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This short film looks at the extensive wardrobe department that clothed the casts of MGM films into the 1960s.

This short looks at MGM's huge wardrobe department of the past. It's seven buildings housed 200 to 300 employees, who had more than 500,000 yards of fabric to work from. It follows the making of one of the 30 costumes Debbie Reynolds would wear in "The Unsinkable Molly Brown."—SimonJack

This short, released as part of the publicity campaign for Voglio essere amata in un letto d'ottone (1964), tells the story of the red dress worn by Debbie Reynolds in the film's dance number finale. It begins with costume designer Morton Haack, director Charles Walters, and producer Lawrence Weingarten going over preliminary designs. We next see studio seamstresses cutting patterns and making the dress, which includes the hand sewing of sequins. In the final scene, Reynolds and costar Harve Presnell perform a test-dance to make sure that the costume will look its best when the scene is filmed.—David Glagovsky <dglagovsky@prodigy.net>