Helen Rose
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Helen Rose

Feb 2, 1904 - Chicago, Illinois, USA

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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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Movie1958Cat on a Hot Tin RoofCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1956Forbidden PlanetCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1949The Stratton StoryCostume DesignerCostume & Make-Up
Movie1961Two LovesCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1955Love Me or Leave MeCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1947Good NewsCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1959The Mating GameCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1956The Opposite SexCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1946The Harvey GirlsCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1950Duchess of IdahoCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1955I'll Cry TomorrowCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1955Jupiter's DarlingCostume DesignerCostume & Make-Up
Movie1953Easy to LoveCostume DesignerCostume & Make-Up
Movie1958The High Cost of LovingCostume MistressCostume & Make-Up
Movie1957Don't Go Near the WaterCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1947The Unfinished DanceCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1954Her Twelve MenCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1952Skirts Ahoy!Costume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1951The Unknown ManCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1968How Sweet It Is!Costume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1961Bachelor in ParadiseCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1953Escape from Fort BravoCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1948Big CityCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1950Nancy Goes to RioCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1958The Reluctant DebutanteWardrobe SupervisorCostume & Make-Up
Movie1948Words and MusicCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1943Hello, Frisco, HelloCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1952The Merry WidowCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1953Latin LoversCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1950A Life of Her OwnCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1953Dangerous When WetCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1951The StripCostume DesignerCostume & Make-Up
Movie1952Holiday for SinnersCostume MistressCostume & Make-Up
Movie1963The Courtship of Eddie's FatherCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1950The Toast of New OrleansCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1960BUtterfield 8Costume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1951Callaway Went ThatawayCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1951Callaway Went ThatawayWardrobe DesignerCostume & Make-Up
Movie1951BannerlineCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1955Hit the DeckCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1950Annie Get Your GunCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1954The Long, Long TrailerCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1945Ziegfeld FolliesCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1953Remains to Be SeenCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1954The Last Time I Saw ParisCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1952Glory AlleyCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1954Rose MarieCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1948HomecomingCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1959Count Your BlessingsCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1950Two Weeks with LoveCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1950Three Little WordsCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1951Texas CarnivalCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1950Pagan Love SongCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1954Green FireCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1950The Big HangoverCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1951Grounds for MarriageCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1953The Story of Three LovesCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1961The Honeymoon MachineCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1952InvitationCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1950Right CrossCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1953JeopardyCostume DesignerCostume & Make-Up
Movie1951Father's Little DividendCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1950To Please a LadyCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1961Go Naked in the WorldCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1954Deep in My HeartCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1950The Reformer and the RedheadCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1949East Side, West SideCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1950Summer StockCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1950Father of the BrideCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1957Silk StockingsCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1964Goodbye CharlieCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1953MogamboCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1956GabyCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1949Take Me Out to the Ball GameCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1949On the TownCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1958Party GirlCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1954Executive SuiteCostume DesignerCostume & Make-Up
Movie1952The Bad and the BeautifulCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1956The Power and the PrizeCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1951Too Young to KissCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1957Designing WomanCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1953Give a Girl a BreakCostume DesignerCostume & Make-Up
Movie1943Stormy WeatherCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1946Two Sisters from BostonCostume DesignerCostume & Make-Up
Movie1943Coney IslandCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1955It's Always Fair WeatherCostume DesignerCostume & Make-Up
Movie1959Ask Any GirlCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1954AthenaCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1952The Belle of New YorkCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1956The SwanCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1953I Love MelvinCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1955The Glass SlipperCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1952Million Dollar MermaidCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1948A Date with JudyCostume DesignerCostume & Make-Up
Movie1952Love Is Better Than EverCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1953The Girl Who Had EverythingCostume DesignerCostume & Make-Up
Movie1956Tea and SympathyCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1956Meet Me in Las VegasCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1951The Light TouchCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1951Royal WeddingCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1953SombreroCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1955Interrupted MelodyCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1952Everything I Have Is YoursCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1957Ten Thousand BedroomsCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1955The CobwebCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1961AdaCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1956High SocietyCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1960All the Fine Young CannibalsCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1955The Tender TrapCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1958The Tunnel of LoveCostume DesignCostume & Make-Up
Movie1946Till the Clouds Roll ByCostume DesignerCostume & Make-Up
Movie1949Act of ViolenceCostume DesignerCostume & Make-Up