Marcel Vertès (born Marcell Vértes, 10 August 1895 – 31 October 1961) was a French

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 costum ...

and illustrator of Hungarian-Jewish origins. He won two

Academy Awards The Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit in film. They are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in the United States in recognition of excellence in ...

( Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design) for his work on the 1952 film ''

Moulin Rouge Moulin Rouge (, ; ) is a cabaret in Paris, on Boulevard de Clichy, at Place Blanche, the intersection of, and terminus of Rue Blanche. In 1889, the Moulin Rouge was co-founded by Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller, who also owned the Olympia (Par ...

''. Vertès is also responsible for the original murals in the Café Carlyle in the Carlyle Hotel in New York City, New York and for those in the Peacock Alley in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York.

Selected filmography

* ''

'' (1952)

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* 1895 births 1961 deaths French costume designers Hungarian costume designers Jewish illustrators French set decorators Hungarian set decorators Best Art Direction Academy Award winners French art directors Hungarian art directors Best Costume Design Academy Award winners Artists from Budapest Jewish French artists Jewish Hungarian artists {{Hungary-artist-stub