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Norma Koch is a Wardrobe Coordinator American born on 27 march 1898

Norma Koch

Norma Koch
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Birth name Norma H. Koch
Nationality USA
Birth 27 march 1898
Death 29 july 1979 (at 81 years)

Norma Koch (parfois créditée Norma) est une costumière américaine, née le 23 avril 1921 au Kansas , morte le 1er mai 1979 à Los Angeles (Californie).

Biography

Installée avec sa famille à Los Angeles en 1930, elle intègre en 1943 la Paramount Pictures, où elle assiste Edith Head, notamment sur La Route semée d'étoiles de Leo McCarey (1944, avec Bing Crosby et Barry Fitzgerald).

Son premier film comme costumière à part entière est Scandale à Paris de Douglas Sirk (1946, avec George Sanders et Signe Hasso) ; le dernier est Lady Sings the Blues de Sidney J. Furie (1972, avec Diana Ross et Billy Dee Williams).

Entretemps, elle travaille sur trente-cinq autres films américains — y compris des westerns —, dont Vera Cruz (1954, avec Gary Cooper et Burt Lancaster) et Qu'est-il arrivé à Baby Jane ? (1962, avec Joan Crawford et Bette Davis), tous deux réalisés par Robert Aldrich — qu'elle retrouve à plusieurs reprises —, Marty de Delbert Mann (1955, avec Ernest Borgnine et Betsy Blair) et L'Or de MacKenna de J. Lee Thompson (1969, avec Gregory Peck et Omar Sharif).

Qu'est-il arrivé à Baby Jane ? permet à Norma Koch de gagner en 1963 l'Oscar de la meilleure création de costumes (elle obtient ultérieurement deux autres nominations : voir détails ci-dessous).

Best films

Sayonara (1957)
(Costume Design)
Vera Cruz (1954)
(Costume Design)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
(Wardrobe Designer)
Taras Bulba (1962)
(Costume Design)
Marty (1955)
(Costume Design)
The Last Sunset (1961)
(Costume Design)

Usually with

Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Norma Koch (27 films)

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Costume and makup

Lady Sings the Blues, 2h24
Directed by Sidney J. Furie
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Jazz films, Musical films
Actors Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, James T. Callahan, Paul Hampton, Sid Melton
Roles Costume Design
Rating69% 3.497963.497963.497963.497963.49796
In 1936, New York City, Billie Holiday is arrested on a drugs charge. In a flashback to 1928, Billie is working as a housekeeper in a brothel where she is raped. She runs away to her mother, who sets up a job cleaning for another brothel in the Harlem section of New York. The brothel is run by an arrogant, selfish owner who pays Billie very little money.
The Grissom Gang, 2h8
Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Children's films, Gangster films
Actors Kim Darby, Scott Wilson, Tony Musante, Robert Lansing, Irene Dailey, Connie Stevens
Roles Costume Design
Rating66% 3.346373.346373.346373.346373.34637
In 1931, an heiress in Missouri is kidnapped for ransom by a brutal gang, whose mentally-impaired "leader" (Scott Wilson) falls in love with her.
The Way West, 2h2
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark, Lola Albright, Jack Elam, Sally Field
Roles Costume Design
Rating61% 3.097563.097563.097563.097563.09756
U.S. Senator William Tadlock (Kirk Douglas) is leaving his home in Missouri in 1843, heading west on the Oregon Trail by wagon train. His son and slave come along, with Dick Summers (Robert Mitchum) as a hired guide.
The Flight of the Phoenix, 2h22
Directed by Robert Aldrich, Oscar Rudolph
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Transport films, Aviation films, Dans un avion, Le désert, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy Krüger, Ernest Borgnine, George Kennedy
Roles Costume Design
Rating74% 3.747383.747383.747383.747383.74738
Frank Towns (James Stewart) is the pilot of a twin-engine Fairchild C-82 Packet cargo plane flying from Jaghbub to Benghazi in Libya. Lew Moran (Richard Attenborough) is the navigator while the passengers are Capt. Harris (Peter Finch) and Sgt. Watson (Ronald Fraser) of the British Army; Dr. Renaud (Christian Marquand), a physician; Heinrich Dorfmann (Hardy Krüger), a German aeronautical engineer; Mr. Standish (Dan Duryea), an oil company accountant; and several oil workers that include Trucker Cobb (Ernest Borgnine), a mentally-disturbed foreman; Ratbags Crow (Ian Bannen), a mean-spirited, sardonic Scot; Carlos (Alex Montoya) and his pet monkey; and Gabriel (Gabriele Tinti). A sudden sandstorm shuts down the engines, forcing Towns to crash-land in the desert. As the aircraft careens to a stop, several oil drums and oil drilling gear break loose and severely injure Gabriel's leg. Two other workers are killed.
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte, 2h13
Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Cecil Kellaway, Mary Astor
Roles Costume Design
Rating74% 3.7476653.7476653.7476653.7476653.747665
In 1927, young belle Charlotte Hollis (Bette Davis) and her married lover, John Mayhew (Bruce Dern), plan to elope during a party at the Hollis family's antebellum mansion in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. However, after Charlotte's father intimidates him, telling him that John's wife had visited the day before and revealed the affair, John pretends he no longer loves Charlotte and tells her they must part.
4 for Texas, 1h50
Directed by Robert Aldrich, Oscar Rudolph
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Actors Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anita Ekberg, Ursula Andress, Charles Bronson, Victor Buono
Roles Costume Design
Rating54% 2.748622.748622.748622.748622.74862
In 1870, a shipment of $100,000 being transported by stagecoach to Galveston, Texas, is the object of a tug-of-war in the desert between Zack Thomas (Frank Sinatra) and Joe Jarrett (Dean Martin), who first must stave off an outlaw band led by Matson (Charles Bronson).
Kings of the Sun, 1h48
Directed by John Flynn, J. Lee Thompson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Historical, Western
Actors Yul Brynner, George Chakiris, Richard Basehart, Brad Dexter, Barry Morse, James Coburn
Roles Costume Design
Rating60% 3.049133.049133.049133.049133.04913
Balam (George Chakiris) is the son of the ruler of a Mayan tribe who use wooden swords (with obsidian edges). His father is killed in battle against metal-blade armed rivals led by Hunac Ceel (Leo Gordon). Balam succeeds to the throne, but is convinced by his advisers, including the head priest, to lead his followers away from the Yucatán, sail to the American Gulf Coast region, so they might regain their strength and fight again another day.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, 2h8
Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about films, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about television, Vieillesse, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Gina Gillespie, Wesley Addy, Maidie Norman
Roles Wardrobe Designer
Rating79% 3.999013.999013.999013.999013.99901
In 1917, Baby Jane Hudson is a vaudevillian child star while her sister Blanche Hudson is not famous and overlooked by their father. By 1935, both sisters are movie actors, but Blanche has achieved stardom, while Jane’s films have flopped, leading Jane to drink heavily. One night, returning from a party, one of the sisters (implied to be Blanche) gets out of the car to open the garage door, while the driver (implied to be Jane) attempts to run her over, misses, and crashes into the garage. The accident leaves Blanche paralyzed.
Taras Bulba, 2h2
Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Actors Yul Brynner, Tony Curtis, Sam Wanamaker, Perry Lopez, Brad Dexter, George Macready
Roles Costume Design
Rating62% 3.1495353.1495353.1495353.1495353.149535
The film opens in the 16th century, when Russia and Eastern Europe were divided into small sections and principalities that fought each other or against one enemy: in this case, Turkey. It starts with a battle raging between the Turks and the Poles. The Poles are losing until the Cossacks arrive to save the day. However, it turns out that the Poles were merely holding back so that they could treacherously attack the Cossacks after they won the battle for them. As a result, the Poles become masters of Ukraine and the Cossacks are subjugated. Taras Bulba, one of the Cossack officers, returns home to raise his family but now it is under Polish dominion.
The Last Sunset, 1h47
Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality
Actors Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, Dorothy Malone, Joseph Cotten, Carol Lynley, Neville Brand
Roles Costume Design
Rating66% 3.349063.349063.349063.349063.34906
Brendan O'Malley (Douglas) crosses the border into Mexico to escape justice for a murder. He arrives at the ranch of a former lover, Belle Breckenridge (Malone) and her husband, the drunkard and coward John Breckenridge (Joseph Cotten).
Cry for Happy, 1h50
Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Glenn Ford, Donald O'Connor, James Shigeta, Miiko Taka, Miyoshi Umeki, Howard St. John
Roles Costume Design
Rating58% 2.9026752.9026752.9026752.9026752.902675
During the Korean War, Andy Cyphers (Glenn Ford), a Navy photographer and his three-man team occupy a Tokyo geisha house, though it is off-limits and four girls are living there.
Sayonara
Sayonara (1957)
, 2h27
Directed by Joshua Logan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Politique, Films about racism, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, James Garner, Martha Scott, Miiko Taka, Miyoshi Umeki
Roles Costume Design
Rating69% 3.496013.496013.496013.496013.49601
Major Lloyd "Ace" Gruver (Marlon Brando), the son of a U.S. Army general, is stationed at Itami Air Force Base near Kobe, Japan. He falls in love with a Japanese entertainer, Hana-ogi (Miiko Taka), who is a performer for a Takarazuka-like theater company, whom he meets through his enlisted crew chief, Airman Joe Kelly (Red Buttons).
The Restless Breed, 1h26
Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Scott Brady, Anne Bancroft, Myron Daniel Healey, Rhys Williams, Jay C. Flippen, Jim Davis
Roles Costume Design
Rating52% 2.6189752.6189752.6189752.6189752.618975
1865: Lawyer Mitch Baker is called into an office of the United States Secret Service to be told that his father was murdered in the border town of Mission, Texas. He was betrayed to Newton by an informer whilst on a mission investigating a group of gunrunners called "Newton's Raiders" supplying the forces of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico with weapons arousing the ire of the United States who wants a Republican Mexico.
Slightly Scarlet, 1h39
Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Documentary, Action, Noir, Crime
Actors John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Arlene Dahl, Kent Taylor, Ted de Corsia, Lance Fuller
Roles Costume Design
Rating64% 3.244913.244913.244913.244913.24491
The ruthless Solly Caspar is fighting to retain control of Bay City's criminal activities when Frank Jansen (Kent Taylor), an honest man and mayoral hopeful, begins a strong anti-crime campaign. Caspar tasks his right-hand man Ben Grace to dig up some dirt on the candidate and ruin his chances of election.
While the City Sleeps, 1h40
Directed by Fritz Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Serial killer films
Actors Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, John Drew Barrymore, Ida Lupino, Howard Duff
Roles Costume Design
Rating68% 3.448933.448933.448933.448933.44893
A power struggle ensues after the death of media magnate Amos Kyne (Robert Warick), who turned his corporation over to his sole heir, foppish son Walter (Vincent Price). Rather than run the company himself, Walter decides to let the heads of its three divisions fight it out. Their assignment is to score an exclusive story on a serial killer terrorizing women in New York the Kyne organization's newspaper dubs "The Lipstick Killer". Whoever identifies him before the police will be rewarded the title of executive director.