Jean Louis

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Jean Louis (born Jean Louis Berthauldt, October 5, 1907, Paris, France - April 20, 1997, Palm Springs, California, USA) was a French costume designer and multiple Academy Award nominee in Costume Design. His most famous works include Rita Hayworth's black satin strapless dress from Gilda (1946), Marlene Dietrich's celebrated stagewear on her cabaret world tours, as well as the sheer, sparkling gown Marilyn Monroe wore when she sang "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to John F. Kennedy in 1962.

In 1993, six years after the death of his first wife, Louis married former client Loretta Young.

[edit] Academy Award Nominations

• 1950 - Film: Born Yesterday
• 1952 - Film: Affair in Trinidad
• 1953 - Film: From Here to Eternity
• 1954 - Film: It Should Happen To You
• 1954 - Film: A Star Is Born
• 1955 - Film: Queen Bee
• 1957 - Film: Pal Joey
• 1958 - Film: Bell, Book and Candle
• 1961 - Film: Judgment at Nuremberg
• 1961 - Film: Back Street
• 1965 - Film: Ship of Fools
• 1966 - Film: Gambit
• 1967 - Film: Thoroughly Modern Millie

[edit] Actresses Designed For

• Rita Hayworth in Tonight and Every Night, 1945, Gilda, 1946, Affair in Trinidad, 1952, and Salome, 1953
• Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday, 1950 and The Solid Gold Cadillac, 1956
• Gloria Grahame in The Big Heat, 1953
• Deborah Kerr in From Here to Eternity, 1953
• Judy Garland in A Star is Born, 1954
• Joan Crawford in Queen Bee, 1955
• Kim Novak in Picnic, 1955, and Bell, Book, and Candle, 1958
• Kim Novak and Rita Hayworth in Pal Joey, 1957
• Lana Turner in Imitation of Life, 1959
• Doris Day in Pillow Talk (1959) and Send Me No Flowers (1964)
• Marlene Dietrich in The Monte Carlo Story, 1957, and Judgement at Nuremberg, 1961
• Marilyn Monroe in The Misfits, 1961, and Something's Got to Give (unfinished), 1962
• Shirley MacLaine in Gambit, 1966
• Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore, and Carol Channing in Thoroughly Modern Millie, 1967