Identité
Genre : homme
Pseudonyme(s) :
- Gilbert Adrian
Fonctions : Créateur des costumes, Couturier, Acteur
Biographie
Formation :
Après avoir étudié à la New York School for Fine and Applied Arts et dans sa filiale de Paris, Gilbert Adrian débute au music-hall.
Carrière :
Costumier en chef de la MGM de 1928 à 1942, Adrian contribue au Glamour hollywoodien, en habillant notamment Greta Garbo.
Il crée ses premiers costumes au cinéma pour l'acteur vedette Rudolph Valentino dans Cobra (Joseph Henabery, 1925) et L'Aigle noir (Clarence Brown, id.). Mais c'est en habillant les femmes que le costumier connaît ses plus grands succès. Outre Greta Garbo, qui portera de 1928 à 1940 les créations les plus audacieuses (drapées et décolletés) du couturier - notamment dans La Reine Christine (Rouben Mamoulian, 1933), Anna Karenine (Clarence Brown, 1935) et Le Roman de Marguerite Gautier (George Cukor, 1936) -, Adrian habille Jeanette MacDonald (La Veuve joyeuse, Ernst Lubitsch, 1934), Norma Shearer (Marie-Antoinette, W.S. Van Dyke, 1938), Joan Crawford (Duel de femmes, Robert Z. Leonard, 1941 ; Possédée, Curtis Bernhardt, 1946), ainsi que Janet Gaynor, devenue par la suite son épouse. Il est également le créateur des costumes du film Le Magicien d'Oz (Victor Fleming, 1938). En 1942, il fonde même sa propre maison de couture Adrian Ltd. et ne travaille plus qu'à de très rares occasions pour le cinéma jusqu'en 1952, date de sa dernière contribution (Lovely to Look at / Les Rois de la couture, Mervyn LeRoy).
Autres activités :
Il travaille sur plusieurs "Musicals" de Broadway de Music Box Revue en 1922 à Camelot en 1960. Il reçoit, à titre posthume, le Tony Awards (récompenses théâtrales) du Meilleur Costumier pour cette dernière production.
Filmographie
Courts métrages
Créateur des costumes
- 1927 - The Fighting Eagle
- 1937 - Hollywood Party
Acteur
- 1938 - Hollywood Goes to Town
Longs métrages
Créateur des costumes
- 1925 - The Eagle
- 1925 - The Road to Yesterday
- 1925 - Cobra
- 1925 - What Price Beauty ?
- 1925 - Her Sister from Paris
- 1926 - Gigolo
- 1926 - Fig Leaves
- 1926 - Young April
- 1926 - For Alimony Only
- 1927 - The Wise Wife
- 1927 - His Dog
- 1927 - Almost Human
- 1927 - The Main Event
- 1927 - The Country Doctor
- 1927 - The Forbidden Woman
- 1927 - Vanity
- 1927 - The Angel of Broadway
- 1927 - My Friend from India
- 1927 - Wreck of the Hesperus
- 1927 - Dress Parade
- 1927 - Chicago
- 1927 - The Little Adventuress
- 1928 - Skyscraper
- 1928 - The Masks of the Devil
- 1928 - Let' Er Go Gallegher
- 1928 - A Ship Comes in
- 1928 - The Blue Danube
- 1928 - Midnight Madness
- 1928 - Hold 'Em Yale
- 1928 - Made-Man Women
- 1928 - A Woman of Affairs
- 1928 - A Lady of Chance
- 1928 - Walking Back
- 1928 - Stand and Deliver
- 1928 - Tenth Avenue
- 1928 - Dream of Love
- 1929 - Our Modern Maidens
- 1929 - The Kiss
- 1929 - Wild Orchids
- 1929 - The Thirteenth Chair
- 1929 - A Single Man
- 1929 - Devil-may-care
- 1929 - The Trial of Mary Dugan
- 1929 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- 1929 - Dynamite
- 1929 - The Last of Mrs Cheyney
- 1929 - Marianne
- 1929 - Untamed
- 1929 - The Single Standart
- 1929 - Their Own Desire
- 1930 - Anna Christie
- 1930 - Romance
- 1930 - Madam Satan
- 1930 - Montana Moon
- 1930 - Redemption
- 1930 - Si l'empereur savait ça !
- 1930 - Le Père célibataire
- 1930 - Passion Flower
- 1930 - Dance, Fools, Dance
- 1930 - A Lady's Morals
- 1930 - Our Blushing Brides
- 1930 - A Lady to Love
- 1930 - This Mad World
- 1930 - The Lady of Scandal
- 1930 - Die Sehnsucht jeder Frau
- 1930 - Anna Christie
- 1930 - Paid
- 1930 - The Florodora Girl
- 1930 - Inspiration
- 1930 - New Moon
- 1930 - Let Us Be Gay
- 1930 - The Divorcee
- 1930 - Olympia
- 1930 - The Rogue Song
- 1930 - Not So Dumb
- 1930 - In Gay Madrid
- 1931 - The Squaw Man
- 1931 - This Modern Age
- 1931 - Five and Ten
- 1931 - Mata Hari
- 1931 - Private Lives
- 1931 - Grand Hotel
- 1931 - Susan Lenox - Her Fall and Rise
- 1931 - Quand on est belle
- 1931 - Flying High
- 1931 - Laughing Sinners
- 1931 - The Man in Possession
- 1931 - Strangers May Kiss
- 1931 - The Bachelor Father
- 1931 - The Guardsman
- 1931 - The Sin of Madelon Claudet
- 1931 - The Cuban Love Song
- 1931 - A Free Soul
- 1932 - Secrets
- 1932 - The Mask of Fu Manchu
- 1932 - Letty Lynton
- 1932 - The Son-Daughter
- 1932 - As You Desire Me
- 1932 - Faithless
- 1932 - Pack up Your Troubles
- 1932 - Polly of the Circus
- 1932 - The Beast of the City
- 1932 - Huddle
- 1932 - Lovers Courageous
- 1932 - But the Flesh Is Weak
- 1932 - Blondie of the Follies
- 1932 - Speak Easily
- 1932 - Fast Life
- 1932 - Payment Deferred
- 1932 - Unashamed
- 1932 - Strange Interlude
- 1932 - Rasputin and the Empress
- 1932 - Emma
- 1932 - Red-headed Woman
- 1932 - Arsene Lupin
- 1932 - Washington Masquerade
- 1932 - The Wet Parade
- 1933 - Nana
- 1933 - Dinner at Eight
- 1933 - Queen Christina
- 1933 - Dancing Lady
- 1933 - Made on Broadway
- 1933 - Midnight Mary
- 1933 - Beauty for Sale
- 1933 - Gabriel Over the White House
- 1933 - Turn Back the Clock
- 1933 - Another Language
- 1933 - Going Hollywood
- 1933 - Operator 13
- 1933 - The Secret of Madame Blanche
- 1933 - The Cat and the Fiddle
- 1933 - Today We Live
- 1933 - Red Dust
- 1933 - The Stranger's Return
- 1933 - Storm at Daybreak
- 1933 - The Solitaire Man
- 1933 - Day of Reckoning
- 1933 - The Women in His Life
- 1933 - Bombshell
- 1933 - When Ladies Meet
- 1933 - The White Sister
- 1933 - Hell Below
- 1933 - Peg o' My Heart
- 1933 - Looking Forward
- 1933 - Should Ladies Behave
- 1933 - Hold Your Man
- 1933 - The Barbarian
- 1933 - Penthouse
- 1933 - Stage Mother
- 1933 - Reunion in Vienna
- 1933 - Men Must Fight
- 1934 - The Girl from Missouri
- 1934 - Riptide
- 1934 - The Painted Veil
- 1934 - Chained
- 1934 - Outcast Lady
- 1934 - The Merry Widow
- 1934 - Hollywood Party
- 1934 - Forsaking All Others
- 1934 - La Veuve joyeuse
- 1934 - Sadie McKee
- 1934 - Men in White
- 1934 - Have a Heart
- 1934 - What Every Woman Knows
- 1934 - The Mystery of Mr X
- 1934 - Paris Interlude
- 1934 - The Barretts of Wimpole Street = Forbidden Alliance
- 1935 - Mark of the Vampire
- 1935 - Biography of a Bachelor Girl
- 1935 - No More Ladies
- 1935 - Anna Karenina
- 1935 - Romeo and Juliet
- 1935 - Rose-Marie
- 1935 - China Seas
- 1935 - I Live My Life
- 1935 - Broadway Melody of 1936
- 1935 - Reckless
- 1935 - Naughty Marietta
- 1935 - After Office Hours
- 1936 - The Gorgeous Hussy
- 1936 - Wife vs. Secretary
- 1936 - Love on the Run
- 1936 - Rose Marie
- 1936 - Camille
- 1936 - Born to Dance
- 1936 - The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
- 1936 - The Great Ziegfeld
- 1936 - San Francisco
- 1937 - Between Two Women
- 1937 - Mannequin
- 1937 - Broadway Melody of 1938
- 1937 - The Bride Wore Red
- 1937 - Maytime
- 1937 - The Firefly
- 1937 - Parnell
- 1937 - Double Wedding
- 1938 - Love is a Headache
- 1938 - The Last Gangster
- 1938 - The Shopworn Angel
- 1938 - The Ice Follies of 1939
- 1938 - The Girl of the Golden West
- 1938 - Dramatic School
- 1938 - Vacation from Love
- 1938 - The Shining Hour
- 1938 - The Wizard of Oz
- 1938 - The Great Waltz
- 1938 - The Emperor's Candlesticks
- 1938 - The Toy Wife
- 1938 - Three Loves Has Nancy
- 1938 - Marie-Antoinette
- 1938 - Sweethearts
- 1939 - Ninotchka
- 1939 - Lady of the Tropics
- 1939 - Balalaïka
- 1939 - Strange Cargo
- 1939 - The Women
- 1939 - Honolulu
- 1939 - Idiot's Delight
- 1939 - Broadway Serenade
- 1940 - Comrade X
- 1940 - The Mortal Storm
- 1940 - Dulcy
- 1940 - I Take This Woman
- 1940 - Escape
- 1940 - Waterloo Bridge
- 1940 - Broadway Melody of 1940
- 1940 - Bitter Sweet
- 1940 - Gallant Sons
- 1940 - Pride and Prejudice
- 1940 - New Moon
- 1940 - Come Live with Me
- 1940 - The Philadelphia Story
- 1940 - Boom Town
- 1940 - Susan and God
- 1940 - Florian
- 1941 - When Ladies Meet
- 1941 - Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde
- 1941 - We Were Dancing
- 1941 - Ziegfeld Girl
- 1941 - Woman of the Year
- 1941 - Rage in Heaven
- 1941 - The Feminine Touch
- 1941 - They Met in Bombay
- 1941 - A Woman's Face
- 1941 - Two-Faced Woman
- 1941 - Blossoms in the Dust
- 1941 - Smilin' Through
- 1941 - The Chocolate Soldier
- 1941 - Lady Be Good
- 1942 - They Got Me Covered
- 1942 - Keeper of the Flame
- 1942 - The Crystal Ball
- 1942 - Shadow of a Doubt
- 1943 - Hers to Hold
- 1943 - Hi Diddle Diddle
- 1943 - Sarong Girl
- 1943 - Flight for Freedom
- 1944 - Mrs Parkington
- 1945 - Humoresque
- 1946 - Without Reservations
- 1946 - Possessed
- 1946 - It's a Wonderful Life
- 1947 - The Bishop's Wife
- 1948 - Rope
- 1948 - Smart woman
- 1951 - Lovely to Look At
Couturier
- 1943 - His Butler's Sister
Bibliographie éditoriale
- Ouvrage : Gowns by Adrian : The MGM Years, 1928-1941 / Howard Gutner.- New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2001.
- Ouvrage : In a Glamourous Fashion : The Fabulous Years of Hollywood Costume Design / W. Robert LaVine.- New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980
- Périodique : Variety, 16 septembre 1959
- Site Internet : Gilbert Adrian - Fashion Designer Encyclopedia
- Site Internet : Robin Adrian, son of Gilbert and 'A Star Is Born' actress Janet Gaynor, talks about his father's influence and the renewed interest in his work.
Liens familiaux
Marié(e) à :
- Janet Gaynor - d'août 1939 à septembre 1959 (son décès, 1 enfant)