Elizabeth Haffenden (18 April 1906 – 29 May 1976) was a British
costume designer
A costume designer is a person who designs costumes for a film, stage production or television show. The role of the costume designer is to create the characters' outfits or costumes and balance the scenes with texture and colour, etc. The costume ...
who won two
Academy Awards
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for
Best Costume Design, for ''
Ben-Hur'' at the
1959 Academy Awards and ''
A Man for All Seasons'' at the
1966 Academy Awards.
She also won the
BAFTA Award
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.
Haffenden designed the costumes for most of the
Gainsborough melodramas
The Gainsborough melodramas were a sequence of films produced by the British film studio Gainsborough Pictures between 1943 and 1947 which conformed to a melodramatic style.Brooke, Michael. (2014)Gainsborough Melodrama Screenonline British Film Ins ...
of the 1940s.
Selected filmography
* ''
The Last Waltz
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'' (1936)
* ''
The Young Mr. Pitt'' (1942)
* ''
The Man in Grey
''The Man in Grey'' is a 1943 British film melodrama made by Gainsborough Pictures; it is considered to be the first of a series of period costume dramas now known as the "Gainsborough melodramas". It was directed by Leslie Arliss and produce ...
'' (1943)
* ''
Fanny by Gaslight'' (1944)
* ''
Give Us the Moon'' (1944)
* ''
Two Thousand Women'' (1944)
* ''
Love Story'' (1944)
* ''
Madonna of the Seven Moons
''Madonna of the Seven Moons'' is a 1945 British drama film directed by Arthur Crabtree for Gainsborough Pictures and starring Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger and Patricia Roc. The film was produced by Rubeigh James Minney, with cinematography ...
'' (1945)
* ''
A Place of One's Own
''A Place of One's Own'' is a 1945 British film directed by Bernard Knowles. An atmospheric ghost story based on the 1940 novel of the same title by Osbert Sitwell, it stars James Mason, Barbara Mullen, Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price and Dul ...
'' (1945)
* ''
I'll Be Your Sweetheart'' (1945)
* ''
Caravan'' (1946)
* ''
Bedelia'' (1946)
* ''
The Magic Bow'' (1946)
* ''
The Man Within'' (1947)
* ''
Jassy'' (1947)
* ''
Uncle Silas
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'' (1947)
* ''
The First Gentleman
''The First Gentleman'' is a 1948 British historical drama film directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, and starring Jean-Pierre Aumont, Joan Hopkins, and Cecil Parker. It portrays the relationships and marriage of George, Prince Regent and his tense ...
'' (1948)
* ''
The Bad Lord Byron
''The Bad Lord Byron'' is a 1949 British historical drama film about the life of Lord Byron. It was directed by David MacDonald and starred Dennis Price as Byron with Mai Zetterling, Linden Travers and Joan Greenwood.
Plot
The film sees life ...
'' (1949)
* ''
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus
* lij, Cristoffa C(or)ombo
* es, link=no, Cristóbal Colón
* pt, Cristóvão Colombo
* ca, Cristòfor (or )
* la, Christophorus Columbus. (; born between 25 August and 31 October 1451, died 20 May 1506) was a ...
'' (1949)
*''
Call of the Blood'' (1949)
* ''
The Spider and the Fly'' (1949)
*''
Ben-Hur'' (1959)
*''
The Sundowners'' (1960)
*''
A Man for All Seasons'' (1966)
*''
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'' (1968)
*''
Fiddler on the Roof'' (1971)
References
External links
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1906 births
1976 deaths
Best Costume Design Academy Award winners
Best Costume Design BAFTA Award winners
British costume designers
Women costume designers
People from Croydon