Irene Sharaff

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Irene Sharaff (January 23, 1910 – August 16, 1993) was an American costume designer for stage and screen. Her accolades include five Academy Awards and a Tony Award. Sharaff is universally recognized as one of the greatest costume designers of all time.

Background

Sharaff was born in Boston to parents of Armenian descent. She studied at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts, the Art Students League of New York, and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris.

Career

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Design for Barbra Streisand in Hello, Dolly! (1969)
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After working as a fashion illustrator in her youth, Sharaff turned to set and costume design. Her debut production was the 1931 Broadway production of Alice in Wonderland, starring Eva Le Gallienne. Her use of silks from Thailand for The King and I (1951) created a trend in fashion and interior decoration.[1]

Sharaff's work was featured in the movies West Side Story (Academy Award, 1961), Cleopatra (Academy Award, 1963), Meet Me in St. Louis, Hello, Dolly!, Mommie Dearest, The Other Side of Midnight, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Academy Award, 1966), Guys and Dolls, The Best Years of Our Lives, The King and I (Academy Award, 1956), An American in Paris (Academy Award, 1951), Funny Girl and Porgy and Bess.

She also designed sets and costumes for American Ballet Theatre, the New York City Ballet, and the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, and contributed illustrations to fashion magazine's such as Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. Among her Broadway design credits are Idiot's Delight, Lady in the Dark, As Thousands Cheer, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Virginia, Flower Drum Song, and Jerome Robbins' Broadway.

The TDF/Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award was named for Sharaff. She was its first recipient in 1993. The award is now bestowed annually to a costume designer who, over the course of his or her career, has achieved great distinction and mastery of the art in theatre, film, opera or dance.[2][3]

Death

Sharaff died in New York City of congestive heart failure, complicated by emphysema, at the age of 83.[1] She bequeathed her collection of books, along with that of her partner, Mai-Mai Sze, to the New York Society Library.[4]

Filmography

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Royal robe designed for Yul Brynner in The King and I, for which Sharaff won an Oscar.
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Headdress for Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra, which won another Oscar for Sharaff.
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Awards and nominations

Award Year Category Work Result Ref.
Academy Awards 1951 Best Costume Design – Color An American in Paris Template:Won [5]
1953 Call Me Madam Template:Nom [6]
1954 Brigadoon Template:Nom [7]
Best Art Direction – Color A Star Is Born Template:Nom
Best Costume Design – Color Template:Nom
1955 Guys and Dolls Template:Nom [8]
1956 The King and I Template:Won [9]
1959 Porgy and Bess Template:Nom [10]
1960 Can-Can Template:Nom [11]
1961 West Side Story Template:Won [12]
Flower Drum Song Template:Nom
1963 Cleopatra Template:Won [13]
1966 Best Costume Design – Black-and-White Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Template:Won [14]
1967 Best Costume Design The Taming of the Shrew Template:Nom [15]
1969 Hello, Dolly! Template:Nom [16]
1977 The Other Side of Midnight Template:Nom [17]
British Academy Film Awards 1969 Best Costume Design Funny Girl Template:Nom [18]
Tony Awards 1952 Best Costume Design The King and I Template:Won [19]
1957 Candide / Happy Hunting / Shangri-La / Small War on Murray Hill Template:NomTemplate:Efn [20]
1958 West Side Story Template:Nom [21]
1959 Flower Drum Song Template:Nom [22]
1964 The Girl Who Came to Supper Template:Nom [23]
1966 Sweet Charity Template:Nom [24]
1968 Hallelujah, Baby! Template:Nom [25]

Other recognition

Notes

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References

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Bibliography

  • Sharaff, Irene. Broadway and Hollywood: Costumes Designed by Irene Sharaff, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co (1976)

External links

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  1. ↑ a b Howe, Marvine. "Irene Sharaff, Designer, 83, Dies; Costumes Won Tony and Oscars". The New York Times, August 17, 1993
  2. ↑ Hetrick, Adam.Irene Sharaff Awards to Honor Robin Wagner and Lewis Brown" Template:Webarchive playbill.com, February 22, 2011
  3. ↑ Sharaff Award Template:Webarchive tdf.org, accessed February 22, 2011
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