Gilbert Adrian costume designs for the Greenwich Village follies [graphic]

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Gilbert Adrian costume designs for the Greenwich Village follies [graphic]

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Known through most of his career as "Adrian", Gilbert Adrian was born in Connecticut as Adrian Dolph Greenburg. His designs for Broadway include George White's scandals and Nifties of 1923 but much of his career was spent in Hollywood, designing for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1925-1939. He retired in 1952 but returned to Hollywood in 1958 to design Camelot, for which he posthumously received a Tony Award. Watercolor and ink costume designs depicting women dressed in skirts with paniers and large wigs and head pieces, several with birds flying around them. Designs are identified by sequential numbers, the names of performers and/or character names and includes notes on construction. All have Gilbert Adrian printed in lower right corners.

4 original designs

The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Division.

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Adrian, Gilbert, 1903-1959

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Gilbert Adrian, widely known also as Adrian, (born Adrian Adolph Greenburg, March 3, 1903, Naugatuck, Connecticut – died September 13, 1959, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California), American costume designer whose most famous costumes were for The Wizard of Oz, including the iconic ruby slippers, and hundreds of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films between 1928 and 1941. He was usually credited onscreen with the phrase "Gowns by Adrian". Early in his career he chose the professional name Gilbert Adrian, a comb...