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Adrian (I) (1903–1959)

Costume Designer | Costume and Wardrobe Department | Miscellaneous Crew

Adrian Adolph Greenburg, born in Naugatuck, Connecticut, March 3, 1903, to Gilbert and Helena (Pollack) Greenburg. He began his professional career while still attending the New York School for Fine and Applied Arts by contributing to the costumes for "George White's Scandals" in 1921. He is credited for that production by his created name of Gilbert Adrian... See full bio »

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Adrian Adolph Greenberg
in Naugatuck, Connecticut, USA

Died:

(age 56) in Hollywood, California, USA
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1961 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV series)
– Episode #14.23 (1961) ("Camelot" costumes - uncredited)
 
1956 Ford Star Jubilee (TV series)
– The Wizard of Oz (1956) (archive footage)
 
1952 Lovely to Look at (gowns)
 
1948 Smart Woman
 
1947 The Bishop's Wife (uncredited)
 
1946 Crepe Is the Star
 
1944 Mrs. Parkington (uncredited)
 
1943 Hi Diddle Diddle
 
1943 They Got Me Covered
 
1943 Flight for Freedom (gowns)
 
1943 The Crystal Ball (gowns)
 
1943 The Powers Girl
 
1942 We Were Dancing (uncredited)
 
1942 Woman of the Year (gowns)
 
1941 Two-Faced Woman (gowns)
 
1941 Smilin' Through (gowns)
 
1941 The Feminine Touch (gowns)
 
1941 The Chocolate Soldier (gowns)
 
1941 Lady Be Good (gowns)
 
1941 When Ladies Meet (gowns)
 
1941 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (gowns)
 
1941 They Met in Bombay (gowns)
 
1941 Blossoms in the Dust (gowns)
 
1941 A Woman's Face (gowns)
 
1941 Ziegfeld Girl
 
1941 Rage in Heaven (gowns)
 
1941 Come Live with Me (gowns)
 
1940 The Philadelphia Story (gowns)
 
1940 Comrade X (gowns)
 
1940 Bitter Sweet (gowns)
 
1940 Escape (gowns)
 
1940 Dulcy (gowns)
 
1940 Boom Town (gowns)
 
1940 Pride and Prejudice (gowns)
 
1940 New Moon (gowns)
 
1940 The Mortal Storm (gowns)
 
1940 Susan and God (gowns)
 
1940 Florian
 
1940 Waterloo Bridge (gowns)
 
1940 Broadway Melody of 1940 (gowns)
 
1940 I Take This Woman (gowns)
 
1939 Balalaika (gowns)
 
1939 Ninotchka (gowns)
 
1939 The Women (gowns)
 
1939 The Wizard of Oz (costumes)
 
1939 Lady of the Tropics (gowns)
 
1939 It's a Wonderful World (gowns)
 
1939 Broadway Serenade (gowns)
 
1939 Honolulu (gowns)
 
1939 Idiot's Delight (gowns)
 
1938 Sweethearts (gowns)
 
1938 Dramatic School (gowns)
 
1938 The Shining Hour (gowns)
 
1938 The Great Waltz (gowns)
 
1938 Vacation from Love (gowns)
 
1938 Three Loves Has Nancy (gowns)
 
1938 The Shopworn Angel (gowns)
 
1938 Marie Antoinette (gowns)
 
1938 The Toy Wife (costumes: women)
 
1938 The Girl of the Golden West (gowns)
 
1938 Love Is a Headache (gowns)
 
1937 Mannequin (gowns)
 
1937 The Last Gangster (gowns)
 
1937 Conquest (gowns)
 
1937 Double Wedding (gowns)
 
1937 The Bride Wore Red (gowns)
 
1937 The Firefly (gowns)
 
1937 Broadway Melody of 1938 (gowns)
 
1937 Between Two Women (gowns)
 
1937 The Emperor's Candlesticks (gowns)
 
1937 Parnell (gowns)
 
1937 Maytime (gowns)
 
1937 The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (gowns)
 
1936 Camille (gowns)
 
1936 Born to Dance (gowns)
 
1936 Love on the Run (gowns)
 
1936 The Gorgeous Hussy (gowns)
 
1936 Romeo and Juliet
 
1936 San Francisco (gowns)
 
1936 The Great Ziegfeld (gowns)
 
1936 Wife vs. Secretary (uncredited)
 
1936 Rose-Marie (gowns)
 
1935 I Live My Life (gowns)
 
1935 Anna Karenina (gowns)
 
1935 Broadway Melody of 1936 (gowns)
 
1935 China Seas (gowns)
 
1935 No More Ladies (gowns)
 
1935 Mark of the Vampire (gowns)
 
1935 Reckless (gowns)
 
1935 Naughty Marietta (gowns)
 
1935 After Office Hours (gowns)
 
1935 La veuve joyeuse
 
1935 Biography of a Bachelor Girl (gowns)
 
1934 Forsaking All Others (gowns)
 
1934 The Painted Veil (gowns)
 
1934 What Every Woman Knows (gowns)
 
1934 Outcast Lady (gowns)
 
1934 The Barretts of Wimpole Street (gowns)
 
1934 Chained (gowns)
 
1934 The Girl from Missouri (gowns)
 
1934 Paris Interlude (uncredited)
 
1934 Operator 13 (gowns)
 
1934 Hollywood Party (costuming by)
 
1934 Sadie McKee (gowns)
 
1934 Riptide (gowns)
 
1934 Men in White (gowns)
 
1934 The Mystery of Mr. X (gowns)
 
1934 The Cat and the Fiddle (gowns)
 
1934 Nana
 
1933 Queen Christina (gowns)
 
1933 Going Hollywood (gowns)
 
1933 The Women in His Life (gowns)
 
1933 Should Ladies Behave (gowns)
 
1933 Dancing Lady (gowns)
 
1933 Bombshell (gowns)
 
1933 The Solitaire Man (gowns)
 
1933 Stage Mother (gowns)
 
1933 Penthouse (gowns)
 
1933 Beauty for Sale (gowns)
 
1933 Turn Back the Clock (gowns)
 
1933 Dinner at Eight (gowns)
 
1933 The Stranger's Return (gowns)
 
1933 Another Language (gowns)
 
1933 Storm at Daybreak (gowns)
 
1933 Midnight Mary (gowns)
 
1933 Hold Your Man (gowns)
 
1933 When Ladies Meet (gowns)
 
1933 Peg o' My Heart (gowns)
 
1933 Made on Broadway (gowns)
 
1933 The Barbarian (gowns)
 
1933 Reunion in Vienna
 
1933 Looking Forward (gowns)
 
1933 Gabriel Over the White House (gowns)
 
1933 The White Sister (gowns)
 
1933 Secrets
 
1933 Today We Live (gowns)
 
1933 Men Must Fight (gowns)
 
1933 The Secret of Madame Blanche (gowns)
 
1932 Strange Interlude (gowns)
 
1932 The Son-Daughter (gowns)
 
1932 Rasputin and the Empress (gowns)
 
1932 Fast Life (gowns - uncredited)
 
1932 Payment Deferred (uncredited)
 
1932 The Mask of Fu Manchu (gowns)
 
1932 Red Dust (gowns)
 
1932 Faithless (gowns)
 
1932 Smilin' Through (gowns)
 
1932 Blondie of the Follies (gowns)
 
1932 The Washington Masquerade (gowns)
 
1932 Unashamed (gowns)
 
1932 Red-Headed Woman (gowns)
 
1932 As You Desire Me (gowns)
 
1932 Huddle (gowns)
 
1932 Letty Lynton
 
1932 Grand Hotel
 
1932 -But the Flesh Is Weak (gowns)
 
1932 The Wet Parade (gowns)
 
1932 Arsène Lupin (gowns)
 
1932 Polly of the Circus (gowns)
 
1932 Lovers Courageous (gowns)
 
1932 Emma (gowns)
 
1931 Mata Hari (gowns)
 
1931 Private Lives (gowns)
 
1931 The Cuban Love Song (gowns)
 
1931 Possessed (gowns)
 
1931 Flying High (gowns)
 
1931 The Guardsman (gowns)
 
1931 The Sin of Madelon Claudet (uncredited)
 
1931 Susan Lenox <Her Fall and Rise> (gowns)
 
1931 The Squaw Man (gowns)
 
1931 This Modern Age (gowns)
 
1931 The Man in Possession (gowns)
 
1931 Five and Ten (gowns)
 
1931 A Free Soul (gowns)
 
1931 Laughing Sinners (gowns)
 
1931 Strangers May Kiss (gowns)
 
1931 Dance, Fools, Dance (gowns)
 
1931 Inspiration (gowns)
 
1931 The Bachelor Father (gowns)
 
1931 Anna Christie
 
1930 Paid (gowns)
 
1930 New Moon (gowns)
 
1930 Passion Flower (gowns)
 
1930 A Lady's Morals (gowns)
 
1930 Madam Satan (gowns)
 
1930 Die Sehnsucht jeder Frau
 
1930 Romance (gowns)
 
1930 Our Blushing Brides (gowns)
 
1930 Let Us Be Gay (gowns)
 
1930 The Florodora Girl
 
1930 The Lady of Scandal (gowns)
 
1930 In Gay Madrid (gowns)
 
1930 The Rogue Song
 
1930 The Divorcee (gowns)
 
1930 This Mad World
 
1930 Redemption
 
1930 Montana Moon (gowns)
 
1930 A Lady to Love
 
1930 Not So Dumb (gowns)
 
1930 Anna Christie (gowns)
 
1929 Their Own Desire (gowns)
 
1929 Devil-May-Care (gowns)
 
1929 Dynamite (gowns)
 
1929 Untamed (gowns)
 
1929 The Kiss (gowns)
 
1929 The Thirteenth Chair (gowns)
 
1929 The Unholy Night (gowns)
 
1929 Our Modern Maidens (gowns)
 
1929 The Single Standard (gowns)
 
1929 The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (gowns)
 
1929 The Trial of Mary Dugan
 
1929 The Godless Girl
 
1929 The Bridge of San Luis Rey
 
1929 Wild Orchids (gowns)
 
1929 A Single Man
 
1929/II Marianne
 
1928 A Woman of Affairs (gowns)
 
1928 A Lady of Chance (gowns)
 
1928 Dream of Love
 
1928 The Masks of the Devil
 
1928 Walking Back
 
1928 Skyscraper
 
1928 Midnight Madness
 
1928 The Blue Danube
 
1928 Stand and Deliver
 
1928 Let 'Er Go Gallegher
 
1928 A Ship Comes In
 
1927/I Almost Human
 
1927 Chicago
 
1927 My Friend from India
 
1927 The Wreck of the Hesperus
 
1927 The Main Event
 
1927 The Forbidden Woman
 
1927 Dress Parade
 
1927 The Wise Wife
 
1927 The Angel of Broadway
 
1927 The Country Doctor
 
1927 The Fighting Eagle
 
1927 His Dog
 
1927 Vanity
 
1927 The King of Kings (uncredited)
 
1927 The Little Adventuress
 
1926 Gigolo
 
1926 For Alimony Only
 
1926 Young April
 
1926 Fig Leaves
 
1926 The Volga Boatman
 
1925 Cobra (as Gilbert Adrian)
 
1925 The Eagle (uncredited)
 
1925 Her Sister from Paris
 
1925 What Price Beauty?
 
1924 The Hooded Falcon
 
Show ShowCostume and Wardrobe Department (17 titles)
1948 Rope (dress: Miss Chandler)
 
1947 Possessed (wardrobe: Miss Crawford)
 
1946 Humoresque (wardrobe: Miss Crawford)
 
1946 Without Reservations (clothes: Miss Colbert)
 
1943 His Butler's Sister (gowns: Miss Durbin)
 
1943 Hers to Hold (gowns: Miss Durbin)
 
1943 Shadow of a Doubt (gowns: Teresa Wright)
 
1942 Keeper of the Flame (gowns: Miss Hepburn)
 
1940 Gallant Sons (gowns: Miss Patrick)
 
1939 The Women (fashion show)
 
1939 The Ice Follies of 1939 (gowns: Miss Crawford)
 
1936 The Great Ziegfeld (gowns: fashion parade)
 
1934 The Merry Widow (gowns: Miss MacDonald)
 
1931 Daddy Long Legs (wardrobe)
 
1929/I Marianne (wardrobe)
 
1927 The King of Kings (wardrobe assistant - uncredited)
 
1924 The Hooded Falcon (costumer)
 
Show ShowMiscellaneous Crew (1 title)
1934 Paris Interlude (fashion show conceived and executed by)
 
Show ShowSelf (2 titles)
1940 Hollywood: Style Center of the World (documentary short)
Himself
 
1938 Hollywood Goes to Town (documentary short)
Himself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (5 titles)
2009 To Oz! The Making of a Classic (video documentary short)
Himself
 
2002 Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star (TV documentary)
Himself - MGM Costume Designer
 
1995 The Hollywood Fashion Machine (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1994 That's Entertainment! III (documentary)
Himself in Film Clip (uncredited)
 
1990 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic (TV documentary)
Himself
 

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Personal Details

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Fashions of 1924 (1923). Musical revue. See more »

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Alternate Names:

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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

"When the glamour goes for Garbo, it goes for me as well." - the reason Adrian gave for leaving MGM. See more »

Trivia:

Credited with creating the padded shoulder fashion trend that became a "trademark" of actress Joan Crawford. See more »

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