Margaret Watts (1911–1974) was an Englishcostume designer. Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi Population - 2006 est. ... Costume designer is a cinema term which refers to a person whose responsibilty is to design costumes for a movie or stage production. ...
Born to the well known Punch magazine illustrator Arthur G. Watts and Phyllis Watts in 1911, costume designerMargaret Furse married art directorRoger Furse and became involved in the world of the theatre - specialising in costume design - beginning at the end of World War II. Punch was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire published from 1841 to 1992 and from 1996 to 2002. ... An illustrator is a graphic artist who specializes in enhancing written text by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text. ... Costume designer is a cinema term which refers to a person whose responsibilty is to design costumes for a movie or stage production. ... The term art director, is an overall title for a variety of similar job functions in advertising, publishing, film and television, the Internet, and video games. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
Furse's connection to Sir Laurence Olivier undoubtedly opened many doors. Nominated for a number of Academy Awards she was awarded Best Costume Design for Anne of the Thousand Days in 1969 and was nominated five additional times. Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907–11 July 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and four-time Emmy winning English actor, director, and producer. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... Anne of the Thousand Days is an Academy Award-winning 1969 costume drama made by Hal Wallis Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures. ...
She and Furse eventually divorced and she remarried author Stephen Watts (though maintaining the Furse last name professionally) with whom she remained until her death from breast cancer in 1974. Breast cancer is cancer of breast tissue. ...
A portrait of her, painted by her husband Roger, hangs as part of the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London. A portrait is a painting, photograph, or other artistic representation of a person or object. ... The National Portrait Gallery is an art gallery in St Martins Place, London, England, which opened to the public in 1856. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
Fuzzy was born June 27, 1903, in Savannah, Ga., the daughter of James and Christianna (Thompson) Furse.
Known to the family as Margaret, she again moved, this time to New York City where she attended Vassar College, graduating in 1925 with a bachelor's degree in English.
In the beginning of her freshman year, the girls nicknamed her "Fuzzy," a nickname she shared with her uncle, John Furse, U.S. Navy, and which followed her ever since.
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