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11 November 2011 4:09 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Self-taught costume designer who dressed Beatty and Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde

Theadora Van Runkle was almost 40 and broke, a commercial illustrator drawing fashion ads for the May Department Stores Company to support her children, when she met the movie costume designer Dorothy Jeakins at a party in Los Angeles in 1966. Jeakins had been in the business a long time by then (from Joan of Arc to The Sound of Music), but she was no sketch artist, and she hired Van Runkle on the spot to do that task for the glum epic Hawaii. The engagement lasted barely a month. As payback, Jeakins later called to say: "I've just been asked to do a little western over at Warner Bros" – she couldn't do it because of conflicting schedules – "and I recommended you."

Van Runkle, who has died of lung cancer aged 83, panicked. She had no design training, but she had »

- Veronica Horwell

1 item from 2011