Jean Louis
Costume & Make-Up
🎂 1907-10-05
Jean Louis (born Jean Louis Berthault; October 5, 1907 in Paris, France – April 20, 1997 in Palm Springs, California) was a French-born, Hollywood costume designer and an Academy Award winner for Best Costume Design. Before coming to Hollywood, he worked in New York for fashion entrepreneur Hattie Carnegie, where the clientele included Joan Cohn, the wife of Columbia Pictures studio chief Harry Cohn. He worked as head designer for Columbia Pictures from 1944 to 1960. His most famous works include Rita Hayworth's black satin strapless dress from Gilda (1946), Marlene Dietrich's celebrated beaded souffle stagewear for her cabaret world tours, as well as the sheer, sparkling gown that Marilyn Monroe wore when she sang "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to John F. Kennedy in 1962. The dress was so tight that he is believed to have actually sewn it while Monroe was wearing it. The idea of dresses being a nude color, with crystals coating it, stunned audiences. It gave the members of the audience the illusion that Monroe was nude, except for discretely placed rhinestones covering them head to toe. Louis had originally designed a version of the dress for Marlene Dietrich, who wore it in her concert shows. An impressed Monroe asked Dietrich about it, who told her how the dress's illusion worked, and sent her to Louis to design a similar dress for her Kennedy appearance. While Dietrich had been seen wearing her version before Monroe, the press coverage surrounding Monroe's appearance at Madison Square Garden in her style of gown swept the globe. This robe became—besides the white one from "The Seven Year Itch"—Marilyn Monroe's most famous robe, selling at auction in 2016 for 4.8 million dollars. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Costume Design
1961
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1961
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1953
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1954
Wardrobe Supervisor
1967
Costume Design
1959
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1946
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1950
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1953
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1957
Costume Designer
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1954
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1955
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1947
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1958
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1959
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1946
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1956
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1966
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1965
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1954
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1958
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1949
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1950
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1973
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1955
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1954
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1967
Costume Designer
1955
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1963
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1964
Costume Design
1973
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1952
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1954
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1959
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1953
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1955
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1957
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1955
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1952
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1948
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1951
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1955
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1960
Costumer
1965
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1952
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1956
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1947
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1962
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1946
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1949
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1955
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1953
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1956
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1960
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1949
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1954
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1949
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1949
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1948
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1945
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1953
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1948
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1957
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1951
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1949
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1947
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1945
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1949
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1953
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1956
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1950
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1960
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1949
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1952
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1960
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1948
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1955
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1951
Costume Design
1965
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1946
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1945
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1947
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1945
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1948
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1946
Wardrobe Coordinator
1966
Costume Design
1948
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1963
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1950
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1955
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1959
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1949
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1968
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1956
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1968
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1948
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1950
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1957
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1967
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1951
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1952
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1952
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1950
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1946
Wardrobe Designer
1949
Costume Design
1950
Costume Design
1956
Costume Design
1950
Wardrobe Designer
1950
Costume Design
1948
Costume Design
1947
Costume Design
1957
Costume Design
1953
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1949
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1952
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1950
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1946
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1948
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1949
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1965
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1968
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1944
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1946
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1968
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1952
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1944
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1944
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1954
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1945
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1946
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1949
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1949
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1947
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1947
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1950
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1956
Costume Design
1944
Costume Design
1949
Costume Design
1951
Costume Design
1946
Costume Design
1952
Costume Design
1951
Costume Design
1948
Costume Design
1950
Costume Design
1973
Costume Design
1946