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Helen Rose

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The Resume

    (February 2, 1904-November 9, 1985)
    Born in Chicago, Illinois
    Birth name was Helen Bromberg
    Movie costume designer
    Won two Academy Awards for Best Costume Design for 'The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)' and 'I'll Cry Tomorrow' (1955)
    Designed Princess Grace Kelly's Royal wedding dress (1956)
    Designed costumes for 'Stormy Weather,' 'Ziegfeld Follies,' 'The Harvey Girls,' 'Annie Get Your Gun,' 'Summer Stock,' 'A Life of Her Own,' 'Father of the Bride, 'Executive Suite,' 'Mogambo,' 'Jeopardy,' 'Bedevilled,' 'High Society,' 'Ransom!' 'Forbidden Planet,' 'Tea and Sympathy,' 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,' 'Saddle the Wind,' 'The Power and the Prize,' 'The Tunnel of Love,' 'Butterfield 8' 'The Gazebo,' 'Never So Few' and 'Mister Budwing'

Why she might be annoying:

    She wrote two autobiographies.
    She was actually Grace Kelly's second choice to design her wedding dress when she married Prince Rainier but was obligated to use one of MGM's own designers in exchange for their letting her out of her movie contract (her first was <11265>Edith Head,<1126>).
    Ilka Chase, a columnist who attended the wedding, shaded her design, dryly observing: '[it was] a charming dress, but not a superb one.'
    One reporter gushed about the gown's bridal train 'flowing like a river of whipped cream among the plush red floor.'

Why she might not be annoying:

    She was hired by MGM after designer Adrian's departure, and by the late 1940s, was promoted to chief designer at the studio.
    In addition to her two Oscar wins, she was nominated by the Academy eight more times.
    She designed wedding gowns for Debbie Reynolds and Jane Powell.
    Elizabeth Taylor loved the design for her 'Father of the Bride' wedding gown so much that she commissioned Rose to design a duplicate for her own marriage to Nicky Hilton.
    She successfully ran her own fashion house after retiring from film costume designing.
    Kate Middleton was said to have modeled the design for her wedding dress on Grace Kelly's Royal wedding dress.

Credit: BoyWiththeGreenHair


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 205 Votes: 46.83% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying