Marjorie Best

Biography

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Marjorie Best (10 April 1903 – 14 June 1997) was an American Hollywood costume designer known for her period designs.

Best was born in Jacksonville, Illinois and studied at the Chouinard Art Institute. She taught school briefly before going to work for the Western Costume Company in 1926. She later moved to United Costumers. When that company was purchased by Warner Bros. in 1936, she was given a position in the studio's wardrobe department.

Her first film as a costume designer was Silver River (1948). She earned an Academy Award for costume design in 1949 for her collaboration on the Errol Flynn film Adventures of Don Juan. She was nominated in 1956 for Giant, in 1960 for Sunrise at Campobello, and in 1965 for The Greatest Story Ever Told, the same year she retired.

Best died on June 14, 1997 in Toluca Lake, California of a heart ailment.

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Costume & Make-Up

1963

Spencer's Mountain as Costume Design

1962		State Fair as Costume Design
1962		Tender Is the Night as Costume Design

1961		The Comancheros as Costume Design
1961		The Sins of Rachel Cade as Costume Design

1960		Sunrise at Campobello as Costume Design
1960		The Dark at the Top of the Stairs as Costume Design
1960		Sergeant Rutledge as Costume Design
1960		Guns of the Timberland as Costume Design

1959		The Miracle as Costume Design
1959		Yellowstone Kelly as Costume Design
1959		The Nun's Story as Costume Design
1959		Rio Bravo as Costume Design
1959		The Hanging Tree as Costume Design

1958		Born Reckless as Costume Design
1958		The Left Handed Gun as Costume Design
1958		Fort Dobbs as Costume Design
1958		Lafayette Escadrille as Costume Design

1957		Band of Angels as Costume Design
1957		Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend as Costume Design

1956		Giant as Costume Design
1956		The Burning Hills as Costume Design

1954		The Silver Chalice as Costume Design
1954		King Richard and the Crusaders as Costume Design
1954		His Majesty O'Keefe as Costume Design

1953		Blowing Wild as Wardrobe Supervisor
1953		The Charge at Feather River as Costume Design

1952		The Iron Mistress as Costume Design
1952		The Crimson Pirate as Costume Design
1952		Carson City as Wardrobe Designer
1952		Room for One More as Costume Design

1951		Distant Drums as Wardrobe Designer
1951		I'll See You in My Dreams as Costume Design
1951		Fort Worth as Wardrobe Master
1951		Fort Worth as Wardrobe Designer
1951		Along the Great Divide as Wardrobe Designer
1951		Raton Pass as Costume Design

1950		The West Point Story as Wardrobe Designer
1950		Rocky Mountain as Costume Design
1950		The Great Jewel Robber as Costume Design
1950		The Flame and the Arrow as Costume Design
1950		Bright Leaf as Wardrobe Supervisor
1950		The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady as Costume Design
1950		Montana as Costume Design

1949

Look for the Silver Lining as Costume Design

1948		Adventures of Don Juan as Costume Design
1948		Adventures of Don Juan as Wardrobe Supervisor

1947

Life with Father as Costume Design