Moss Mabry

Moss Mabry
Moss Mabry
Born	July 5, 1918; Marianna, Florida, USA
Died	January 25, 2006 (aged 87); Oceanside, California, US
Education	University of Florida
Occupation	Academy Award-nominated costume designer

Moss Mabry (July 5, 1918 – January 25, 2006) was an American costume designer.

Biography

He started off designing costumes for his high school plays, but actually studied mechanical engineering at the University of Florida. He later went to Hollywood to attend art school, eventually signing a contract with Warner Bros.. Some of the films he worked on included Dial M for Murder and Them! (both 1954), The Manchurian Candidate and

Poster for Mutiny on the Bounty

Mutiny on the Bounty (both 1962), The Silencers, Murderers' Row (both 1966), The Detective (1968), Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), The Shootist and King Kong (both 1976).

Mabry received four Academy Award nominations throughout his career: for Giant in 1956, What a Way to Go! in 1964, spy thriller Morituri in 1965 and The Way We Were in 1973.

One of his most iconic designs was the red jacket sported by James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955). Mabry declared that his most difficult filmic assignment was the multiple costume changes required for Elizabeth Taylor in "Giant" (1956), which called for 42 changes of clothing.

gollark: What I would probably do is:- utterly refactor entire thing and do cool™ things like ECS- explicit change tracking in some way- just represent the entire game state as a big tree, and apply diffing to determine what needs to be saved- accursuously just put everything in SQLite

gollark: Sounds perfect and without flaw.

gollark: So... it isn't saved while they're there?

gollark: I should also not do this.

gollark: I should not.

External links

Moss Mabry on IMDb

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