Helen Rose
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. 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 (1902–1993), and they had a daughter. She died in Palm Springs, California in 1985.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
(Costume Design)
Forbidden Planet
(Costume Design)
The Stratton Story
(Costume Designer)
Two Loves
(Costume Design)
Love Me or Leave Me
(Costume Design)
Good News
(Costume Design)
The Mating Game
(Costume Design)
The Opposite Sex
(Costume Design)
The Harvey Girls
(Costume Design)
Duchess of Idaho
(Costume Design)
I'll Cry Tomorrow
(Costume Design)
Jupiter's Darling
(Costume Designer)
Easy to Love
(Costume Designer)
The High Cost of Loving
(Costume Mistress)
Don't Go Near the Water
(Costume Design)
The Unfinished Dance
(Costume Design)
Her Twelve Men
(Costume Design)
Skirts Ahoy!
(Costume Design)
The Unknown Man
(Costume Design)
How Sweet It Is!
(Costume Design)
Bachelor in Paradise
(Costume Design)
Escape from Fort Bravo
(Costume Design)
Big City
(Costume Design)
Nancy Goes to Rio
(Costume Design)
The Reluctant Debutante
(Wardrobe Supervisor)
Hello, Frisco, Hello
(Costume Design)
Latin Lovers
(Costume Design)
Words and Music
(Costume Design)
A Life of Her Own
(Costume Design)
Dangerous When Wet
(Costume Design)
The Merry Widow
(Costume Design)
The Strip
(Costume Designer)
Holiday for Sinners
(Costume Mistress)
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
(Costume Design)
The Toast of New Orleans
(Costume Design)
BUtterfield 8
(Costume Design)
Callaway Went Thataway
(Costume Design)
Callaway Went Thataway
(Wardrobe Designer)
Bannerline
(Costume Design)
Hit the Deck
(Costume Design)
Annie Get Your Gun
(Costume Design)
The Long, Long Trailer
(Costume Design)
Ziegfeld Follies
(Costume Design)
Remains to Be Seen
(Costume Design)
The Last Time I Saw Paris
(Costume Design)
Glory Alley
(Costume Design)
Rose Marie
(Costume Design)
Homecoming
(Costume Design)
Count Your Blessings
(Costume Design)
Two Weeks with Love
(Costume Design)
Three Little Words
(Costume Design)
Pagan Love Song
(Costume Design)
Texas Carnival
(Costume Design)
Green Fire
(Costume Design)
The Big Hangover
(Costume Design)
Grounds for Marriage
(Costume Design)
The Story of Three Loves
(Costume Design)
The Honeymoon Machine
(Costume Design)
Invitation
(Costume Design)
Right Cross
(Costume Design)
Jeopardy
(Costume Designer)
Father's Little Dividend
(Costume Design)
To Please a Lady
(Costume Design)
Go Naked in the World
(Costume Design)
Deep in My Heart
(Costume Design)
The Reformer and the Redhead
(Costume Design)
East Side, West Side
(Costume Design)
Summer Stock
(Costume Design)
Father of the Bride
(Costume Design)
Silk Stockings
(Costume Design)
Goodbye Charlie
(Costume Design)
Mogambo
(Costume Design)
Gaby
(Costume Design)
On the Town
(Costume Design)
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
(Costume Design)
Party Girl
(Costume Design)
Executive Suite
(Costume Designer)
The Bad and the Beautiful
(Costume Design)
The Power and the Prize
(Costume Design)
Too Young to Kiss
(Costume Design)
Designing Woman
(Costume Design)
Give a Girl a Break
(Costume Designer)
Stormy Weather
(Costume Design)
Two Sisters from Boston
(Costume Designer)
Coney Island
(Costume Design)
It's Always Fair Weather
(Costume Designer)
Ask Any Girl
(Costume Design)
Athena
(Costume Design)
The Swan
(Costume Design)
The Belle of New York
(Costume Design)
Million Dollar Mermaid
(Costume Design)
The Glass Slipper
(Costume Design)
I Love Melvin
(Costume Design)
A Date with Judy
(Costume Designer)
Love Is Better Than Ever
(Costume Design)
The Girl Who Had Everything
(Costume Designer)
Tea and Sympathy
(Costume Design)
Meet Me in Las Vegas
(Costume Design)
The Light Touch
(Costume Design)
Royal Wedding
(Costume Design)
Sombrero
(Costume Design)
Interrupted Melody
(Costume Design)
Everything I Have Is Yours
(Costume Design)
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
(Costume Design)
The Cobweb
(Costume Design)
Ada
(Costume Design)
High Society
(Costume Design)
All the Fine Young Cannibals
(Costume Design)
The Tender Trap
(Costume Design)
The Tunnel of Love
(Costume Design)