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newspaper article		Australians who dress for success in Saturday Age (18/07/2015) p.41 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; COSTUME DESIGNERS Author: Maddox, Garry PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: COSTUME DESIGNERS; COSTUME DESIGNING Summary: Article about some Australian costume designers who have been acclaimed in Hollywood, including: Orry-Kelly, Michael Wilkinson, and Lizzie Gardiner More info
subject clippings file		COSTUME DESIGNERS Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: COSTUME DESIGNERS More info
book		Hollywood speaks! : an oral history / Mike Steen New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1974. Call No: 71(73) STE Author: Steen, Mike Source: US Place: New York Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons PubDate: 1974 PhysDes: 379 p. ; 21 cm Subject: FILM WORKERS; ACTORS; ACTING; CHARACTER ACTORS; SCRIPTWRITERS; SCRIPTWRITING; DIRECTION; PRODUCERS; PRODUCING; PRODUCTION MANAGERS; PRODUCTION MANAGING; ASSISTANT DIRECTORS; CINEMATOGRAPHERS; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ART DIRECTION; ART DIRECTORS; SET DESIGNING; SET DESIGNERS; COSTUME DESIGNERS; COSTUME DESIGNING; MAKE-UP ARTISTS; MAKE-UP; SPECIAL EFFECTS DESIGNERS; SPECIAL EFFECTS; MUSICALS; CHOREOGRAPHY; EDITING; EDITORS; SOUND; MUSIC IN FILMS; PRE-PRODUCTION; CASTING; PRODUCTION, TV; FONDA, HENRY; RUSSELL, ROSALIND; MOOREHEAD, AGNES; CANNON, DAVID; STERN, STEWART; WELLMAN, WILLIAM; BERMAN, PANDRO S.; PRATT, JAMES; MOONJEAN, HANK; HENDERSON, RANDELL; HOWE, JAMES WONG; AMES, PRESTON; KRAMS, ARTHUR; HEAD, EDITH; WESTMORE, PERC; MANLEY, NELLIE; GILLESPIE, A. ARNOLD; BERKELEY, BUSBY; SMITH, FREDERICK Y.; FREERICKS, BERNARD; GREEN, JOHN; LAWRENCE, CATALINA; BURCH, RUTH; ROACH, HAL; MCCLEERY, ALBERT Summary: "'Hollywood Speaks' is a fascinating collection of interviews with the dazzled and the dazzlers, the multitalented professionals - stars and stagehands alike - who make up the motion-picture industry. Each interview follows the same general format: an extensive autobiographical sketch, the 'big break, or how I got into Hollywood', followed by the techniques and problems, the tricks and plain hard work, that go into the making of movies. The interviews are loaded with humour, bitter feuds, and personal anecdotes of the great and near great." (Taken from back cover) ISBN: 39911162X Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
newspaper article		Inside story in Saturday Age [Spectrum] (22/08/2015) p.20 Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; ORRY-KELLY Author: Hawker, Philippa PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: ORRY-KELLY; COSTUME DESIGNERS Summary: An article about the ACMI exhibition Orry-Kelly: Dressing Hollywood More info
book		Orry Kelly: Miss Weston's Protege : the story of a great Hollywood costume designer / by Robert Parkinson Edgecliff, NSW, Australia: Impact Press, 2015. Call No: 81KEL PAR Author: Parkinson, Robert Source: AT Place: Edgecliff, NSW, Australia Publisher: Impact Press PubDate: 2015 PhysDes: 212 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 20 cm Subject: COSTUME DESIGNERS; COSTUME DESIGNING; COSTUMES; FASHION AND THE CINEMA; FASHION IN FILMS; KELLY, ORRY Summary: "Growing up in Kiama, NSW, Orry Kelly was mentored by local business woman Eleanor Weston who played a pivotal role in his Hollywood success. Moving to the United States in 1922, Kelly found his calling designing for the New York stage and later for all the major studios in Hollywood. His costumes featured in 312 movies, dressing several of the biggest stars including Marilyn Monroe, Bette Davis and Loretta Young. Using never before seen photographs, letters, and materials, Robert Parkinson has compiled years of research into one of the most detailed acounts of Orry Kelly's history. Robert Parkinson studied classics and education at the University of Sydney and writes for the Cinema and Theatre Historical Society of Australia quarterly journal. Robert is also a member of the Royal Australian Historical Society, " -- BOOK BACK COVER BLURB Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-173) and index ISBN: 9781925183498 Contents: -- foreword -- introduction -- section 1: Kiama to New York -- section 2: Hollywood and Beyond -- Section 3: " the greatest of hollywood designers" -- appendicies -- 1: Orry Kelly's name -- 2: stage shows connected with Orry Kelly -- 3: Orry Kelly's filmography by year -- 4: Academy Awards relating to Orry Kelly -- 5: information about persons named in the text -- acknowledgments -- bibliography -- index -- footnotes -- More info
book		Women I've undressed : the fabulous life and times of a legendary Hollywood designer and a genuine Australian original / Orry-Kelly North Sydney: Ebury Press, Call No: 81 ORR ORR Author: Orry-Kelly Edition: 2015 Place: North Sydney Publisher: Ebury Press PhysDes: 432 pages : illustrated ; 25 cm Subject: ORRY-KELLY; COSTUME DESIGNERS; COSTUME DESIGN; COSTUMES Summary: Found in a pillowcase, the fabulous long-lost memoirs of a legendary Hollywood designer - and a genuine Australian original. Orry-Kelly created magic on screen, from Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon to Some Like It Hot. He won three Oscars for costume design. He dressed all the biggest stars, from Bette Davis to Marilyn Monroe. He was an Australian. Yet few know who Orry-Kelly really was - until now. Discovered in a pillowcase, Orry-Kelly's long-lost memoirs reveal a wildly talented and cheeky rascal who lived a big life, on and off the set. From his childhood in Kiama to revelling in Sydney's underworld nightlife as a naive young artist and chasing his dreams of acting in New York, his early life is a wild and exciting ride. Sharing digs in New York with another aspiring actor, Cary Grant, and partying hard in between auditions, he ekes out a living painting murals for speakeasies before graduating to designing stage sets and costumes. When The Kid from Kiama finally arrives in Hollywood, it's clear his adventures have only just begun. Fearless, funny and outspoken, Orry-Kelly lived life to the full. In Women I've Undressed, he shares a wickedly delicious slice of it. -- book blurb ISBN: 9780857985637 Donation: James Sabine More info
book		Working in Hollywood / Alexandra Brouwer and Thomas Lee Wright New York: Crown Publishers, c1990. Call No: 22(73) BRO Author: Brouwer, Alexandra; Wright, Thomas Lee Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Crown Publishers PubDate: c1990 PhysDes: xii, 546 pages ; 25 cm Subject: ADVERTISING FOR FILMS; ANIMALS IN FILMS; ART DIRECTION; CAMERAS; CASTING; CHOREOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; COMPOSERS; COSTUME DESIGNERS; DIRECTION; DISTRIBUTION; EDITING; EXHIBITION; FINANCING; LAW AND THE CINEMA; LOCATION HUNTING; LOCATION SHOOTING; MAKE-UP ARTISTS; MUSIC IN FILMS; POST-PRODUCTION; PRE-PRODUCTION; PRODUCERS; PRODUCING; PRODUCTION; PROJECTION; SCRIPTWRITING; SET DESIGNING; SOUND; SPECIAL EFFECTS; STUNTS Summary: "Now appearing for the first time ever: WORKING IN HOLLYWOOD, the definitive book that reveals how major movie studios are made, fromn the first glimmer of an idea to the final cut, to sales and marketing. Here is moviemaking told in the words of the people who do it: the deal makers, directors, artists, craftspeople, technicians, and executives." [Taken from book jacket] Notes: Includes index ISBN: 0517574012; 9780517574010 Donation: Simon Wincer Contents: 1. The helmsmen -- 2. The deal -- 3. The guardians -- 4. The money -- 5. The talent -- 6. The look -- 7. The artists -- 8. The movers -- 9. The camera -- 10. The print -- 11. The magicians -- 12. The sound -- 13. The fury -- 14. The salesmen -- More info

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