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

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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."

The Gunfighter

The Gunfighter · 1950

The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.

Filmography

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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 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

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 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

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

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

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 Gunfighter

The Gunfighter · 1950

The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Princess of the Nile

Princess of the Nile · 1954

Princess of the Nile

MovieRomanceAdventure

Shalimar, an Egyptian princess, striving to rid her country of its Bedouin conquerors, forms an alliance with Prince Haidi, son of the Caliph of Bagdad. She practices her intrigues both at the court and, disguised as a dancing girl, in the market place.

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

The Left Hand of God

The Left Hand of God · 1955

The Left Hand of God

MovieDramaAdventure

A man in priestly robes, seemingly the long-awaited Father O'Shea, arrives at a little-frequented Catholic mission in 1947 China. Though the man seems curiously uncomfortable with his priestly duties, his tough tactics prove very successful in the Seven Villages, as around them China disintegrates in civil war and revolution. But he has a secret, and his friendship with mission nurse Anne (an attractive war widow) seems to be taking on an unpriestly tone.

Costume Design

Take Her, She's Mine

Take Her, She's Mine · 1963

Take Her, She's Mine

After reluctantly packing up his daughter, Mollie, and sending her away to study art at a Paris college, Frank Michaelson gives new meaning to the term "concerned parent." Reading Mollie's letters describing her counter-culture experiences and beatnik friends, Frank eventually grows so paranoid that he boards a plane to Paris to see firsthand the kind of lessons his daughter is learning with her new artist amour.

Costume Design

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

Black Widow

Black Widow · 1954

MovieMysteryDrama

When a young stage hopeful is found dead, suspicion falls on her mentor, a successful Broadway producer.

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

No Way Out

No Way Out · 1950

MovieDramaCrime

Two hoodlum brothers are brought into hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one dies, the other accuses their Black doctor of murder.

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

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

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