Helen Rose
Known For: Costume & Make-Up
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: February 2, 1904
Day of Death: November 9, 1985 (82 years old)
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
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.
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Costume Designer
Easy to Love
Costume Design
Escape from Fort Bravo
Costume Design
Dangerous When Wet
Costume Design
Latin Lovers
Costume Design
Remains to Be Seen
Costume Design
The Story of Three Loves
Costume Designer
Jeopardy
Costume Design
Mogambo
Costume Designer
Give a Girl a Break
Costume Design
I Love Melvin
Costume Designer
The Girl Who Had Everything
Costume Design
Sombrero
1952
Costume Design
Skirts Ahoy!
Costume Design
The Merry Widow
Costume Mistress
Holiday for Sinners
Costume Design
Glory Alley
Costume Design
Invitation
Costume Design
The Bad and the Beautiful
Costume Design
Million Dollar Mermaid
Costume Design
The Belle of New York
Costume Design
Love Is Better Than Ever
Costume Design
Everything I Have Is Yours
1951
Costume Design
The Unknown Man
Costume Designer
The Strip
Costume Design
Callaway Went Thataway
Wardrobe Designer
Callaway Went Thataway
Costume Design
Bannerline
Costume Design
Texas Carnival
Costume Design
Grounds for Marriage
Costume Design
Father's Little Dividend
Costume Design
Too Young to Kiss
Costume Design
The Light Touch
Costume Design
Royal Wedding
1950
Costume Design
Duchess of Idaho
Costume Design
Nancy Goes to Rio
Costume Design
A Life of Her Own
Costume Design
The Toast of New Orleans
Costume Design
Annie Get Your Gun
Costume Design
Three Little Words
Costume Design
Two Weeks with Love
Costume Design
Pagan Love Song
Costume Design
The Big Hangover
Costume Design
Right Cross
Costume Design
To Please a Lady
Costume Design
The Reformer and the Redhead
Costume Design
Summer Stock
Costume Design
Father of the Bride
