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1904-02-02
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Helen Rose

Overview

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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

Acting
1975 Elizabeth Taylor: An Intimate Portrait Actor Self 58
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Costume & Make-Up
1968 How Sweet It Is! Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1964 Goodbye Charlie Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1963 The Courtship of Eddie's Father Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1961 Bachelor in Paradise Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1961 Ada Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1961 The Honeymoon Machine Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1961 Two Loves Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1961 Go Naked in the World Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1960 BUtterfield 8 Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1960 All the Fine Young Cannibals Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1959 Ask Any Girl Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1959 The Mating Game Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1959 Count Your Blessings Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1958 The Tunnel of Love Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1958 Party Girl Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1958 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 69
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1958 The Reluctant Debutante Costume & Make-Up Wardrobe Supervisor 59
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1958 The High Cost of Loving Costume & Make-Up Costume Mistress 59
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1957 Don't Go Near the Water Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1957 Silk Stockings Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1957 Designing Woman Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1957 Ten Thousand Bedrooms Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1956 The Opposite Sex Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1956 Tea and Sympathy Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1956 The Power and the Prize Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1956 High Society Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 61
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1956 Gaby Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1956 The Swan Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1956 Forbidden Planet Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 68
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1956 Meet Me in Las Vegas Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1955 I'll Cry Tomorrow Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1955 The Tender Trap Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1955 It's Always Fair Weather Costume & Make-Up Costume Designer 60
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1955 The Cobweb Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1955 Love Me or Leave Me Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1955 Interrupted Melody Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1955 The Glass Slipper Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1955 Hit the Deck Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1955 Jupiter's Darling Costume & Make-Up Costume Designer 58
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1954 Green Fire Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1954 Deep in My Heart Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1954 The Last Time I Saw Paris Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1954 Athena Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1954 Her Twelve Men Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1954 Executive Suite Costume & Make-Up Costume Designer 59
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1954 Rose Marie Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1954 The Long, Long Trailer Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1953 Escape from Fort Bravo Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1953 Easy to Love Costume & Make-Up Costume Designer 58
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1953 Give a Girl a Break Costume & Make-Up Costume Designer 58
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1953 Mogambo Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 60
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1953 Latin Lovers Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1953 Dangerous When Wet Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1953 Remains to Be Seen Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1953 Sombrero Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1953 Jeopardy Costume & Make-Up Costume Designer 59
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1953 The Girl Who Had Everything Costume & Make-Up Costume Designer 58
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1953 The Story of Three Loves Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1953 I Love Melvin Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1952 The Bad and the Beautiful Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 63
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1952 Million Dollar Mermaid Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1952 Everything I Have Is Yours Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1952 The Merry Widow Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1952 Holiday for Sinners Costume & Make-Up Costume Mistress 59
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1952 Glory Alley Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1952 Skirts Ahoy! Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1952 Love Is Better Than Ever Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1952 The Belle of New York Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1952 Invitation Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1951 The Light Touch Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1951 Too Young to Kiss Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1951 Callaway Went Thataway Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1951 Callaway Went Thataway Costume & Make-Up Wardrobe Designer 58
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1951 The Unknown Man Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1951 Bannerline Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1951 Texas Carnival Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1951 The Strip Costume & Make-Up Costume Designer 58
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1951 Father's Little Dividend Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1951 Royal Wedding Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1951 Grounds for Marriage Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1950 Pagan Love Song Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1950 Two Weeks with Love Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1950 To Please a Lady Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1950 Right Cross Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1950 A Life of Her Own Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1950 Summer Stock Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1950 The Toast of New Orleans Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1950 Duchess of Idaho Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1950 Three Little Words Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1950 The Big Hangover Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1950 Father of the Bride Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 62
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1950 Annie Get Your Gun Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 60
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1950 The Reformer and the Redhead Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1950 Nancy Goes to Rio Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1949 East Side, West Side Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1949 On the Town Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 62
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1949 The Stratton Story Costume & Make-Up Costume Designer 59
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1949 Take Me Out to the Ball Game Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1948 Words and Music Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1948 A Date with Judy Costume & Make-Up Costume Designer 58
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1948 Homecoming Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1948 Big City Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1947 Good News Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1947 The Unfinished Dance Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1946 Two Sisters from Boston Costume & Make-Up Costume Designer 58
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1946 The Harvey Girls Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1945 Ziegfeld Follies Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1943 Stormy Weather Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1943 Coney Island Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1943 Hello, Frisco, Hello Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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