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ORRY-KELLY Jack

 

Date of birth : December 31, 1897, Kiama, Australia.

Date of death : February 27, 1964, Hollywood, California.

 

Practise: fashion designer for the Hollywood movie studios.

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Coming from an Irish immigrants family. 

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".

In Hollywood, her friend Cary Grant recommended him to the Warner Brothers, where he worked at the wardrobe 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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He died while he was working on "Kiss Me, Stupid" (1964) of Billy Wilder.

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