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Sheila O'Brien is a Costume Design American born on 9 october 1902 at Texas (USA)
Sheila O’Brien (October 9, 1902 in Texas — January 26, 1983) was an American costume designer.
O'Brien began her career as a seamstress for Paramount Pictures but transferred to the costume department of MGM, where she worked as a costume department dresser on The Wizard of Oz in 1939, coming into her own as a Hollywood costume designer in the 50s. She was a favourite of Joan Crawford’s, dressing her in Sudden Fear (1952, for which O’Brien received an Oscar nomination), Johnny Guitar (1954) and Female on the Beach (1955). O’Brien died of cancer in 1983.
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Sheila O'Brien
Nationality USA
Birth 9 october 1902 at Texas (USA)
Death 26 january 1983 (at 80 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Birth 9 october 1902 at Texas (USA)
Death 26 january 1983 (at 80 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
O'Brien began her career as a seamstress for Paramount Pictures but transferred to the costume department of MGM, where she worked as a costume department dresser on The Wizard of Oz in 1939, coming into her own as a Hollywood costume designer in the 50s. She was a favourite of Joan Crawford’s, dressing her in Sudden Fear (1952, for which O’Brien received an Oscar nomination), Johnny Guitar (1954) and Female on the Beach (1955). O’Brien died of cancer in 1983.
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Never Too Late (1965)
, 1h45Directed by Bud Yorkin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Paul Ford, Connie Stevens, Maureen O'Sullivan, Jim Hutton, Jane Wyatt, Henry Jones
Roles Costume Design
Rating64%
Harry Lambert is a New England lumber company executive in a humdrum life with his wife Edith. He feels his life has grown stale since his defeat in an election for town mayor. His adult daughter Kate is of little or no help to anybody; she and her husband Charlie live with him and Edith, and Charlie lives a freeloader's life, working at the lumber company.
The Deadly Companions (1961)
, 1h33Directed by Sam Peckinpah
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Noir, Western
Actors Maureen O'Hara, Glenn Ford, Brian Keith, Steve Cochran, George Macready, Chill Wills
Roles Costume Supervisor
Rating60%
After her young son is killed in a bank robbery, Kit Tilden (Maureen O'Hara) is determined to bury him beside his father in Siringo, now deserted and located in Apache territory. Yellowleg (Brian Keith), the ex-army sergeant who accidentally killed her son, decides to help take the body across the desert to be buried, whether Kit wants help or not.
Female on the Beach (1955)
, 1h37Directed by Joseph Pevney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Joan Crawford, Jeff Chandler, Cecil Kellaway, Jan Sterling, Judith Evelyn, Charles Drake
Roles Costume Design
Rating63%
Lynn Markham (Crawford) visits a beach house that once belonged to her dead husband. There, she meets real estate agent Amy Rawlinson (Jan Sterling) and Drummond "Drummy" Hall (Chandler), an attractive beach bum who wanders in and out of the house as though he owned it.
Johnny Guitar (1954)
, 1h50Directed by Nicholas Ray
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance, Western
Themes Feminist films, Politique, Political films
Actors Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady, Ernest Borgnine, Ward Bond
Roles Costume Design
Rating75%
On the outskirts of a wind-swept Arizona cattle town, an aggressive and strong-willed saloonkeeper named Vienna maintains a volatile relationship with the local cattlemen and townsfolk. Not only does she support the railroad being laid nearby (the cattlemen oppose it), but she permits "The Dancin' Kid" (her former amour) and his confederates to frequent her saloon. The locals, led by McIvers but egged on by Emma Small, a onetime rival of Vienna, are determined to force Vienna out of town, and the hold-up of the stage (they suspect, erroneously, by "The Dancin' Kid") offers a perfect pretext. Vienna faces them down, helped by the mysterious and just arrived Johnny Guitar. He turns out to be her ex-lover and a reformed gunslinger whose real name is Johnny Logan. Their smouldering love/hate relationship develops until McIvers gives Vienna, Johnny Guitar and "The Dancin Kid" and his sidekicks 24 hours to leave.
Sudden Fear (1952)
, 1h50Directed by David Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir
Actors Jack Palance, Joan Crawford, Gloria Grahame, Mike Connors, Virginia Huston, Bruce Bennett
Roles Costume Design
Rating74%
Myra Hudson (Crawford) is a successful Broadway playwright who rejects Lester Blaine (Palance) as the lead in her new play. Later, she meets Lester on a train bound for San Francisco, is swept off her feet, and, after a brief courtship, marries him.
This Woman Is Dangerous (1952)
, 1h40Directed by Felix E. Feist
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Joan Crawford, Dennis Morgan, David Brian, Richard Webb, Mari Aldon, Philip Carey
Roles Costume Design
Rating60%
Beth Austin (Joan Crawford) is the leader of a hold-up gang and the mistress of its most cold-blooded killer Matt Jackson (David Brian). In New Orleans, the group robs a casino by impersonating police officers. After taking in a haul of $90,000 ($791,000 in 2013 dollars), she tells Matt that she has suffered from failing eyesight and needs to travel to an eye clinic in Indiana to have an advanced operation. While initially mad that she is leaving the group, he promises to lie low until she returns.
Goodbye, My Fancy (1951)
, 1h47Directed by Vincent Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Joan Crawford, Robert Young, Frank Lovejoy, Eve Arden, Janice Rule, Lurene Tuttle
Roles Costume Design
Rating60%
Powerful U.S. Representative Agatha Reed (Joan Crawford) returns to her alma mater to receive an honorary degree. Unbeknownst to the college's board of trustees, Agatha was expelled from the school years earlier for participating in an all-night date with a young professor, Dr. James Merrill (Robert Young), who is now the university president. The romantic fires are rekindled when the two meet. Matt Cole (Frank Lovejoy), a photographer from Life Magazine who loves Agatha, believes her feeling for Merrill is simply an unresolved holdover from her girlhood and follows her to the school.
The Damned Don't Cry (1950)
, 1h43Directed by Vincent Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Romance
Actors Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran, Hugh Sanders, Kent Smith, Selena Royle
Roles Wardrobe Designer
Rating71%
Ethel Whitehead (Crawford) is a weary housewife living at the edge of the Texas oil fields. When her young son is killed in a bicycle accident, she leaves her laborer husband Roy (Egan) for the big city. She quickly learns to use her physical charms to get ahead. In cahoots with bookkeeper friend Martin Blackford (Smith), Ethel works her way into the entourage of George Castleman (Brian), a mobster who enjoys an elegant lifestyle. With the help of socialite Patricia Longworth (Royle), Castleman grooms Ethel in the arts of cultured living. After making her his mistress, he tries to use her to trap his arch-rival Nick Prenta (Cochran). The trap fails when Ethel falls in love with Prenta. The betrayed Castleman kills Prenta and goes gunning for Ethel but dies in a shootout with Blackford.
Harriet Craig (1950)
, 1h34Directed by Vincent Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Joan Crawford, Wendell Corey, Allyn Joslyn, Lucile Watson, K. T. Stevens, Raymond Greenleaf
Roles Costume Design
Rating72%
Dominatrice Harriet Craig tient plus de considération pour sa maison et ses biens qu'elle ne le fait pour toute personne dans sa vie. Parmi ceux qu'elle traite comme des objets ménagers, on trouve son aimable mari Walter, à qui elle a menti à propos de son incapacité à avoir des enfants; sa cousine Claire, qu'elle traite comme une secrétaire; et ses serviteurs qu'elle traite comme des esclaves.