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Walter Plunkett (1902 - 1982) was the costume designer in the Hollywood movie industry. Innate June Five, 1902, within Oakland, California, he studied law at a University of California, but showed greater interest in the campus' theatrical class action. He moved to New York in 1923 and began act as an stage actor, as well as a costume & placed designer. When a bit of instance inside Greenwich Village, he moved back to California, this instance to Hollywood, & encountered act as an picture show additional. His acting operate was short-fugacious, nonetheless, & he processed the career vary to costume & wardrobe. Plunkett's foremost credited operate as a costumier number 1 apeared around screen in 1927 & during a late twenties and early thirties, when working at RKO, he built a vast costume & wardrobe department into an effective & originative studio plus. By using loose reign at that studio, he placed just about creating costumes that rivaled a function of his coeval, like Travis Banton & Adrian. His right-known act is featured inside both particular films, Gone with the Wind, and Singin' in the Rain, in which he lampooned his initial style of the 'roaring 20s'.
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Costume Designers Guild: Hall of Fame Profile of the designer widely regarded as among the best period costumers in Hollywood history. Internet Movie Database (IMDb) Filmography of the designer perhaps most readily associated with his work for "Gone with the Wind" and whose career spanned five decades. Little Golden Guy: Nominations A list of designer nominations and wins for the Academy Award for Costume Design presented along with the competition. Kent State University Museum: Exhibitions "Gone with the Wind: Women, Race and Material Culture in the 20th Century" features the dress worn by Scarlett O'Hara on her New Orleans honeymoon with Rhett Butler. GWTW Memories: Did You Know? Details about the orchid percale dress of which Plunkett made 27 copies to ensure continuity throughout the non-sequential shoot. One of these versions sold later at auction for 80,000 USD. Vivien Leigh: Costumes from the Film This project established Plunkett as the authority on period costumes in Hollywood regardless the director's and author's consideration of other designers right down to the wire. Sketches and photographs provided. The University of Texas at Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Exhibition "Gone with the Wind" offers a special dedication to the designer featuring original correspondence. Links provided to reproduction pieces that are also part of the exhibit and considered in detail. |
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