Julie Harris (costume designer)

English costume designer (1921–2015)

Julie Harris

Born|

Diana Julie Harris

(1921-03-26)26 March 1921

London, England

Died| 30 May 2015(2015-05-30) (aged 94)

London, England

Occupation| Costume designer
Years active| 1947–1991

Diana Julie Harris (26 March 1921 – 30 May 2015) was an English costume designer. In a career spanning over four decades, she is recognized for her prolific work across film and television. She won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design for her work on John Schlesinger's romantic drama film Darling (1965).

## Career[edit]

Born in London in 1921,[1] Harris began her career in 1947 at Gainsborough Pictures with Holiday Camp, the forerunner of the Huggett family film series. During her early career, she was mentored by Elizabeth Haffenden, and went on to work for the Rank Organisation, until that studio wound down its business in the 1950s.[2]

Over the next 30 years, she worked with actors such as Jayne Mansfield, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Lauren Bacall and Alan Ladd and directors Alfred Hitchcock, Joseph Losey, Billy Wilder and John Schlesinger.[2] She made a "mink bikini" (actually made out of rabbit fur) for Diana Dors.[2] She worked steadily on feature films throughout the next three decades, hitting her stride in the 1960s, before shifting her attention to television movies until her retirement in 1991.

Harris won the Oscar for Best Costume Design for Darling in 1965, and the BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design for The Wrong Box in 1967.[2] She also worked on the Beatles' first two live action feature films, A Hard Day's Night (1964), and Help! (1965), quipping that "I must be one of the few people who can claim they have seen John, Paul, George and Ringo naked."[3] She also worked on the James Bond film Live and Let Die (1973) with Roger Moore, and the spoof Casino Royale (1967) with David Niven.[2] Harris also designed costumes for the Carry On film Carry On Cleo (1964), a sword and sandal spoof set in ancient Rome and Egypt,[4] described as "perhaps the best" of the series.[5]

Harris died after a brief illness from a chest infection, aged 94, on 30 May 2015.[3]

## Notable credits[edit]

* Another Man's Poison (1951)
* The Story of Esther Costello (1957)
* Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
* All Night Long (1961)
* The Chalk Garden (1964)
* A Hard Day's Night (1964)
* Carry On Cleo (1964)
* Help! (1965)
* Darling (1965)
* The Wrong Box (1966)
* Casino Royale (1967)
* The Whisperers (1967)
* Prudence and the Pill (1968)
* Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
* The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
* Live and Let Die (1973)
* Rollerball (1975)
* The Land That Time Forgot (1975)
* The Slipper and the Rose (1976)
* Candleshoe (1977)
* Dracula (1979)
* The Great Muppet Caper (1981)

## Awards and nominations[edit]

Academy Awards

Year  | Category  | Nominated work  | Result  | Ref.

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1965 | Best Costume Design – Black-and-White | Darling | Won  | [6]

BAFTA Awards

Year  | Category  | Nominated work  | Result  | Ref.

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British Academy Film Awards
1964 | Best British Costume Design – Black and White | Psyche 59 | Nominated  | [7]
1965 | Best British Costume Design – Colour | Help! | Nominated  | [8]
1966 | The Wrong Box | Won  | [9]
1967 | Casino Royale | Nominated  | [10]
1976 | Best Costume Design | The Slipper and the Rose | Nominated  | [11]

Saturn Awards

Year  | Category  | Nominated work  | Result  | Ref.

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1977 | Best Costumes | The Slipper and the Rose | Nominated  |

## References[edit]

* Harper, Sue, Women in British Cinema: Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know. London: Continuum International Publishing Group 2000. ISBN 0-8264-4733-3, pp. 215–16

1. ^ Harris, Julie. "Julie Harris". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 8 November 2013.
2. ^ a b c d e Botting, Josephine (June 1, 2015). "Remembering Julie Harris, costume designer for Bond and Hitchcock". British Film Institute. Retrieved June 1, 2015.
3. ^ a b "Designer Julie Harris dies at 94". Belfast Telegraph. 31 May 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
4. ^ Angelini, Sergio. "Carry On Cleo (1964)". BFI Online. Retrieved June 2, 2015.
5. ^ "Carry On Films". Icon Nominations. United Kingdom: ICONS Ltd. Archived from the original on 20 April 2008. Retrieved 5 June 2009. "the 30 Carry On films of producer Peter Rogers and director Gerald Thomas are among the most fondly remembered comedies in British cinema ... Perhaps the best was Carry On Cleo (1964)"
6. ^ "The 38th Academy Awards (1966) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Retrieved August 29, 2016.
7. ^ "18th BAFTA Film Awards". British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Retrieved February 4, 2023.
8. ^ "19th BAFTA Film Awards". British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Retrieved February 4, 2023.
9. ^ "20th BAFTA Film Awards". British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Retrieved February 4, 2023.
10. ^ "21st BAFTA Film Awards". British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Retrieved February 4, 2023.
11. ^ "30th BAFTA Film Awards". British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Retrieved February 4, 2023.

## Further reading[edit]

Williams, Melanie (2016). "The Girl You Don't See: Julie Harris and the Costume Designer in British Cinema". Feminist Media Histories. 2 (2): 71–106. doi:10.1525/fmh.2016.2.2.71.

## External links[edit]

* Julie Harris at IMDb

Awards for Julie Harris

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Academy Award for Best Costume Design

1948–1956|

* 1948 (Black and white): Roger K. Furse / (Color): Dorothy Jeakins and Barbara Karinska
* 1949 (bw): Edith Head and Gile Steele / (c): Marjorie Best, Leah Rhodes and William Travilla
* 1950 (bw): Edith Head, Charles LeMaire / (c): Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssen, Gile Steele, Gwen Wakeling
* 1951 (bw): Edith Head /(c): Orry-Kelly, Walter Plunkett, Irene Sharaff
* 1952 (bw): Helen Rose / (c): Marcel Vertès
* 1953 (bw): Edith Head / (c): Charles LeMaire, Emile Santiago
* 1954 (bw): Edith Head / (c): Sanzo Wada
* 1955 (bw): Helen Rose / (c): Charles LeMaire
* 1956 (bw): Jean Louis / (c): Irene Sharaff

1957–1958|

* 1957: Orry-Kelly
* 1958: Cecil Beaton

1959–1960|

* 1959 (bw): Orry-Kelly / (c): Elizabeth Haffenden
* 1960 (bw): Edith Head and Edward Stevenson / (c): Bill Thomas and Arlington Valles

1961–1966|

* 1961 (bw): Piero Gherardi / (c): Irene Sharaff
* 1962 (bw): Norma Koch / (c): Mary Wills
* 1963 (bw): Piero Gherardi / (c): Renié, Vittorio Nino Novarese and Irene Sharaff
* 1964 (bw): Dorothy Jeakins / (c): Cecil Beaton
* 1965 (bw): Julie Harris / (c): Phyllis Dalton
* 1966 (bw): Irene Sharaff / (c): Joan Bridge and Elizabeth Haffenden

1967–1980|

* 1967: John Truscott
* 1968: Danilo Donati
* 1969: Margaret Furse
* 1970: Vittorio Nino Novarese
* 1971: Yvonne Blake and Antonio Castillo
* 1972: Anthony Powell
* 1973: Edith Head
* 1974: Theoni V. Aldredge
* 1975: Milena Canonero and Ulla-Britt Söderlund
* 1976: Danilo Donati
* 1977: John Mollo
* 1978: Anthony Powell
* 1979: Albert Wolsky
* 1980: Anthony Powell

1981–2000|

* 1981: Milena Canonero
* 1982: Bhanu Athaiya and John Mollo
* 1983: Marik Vos-Lundh
* 1984: Theodor Pištěk
* 1985: Emi Wada
* 1986: Jenny Beavan and John Bright
* 1987: James Acheson
* 1988: James Acheson
* 1989: Phyllis Dalton
* 1990: Franca Squarciapino
* 1991: Albert Wolsky
* 1992: Eiko Ishioka
* 1993: Gabriella Pescucci
* 1994: Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner
* 1995: James Acheson
* 1996: Ann Roth
* 1997: Deborah Lynn Scott
* 1998: Sandy Powell
* 1999: Lindy Hemming
* 2000: Janty Yates

2001–2020|

* 2001: Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie
* 2002: Colleen Atwood
* 2003: Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor
* 2004: Sandy Powell
* 2005: Colleen Atwood
* 2006: Milena Canonero
* 2007: Alexandra Byrne
* 2008: Michael O'Connor
* 2009: Sandy Powell
* 2010: Colleen Atwood
* 2011: Mark Bridges
* 2012: Jacqueline Durran
* 2013: Catherine Martin
* 2014: Milena Canonero
* 2015: Jenny Beavan
* 2016: Colleen Atwood
* 2017: Mark Bridges
* 2018: Ruth E. Carter
* 2019: Jacqueline Durran
* 2020: Ann Roth

2021–present|

* 2021: Jenny Beavan
* 2022: Ruth E. Carter
* 2023: Holly Waddington

* Black and White / Color separate (1948–1956, 1959–1966)

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BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design

1964–1967|

| Black and White|

* Motley (1964)
* No Award (1965)
* No Award (1966)
* Jocelyn Rickards (1967)

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Colour|

* Margaret Furse (1964)
* Osbert Lancaster and Dinah Greet (1965)
* Julie Harris (1966)
* Elizabeth Haffenden and Joan Bridge (1967)

1968–present|

* Danilo Donati (1968)
* Anthony Mendleson (1969)
* Maria De Matteis (1970)
* Piero Tosi (1971)
* Anthony Mendleson (1972)
* Phyllis Dalton (1973)
* Theoni V. Aldredge (1974)
* Ann Roth (1975)
* Moidele Bickel (1976)
* Danilo Donati (1977)
* Anthony Powell (1978)
* Shirley Ann Russell (1979)
* Seiichiro Momosawa (1980)
* Milena Canonero (1981)
* Michael Kaplan and Charles Knode (1982)
* Piero Tosi (1983)
* Gabriella Pescucci (1984)
* Milena Canonero (1985)
* Jenny Beavan and John Bright (1986)
* Jeffrey Kurland (1987)
* James Acheson (1988)
* Gabriella Pescucci (1989)
* Richard Bruno (1990)
* Franca Squarciapino (1991)
* Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie (1992)
* Janet Patterson (1993)
* Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner (1994)
* Charles Knode (1995)
* Shuna Harwood (1996)
* Deirdre Clancy (1997)
* Sandy Powell (1998)
* Colleen Atwood (1999)
* Timmy Yip (2000)
* Jenny Beavan (2001)
* Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor (2002)
* Wendy Stites (2003)
* Jacqueline Durran (2004)
* Colleen Atwood (2005)
* Lala Huete (2006)
* Marit Allen (2007)
* Michael O'Connor (2008)
* Sandy Powell (2009)
* Colleen Atwood (2010)
* Mark Bridges (2011)
* Jacqueline Durran (2012)
* Catherine Martin (2013)
* Milena Canonero (2014)
* Jenny Beavan (2015)
* Madeline Fontaine (2016)
* Mark Bridges (2017)
* Sandy Powell (2018)
* Jacqueline Durran (2019)
* Ann Roth (2020)
* Jenny Beavan (2021)
* Catherine Martin (2022)
* Holly Waddington (2023)

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