ORRY-KELLY Jack
Born Orry George Kelly.
Date of birth : December 31, 1897, Kiama, Australia.
Date of death : February 27, 1964, Hollywood, California ().
Profession fashion designer for the Hollywood movie studios.
Story
Coming from an Irish immigrants family.
Naturalization April 23,l 1943
He worked in New York City where he designed the images of the silent movies credits, and designed costumes for Ethel Barrymore, Katharine Hepburn and for the revues"George White's Scandals".
costume designer for 11 years (;;).
Then he went to work at the Fox, Universal, RKO and MGM, then went back to the Warner, to exclusively work at the costumes creation for the Bette Davis movies.
He won the Best Costume Design Academy Award for "An American
in Paris" (MGM, 1951), "Les Girls" (MGM,
1957) and "Some Like it Hot" (1959)(,).
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