Known For
Costume & Make-Up
Born
Feb 02, 1904
Died
Nov 09, 1985
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Credits
117 titles
Helen Rose
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Helen Rose (February 2, 1904 – November 9, 1985) was an American costume designer and clothing designer who spent the bulk of her career with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Helen Rose was born on February 2, 1904, to William Bromberg and Ray Bobbs in Chicago, Illinois of German and Russian descent. She attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and then designed nightclub and stage costumes for various acts. She moved to Los Angeles in 1929, where she designed outfits for Fanchon and Marco and later the Ice Follies. In the early 1940s she spent two years working for 20th Century Fox, where she designed wardrobes for musical selections. In 1943 MGM hired her in the wake of Adrian's departure and by the late 1940s Rose was promoted to chief designer at the studio. Rose won two Academy Awards for Best Costume Design, for The Bad and the Beautiful in 1952 and for I'll Cry Tomorrow in 1955. She was nominated a further eight times and was also very well known for designing famous wedding dresses of the era. She designed the famous wedding dress of Grace Kelly when she married Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956. She also designed clothing for Elizabeth Taylor in the movies Father of the Bride and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as well as Elizabeth Taylor's wedding dress when she married Conrad "Nicky" Hilton. In the late 1960s, Rose left the studio to open her own design business and continued to provide fancy attire for the famed and the wealthy. She also wrote a fashion column. She wrote two books - her autobiography Just Make Them Beautiful in 1976 and "The Glamorous World of Helen Rose". In the 1970s Rose also staged a traveling fashion show featuring some of her MGM-designed costumes that was called "The Helen Rose Show". Helen was married to Harry V. Rose, whose birth name was Harry Rosenstein (1902–1993), and they had a daughter. She died in Palm Springs, California in 1985.
Known For
Filmography
Elizabeth Taylor: An Intimate Portrait
Self
How Sweet It Is!
Costume Design
Goodbye Charlie
Costume Design
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Costume Design
Bachelor in Paradise
Costume Design
Ada
Costume Design
The Honeymoon Machine
Costume Design
Two Loves
Costume Design
Go Naked in the World
Costume Design
BUtterfield 8
Costume Design
All the Fine Young Cannibals
Costume Design
The Gazebo
Costume Design
Ask Any Girl
Costume Design
It Started with a Kiss
Costume Design
The Mating Game
Costume Design
Count Your Blessings
Costume Design
The Tunnel of Love
Costume Design
Party Girl
Costume Design
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Costume Design
The Reluctant Debutante
Wardrobe Supervisor
The High Cost of Loving
Costume Mistress
Don't Go Near the Water
Costume Design
Silk Stockings
Costume Design
Designing Woman
Costume Design
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
Costume Design
The Opposite Sex
Costume Design
Tea and Sympathy
Costume Design
The Power and the Prize
Costume Design
High Society
Costume Design
The Wedding in Monaco
Costume Designer
Gaby
Costume Design
The Swan
Costume Design
Forbidden Planet
Costume Design
Meet Me in Las Vegas
Costume Design
I'll Cry Tomorrow
Costume Design
The Tender Trap
Costume Design
It's Always Fair Weather
Costume Designer
The Cobweb
Costume Design
Love Me or Leave Me
Costume Design
Interrupted Melody
Costume Design
The Glass Slipper
Costume Design
Hit the Deck
Costume Design
Jupiter's Darling
Costume Designer
Green Fire
Costume Design
Deep in My Heart
Costume Design
The Last Time I Saw Paris
Costume Design
Athena
Costume Design
Her Twelve Men
Costume Design
Executive Suite
Costume Designer
Rose Marie
Costume Design