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Jump to: navigation, search Irene Lentz (December 8, 1900 - November 15, 1962) was a fashion designer and Hollywood studio costume designer known by her first name, "Irene." Jump to: navigation, search December 8 is the 342nd day (343rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1900 is a common year starting on Monday. ... Jump to: navigation, search November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 46 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Brief introduction on the history of fashion design and designers Fashion design is the art dedicated to the creation of wearing apparel and lifestyle. ... ... Costume designer is a cinema term which refers to a person whose responsibilty is to design costumes for a movie or stage production. ... Born in Baker, Montana, Irene Lentz started out as an actress under her birth name, appearing in secondary roles in silent films beginning with Keystone Studios in 1921. She was directed in her first film by F. Richard Jones and the two eventually began a relationship that led to marriage that lasted until his premature death in 1930. Like almost all women of her era, she had been taught sewing as a child and with a flair for style, she decided to open a small dress shop. The success of her designs in her tiny store eventually led to an offer from the Bullocks Wilshire luxury department store to design for their Ladies Custom Salon which catered to a wealthy clientele including a number of Hollywood stars. Baker is a city located in Fallon County, Montana. ... A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ... Keystone Studios was an early movie studio founded in Glendale, California in 1912 by Mack Sennett and Adam Kessel as the Keystone Pictures Studio. ... Jump to: navigation, search Bullocks Wilshire, located at 3050 Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, is a 230,000-square foot Art-Deco building completed in 1929 as a luxury department store for owner John G. Bullock. ... Jump to: navigation, search A JC Penney department store. ... Irene Lentz design's at Bullocks gained her much attention in the film community and she was contracted by independent production companies to design the wardrobe for some of their productions. Billing herself simply as "Irene," her first work came in 1933 on the film "Goldie Gets Along" featuring her designs for star Lily Damita. However, her big break came when she was hired to create the gowns for Ginger Rogers for her 1937 film "Shall We Dance" with Fred Astaire. This was followed by the more designs in another Ginger Rogers film as well as work for other independents such as Walter Wanger Productions, Hal Roach Studios as well as majors such as RKO, Paramount Pictures and Columbia Pictures. During the 1930s, Irene Lentz designed the film wardrobe for leading ladies such as Constance Bennett, Hedy Lamarr, Joan Bennett, Claudette Colbert, Carole Lombard, Ingrid Bergman, and Loretta Young amongst others. Lili Damita (July 19, 1901 – March 21, 1994) was an actress. ... Ginger Rogers (1911–1995) Ginger Rogers, (July 16, 1911 - April 25, 1995), was a legendary American actress and dancer. ... The title Shall We Dance? may refer to one of the following. ... Jump to: navigation, search Fred Astaire Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz in Omaha, Nebraska, was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. ... Jump to: navigation, search Walter Wanger (July 11, 1894 - November 18, 1968) was an important American film producer. ... Harold Eugene Hal Roach (January 14, 1892–November 2, 1992) was a United States film and television producer from the 1910s to the 1980s. ... The classic logo of RKO Radio Pictures. ... 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Loretta Young in 1935 Loretta Young (January 6, 1913 – August 12, 2000) was an American actress. ... Through her work, Irene Lentz met and married short story author and screenwriter Eliot Gibbons, brother of multi-Academy Award winning Cedric Gibbons, head of art direction at MGM Studios. Generally regarded as the most important and influential production designer in the history of American films, Cedric Gibbons hired Irene Lentz when gown designer Adrian left MGM to join Universal Studios, By 1943 she was a leading costume supervisor at MGM, earning international recognition for her "soufflé creations" and is remembered for her avant-garde wardrobe for Lana Turner in 1946's "The Postman Always Rings Twice." In 1948, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White for "B.F.'s Daughter." This article is in need of attention. ... Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies are made. ... 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Despite her success, working under a powerful and arrogant chauvinist such as Cedric Gibbons while being married to his brother was not easy and in 1950 Irene Lentz left MGM to open her own fashion house. After being out of the film industry for nearly ten years, in 1960, friend Doris Day requested her talents for the Universal Studios, production, Midnight Lace for which Lentz earned a second Academy Award nomination. The following year she did the costume design for another Doris Day film and during 1962 worked on her last production, "A Gathering of Eagles." Chauvinism is extreme and unreasoning partisanship on behalf of a group to which one belongs, especially when the partisanship includes malice and hatred towards a rival group. ... Doris Day Doris Day (born April 3, 1924) is an American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate. ... Jump to: navigation, search Universal Studios Theme Parks. ... Midnight Lace is mystery thriller made in 1960. ... A Gathering of Eagles is a 1963 movie about the Cold War and the pressures of command. ... Despondent over personal problems, three weeks short of her sixty-second birthday, Irene Lentz checked into the Knickerbocker Hotel in Los Angeles under an assumed name where she took her own life. As per her wishes, she was interred next to her first husband, F. Richard Jones, in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Gates of Forest Lawn Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California is the original Forest Lawn. ... County Los Angeles County, California Area  - Total  - Water 79. ... In 2005, Irene Lentz was inducted into the Costume Designers Guild's Anne Cole Hall of Fame. External links The Irene Collection at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Irene at the Internet Movie Database Categories: 1900 births | 1962 deaths | American fashion designers | Costume designers | Costume Design Oscar Nominee | Suicides | People from Montana Jump to: navigation, search The Internet Movie Database (IMDb), owned by Amazon. ...

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