Plunkett, Walter Costumers Makeup and Costumes Filmmaking

Plunkett, Walter Costumers Makeup and Costumes Filmmaking

Plunkett, Walter

(1902-1982; Oakland, California)

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- "Gone with the Wind: Women, Race and Material Culture in the 20th Century" features the dress worn by Scarlett O'Hara on her New Orleans honeymoon with Rhett Butler.
- Filmography of the designer perhaps most readily associated with his work for "Gone with the Wind" and whose career spanned five decades.
- This project established Plunkett as the authority on period costumes in Hollywood regardless the director's and author's consideration of other designers right down to the wire. Sketches and photographs provided.
- Profile of the designer widely regarded as among the best period costumers in Hollywood history.
- A list of designer nominations and wins for the Academy Award for Costume Design presented along with the competition.
- Details about the orchid percale dress of which Plunkett made 27 copies to ensure continuity throughout the non-sequential shoot. One of these versions sold later at auction for 80,000 USD.
- Exhibition "Gone with the Wind" offers a special dedication to the designer featuring original correspondence. Links provided to reproduction pieces that are also part of the exhibit and considered in detail.

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