Innate inside Kiama, New South Wales in Australia, he grew up to survey art there, becoming the sartor's learner & window trimmer inside Sydney. He journeyed to Just released York to pursue an acting career. He shared an flat there by using Charlie Spangles and Cary Grant. The job painting murals in the nightspot led to his employment by Wild dog East Coast studios illustrating titles. He designed costumes & sets for Broadway's Schubert Reviews and George White Scandals. He attend Hollywood within 1932, working for all the major studios (Warner Brothers, Universal, RKO, Fox, & MGM), & intentional for all the peachy actresses of the day, including Bette Davis, Olivia DeHavilland, Katharine Hepburn, Ava Gardner, Anne Sheridan, and Merle Oberon.

He worked in numbers of films okay, deemed classic, including 42nd Street, A Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, Arsenic & Old Lace, Harvey, Oklahoma!, Auntie Mame, & Irma La Douce. He won 3 Academy Awards for costume design (for An U.s. around Paris, Les Girls, & A few Prefer It Hot) & was nominative for the for (for Gypsy).

Died Hollywood, California

Costume design credits

20,000 Years in Sing Sing 42nd Street A Dispatch from Reuters A Lost Lady A Majority of One A Modern Hero A Stolen Life A Very Honorable Guy ''A Woman's Vengeance Affectionately Yours All This and Heaven Too Always in My Heart An American in Paris Angels with Dirty Faces Another Dawn Arsenic and Old Lace As the Earth Turns Auntie Mame Babbitt Baby Face Bedside Berlin Express Big-Hearted Herbert Blondie Johnson Bordertown Bright Lights British Agent Broadway Gondolier Broadway Hostess Cain and Mabel Call It a Day Captured! Casablanca Caught Ceiling Zero Central Airport Central Park China Clipper Colleen College Coach Comet Over Broadway Confession Conflict Convention City Crooner Dames Dangerous Dark Hazard Dark Victory Deported Desirable Devil Dogs of the Air Dr. Monica Easy to Love Edge of Darkness Elmer, the Great Employees' Entrance Ever Since Eve Ex-Lady Family Honeymoon Fashions of 1934 Female First Lady Five Finger Exercise Flirtation Walk Fog Over Frisco For the Love of Mary Four Daughters Four's a Crowd Freshman Love Friends of Mr. Sweeney Frisco Jenny Frisco Kid Gambling Lady Gentlemen Are Born George Washington Slept Here Girl Missing Give Me Your Heart Go Into Your Dance Going Highbrow Gold Diggers of 1933 Gold Diggers of 1935 Gold Diggers of 1937 Goodbye Again Grand Slam Green Light Gypsy Happiness Ahead Hard to Handle Harold Teen Harvey Havana Widows He Was Her Man Hearts Divided Heat Lightning Here Comes Carter Here Comes the Navy Heroes for Sale Hi, Nellie! Hollywood Hotel Honeymoon for Three Housewife I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang I Am a Thief I Found Stella Parish I Live for Love I Married a Doctor I Sell Anything In Caliente In the Cool of the Day In This Our Life Indianapolis Speedway Irma la Douce Isle of Fury It's Love I'm After I've Got Your Number Ivy Jail Break Jezebel Jimmy the Gent Johnny Stool Pigeon Journal of a Crime Juarez Kansas City Princess Kid Galahad King of the Underworld Kings Row Ladies They Talk About Lady Killer Larceny Lawyer Man Les Girls Life Begins Lilly Turner Little Big Shot Living on Velvet London Town Madame DuBarry Mandalay Marked Woman Mary Stevens, M.D. Massacre Maybe It's Love Merry Wives of Reno Midnight Alibi Million Dollar Baby Miss Pacific Fleet Mission to Moscow Mother Wore Tights Mr. Skeffington Murder by an Aristocrat Murder in the Big House Murder in the Clouds My Bill My Love Came Back Mystery of the Wax Museum Night Song No Time for Comedy Now, Voyager Oil for the Lamps of China Oklahoma! Old Acquaintance On Your Toes Once More, My Darling One Touch of Venus One Way Passage One Way Street Page Miss Glory Parachute Jumper Pat and Mike Personal Maid's Secret Picture Snatcher Polo Joe Princess O'Rourke Private Detective Registered Nurse Return of the Terror Rogues' Regiment Satan Met a Lady Scarlet Dawn Secrets of an Actress She Had to Say Yes Shipmates Forever Side Streets Silver Dollar Smarty Snowed Under So Big! Some Like It Hot Something in the Wind Son of a Sailor Sons o' Guns South Sea Sinner Stage Struck Stars Over Broadway Stolen Holiday Stranded Sunday in New York Sweet Adeline Sweet Bird of Youth Take One False Step Temptation That Certain Woman The Adventures of Mark Twain The Big Shakedown The Bride Came C.O.D. The Cabin in the Cotton The Case of the Curious Bride The Case of the Howling Dog The Chapman Report The Circus Clown The Corn Is Green The Crash The Dolly Sisters The Dragon Murder Case The Firebird The Florentine Dagger The Girl from th Avenue The Go Getter The Golden Arrow The Goose and the Gander The Great Lie The Hanging Tree The Hard Way The House on th Street The Irish in Us The Kennel Murder Case The Key The Keyhole The King and the Chorus Girl The King's Vacation The Lady and the Lug The Lady Gambles The Lady Says No The Law in Her Hands The Letter The Life of Jimmy Dolan The Little Foxes The Little Giant The Maltese Falcon The Man Who Came to Dinner The Match King The Mayor of Hell The Merry Frinks The Mind Reader The Narrow Corner The Oklahoma Kid The Old Maid The Pay-Off The Personality Kid The Petrified Forest The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex The Rich Are Always with Us The Right to Live The Sea Hawk The Secret Bride The Shocking Miss Pilgrim The Silk Express The Singing Kid The Singing Marine The Sisters The St. Louis Kid The Star The Strawberry Blonde The Walking Dead The White Angel The White Cockatoo The Widow from Monte Carlo The Woman in Red The Working Man They Call It Sin This Is the Army Three Men on a Horse Three on a Match Throwing a Party Tiger Shark 'Til We Meet Again Times Square Playboy Too Much, Too Soon Tovarich Traveling Saleslady Twenty Million Sweethearts Two Against the World Two for the Seesaw Under the Gun Undertow Upperworld Virginia City Voltaire Watch on the Rhine We're in the Money When Tomorrow Comes While the Patient Slept Wild Bill Hickok Rides Wings of the Navy Winner Take All Woman in Hiding Women Are Like That Women in the Wind Wonder Bar Wonderful Town You Said a Mouthful''