Helen A. Myron

{{Short description|American costume designer (1905–1983)}}

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|birth_name = Helen Alberta Markowitz{{cite news |title=Who's Who in Hollywood: Profile |work=The Detroit Jewish Chronicle |date=August 9, 1935 |page=7 |url=https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/djnews/djc.1935.08.09.001/7 |quote=The newest, youngest, and most attractive screen stylist in Hollywood is a young Jewish girl from San Francisco, Helen Myron. She is the daughter of Dan Markowitz, one of the pioneers of the motion picture industry.}}

|birth_date = {{birth date|1905|4|8}}

|birth_place = San Francisco, California, U.S.

|death_date = {{death date and age|1983|9|11|1905|4|8}}

|death_place = San Diego County, California, U.S.

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|other_names = Helen Alberta Cramer

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|known_for = Designing costumes for motion picture actors

|occupation = Costume designer

|yearsactive = 1933 - 1940

|spouse = Duncan Cramer

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Helen A. Myron (1905–1983) was an American costume designer who worked at Fox Film and 20th Century Fox from 1933 to 1940. She is credited on about 40 motion pictures, mostly B movies including five Charlie Chan films. She has been noted in several histories of costume design for film.{{IMDb name |0617149 |Helen A. Myron}}{{cite book |last=Hanke |first=Ken |title=Charlie Chan at the Movies: History, Filmography, and Criticism |publisher=McFarland |date=2004 |isbn=9780786419210 |oclc=55128815 }} Reprinting of the 1989 edition.{{cite book |title=Costume Design in the Movies: An Illustrated Guide to the Work of 157 Great Designers |first=Elizabeth |last=Leese |date=2012 |isbn=9780486134291 |oclc=969769645 |publisher=Dover Publications}} Reprinting of a book originally published in 1976.{{cite book |title=Nobody's Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood |first=J. E. |last=Smyth |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=March 2, 2018 |isbn=9780190840846 |quote=[Edith] Head had competition from more than Wakeling and West as Hollywood's top female designer. From the early 1930s to the late 1950s and the end of the studio era, women were equally represented as the industry's top costume designers. In addition to Head, Renié, Tree, Wakeling, Irene Lentz Gibbons, and West, there were ... Helen A. Myron, ... |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S5NODwAAQBAJ&pg=PT299}}{{cite book |title=Claire Trevor: The Life and Films of the Queen of Noir |first=Derek |last=Sculthorpe |publisher=McFarland |date=2018 |isbn=9781476630694 |page=43 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zr5YDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA43 |quote=Most of these outfits were designed by Louis Royer, the resident Fox costumier, but she was seen in other creations by the B-movie designers Herschel McCoy, Helen Myron and the Russian stylist Rega.}}

Myron graduated from the University of California - Berkeley, and commenced her career in costume design in 1933. In 1941 she married Duncan Cramer, who was an art director at 20th Century Fox. Cramer and Myron are credited together on five films released in 1935 and 1936.Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935), Thunder in the Night (1935), This Is the Life (1935), Paddy O'Day (1936), Charlie Chan's Secret (1936). After 1940, there is just a single, 1947 credit for Helen Myron;Whispering City (1947) - credited for "Miss Anderson's wardrobe". Duncan Cramer's career continued through 1971. A photograph of Myron's "hostess pyjama outfit", worn by Claire Trevor in the 1935 film Navy Wife, is still widely reproduced.{{cite web |title=NAVY WIFE, Claire Trevor |publisher=The Everett Collection |url=https://fineartamerica.com/featured/navy-wife-claire-trevor-in-formal-everett.html}} Rega was credited for "gowns" in Navy Wife. The photograph is part of a collection made by Morris Everett, Jr.; it isn't clear why Myron was credited for this particular outfit.