Author: DODWELL, C.R. (INTROD.),
Title: Hollywood Film Costume. [Exhibition catalogue Whitworth Art Gallery, 2nd. June-23rd July 1977].
Description: Manchester, Whitworth Gallery, 1977. square 8°, Orig. limp thin silver-coloured wraps., stapled, with an illustration on front wrapper. 48pp. Many black/white plates and ills. with extensive text, incl. name-list of designers with rather extensive biographies, incl. portraits, table of Oscars for best Costume design, name-list of lenders. A lavishly illustrated exhibition-catalogue, listing and describing tog. 143 pieces exhibited, as worn by famous and less famous Hollywood stars. Amongs the designers one finds following names (:) Adrian (Gilbert Adrian Greenburg), Travis Banton, Edith Head, Irene (Lentz Gibbons), Dorothy Jenkins, Jean Louis (Louis Berthault), Orry Kelly(Walter Orry Kelly), Walter Plunkett, Helen Rose,&c. Very fine copy.

Keywords: hollywood film costume design history dress fashion