Costume & Make-Up

Travilla

Born March 22, 1920 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Died November 2, 1990 · aged 70

The man who draped a fringed Idaho potato sack on Marilyn Monroe for a famous snapshot - proving that she looked good in anything - was born on Catalina Island off the California coast on March 22 1920. He studied at the Chouinard School of Art in L.A., showing a precocious talent for drawing fashion design from an early age. By the time he was sixteen, he made money by selling sketches of costume…

Known For

How to Marry a Millionaire

How to Marry a Millionaire · 1953

How to Marry a Millionaire

MovieComedyRomance

Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.

American Guerrilla in the Philippines

American Guerrilla in the Philippines · 1950

American Guerrilla in the Philippines

American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2001.

The Seven Year Itch

The Seven Year Itch · 1955

The Seven Year Itch

MovieComedyRomance

When his family goes away for summer vacation, a hitherto faithful publishing executive with an overactive imagination is tempted by an attractive new neighbor.

Rawhide

Rawhide · 1951

At a desolate relay station in the west, a stagecoach attendant and a stranded woman traveller are held captive by a band of escaped convicts.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes · 1953

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

MovieComedyRomance

Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.

The Day the Earth Stood Still

The Day the Earth Stood Still · 1951

The Day the Earth Stood Still

MovieScience FictionThriller

An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.

The Desperadoes

The Desperadoes · 1943

The Desperadoes

Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town's crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and when Willie's choice for this doesn't show in time, he gets some local boys to do it. When his man does turn up he decides to stick around, as he is pals with the sheriff and also takes a shine to Willie's daughter Allison. This gives the bad men several new problems.

The Tall Men

The Tall Men · 1955

MovieWesternAdventure

Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.

Filmography

Sort

How to Marry a Millionaire

How to Marry a Millionaire · 1953

How to Marry a Millionaire

MovieComedyRomance

Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.

Costume Design

American Guerrilla in the Philippines

American Guerrilla in the Philippines · 1950

American Guerrilla in the Philippines

American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2001.

Costume Design

The Seven Year Itch

The Seven Year Itch · 1955

The Seven Year Itch

MovieComedyRomance

When his family goes away for summer vacation, a hitherto faithful publishing executive with an overactive imagination is tempted by an attractive new neighbor.

Costume Design

Rawhide

Rawhide · 1951

At a desolate relay station in the west, a stagecoach attendant and a stranded woman traveller are held captive by a band of escaped convicts.

Costume Design

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes · 1953

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

MovieComedyRomance

Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.

Costume Design

The Day the Earth Stood Still

The Day the Earth Stood Still · 1951

The Day the Earth Stood Still

MovieScience FictionThriller

An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.

Costume Design

The Desperadoes

The Desperadoes · 1943

The Desperadoes

Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town's crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and when Willie's choice for this doesn't show in time, he gets some local boys to do it. When his man does turn up he decides to stick around, as he is pals with the sheriff and also takes a shine to Willie's daughter Allison. This gives the bad men several new problems.

Costume Design

The Tall Men

The Tall Men · 1955

MovieWesternAdventure

Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.

Costume Design

River of No Return

River of No Return · 1954

River of No Return

MovieAdventureWestern

An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.

Costume Design

Nora Prentiss

Nora Prentiss · 1947

Quiet, organised Dr. Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings, they become heavily involved, and Talbot finds himself faced with the choice of leaving Nora or divorcing his wife. When a patient expires in his office, a third option seems to present itself.

Costume Design

Monkey Business

Monkey Business · 1952

Monkey Business

MovieComedyScience Fiction

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.

Costume Designer

Valley of the Dolls

Valley of the Dolls · 1967

Valley of the Dolls

MovieDramaRomance

Lured by their dreams of fame and fortune, three ambitious young women enter the world of show business and discover how easy it is to sink into a celebrity nightmare of ego, alcohol and pills — the beloved "dolls."

Costume Design

The Boston Strangler

The Boston Strangler · 1968

The Boston Strangler

MovieDramaCrime

Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.

Costume Supervisor

Appointment in Honduras

Appointment in Honduras · 1953

Appointment in Honduras

MovieAdventureThriller

On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying money for a Honduran counter-revolution. Denied permission to land in Honduras, Corbett releases the prisoners and with their aid hijacks the ship. They land, taking the wealthy Sheppards as hostages, and start the arduous trip upriver to Corbett's rendezvous, meeting jungle hazards

Costume Design

White Feather

White Feather · 1955

MovieActionWestern

The story of the peace mission from the US cavalry to the Cheyenne Indians in Wyoming during the 1870s. The mission is threatened when a civilian surveyor befriends the chief's son and falls for the chief's daughter.

Costume Design

Garden of Evil

Garden of Evil · 1954

A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from Apaches.

Costume Design

Pickup on South Street

Pickup on South Street · 1953

Pickup on South Street

MovieThrillerCrime

In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of nabbing the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey, to find Skip and retrieve the valuable microfilm he now holds.

Costume Design

Viva Zapata!

Viva Zapata! · 1952

MovieHistoryDrama

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.

Costume Design

Don't Bother to Knock

Don't Bother to Knock · 1952

Don't Bother to Knock

MovieDramaThriller

An airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stable as perhaps she should be.

Costume Design

Bus Stop

Bus Stop · 1956

MovieComedyDrama

Cowboys Beauregard Decker and Virgil Blessing attend a rodeo in Phoenix, where Decker falls in love with beautiful cafe singer Cherie. He wants to take Cherie back to his native Montana and marry her, but she dreams of traveling to Hollywood and becoming famous. When she resists his advances, Decker forces Cherie onto the bus back to Montana with him, but, when the bus makes an unscheduled stop due to bad weather, the tables are turned.

Costume Design

Two Guys from Texas

Two Guys from Texas · 1948

Two Guys from Texas

MovieComedyWestern

Two vaudevillians on the run from crooks try to pass themselves off as cowboys.

Costume Design

Adventures of Don Juan

Adventures of Don Juan · 1948

Adventures of Don Juan

MovieAdventureRomance

Spanish Lothario Don Juan, the legendary lover and adventurer returns to Spain following a scandal and comes to the aid of his queen, who is under threat from sinister forces.

Costume Supervisor

Broken Lance

Broken Lance · 1954

MovieAdventureDrama

Tensions erupt within an Arizona cattle baron's household when his three sons vie for control of the ranch.

Costume Design

There's No Business Like Show Business

There's No Business Like Show Business · 1954

There's No Business Like Show Business

MovieMusicComedy

Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Youngest son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.

Costume Design

Shirley Temple's Storybook

Shirley Temple's Storybook · 1958

Shirley Temple's Storybook

SeriesFamilySci-Fi & Fantasy

Shirley Temple's Storybook is an American children's anthology series hosted and narrated by actress Shirley Temple. The series features adaptations of fairy tales like Mother Goose and other family-oriented stories performed by well-known actors, although one episode, an adaptation of The House of the Seven Gables, was meant for older youngsters. Temple's three children made their acting debuts in the last episode of the first season, "Mother Goose".

Costume Designer

The Thorn Birds

The Thorn Birds · 1983

The Thorn Birds

Follows the Cleary family over several decades, focusing on the central, tragic romance between Meggie and Father Ralph, who is torn between his vows and his love for her.

Costume Design