Orry

Australian-American Hollywood costume designer

Orry-Kelly
Built-in	Orry George Kelly (1897-12-31)December 31, 1897 Kiama, New South Wales, Commonwealth of australia
Died	February 27, 1964(1964-02-27) (aged 66) Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation	Costume designer
Known for	Costume pattern
Awards	Academy Laurels for Best Costume Design: 1951 An American in Paris 1957 Les Girls 1959 Some Similar It Hot

Orry-Kelly was the professional name of Orry George Kelly (31 December 1897 – 27 February 1964), an Australian-American Hollywood costume designer. Until beingness overtaken by Catherine Martin in 2014, he was Australia's most prolific Oscar winner, having won three Academy Awards for All-time Costume Pattern.^[1]

Biography [edit]

Early life [edit]

Orry-Kelly was built-in in Kiama, New South Wales, Australia, and was known every bit Jack Kelly. His male parent William Kelly was born on the Isle of Man and was a gentleman tailor in Kiama. Orry was a proper noun of an ancient king of the Isle of Man. Orry-Kelly was sent to Sydney at age 17 to study banking, and in that location he developed his interest in theatre.^[2]

Move to the U.S. [edit]

Orry-Kelly journeyed to New York Urban center to pursue an acting career and shared an apartment in Greenwich Village with Charles Phelps (also known as Charlie Spangles) and Cary Grant, with whom, he wrote, he had an on-again, off-once again relationship until the 1930s.^[iii] A job painting murals in a nightclub led to his employment by Play tricks East Coast studios illustrating titles. He designed costumes and sets for Broadway'southward Shubert Revues and George White'southward Scandals. He served with the Us Army Air Corps during World State of war Two until being discharged for alcohol problems.^{[four] [five]}

Hollywood [edit]

Later moving to Hollywood in 1932, Orry-Kelly was hired by Warner Bros. every bit their chief costume designer and he remained in that location until 1944. He was encouraged to hyphenate his proper noun for film credits in order to announced more exotic.^{[half dozen]} Later, his designs were as well seen in films at Universal, RKO, 20th Century Fox, and MGM studios. He won three Academy Awards for Best Costume Design (for An American in Paris, Les Girls, and Some Similar It Hot) and was nominated for a 4th (for Gypsy). In addition to his picture piece of work he was also a portrait artist and was permitted to undertake private commissions for gowns and gear up to wear dresses.^[6]

Orry-Kelly worked on many films now considered classics, including 42nd Street, The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, Arsenic and Former Lace, Harvey, Oklahoma!, Auntie Mame, and Some Like It Hot. He designed for all the great actresses of the day, including Bette Davis, Kay Francis, Ruth Chatterton, Marilyn Monroe, Olivia de Havilland, Katharine Hepburn, Dolores del Río, Ava Gardner, Ann Sheridan, Barbara Stanwyck, and Merle Oberon.

Orry-Kelly was known for his ability to "design for lark" to compensate for difficult figure shapes.^[7] When Orry-Kelly was kickoff assigned to films with Kay Francis they would dissect her parts. She would be dressed in opposition to the part, with the traditional femme fatale or manipulative character in frills and the honest heroine in a tailored, classic adjust.^[8] Orry-Kelly would use this artful in the creation of gowns for a number of Bette Davis's characters likewise.^[half-dozen] Orry-Kelly also had the job of creating clothes for the cross-dressing characters played by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot. His skill is shown past the fact that while Some Like It Hot was in production, Curtis and Lemmon would get into the ladies' room after eating lunch without being spotted every bit men.^[nine] He wrote that when he finished draping Dolores del Río in white jersey, "she became a Greek goddess ... she was incredibly beautiful".^[2] The elegant clothes he designed for Bergman's graphic symbol in Casablanca have been described as "pitch perfect".^[ii]

In addition to designing, Kelly wrote a column, "Hollywood Way Parade", for the International News Service, owned by William Randolph Hearst, during the years of Earth War II. Kelly'southward memoirs, entitled Women I've Undressed were discovered in the care of a relative, as a outcome of publicity surrounding Gillian Armstrong's 2022 documentary on Kelly, Women He's Undressed.^{[ix] [ten]} The memoir was published for the first time in 2015.^[3]

Death [edit]

A longtime alcoholic, Orry-Kelly died of liver cancer in Hollywood in 1964 at the historic period of 66 and was interred in the Forest Backyard Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills. His pallbearers included Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Billy Wilder and George Cukor and his eulogy was read past Jack L. Warner. He had no living relatives when he died so his personal effects and Academy Awards were stored by Ann Warner, married woman of his friend and erstwhile boss, Jack.^[1] The Oscars were amid the items in an exhibition entitled Orry-Kelly: Dressing Hollywood, at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in August 2015.^[1]

Costume design credits [edit]

• The Friction match King (1932)
• Frisco Jenny (1932)
• 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
• Fundamental Park (1932)
• Silver Dollar (1932)
• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
• Y'all Said a Mouthful (1932)
• They Call Information technology Sin (1932)
• Crimson Dawn (1932)
• 3 on a Match (1932)
• The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
• The Crash (1932)
• One Style Passage (1932)
• Tiger Shark (1932)
• Life Begins (1932)
• Ii Against the World (1932)
• Crooner (1932)
• Winner Take All (1932)
• The Rich Are Always with Us (1932)
• So Big! (1932)
• The Working Man (1933)
• Lady Killer (1933)
• Son of a Sailor (1933)
• Convention City (1933)
• The House on 56th Street (1933)
• Havana Widows (1933)
• Female (1933)
• College Coach (1933)
• The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
• Goodbye Again (1933)
• Captured! (1933)
• Voltaire (1933)
• Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933)
• She Had to Say Yes (1933)
• The Narrow Corner (1933)
• Infant Face (1933)
• The Mayor of Hell (1933)
• Breadline (1933)
• The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933)
• Private Detective 62 (1933)
• The Silk Express (1933)
• Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
• Ex-Lady (1933)
• Lilly Turner (1933)
• Motion-picture show Snatcher (1933)
• Elmer, the Not bad (1933)
• The Adopted Father (1933)
• Central Drome (1933)
• The Lilliputian Giant (1933)
• The Mind Reader (1933)
• The Keyhole (1933)
• Daughter Missing (1933)
• Blondie Johnson (1933)
• Grand Slam (1933)
• Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
• Ladies They Talk About (1933)
• 42nd Street (1933)
• Difficult to Handle (1933)
• Parachute Jumper (1933)
• Employees' Entrance (1933)
• The King's Vacation (1933)
• Lawyer Homo (1933)
• Estrus Lightning (1934)
• Wonder Bar (1934)
• Every bit the Globe Turns (1934)
• Fashion Follies (1934)
• Fashions of 1934 (1934)
• Mandalay (1934)
• Dark Take a chance (1934)
• I've Got Your Number (1934)
• Bedside (1934)
• Hullo, Nellie! (1934)
• Massacre (1934)
• Easy to Beloved (1934)
• The Big Shakedown (1934)
• Sweet Adeline (1934)
• I Sell Annihilation (1934)
• Murder in the Clouds (1934)
• The Secret Bride (1934)
• Babbitt (1934)
• Flirtation Walk (1934)
• I Am a Thief (1934)
• Gentlemen Are Born (1934)
• Big Hearted Herbert (1934)
• The Firebird (1934)
• The St. Louis Kid (1934)
• Happiness Ahead (1934)
• Kansas City Princess (1934)
• Madame Du Barry (1934)
• A Lost Lady (1934)
• The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)
• British Agent (1934)
• Desirable (1934)
• The Dragon Murder Case (1934)
• Dames (1934)
• Side Streets (1934)
• Housewife (1934)
• The Personality Child (1934)
• Friends of Mr. Sweeney (1934)
• A Very Honorable Guy (1934)
• Midnight Alibi (1934)
• Return of the Terror (1934)
• Here Comes the Navy (1934)
• Dr. Monica (1934)
• The Circus Clown (1934)
• Fog Over Frisco (1934)
• The Key (1934)
• The Merry Frinks (1934)
• Smarty (1934)
• He Was Her Human (1934)
• Merry Wives of Reno (1934)
• Upperworld (1934)
• Xx Meg Sweethearts (1934)
• Harold Teen (1934)
• Registered Nurse (1934)
• A Modern Hero (1934)
• Gambling Lady (1934)
• Jimmy the Gent (1934)
• Journal of a Crime (1934)
• Stars Over Broadway (1935)
• The Payoff (1935)
• I Found Stella Parish (1935)
• Shipmates Forever (1935)
• Personal Maid's Surreptitious (1935)
• I Alive for Love (1935)
• The Goose and the Gander (1935)
• Piddling Big Shot (1935)
• Page Miss Glory (1935)
• Going Highbrow (1935)
• We're in the Money (1935)
• The Irish gaelic in U.s.a. (1935)
• Bright Lights (1935)
• Broadway Gondolier (1935)
• Stranded (1935)
• Oil for the Lamps of China (1935)
• The Girl from 10th Avenue (1935)
• In Caliente (1935)
• Go into Your Dance (1935)
• The Case of the Curious Bride (1935)
• The Florentine Dagger (1935)
• Traveling Saleslady (1935)
• Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
• Living on Velvet (1935)
• While the Patient Slept (1935)
• The Right to Live (1935)
• The Adult female in Ruddy (1935)
• Devil Dogs of the Air (1935)
• Bordertown (1935)
• Possibly It's Dear (1935)
• The White Cockatoo (1935)
• Dangerous (1935)
• The Widow from Monte Carlo (1935)
• The Girl from 10th Avenue (1935)
• Broadway Hostess (1935)
• Miss Pacific Fleet (1935)
• Frisco Kid (1935)
• Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
• Three Men on a Horse (1936)
• Here Comes Carter (1936)
• Polo Joe (1936)
• Isle of Fury (1936)
• Cain and Mabel (1936)
• Give Me Your Heart (1936)
• Stage Struck (1936)
• China Clipper (1936)
• Jailbreak (1936)
• Satan Met a Lady (1936)
• The White Angel (1936)
• Hearts Divided (1936)
• Murder past an Aristocrat (1936)
• The Gold Arrow (1936)
• The Law in Her Hands (1936)
• Sons o' Guns (1936)
• The Gentleman from Big Bend (1936)
• I Married a Dr. (1936)
• The Singing Child (1936)
• Snowed Under (1936)
• Colleen (1936)
• The Walking Dead (1936)
• The Petrified Wood (1936)
• Freshman Honey (1936)
• Ceiling Naught (1936)
• Hollywood Hotel (1937)
• First Lady (1937)
• It's Love I'm After (1937)
• That Sure Adult female (1937)
• Confession (1937)
• The Singing Marine (1937)
• E'er Since Eve (1937)
• Some other Dawn (1937)
• Kid Galahad (1937)
• The Get Getter (1937)
• Call Information technology a Day (1937)
• Marked Adult female (1937)
• Thou Passion (1937)
• Dark-green Light (1937)
• Stolen Vacation (1937)
• Tovarich (1937)
• Comet Over Broadway (1938)
• Angels with Muddy Faces (1938)
• The Sisters (1938)
• Secrets of an Actress (1938)
• Four Daughters (1938)
• All Rights Reserved (1938)
• My Beak (1938)
• Women Are Like That (1938)
• Jezebel (1938)
• On Your Toes (1939)
• The Individual Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
• The Old Maid (1939)
• When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
• Indianapolis Speedway (1939)
• Juarez (1939)
• Dark Victory (1939)
• Women in the Wind (1939)
• The Oklahoma Child (1939)
• Wings of the Navy (1939)
• Rex of the Underworld (1939)
• The Letter (1940)
• A Acceleration from Reuters (1940)
• No Fourth dimension for Comedy (1940)
• My Love Came Back (1940)
• All This, and Heaven Likewise (1940)
• The Sea Hawk (1940)
• 'Til Nosotros Meet Once again (1940)
• Virginia City (1940)
• The Maltese Falcon (1941)
• The Little Foxes (1941)
• The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)
• Throwing a Party (1941 short)
• Meg Dollar Baby (1941)
• Affectionately Yours (1941)
• The Keen Lie (1941)
• The Lady and the Lug (1941 short)
• The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
• Honeymoon for Three (1941)
• Casablanca (1942)
• George Washington Slept Here (1942)
• Now, Voyager (1942)
• In This Our Life (1942)
• Murder in the Big Business firm (1942)
• Ever in My Heart (1942)
• Kings Row (1942)
• Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)
• The Human Who Came to Dinner (1942)
• Old Acquaintance (1943)
• Princess O'Rourke (1943)
• Lookout on the Rhine (1943)
• This Is the Army (1943)
• Mission to Moscow (1943)
• Edge of Darkness (1943)
• The Hard Style (1943)
• Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
• Mr. Skeffington (1944)
• The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)
• The Dolly Sisters (1945)
• Disharmonize (1945)
• The Corn Is Green (1945)
• Temptation (1946)
• London Boondocks (1946)
• A Stolen Life (1946)
• Female parent Wore Tights (1947)
• Something in the Current of air (1947)
• Ivy (1947)
• The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947)
• Rogues' Regiment (1948)
• Larceny (1948)
• For the Love of Mary (1948)
• One Touch of Venus (1948)
• Berlin Express (1948)
• A Adult female's Vengeance (1948)
• Night Vocal (1948)
• Undertow (1949)
• One time More, My Darling (1949)
• Johnny Stool Dove (1949)
• Have One False Step (1949)
• The Lady Gambles (1949)
• Defenseless (1949)
• Family Honeymoon (1949)
• Harvey (1950)
• Due south Sea Sinner (1950)
• Deported (1950)
• One Manner Street (1950)
• Woman in Hiding (1950)
• An American in Paris (1951)
• Nether the Gun (1951)
• The Star (1952)
• Pat and Mike (1952)
• The Lady Says No (1952)
• Oklahoma! (1955)
• Auntie Mame (1958)
• Wonderful Town (1958 television motion-picture show)
• Too Much, Too Shortly (1958)
• Les Girls (1957)
• Some Like It Hot (1959)
• The Hanging Tree (1959)
• A Majority of I (1961)
• 2 for the Seesaw (1962)
• Gypsy (1962)
• The Chapman Written report (1962)
• Five Finger Exercise (1962)
• Sugariness Bird of Youth (1962)
• Dominicus in New York (1963)
• Irma la Douce (1963)
• In the Cool of the Day (1963)

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b c} Maddox, Garry (29 May 2015). "Orry-Kelly'south iii lost Oscars are coming abode". The Sydney Morn Herald . Retrieved thirty May 2015.
2. ^ ^{a b c} Maddox, Garry (thirty May 2015). "Stitches in Time". The Sydney Morn Herald (Good Weekend). pp. 10–thirteen.
3. ^ ^{a b} Orry-Kelly. Women I've Undressed. 2015. Random House Commonwealth of australia. ISBN 978-0-85798-563-vii
4. ^ "Way Expert Stationed with Air Forces Here", Leningrad Times, twenty December 1942
5. ^ Isle of man, William J. (2001). Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910–1969 . New York: Viking. p. 232. ISBN0670030171.
6. ^ ^{a b c} Parkinson, Robert (2015). Orry Kelly, Miss Weston'due south protege. Affect Press. ISBN9781925384871.
7. ^ Byrnes, Paul (11 July 2015). "Paul Byrnes: A costume drama behind the camera in Women He'south Undressed". The Sydney Forenoon Herald.
8. ^ Kear, Lynn and Rossman, John (2006). Kay Francis: A passionate life and career. McFarland and Company. p. 61. ISBN0786423668.
9. ^ ^{a b} Women He's Undressed (2015) at IMDb
10. ^ "Gillian Armstrong on her Orry-Kelly motion-picture show: friendship, fame and homophobia" by Alexandra Bound, The Guardian, thirteen June 2015

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