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Barbara Karinska (1886–1983)

Costume Designer | Costume and Wardrobe Department | Art Department

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Barbara Karinska built and designed the costumes for the 1948 Vincente Minnelli MGM musical "The Pirate". Vincente Minnelli, after seeing the Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontaine Broadway play, during a vacation break while filming "Meet Me In Saint Louis", decided this would be a perfect production for Judy Garland... See more trivia »

Born:

Varvara Zhmoudsky
in Kharkov, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]

Died:

(age 97) in New York City, New York, USA

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2011 Live from Lincoln Center (TV series)
– New York City Ballet: George Balanchine's 'The Nutcracker' (2011)
 
2011 Jewels (video) (as Karinska)
 
2007 Learn to Be a Princess (video short)
 
2006 Learn to Dance Like a Princess! (video short)
 
1993 The Nutcracker
 
1967 A Midsummer Night's Dream
 
1958 Playhouse 90 (TV series)
– The Nutcracker (1958) (as Karinska)
 
1954 Fly in the Ointment
 
1954 It's the Paris Life (as Karinsky)
 
1953 A Lady Without Camelias (as Kariinska)
 
1948 Joan of Arc (as Karinska)
 
1946 Blue Skies (as Karinsky)
 
1946 Un revenant (as Karinsky)
 
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1956 Elena and Her Men (costume execution - as Karinska)
 
1955 Lola Montès (costume execution - as Karinska)
 
1952 Hans Christian Andersen (ballet costumes executor - as Madame Karinska)
 
1948 The Pirate (costume execution - as Karinska)
 
1947 Unconquered (costume executor - as Madame Barbara Karinska)
 
1946 The Diary of a Chambermaid (costumes: Miss Goddard - as Madame Karinska)
 
1945 Kitty (costume maker - as Madame Karinska)
 
1944 Kismet (costume execution - as Karinska)
 
1944 Lady in the Dark (costumes executor - as Mme. Karinska)
 
1940 Four Flights to Love (period costumes - as Karinsky)
 
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1951 Barbe-Bleue (seamstress - as Karinska)
 
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Alternate Names:

Kariinska | Madame Barbara Karinska | Madame Karinska | Mme. Karinska | Karinska | Karinsky
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"There is Shakespeare for literature and Madame Karinska for costumes." -- George Balanchine. See more »

Trivia:

Barbara Karinska built and designed the costumes for the 1948 Vincente Minnelli MGM musical "The Pirate". Vincente Minnelli, after seeing the Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontaine Broadway play, during a vacation break while filming "Meet Me In Saint Louis", decided this would be a perfect production for Judy Garland... See more »

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