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Julie Harris (costume designer)

{{Short description|British costume designer (1921–2015)}}

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| birth_name = Diana Julie Harris

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1921|03|26}}

| birth_place = London, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2015|05|30|1921|03|26}}

| death_place = London, England

| occupation = Costume designer

| years_active = 1947–1991

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

Career

Born in London in 1921,{{cite web|last=Harris|first=Julie|title=Julie Harris|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/77567|publisher=British Film Institute|access-date=8 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811002952/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/77567|archive-date=11 August 2011|url-status=dead}} 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.{{cite web | url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/remembering-julie-harris-costume-designer-bond-hitchcock | title=Remembering Julie Harris, costume designer for Bond and Hitchcock | publisher=British Film Institute | date=June 1, 2015 | access-date=June 1, 2015 | author=Botting, Josephine}}

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. She made a "mink bikini" (actually made out of rabbit fur) for Diana Dors. 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. 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." 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. Harris also designed costumes for the Carry On film Carry On Cleo (1964), a sword and sandal spoof set in ancient Rome and Egypt,{{cite web | url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/466135/ | title=Carry On Cleo (1964) | publisher=BFI Online | access-date=June 2, 2015 | author=Angelini, Sergio}} described as "perhaps the best" of the series.{{cite web | url = http://www.icons.org.uk/nom/nominations/carry-on-films | title = Carry On Films | access-date = 5 June 2009 | work = Icon Nominations | publisher = ICONS Ltd | location = United Kingdom | quote = 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) | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080420130205/http://www.icons.org.uk/nom/nominations/carry-on-films | archive-date = 20 April 2008 }}

Harris died after a brief illness from a chest infection, aged 94, on 30 May 2015.{{cite web |url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/film-tv/news/designer-julie-harris-dies-at-94-31267243.html |title=Designer Julie Harris dies at 94 |publisher=Belfast Telegraph |date=31 May 2015 |access-date=31 May 2015}}

Notable credits

Awards and nominations

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!Year

!Category

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scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Academy Awards

| style="text-align:center;"| 1965

| Best Costume Design – Black-and-White

| Darling

| {{won}}

|style="text-align:center;"| {{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1966|title=The 38th Academy Awards (1966) Nominees and Winners|date=4 October 2014 |access-date=August 29, 2016|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)}}

rowspan="5" scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| British Academy Film Awards

| style="text-align:center;"| 1964

| Best British Costume Design – Black and White

| Psyche 59

| {{nom}}

|style="text-align:center;"| {{Cite web|url= https://awards.bafta.org/award/1965/film|title= 18th BAFTA Film Awards|publisher= British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)|accessdate= February 4, 2023}}

style="text-align:center;"| 1965

| rowspan="3" | Best British Costume Design – Colour

| Help!

| {{nom}}

|style="text-align:center;"| {{Cite web|url= https://awards.bafta.org/award/1966/film|title= 19th BAFTA Film Awards|publisher= British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)|accessdate= February 4, 2023}}

style="text-align:center;"| 1966

| The Wrong Box

| {{won}}

|style="text-align:center;"| {{Cite web|url= https://awards.bafta.org/award/1967/film|title= 20th BAFTA Film Awards|publisher= British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)|accessdate= February 4, 2023}}

style="text-align:center;"| 1967

| Casino Royale

| {{nom}}

|style="text-align:center;"| {{Cite web|url= https://awards.bafta.org/award/1968/film|title= 21st BAFTA Film Awards|publisher= British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)|accessdate= February 4, 2023}}

style="text-align:center;"| 1976

| Best Costume Design

| rowspan="2" | The Slipper and the Rose

| {{nom}}

|style="text-align:center;"| {{Cite web|url= https://awards.bafta.org/award/1977/film|title= 30th BAFTA Film Awards|publisher= British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)|accessdate= February 4, 2023}}

scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Saturn Awards

| style="text-align:center;"| 1977

| Best Costumes

| {{nom}}

|style="text-align:center;"| {{Cite web |url=http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1977/1977sat.htm |title=1977 {{!}} 5th Saturn Awards |website=Los Angeles Times |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060101093720/http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1977/1977sat.htm |archive-date=January 1, 2006 |access-date=July 22, 2018}}

References

  • 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

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Further reading

{{cite journal|last1=Williams|first1=Melanie|title=The Girl You Don't See: Julie Harris and the Costume Designer in British Cinema|journal=Feminist Media Histories|date=2016|volume=2|issue=2|pages=71–106|doi=10.1525/fmh.2016.2.2.71|url=https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/57685/}}

External links

  • {{IMDb name|0364916}}

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