Elizabeth Haffenden
Elizabeth Haffenden | |
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| Born |
18 April 1906 Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
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| Died | 29 May 1976 (aged 70) London, England, UK
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| Occupation | Costume designer |
| Years active | 1934–1975 |
Elizabeth Haffenden (18 April 1906 – 29 May 1976) was a British costume designer who won two Academy Awards for Best Costume Design, for Ben-Hur at the 1959 Academy Awards and A Man for All Seasons at the 1966 Academy Awards. She also won the BAFTA Award.
Haffenden designed the costumes for most of the Gainsborough melodramas of the 1940s.
Selected filmography
- The Last Waltz (1936)
- The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
- The Man in Grey (1943)
- Fanny by Gaslight (1944)
- Give Us the Moon (1944)
- Two Thousand Women (1944)
- Love Story (1944)
- Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945)
- A Place of One's Own (1945)
- I'll Be Your Sweetheart (1945)
- Caravan (1946)
- Bedelia (1946)
- The Magic Bow (1946)
- The Man Within (1947)
- Jassy (1947)
- Uncle Silas (1947)
- The First Gentleman (1948)
- The Bad Lord Byron (1949)
- Christopher Columbus (1949)
- Call of the Blood (1949)
- The Spider and the Fly (1949)
- Ben-Hur (1959)
- The Sundowners (1960)
- A Man for All Seasons (1966)
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
- Fiddler on the Roof (1971)