Stars behind the Stars! :)

When you watch movies, what is it that catches your eye first?

The acting?

The dialouge?

Or the Costumes?

Well, for me it the costumes that frst catch my eye and hold on to it till the end.

The costumes, in my opinion, make the movie. If I don't like the costumes t more thn likely I won't love the movie.

But it seems people never stop to think about the desingers of these wonderful costumes!

I mean without them a movie would'nt be half as good!

So I dedicte this post to the Stars behind the Stars! :) 

Edith Head is my personal favorite designer!

She designed dresses for the following!

• Mae West in She Done Him Wrong, 1933, and Myra Breckinridge, 1970, and Sextette in 1979
• Frances Farmer in Rhythm on the Range, 1936 and Ebb Tide, 1937
• Paulette Goddard in The Cat and the Canary, 1939
• Veronica Lake in Sullivan's Travels, 1941 and I Married a Witch, 1942
• Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Eve and Ball of Fire both 1941 and Double Indemnity, 1944
• Ginger Rogers in Lady in the Dark, 1944

• Ingrid Bergman in Notorious, 1946
• Dorothy Lamour in The Hurricane, 1937, and in most of "The Road" movies.
• Betty Hutton in Incendiary Blonde, 1945 and The Perils of Pauline, 1947
• Loretta Young in The Farmer's Daughter, 1947
• Bette Davis in June Bride (1948) and All About Eve, 1950

• Olivia de Havilland in The Heiress, 1949
• Hedy Lamarr and Angela Lansbury in Samson and Delilah, 1949
• Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard, 1950
• Elizabeth Taylor in A Place in the Sun, 1951 and Elephant Walk, 1954
• Joan Fontaine in Something to Live For, 1952
• Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday, 1953 Sabrina, 1954 and Funny Face, 1957
• Ann Robinson in The War of the Worlds, 1953
• Grace Kelly in Rear Window, 1954, and To Catch a Thief, 1955
• Jane Wyman in Lucy Gallant, 1955

• Doris Day in The Man Who Knew Too Much, 1956
• Anne Baxter in The Ten Commandments, 1956
• Marlene Dietrich in Witness for the Prosecution, 1957
• Rita Hayworth in Separate Tables, 1958
• Kim Novak in Vertigo, 1958
• Sophia Loren in That Kind of Woman, 1959
• Patricia Neal in Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961

• Natalie Wood in Love with the Proper Stranger, 1963 1964, Inside Daisy Clover, 1965, The Great Race, 1965, Penelope, 1966, This Property Is Condemned, 1966, The Last Married Couple in America, 1980
• Tippi Hedren in The Birds, 1963 and Marnie, 1964
• Claude Jade in Topaz, 1969
• Katharine Hepburn in Rooster Cogburn, 1975
• Jill Clayburgh in Gable and Lombard, 1976
• Valerie Perrine in W.C. Fields and Me, 1976

Did you read them all?  Isn't it amazing? The pictures above are just a few of her wonderful sketches!


The next designer I am going to post about is Walter Plunkett!

These are a few of his desgins!

• Little Women (1933)
• Flying Down to Rio (1933)
• The Gay Divorcee (1934)
• The Little Minister (1934)
• Alice Adams (1935)
• Nothing Sacred (1937) (credited with Travis Banton)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)

• Stagecoach (1939)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
• My Brother Talks To Horses (1946 RKO)
• Little Women (1949)
• The Secret Garden (1949)
• Madame Bovary (1949)
• That Forsyte Woman (1949)

• The Magnificent Yankee (1950)
• Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
• Father of the Bride (1950)
• Show Boat (1951)
• The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
• Kiss Me Kate (1953)
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
• Lust for Life (1956)

• Forbidden Planet (1956)
• Raintree County (1957)
• Merry Andrew (1958)
• Some Came Running (1958)
• Bells Are Ringing (1960)
• How the West Was Won (1962)
• 7 Women (1966)

·  Grace Kelly

·  Gloria Guinness

·  Dolores Guinness

·  Babe Paley

·  Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney

·  Comtesse Jacqueline de Ribes

·  Donna Marella Agnelli

·  Duchess of Windsor,

·  Countess Mona von Bismarck

·  Empress Farah Pahlavi

·  Jayne Wrightsman

·  Rachel Lambert Mellon

·  Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

·  Lee Radziwill

·  Baroness Pauline de Rothschild

·  Diana Vreeland

·  Sunny von Bülow

·  Frederica von Stade

·  Jane Holzer

·  Marlene Dietrich

·  Greta Garbo

·  Lauren Bacall

·  Jeanne Moreau

·  Ingrid Bergman

Again, these were just some of the people Givenchy desgined for.

He was most famous for designing dresses for Jackie Kennedy and Audrey Hepburn!

Aside from desgining her movie dresses, Givenchy was Audrey Hepburns pesonal designer!

These are only a few of the many amazing designers! :)

Which of the desgins do you like the most?