costume Designer Helen Rose Dies|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-11-12-me-5029-story.html|access-date=May 2, 2011|work=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>


== Recognition ==
== Recognition ==
[[File:Father of the bride 1950 promo.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Elizabeth Taylor in the wedding dress Rose designed for ''Father of the Bride'' (1950)]]
Rose won two [[Academy Award for Best Costume Design|Academy Awards for Best Costume Design]]: for ''[[The Bad and the Beautiful]]'' in 1952 and for ''[[I'll Cry Tomorrow]]'' in 1955.<ref name="Haugland"/> She was nominated a further eight times and was well-known for designing famous bridal gowns of the era. She designed the [[Wedding dress of Grace Kelly|wedding dress]] of [[Grace Kelly]]<ref>{{cite news|title=The Most Iconic Royal Wedding Gowns of All Time |url=http://www.harpersbazaar.com/fashion/fashion-articles/iconic-royal-wedding-gowns#slide-3|newspaper=Harper's Bazaar|date=April 13, 2018|access-date=January 9, 2021}}</ref> when she married [[Prince Rainier of Monaco]] in 1956.<ref name = "Slant">{{cite web|url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2011/03/designing-woman-helen-rose/|title=Designing Woman: Helen Rose|first=Ronald|last=Bergan|work=Slant Magazine|date=March 31, 2011|access-date=May 2, 2011}}</ref> She also designed clothing for Elizabeth Taylor in the movies ''[[Father of the Bride (1950 film)|Father of the Bride]]'' and ''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958 film)|Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]'' as well as [[Elizabeth Taylor]]'s bridal gown when she married [[Conrad Hilton, Jr.|Conrad "Nicky" Hilton]].<ref name = "Slant"/>
Rose won two [[Academy Award for Best Costume Design|Academy Awards for Best Costume Design]]: for ''[[The Bad and the Beautiful]]'' in 1952 and for ''[[I'll Cry Tomorrow]]'' in 1955.<ref name="Haugland"/> She was nominated a further eight times and was well-known for designing famous bridal gowns of the era. She designed the [[Wedding dress of Grace Kelly|wedding dress]] of [[Grace Kelly]]<ref>{{cite news|title=The Most Iconic Royal Wedding Gowns of All Time |url=http://www.harpersbazaar.com/fashion/fashion-articles/iconic-royal-wedding-gowns#slide-3|newspaper=Harper's Bazaar|date=April 13, 2018|access-date=January 9, 2021}}</ref> when she married [[Rainier III, Prince of Monaco]] in 1956.<ref name = "Slant">{{cite web|url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2011/03/designing-woman-helen-rose/|title=Designing Woman: Helen Rose|first=Ronald|last=Bergan|work=Slant Magazine|date=March 31, 2011|access-date=May 2, 2011}}</ref> She also designed clothing for Elizabeth Taylor in the movies ''[[Father of the Bride (1950 film)|Father of the Bride]]'' and ''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958 film)|Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]'' as well as [[Elizabeth Taylor]]'s bridal gown when she married [[Conrad Hilton, Jr.|Conrad "Nicky" Hilton]].<ref name = "Slant"/>


== Personal life ==
== Personal life ==
Rose was married to Harry V. Rose, whose birth name was Harry Rosenstein (1902–1993), and they had a daughter. She died in Palm Springs, California in 1985.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130117074448/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2588820318.html "Rose, Helen (1904–1985)."] ''Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages''. Gale. 2007. Retrieved January 06, 2013 from HighBeam Research</ref>
Rose was married to Harry V. Rose, whose birth name was Harry Rosenstein (1902–1993), and they had a daughter.
Helen Rose died in [[Palm Springs, California]], in 1985, aged 81.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130117074448/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2588820318.html "Rose, Helen (1904–1985)."] ''Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages''. Gale. 2007.</ref>


==Filmography==
==Filmography==
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* ''[[Pagan Love Song]]'' (1950)
* ''[[Pagan Love Song]]'' (1950)
* ''[[Grounds for Marriage]]'' (1951)
* ''[[Grounds for Marriage]]'' (1951)
* ''[[Royal Wedding]]'' (1951) (uncredited)
* ''[[Father's Little Dividend]]'' (1951)
* ''[[Father's Little Dividend]]'' (1951)
* ''[[The Great Caruso]]'' (1951)
* ''[[The Great Caruso]]'' (1951)
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* ''[[Her Twelve Men]]'' (1954)
* ''[[Her Twelve Men]]'' (1954)
* ''[[Rogue Cop]]'' (1954)
* ''[[Rogue Cop]]'' (1954)
* ''[[Athena (film)|Athena]]'' (1954)
* ''[[Athena (1954 film)|Athena]]'' (1954)
* ''[[The Last Time I Saw Paris]]'' (1954)
* ''[[The Last Time I Saw Paris]]'' (1954)
* ''[[Deep in My Heart (1954 film)|Deep in My Heart]]'' (1954)
* ''[[Deep in My Heart (1954 film)|Deep in My Heart]]'' (1954)
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* ''[[Jupiter's Darling (film)|Jupiter's Darling]]'' (1955)
* ''[[Jupiter's Darling (film)|Jupiter's Darling]]'' (1955)
* ''[[Hit the Deck (1955 film)|Hit the Deck]]'' (1955)
* ''[[Hit the Deck (1955 film)|Hit the Deck]]'' (1955)
* ''[[The Glass Slipper]]'' (1955)
* ''[[The Glass Slipper (film)|The Glass Slipper]]'' (1955)
* ''[[Interrupted Melody]]'' (1955)
* ''[[Interrupted Melody]]'' (1955)
* ''[[Bedevilled (1955 film)|Bedevilled]]'' (1955) (for [[Anne Baxter]])
* ''[[Bedevilled (1955 film)|Bedevilled]]'' (1955) (for [[Anne Baxter]])

Latest revision as of 03:46, 15 August 2024

Helen Rose
From left to right: Annabella Levy, Elizabeth Taylor and Helen Rose on the set of Rhapsody (1954)
Born(1904-02-02)February 2, 1904
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
DiedNovember 9, 1985(1985-11-09) (aged 81)
Palm Springs, California, U.S.
OccupationCostume designer
SpouseHarry V. Rose
Children1

Helen Rose (February 2, 1904 – November 9, 1985) was an American costume designer and clothing designer who spent the bulk of her career with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Career

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Helen Rose was born on February 2, 1904, to William Bromberg and Ray Bobbs in Chicago, Illinois of German Jewish and Russian Jewish descent.[1]

She attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and then designed nightclub and stage costumes for various acts.[2] 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.[2]

In 1956, Rose designed the wedding dress worn by Grace Kelly for her marriage to Rainier III, Prince of Monaco.[3]

In the late 1960s, Rose left the studio to open her own design business and continued to provide 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".[4][5]

Recognition

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Elizabeth Taylor in the wedding dress Rose designed for Father of the Bride (1950)

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.[2] She was nominated a further eight times and was well-known for designing famous bridal gowns of the era. She designed the wedding dress of Grace Kelly[6] when she married Rainier III, Prince of Monaco in 1956.[7] 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 bridal gown when she married Conrad "Nicky" Hilton.[7]

Personal life

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Rose was married to Harry V. Rose, whose birth name was Harry Rosenstein (1902–1993), and they had a daughter.

Helen Rose died in Palm Springs, California, in 1985, aged 81.[8]

Filmography

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References

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  1. ^ Avrech, Robert J. (April 4, 2014). "Remembering Legendary Costume Designer Helen Rose". seraphicpress.com. Archived from the original on November 30, 2020. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
  2. ^ a b c H. Kristina Haugland (2006). Grace Kelly: icon of style to royal bride. Yale University Press.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "Grace Kelly's Wedding Dress and Accessories". Philadelphia Museum of Art. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
  4. ^ "Helen Rose". Vintage Fashion Guild. Retrieved May 2, 2011.
  5. ^ Folkart, Burt A. (November 12, 1985). "Film Costume Designer Helen Rose Dies". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 2, 2011.
  6. ^ "The Most Iconic Royal Wedding Gowns of All Time". Harper's Bazaar. April 13, 2018. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
  7. ^ a b Bergan, Ronald (March 31, 2011). "Designing Woman: Helen Rose". Slant Magazine. Retrieved May 2, 2011.
  8. ^ "Rose, Helen (1904–1985)." Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages. Gale. 2007.

Additional info

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  • 1910 United States Federal Census, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, Enumeration District 7, Sheet 17, April 22–23, 1910.
  • 1920 United States Federal Census, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, Enumeration District 6, Sheet 10A, January 10, 1920.
  • California Death Index on Ancestry.com.
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