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
Acteur
- 1938 - Hollywood Goes to Town
Créateur des costumes
- 1927 - The Fighting Eagle
- 1937 - Hollywood Party
Longs métrages
Couturier
- 1943 - His Butler's Sister
Créateur des costumes
- 1925 - The Eagle
- 1925 - What Price Beauty ?
- 1925 - Her Sister from Paris
- 1925 - The Road to Yesterday
- 1925 - Cobra
- 1926 - Young April
- 1926 - For Alimony Only
- 1926 - The Volga Boatman
- 1926 - Gigolo
- 1926 - Fig Leaves
- 1927 - The Little Adventuress
- 1927 - Almost Human
- 1927 - The Main Event
- 1927 - Vanity
- 1927 - Wreck of the Hesperus
- 1927 - The King of Kings
- 1927 - Dress Parade
- 1927 - Chicago
- 1927 - The Wise Wife
- 1927 - The Country Doctor
- 1927 - The Angel of Broadway
- 1927 - My Friend from India
- 1927 - His Dog
- 1927 - The Forbidden Woman
- 1928 - Midnight Madness
- 1928 - Made-Man Women
- 1928 - The Godless Girl
- 1928 - Dream of Love
- 1928 - Skyscraper
- 1928 - The Masks of the Devil
- 1928 - A Woman of Affairs
- 1928 - A Lady of Chance
- 1928 - Tenth Avenue
- 1928 - Let' Er Go Gallegher
- 1928 - Walking Back
- 1928 - The Blue Danube
- 1928 - A Ship Comes in
- 1928 - Hold 'Em Yale
- 1928 - Stand and Deliver
- 1929 - The Kiss
- 1929 - The Single Standart
- 1929 - The Unholy Night
- 1929 - Dynamite
- 1929 - The Last of Mrs Cheyney
- 1929 - Wild Orchids
- 1929 - Marianne
- 1929 - A Single Man
- 1929 - Devil-may-care
- 1929 - The Trial of Mary Dugan
- 1929 - The Thirteenth Chair
- 1929 - Untamed
- 1929 - Our Modern Maidens
- 1929 - Their Own Desire
- 1929 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- 1930 - Le Père célibataire
- 1930 - The Rogue Song
- 1930 - Passion Flower
- 1930 - Not So Dumb
- 1930 - Dance, Fools, Dance
- 1930 - This Mad World
- 1930 - The Lady of Scandal
- 1930 - Paid
- 1930 - Inspiration
- 1930 - Anna Christie
- 1930 - Romance
- 1930 - Madam Satan
- 1930 - Montana Moon
- 1930 - The Florodora Girl
- 1930 - New Moon
- 1930 - The Divorcee
- 1930 - Redemption
- 1930 - Anna Christie
- 1930 - Olympia
- 1930 - A Lady to Love
- 1930 - In Gay Madrid
- 1930 - Die Sehnsucht jeder Frau
- 1930 - Let Us Be Gay
- 1930 - A Lady's Morals
- 1930 - Our Blushing Brides
- 1930 - Si l'empereur savait ça !
- 1931 - The Squaw Man
- 1931 - Quand on est belle
- 1931 - Laughing Sinners
- 1931 - The Man in Possession
- 1931 - This Modern Age
- 1931 - Mata Hari
- 1931 - Private Lives
- 1931 - Grand Hotel
- 1931 - Susan Lenox - Her Fall and Rise
- 1931 - A Free Soul
- 1931 - Five and Ten
- 1931 - The Guardsman
- 1931 - Flying High
- 1931 - Strangers May Kiss
- 1931 - The Bachelor Father
- 1931 - The Sin of Madelon Claudet
- 1931 - The Cuban Love Song
- 1932 - Letty Lynton
- 1932 - As You Desire Me
- 1932 - Pack up Your Troubles
- 1932 - Speak Easily
- 1932 - Fast Life
- 1932 - Unashamed
- 1932 - Strange Interlude
- 1932 - Rasputin and the Empress
- 1932 - Emma
- 1932 - The Son-Daughter
- 1932 - Secrets
- 1932 - Payment Deferred
- 1932 - The Mask of Fu Manchu
- 1932 - Arsene Lupin
- 1932 - Faithless
- 1932 - The Wet Parade
- 1932 - Huddle
- 1932 - Lovers Courageous
- 1932 - But the Flesh Is Weak
- 1932 - Red-headed Woman
- 1932 - Polly of the Circus
- 1932 - The Beast of the City
- 1932 - Blondie of the Follies
- 1932 - Washington Masquerade
- 1933 - Dinner at Eight
- 1933 - Men Must Fight
- 1933 - The Women in His Life
- 1933 - Nana
- 1933 - Bombshell
- 1933 - When Ladies Meet
- 1933 - The White Sister
- 1933 - Hell Below
- 1933 - Red Dust
- 1933 - Queen Christina
- 1933 - Peg o' My Heart
- 1933 - Made on Broadway
- 1933 - Midnight Mary
- 1933 - Dancing Lady
- 1933 - Looking Forward
- 1933 - Hold Your Man
- 1933 - Penthouse
- 1933 - The Stranger's Return
- 1933 - Beauty for Sale
- 1933 - Gabriel Over the White House
- 1933 - Reunion in Vienna
- 1933 - Turn Back the Clock
- 1933 - Another Language
- 1933 - Going Hollywood
- 1933 - The Secret of Madame Blanche
- 1933 - The Cat and the Fiddle
- 1933 - Storm at Daybreak
- 1933 - The Barbarian
- 1933 - Stage Mother
- 1933 - Operator 13
- 1933 - Day of Reckoning
- 1933 - Should Ladies Behave
- 1933 - The Solitaire Man
- 1933 - Today We Live
- 1934 - The Girl from Missouri
- 1934 - Chained
- 1934 - Men in White
- 1934 - The Painted Veil
- 1934 - Sadie McKee
- 1934 - Have a Heart
- 1934 - Outcast Lady
- 1934 - The Merry Widow
- 1934 - What Every Woman Knows
- 1934 - The Mystery of Mr X
- 1934 - Forsaking All Others
- 1934 - Paris Interlude
- 1934 - The Barretts of Wimpole Street = Forbidden Alliance
- 1934 - Hollywood Party
- 1934 - La Veuve joyeuse
- 1934 - Riptide
- 1935 - Mark of the Vampire
- 1935 - No More Ladies
- 1935 - Rose-Marie
- 1935 - Romeo and Juliet
- 1935 - Broadway Melody of 1936
- 1935 - Reckless
- 1935 - Biography of a Bachelor Girl
- 1935 - I Live My Life
- 1935 - After Office Hours
- 1935 - China Seas
- 1935 - Naughty Marietta
- 1935 - Anna Karenina
- 1936 - Born to Dance
- 1936 - Camille
- 1936 - The Gorgeous Hussy
- 1936 - Wife vs. Secretary
- 1936 - The Great Ziegfeld
- 1936 - Love on the Run
- 1936 - San Francisco
- 1936 - The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
- 1936 - Rose Marie
- 1937 - The Bride Wore Red
- 1937 - Mannequin
- 1937 - Between Two Women
- 1937 - Broadway Melody of 1938
- 1937 - The Firefly
- 1937 - Parnell
- 1937 - Double Wedding
- 1937 - Maytime
- 1938 - The Great Waltz
- 1938 - Love is a Headache
- 1938 - The Emperor's Candlesticks
- 1938 - The Last Gangster
- 1938 - The Shopworn Angel
- 1938 - The Ice Follies of 1939
- 1938 - Dramatic School
- 1938 - The Shining Hour
- 1938 - The Toy Wife
- 1938 - Marie-Antoinette
- 1938 - Sweethearts
- 1938 - Vacation from Love
- 1938 - The Girl of the Golden West
- 1938 - Three Loves Has Nancy
- 1938 - The Wizard of Oz
- 1939 - Honolulu
- 1939 - Idiot's Delight
- 1939 - The Women
- 1939 - Ninotchka
- 1939 - Lady of the Tropics
- 1939 - Balalaïka
- 1939 - Broadway Serenade
- 1939 - Strange Cargo
- 1940 - Escape
- 1940 - New Moon
- 1940 - The Mortal Storm
- 1940 - Come Live with Me
- 1940 - Florian
- 1940 - The Philadelphia Story
- 1940 - Boom Town
- 1940 - Dulcy
- 1940 - I Take This Woman
- 1940 - Waterloo Bridge
- 1940 - Comrade X
- 1940 - Susan and God
- 1940 - Broadway Melody of 1940
- 1940 - Bitter Sweet
- 1940 - Gallant Sons
- 1940 - Pride and Prejudice
- 1941 - Smilin' Through
- 1941 - Rage in Heaven
- 1941 - Lady Be Good
- 1941 - The Feminine Touch
- 1941 - They Met in Bombay
- 1941 - When Ladies Meet
- 1941 - Two-Faced Woman
- 1941 - Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde
- 1941 - We Were Dancing
- 1941 - Ziegfeld Girl
- 1941 - Blossoms in the Dust
- 1941 - Woman of the Year
- 1941 - The Chocolate Soldier
- 1941 - A Woman's Face
- 1942 - They Got Me Covered
- 1942 - Keeper of the Flame
- 1942 - The Crystal Ball
- 1942 - Shadow of a Doubt
- 1943 - Flight for Freedom
- 1943 - Hi Diddle Diddle
- 1943 - Hers to Hold
- 1943 - Sarong Girl
- 1944 - Mrs Parkington
- 1945 - Humoresque
- 1946 - Without Reservations
- 1946 - Possessed
- 1946 - It's a Wonderful Life
- 1947 - The Bishop's Wife
- 1948 - Smart woman
- 1948 - Rope
- 1951 - Lovely to Look At
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)