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Michael Whittaker (costume Designer)
Michael Whittaker (April 1918 - 1995) was a British costume designer and actor. He was nominated at the 23rd Academy Awards for his work on the film ''The Black Rose''. This was in the category of Best Costumes-Color. Filmography As actor *'' The Avengers'' (1942) *'' Flying Fortress'' (1942) *''In Which We Serve'' (1942) *''Read All About It'' (1945) (short film) As costume designer *''The Black Rose'' (1950) *''The Naked Heart'' (1950) *'' Flesh & Blood'' (1951) *'' Lilli Marlene'' (1951) *''The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men ''The Story of Robin Hood and his Merrie Men'' is a 1952 action-adventure film produced by RKO- Walt Disney British Productions, based on the Robin Hood legend, made in Technicolor and filmed in Buckinghamshire, England. It was written by Lawr ...'' (1952) *'' The Men of Sherwood Forest'' (1954) He also worked on the British TV show '' The Avengers''. References External links * British costume designers 1918 births Year of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 designer works alongside the director, scenic, lighting designer, sound designer, and other creative personnel. The costume designer may also collaborate with a hair stylist, wig master, or makeup artist. In European theatre, the role is different, as the theatre designer usually designs both costume and scenic elements. Designers typically seek to enhance a character's personality, and to create an evolving plot of color, changing social status, or period through the visual design of garments and accessories. They may distort or enhance the body—within the boundaries of the director's vision. The designer must ensure that the designs let the actor move as the role requires. The actor must execute the director's blocking of the pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
23rd Academy Awards
The 23rd Academy Awards were held on March 29, 1951, honoring the films of 1950. ''All About Eve'' received a record 14 nominations, besting the previous record of 13 set by ''Gone with the Wind'' in 1939. It won six Oscars, including Best Picture, and earned writer/director Joseph L. Mankiewicz his second consecutive Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay awards, the only time such a feat has been accomplished. ''All About Eve'' was the second film, after ''Mrs. Miniver'' (1942), to receive five acting nominations. It was the first to receive multiple nominations in two acting categories, and the (to date) only film to receive four female acting nominations—two each for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. None was successful, losing to Judy Holliday in '' Born Yesterday'' and Josephine Hull in '' Harvey'', respectively. Jose Ferrer, then under investigation from the House Un-American Activities Committee over suspected Communist ties, won the Best Actor award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Black Rose
''The Black Rose'' is a 1950 British adventure historical film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Tyrone Power and Orson Welles. Talbot Jennings' screenplay was loosely based on a 1945 novel of the same name by Canadian author Thomas B. Costain, introducing an anachronistic Saxon rebellion against the Norman aristocracy as a vehicle for launching the protagonists on their journey to the Orient. It was filmed partly on location in England and Morocco which substitutes for the Gobi Desert of China. The film was partly conceived as a follow-up to the movie '' Prince of Foxes'' (1949), and reunited the earlier film's two male leads. British costume designer Michael Whittaker was nominated at the 23rd Academy Awards for his work on the film ( Best Costumes-Color). Plot Two hundred years after the Norman Conquest, during the reign of Edward I, Saxon scholar Walter of Gurnie, the illegitimate son of the lately deceased Earl of Lessford, returns from Oxford and hears the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Award For Best Costume Design
The Academy Award for Best Costume Design is one of the Academy Awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) for achievement in film costume design. The award was first given in 1949, for films made in 1948. Initially, separate award categories were established for black-and-white films and color films. Since the merger of the two categories in 1967, the Academy has traditionally avoided giving out the award to films with a contemporary setting. Award The Academy Award for Best Costume Design is given out annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for the best achievement of film costume design of the previous year. Films that are eligible for the award must meet a series of criteria, including the requirement that the costumes must have been "conceived" by a costume designer. For this particular criteria, each submission is reviewed by the costume designer members of the Art Directors Branch prior to the ballot process. Fur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Avengers (1942 Film)
''The Day Will Dawn'', released in the USA as ''The Avengers'', is a 1942 British war film set in Norway during World War II. It stars Ralph Richardson, Deborah Kerr, Hugh Williams and Griffith Jones, and was directed by Harold French from a script written by Anatole de Grunwald, Patrick Kirwan and Terence Rattigan, based on a story by Frank Owen. The music by Richard Addinsell was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Muir Mathieson. Plot Following the Invasion of Poland in September 1939, the former horse racing-correspondent Colin Metcalfe is placed as a foreign correspondent in neutral Norway. Eight months later he meets a Norwegian fisherman, Captain Alstad, in a sailors' bar, where a scuffle breaks out between British and Norwegian sailors (singing " Rule Britannia", egged on by Metcalfe) and German ones (singing the Nazi Party anthem the " Horst-Wessel-Lied"). Alstad takes him aboard his boat during a sea voyage in Norway's territorial waters, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flying Fortress (film)
''Flying Fortress'' is a 1942 British black-and-white war film drama from Warner Bros. Pictures, produced by A. H. Soloman, directed by Walter Forde, that stars Richard Greene and co-stars Carla Lehmann, Betty Stockfeld, and Donald Stewart. During the Blitz, an arrogant American pilot becomes increasingly committed to the Allied cause after ferrying B-17 bombers from Canada to England. After joining the Royal Canadian Air Force and being assigned to an RAF squadron, he finally takes part in a Flying Fortress bombing raid on Berlin. Plot Pilot William "Sky" Kelly ( Donald Stewart) is held responsible for an aircraft crash in which a passenger is killed; however, his friend, wealthy playboy James "Jim" Spence (Richard Greene), was actually piloting the aircraft. Kelly's sister Sydney ( Carla Lehmann), a newspaper reporter, vows to clear her brother and identify Spence as the actual culprit. Spence and Sydney later meet amicably, but when a scandal photographer reveals Sydney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In Which We Serve
''In Which We Serve'' is a 1942 British patriotic war film directed by Noël Coward and David Lean, who made his debut as a director. It was made during the Second World War with the assistance of the Ministry of Information. The screenplay by Coward was inspired by the exploits of Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten, who was in command of the destroyer when it was sunk during the Battle of Crete. Coward composed the music as well as starring in the film as the ship's captain. The film also starred John Mills, Bernard Miles, Celia Johnson and Richard Attenborough in his first screen role. ''In Which We Serve'' received the full backing of the Ministry of Information, which offered advice on what would make good propaganda and facilitated the release of military personnel. The film is a classic example of wartime British cinema through its patriotic imagery of national unity and social cohesion within the context of the war. Plot The film opens with the narration: "This is th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Naked Heart
''The Naked Heart'' (French title: ''Maria Chapdelaine'') is a 1950 British-French historical drama film directed by Marc Allégret, based on the novel '' Maria Chapdelaine'' by Louis Hémon. The film stars Michèle Morgan, Kieron Moore and Françoise Rosay. It was released in separate English and French versions. A previous film version had been made in 1934. It tells the story of a convent girl in a remote Northern Canadian village at the beginning of the 20th century. Cast * Michèle Morgan as Maria Chapdelaine * Kieron Moore as Lorenzo Surprenant * Françoise Rosay as Laura Chapdelaine * Jack Watling as Robert Gagnon * Philippe Lemaire as François Paradis * Nancy Price as Theresa Suprenant * Francis de Wolff as Papa Suprenant * George Woodbridge as Samuel Chapdelaine * Brian Roper as Tit-Be Chapdelaine References External links''The Naked Heart''at the British Film Institute The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flesh And Blood (1951 Film)
''Flesh and Blood'' is a 1951 British drama film directed by Anthony Kimmins and starring with Richard Todd (in two roles), Glynis Johns and Joan Greenwood. It was written by Anatole de Grunwald based upon the 1933 play '' A Sleeping Clergyman'' by James Bridie. Richard Todd said the film "received reasonable reviews and idmoderate business". Plot Beginning with Dr Marshall, a believer in genius being hereditary, bringing up the illegitimate child of his late friend Charles Cameron, the film tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its conflicts and romances. Cast *Richard Todd as Charles Cameron Sutherland *Glynis Johns as Katherine *Joan Greenwood as Wilhelmina *André Morell as Dr Marshall *Ursula Howells as Harriet *Freda Jackson as Mrs Hannah * George Cole as John Hannah * James Hayter as Sir Douglas Manley * Ronald Howard as Purley *Muriel Aked as Mrs Walker *Michael Hordern as Webster * Helen Christie as Minnie Arnott *Walter Fitzger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilli Marlene
''Lilli Marlene'' is a 1950 British war film aimed for the US market and directed by Arthur Crabtree. It was written by Leslie Wood and stars Lisa Daniely, Hugh McDermott, and Richard Murdoch. Stanley Baker is seen in one of his early support roles. Plot A French girl named Lilli Marlene, working in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song ''Lili Marleen'' had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes – especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. The Germans try to snatch her at one point, but don't succeed, and she performs several times for the British troops and also appears in radio broadcasts to the USA, arranged by Steve, an American war correspondent embedded with the British Eighth Army, who eventually becomes her boyfriend. Later, the Germans successfully kidnap her in Cairo and she is taken to Berlin, where she is interrogated and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Story Of Robin Hood And His Merrie Men
''The Story of Robin Hood and his Merrie Men'' is a 1952 action-adventure film produced by RKO- Walt Disney British Productions, based on the Robin Hood legend, made in Technicolor and filmed in Buckinghamshire, England. It was written by Lawrence Edward Watkin and directed by Ken Annakin. It is the second of Disney's complete live-action films, after '' Treasure Island'' (1950), and the first of four films Annakin directed for Disney. It was also the first of three films Richard Todd made for the studio. Plot Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is killed by henchmen of Prince John. Robin takes up the life of an outlaw, gathering together his band of merry men with him in Sherwood Forest, to avenge his father's death and to help the people of the land whom Prince John is over taxing. Cast * Richard Todd as Robin Hood * Joan Rice as Maid Marian * Peter Finch as the Sheri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Men Of Sherwood Forest
''Men of Sherwood Forest'' is a 1954 British historical adventure film directed by Val Guest and starring Don Taylor, Reginald Beckwith, Eileen Moore, Douglas Wilmer, John Van Eyssen and David King-Wood. The film follows the exploits of Robin Hood and his Merry Men. It was written by Allan MacKinnon and the score was by Doreen Carwithen. This was Hammer's first color feature, and Michael Carreras was so pleased with it, he filmed ''Break in the Circle'' in color as his next project. Hammer followed it up with two other Robin Hood films later on. Filming began in May 1954, the film was trade shown on Oct. 27, 1954, and released in UK on Dec. 6, 1954. Plot In 1194, on his return from the Third Crusade, Richard the Lionheart is taken prisoner in Germany. Disguised as a troubadour, Robin Hood builds a plan to rescue him from this tight spot but is captured. His Merry Men then have to fulfil a double mission: find Robin Hood and save the King. Cast * Don Taylor as Robin Hood * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
