$300.00 (US Dollar, 1927)
She received $300 per week from 1927. A year earlier she was earning $100 per week.
Hollywood golden-era costume designer
Adrian Adolph Greenburg
Adrian
Male
Parsons School of Design, Greenwich Village, New York, United States
Changed his name to Gilber Adrian in 1933, taking his father's name as his own.
Designed the costumes for The Wizard of Oz including those famous ruby slippers and other MGM productions of the 1930s and 1940s.
Adrian worked with some of the biggest female stars of the day like Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Jeanette MacDonald, Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn and Joan Crawford. He also designed for many of their personal wardrobes.
His signature look in the 1940s is often remembered as the look of the period: padded shoulders, slim jacket with that emphasized the shoulder and the triangular line and a pencil skirt.
View Gilbert Adrian's Family Tree and History, Ancestry and Genealogy
Gilbert Adrian's father was Gilbert Adrian Gilbert Adrian's mother was Helena Greenberg
Gilbert Adrian's father in law was Frank Gainer Gilbert Adrian's mother in law is Laura Gainer Gilbert Adrian's step-father in law is Harry Jones Gilbert Adrian's sister in law is Helen Gainer
Laura Augusta Gainer
Female
77
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
4 Sep 1984
Palm Springs, California, USA
Pneumonia
Silent Movie Actress (1924 - 1939)
Actress (1928)
Gourmet Cook (1965)
Hollywood Secretarial School, Hollywood, California, United States
1929: The first ever actress to recieve an Oscar for Best Actress in Seventh Heaven. 1978: Received a special award for the "pleasure and entertainment" she had brought to film fans worldwide
One of the most popular leading ladies of film in the 1920's and 30's and Hollywood's most highly paid actress. By 1934 she was receiving a yearly salary of $252,583 from Fox Films.
$300.00 (US Dollar, 1927)
She received $300 per week from 1927. A year earlier she was earning $100 per week.
View Janet Gaynor's Family Tree and History, Ancestry and Genealogy
Janet Gaynor's father was Frank Gainer Janet Gaynor's mother is Laura Gainer Janet Gaynor's step-father is Harry Jones
Janet Gaynor's husband was Gilbert Adrian Janet Gaynor's husband was Paul Gregory
Janet Gaynor's father in law was Gilbert Adrian Janet Gaynor's mother in law was Helena Greenberg
Woody Allen 1978
Diane Keaton 1978
Vanessa Redgrave CBE 1978
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