About

Known credits:
48
Birthday:
1903-04-10
Place of birth:
Jacksonville, Illinois, USA
Website:
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Marjorie Best

Overview

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Marjorie Best (10 April 1903 – 14 June 1997) was an American Hollywood costume designer known for her period designs.

Best was born in Jacksonville, Illinois and studied at the Chouinard Art Institute. She taught school briefly before going to work for the Western Costume Company in 1926. She later moved to United Costumers. When that company was purchased by Warner Bros. in 1936, she was given a position in the studio's wardrobe department.

Her first film as a costume designer was Silver River (1948). She earned an Academy Award for costume design in 1949 for her collaboration on the Errol Flynn film Adventures of Don Juan. She was nominated in 1956 for Giant, in 1960 for Sunrise at Campobello, and in 1965 for The Greatest Story Ever Told, the same year she retired.

Best died on June 14, 1997 in Toluca Lake, California of a heart ailment.

Known for

Costume & Make-Up
1963 Spencer's Mountain Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
Average
1962 State Fair Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
Average
1962 Tender Is the Night Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
Average
1961 The Comancheros Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 61
Fair
1961 The Sins of Rachel Cade Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
Average
1960 The Dark at the Top of the Stairs Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
Average
1960 Sunrise at Campobello Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
Average
1960 Sergeant Rutledge Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 61
Fair
1960 Guns of the Timberland Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
Average
1959 The Miracle Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
Average
1959 Yellowstone Kelly Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
Average
1959 The Nun's Story Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 62
Fair
1959 Rio Bravo Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 72
Good
1959 The Hanging Tree Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 60
Fair
1958 Born Reckless Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
Average
1958 The Left Handed Gun Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
Average
1958 Fort Dobbs Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
Average
1958 Lafayette Escadrille Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
Average
1957 Band of Angels Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
Average
1957 Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
Average
1956 Giant Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 68
Fair
1956 The Burning Hills Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
Average
1954 The Silver Chalice Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
Average
1954 King Richard and the Crusaders Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
Average
1954 His Majesty O'Keefe Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
Average
1953 Blowing Wild Costume & Make-Up Wardrobe Supervisor 59
Average
1953 The Charge at Feather River Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
Average
1952 The Iron Mistress Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
Average
1952 The Crimson Pirate Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 61
Fair
1952 Carson City Costume & Make-Up Wardrobe Designer 59
Average
1952 Room for One More Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
Average
1951 Distant Drums Costume & Make-Up Wardrobe Designer 59
Average
1951 I'll See You in My Dreams Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
Average
1951 Fort Worth Costume & Make-Up Wardrobe Designer 59
Average
1951 Fort Worth Costume & Make-Up Wardrobe Master 59
Average
1951 Along the Great Divide Costume & Make-Up Wardrobe Designer 59
Average
1951 Raton Pass Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
Average
1950 The West Point Story Costume & Make-Up Wardrobe Designer 58
Average
1950 Rocky Mountain Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
Average
1950 The Great Jewel Robber Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
Average
1950 The Flame and the Arrow Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
Average
1950 Bright Leaf Costume & Make-Up Wardrobe Supervisor 58
Average
1950 The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
Average
1950 Montana Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
Average
1949 Look for the Silver Lining Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
Average
1948 Adventures of Don Juan Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
Average
1948 Adventures of Don Juan Costume & Make-Up Wardrobe Supervisor 59
Average
1947 Life with Father Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
Average