Julie Harris (costume designer)

Diana Julie Harris (26 March 1921 – 30 May 2015) was an English costume designer. She won an Academy Award for her work in the film Darling (1965) and a BAFTA Award for her work in the film The Wrong Box (1966).

Julie Harris
Born
Diana Julie Harris

(1921-03-26)26 March 1921
London, England
Died30 May 2015(2015-05-30) (aged 94)
London, England
OccupationCostume designer
Years active1947–1991

Career

Born in London in 1921,[1] Harris began her career in 1947 at Gainsborough Pictures with Holiday Camp, the forerunner of the Huggett family film series. During her early career she was mentored by Elizabeth Haffenden, and went on to work for the Rank Organisation until that studio wound down its business in the 1950s.[2]

Over the next 30 years, she worked with actors such as Jayne Mansfield, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Lauren Bacall and Alan Ladd and directors Alfred Hitchcock, Joseph Losey, Billy Wilder and John Schlesinger.[2] She made a "mink bikini" (actually made out of rabbit fur) for Diana Dors.[2] She worked steadily on feature films throughout the next three decades, hitting her stride in the 1960s, before shifting her attention to television movies until her retirement in 1991.

Harris won the Oscar for Best Costume Design for Darling in 1965, and the BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design for The Wrong Box in 1967.[2] She also worked on the Beatles' first two live action feature films, A Hard Day's Night (1964), and Help! (1965), quipping that "I must be one of the few people who can claim they have seen John, Paul, George and Ringo naked."[3] She also worked on the James Bond films Live and Let Die and Rollerball with Roger Moore, and the spoof Casino Royale with David Niven[2] Harris also designed costumes for the Carry On film Carry On Cleo (1964), a sword and sandal spoof set in ancient Rome and Egypt,[4] described as "perhaps the best" of the series.[5]

Harris died after a brief illness from a chest infection, aged 94 on 30 May 2015.[3]

Notable credits

Awards and nominations

Academy Awards
Year Category Nominated work Result
1966 Best Costume Design, Black-and-White Darling Won

British Academy Film Awards
Year Category Nominated work Result
1965 Best British Costume Design, Black and White Psyche 59 Nominated
1966 Best British Costume Design, Colour Help! Nominated
1967 The Wrong Box Won
1968 Casino Royale Nominated
1977 Best Costume Design The Slipper and the Rose Nominated

Saturn Awards
Year Category Nominated work Result
1978 Best Costumes The Slipper and the Rose Nominated

References
  • Harper, Sue, Women in British Cinema: Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know. London: Continuum International Publishing Group 2000. ISBN 0-8264-4733-3, pp. 215–16
  1. Harris, Julie. "Julie Harris". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 8 November 2013.
  2. Botting, Josephine (June 1, 2015). "Remembering Julie Harris, costume designer for Bond and Hitchcock". British Film Institute. Retrieved June 1, 2015.
  3. "Designer Julie Harris dies at 94". Belfast Telegraph. 31 May 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  4. Angelini, Sergio. "Carry On Cleo (1964)". BFI Online. Retrieved June 2, 2015.
  5. "Carry On Films". Icon Nominations. United Kingdom: ICONS Ltd. Archived from the original on 20 April 2008. Retrieved 5 June 2009. the 30 Carry On films of producer Peter Rogers and director Gerald Thomas are among the most fondly remembered comedies in British cinema ... Perhaps the best was Carry On Cleo (1964)

Further reading

Williams, Melanie (2016). "The Girl You Don't See: Julie Harris and the Costume Designer in British Cinema". Feminist Media Histories. 2 (2): 71–106. doi:10.1525/fmh.2016.2.2.71.

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