Adrian

Born: 1903-03-03 in Naugatuck, Connecticut, USA

Died: 1959-09-13

Known For: Costume & Make-Up

Biography

Adrian Adolph Greenberg, most widely known as Adrian, was an American costume designer whose most famous costumes were for The Wizard of Oz and other MGM films of the 1930s and 1940s. During his career he designed costumes for over 250 films, and his screen credits usually read as "Gowns by Adrian". On occasion he was credited as Gilbert Adrian, a combination of his father's forename and his own.

Filmography

1994

That's Entertainment! III as (archive footage)

1952

Lovely to Look At ... (Costume Design)

1948

Rope ... (Costume Design)
Smart Woman ... (Costume Designer)

1947

The Bishop's Wife ... (Costume Design)
Possessed ... (Costume Design)
Humoresque ... (Costume Design)

1943

Shadow of a Doubt ... (Costume Design)
Keeper of the Flame ... (Costume Design)
They Got Me Covered ... (Costume Design)
Hi Diddle Diddle ... (Costume Design)
The Crystal Ball ... (Costume Design)

1942

Woman of the Year ... (Costume Design)

1941

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ... (Costume Design)
Ziegfeld Girl ... (Costume Design)
A Woman's Face ... (Costume Design)
Two-Faced Woman ... (Costume Design)
Smilin' Through ... (Costume Design)
Come Live with Me ... (Costume Design)
Rage in Heaven ... (Costume Design)
Blossoms in the Dust ... (Costume Design)
When Ladies Meet ... (Costume Design)
The Feminine Touch ... (Costume Design)
Lady Be Good ... (Costume Designer)

1940

Waterloo Bridge ... (Costume Design)
The Philadelphia Story ... (Costume Design)
Pride and Prejudice ... (Costume Design)
Boom Town ... (Costume Designer)
Strange Cargo ... (Costume Design)
The Mortal Storm ... (Costume Design)
Hollywood: Style Center of the World as Self
Comrade X ... (Costume Design)
Broadway Melody of 1940 ... (Costume Design)
Escape ... (Costume Design)
Bitter Sweet ... (Costume Design)
New Moon ... (Costume Design)
Florian ... (Costume Design)
Susan and God ... (Costume Design)
Dulcy ... (Costume Design)
I Take This Woman ... (Costume Design)
Gallant Sons ... (Costume Design)

1939

The Wizard of Oz ... (Costume Design)
Ninotchka ... (Costume Design)
The Women ... (Costume Design)
Idiot's Delight ... (Costume Design)
Broadway Serenade ... (Costume Design)
Honolulu ... (Costume Designer)
Balalaika ... (Costume Design)
The Ice Follies of 1939 ... (Costume Design)

1938

Marie Antoinette ... (Costume Design)
The Great Waltz ... (Costume Design)
Hollywood Goes to Town as Self
Mannequin ... (Costume Design)
The Shining Hour ... (Costume Design)
The Toy Wife ... (Costume Design)
The Shopworn Angel ... (Costume Design)
Three Loves Has Nancy ... (Costume Design)
Vacation from Love ... (Costume Design)
Sweethearts ... (Costume Design)
Love Is a Headache ... (Costume Design)
Dramatic School ... (Costume Design)

1937

The Last Gangster ... (Costume Design)
Parnell ... (Costume Design)
Maytime ... (Costume Design)
The Romance of Celluloid as Self
The Emperor's Candlesticks ... (Costume Design)
Hollywood Party ... (Costume Design)
Double Wedding ... (Costume Design)
Broadway Melody of 1938 ... (Costume Design)
Conquest ... (Costume Design)
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney ... (Costume Design)
The Firefly ... (Costume Design)
The Bride Wore Red ... (Costume Design)

1936

Camille ... (Costume Design)
The Great Ziegfeld ... (Costume Design)
Wife vs. Secretary ... (Costume Design)
San Francisco ... (Costume Design)
Born to Dance ... (Costume Design)
Romeo and Juliet ... (Costume Design)
Rose Marie ... (Costume Design)
The Gorgeous Hussy ... (Costume Design)
Love on the Run ... (Costume Design)

1935

Anna Karenina ... (Costume Designer)
China Seas ... (Costume Design)
Naughty Marietta ... (Costume Designer)
Mark of the Vampire ... (Costume Design)
I Live My Life ... (Costume Design)
Broadway Melody of 1936 ... (Costume Design)
Reckless ... (Costume Design)
After Office Hours ... (Costume Design)
No More Ladies ... (Costume Design)
Biography of a Bachelor Girl ... (Costume Design)

1934

Queen Christina ... (Costume Design)
The Barretts of Wimpole Street ... (Costume Design)
Chained ... (Costume Design)
Hollywood Party ... (Costume Design)
Riptide ... (Costume Design)
Forsaking All Others ... (Costume Design)
Operator 13 ... (Costume Designer)
Sadie McKee ... (Costume Design)
Men in White ... (Costume Design)
Paris Interlude ... (Costume Design)
The Cat and the Fiddle ... (Costume Design)
What Every Woman Knows ... (Costume Design)
The Mystery of Mr. X ... (Costume Design)
Nana ... (Costume Design)
The Girl from Missouri ... (Costume Design)
Outcast Lady ... (Costume Design)

1933

Dinner at Eight ... (Costume Design)
Dancing Lady ... (Costume Design)
Midnight Mary ... (Costume Design)
Penthouse ... (Costume Design)
Bombshell ... (Costume Design)
The Stranger's Return ... (Costume Design)
Hold Your Man ... (Costume Design)
The White Sister ... (Costume Design)
Today We Live ... (Costume Design)
Stage Mother ... (Costume Design)
When Ladies Meet ... (Costume Design)
Reunion in Vienna ... (Costume Design)
Going Hollywood ... (Costume Design)
Made on Broadway ... (Costume Design)
Gabriel Over the White House ... (Costume Design)
Turn Back the Clock ... (Costume Design)
Secrets ... (Costume Designer)
The Solitaire Man ... (Costume Design)
Looking Forward ... (Costume Design)
Beauty for Sale ... (Costume Design)
The Secret of Madame Blanche ... (Costume Design)
Peg o' My Heart ... (Costume Design)
Storm at Daybreak ... (Costume Design)
Men Must Fight ... (Costume Design)
The Barbarian ... (Costume Design)
Another Language ... (Costume Design)
The Women in His Life ... (Costume Design)
Should Ladies Behave ... (Costume Design)

1932

Grand Hotel ... (Costume Design)
Red Dust ... (Costume Design)
The Mask of Fu Manchu ... (Costume Design)
Arsène Lupin ... (Costume Design)
Rasputin and the Empress ... (Costume Design)
Huddle ... (Costume Design)
Red-Headed Woman ... (Costume Design)
The Wet Parade ... (Costume Design)
The Beast of the City ... (Costume Design)
Letty Lynton ... (Costume Design)
The Son-Daughter ... (Costume Design)
Payment Deferred ... (Costume Design)
As You Desire Me ... (Costume Design)
Polly of the Circus ... (Costume Design)
Smilin' Through ... (Costume Design)
Blondie of the Follies ... (Costume Design)
The Washington Masquerade ... (Costume Design)
Faithless ... (Costume Design)
Lovers Courageous ... (Costume Design)
Emma ... (Costume Design)
But the Flesh Is Weak ... (Costume Design)
Strange Interlude ... (Costume Design)
Unashamed ... (Costume Design)

1931

Susan Lenox ... (Costume Design)
Mata Hari ... (Costume Design)
Possessed ... (Costume Design)
Five and Ten ... (Costume Design)
Dance, Fools, Dance ... (Costume Design)
A Free Soul ... (Costume Design)
This Modern Age ... (Costume Design)
Private Lives ... (Costume Design)
Laughing Sinners ... (Costume Design)
The Squaw Man ... (Costume Design)
Strangers May Kiss ... (Costume Design)
The Cuban Love Song ... (Costume Design)
The Sin of Madelon Claudet ... (Costume Design)
Inspiration ... (Costume Design)
The Guardsman ... (Costume Design)
Flying High ... (Costume Design)
The Man in Possession ... (Costume Design)
The Bachelor Father ... (Costume Design)

1930

Madam Satan ... (Costume Design)
Anna Christie ... (Costume Design)
Passion Flower ... (Costume Design)
Our Blushing Brides ... (Costume Design)
Anna Christie ... (Costume Design)
Romance ... (Costume Designer)
The Divorcee ... (Costume Designer)
The Florodora Girl ... (Costume Design)
Montana Moon ... (Costume Design)
In Gay Madrid ... (Costume Design)
Paid ... (Costume Design)
This Mad World ... (Costume Design)
A Lady to Love ... (Costume Design)
Let Us Be Gay ... (Costume Design)
Redemption ... (Costume Design)
The Rogue Song ... (Costume Design)
Not So Dumb ... (Costume Design)
A Lady's Morals ... (Costume Design)
New Moon ... (Costume Design)
The Lady of Scandal ... (Costume Design)
Every Woman's Longing ... (Costume Design)

1929

The Single Standard ... (Costume Design)
Our Modern Maidens ... (Costume Design)
The Unholy Night ... (Costume Design)
The Kiss ... (Costume Design)
Untamed ... (Costume Design)
Wild Orchids ... (Costume Design)
The Thirteenth Chair ... (Costume Design)
Marianne ... (Costume Design)
Dynamite ... (Costume Design)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey ... (Costume Design)
The Trial of Mary Dugan ... (Costume Design)
Their Own Desire ... (Costume Design)
Devil-May-Care ... (Costume Design)
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney ... (Costume Design)
A Single Man ... (Costume Designer)

1928

A Woman of Affairs ... (Costume Designer)
The Godless Girl ... (Costume Design)
Stand and Deliver ... (Costume Design)
Dream of Love ... (Costume Design)
Let 'Er Go Gallegher ... (Costume Design)
Walking Back ... (Costume Design)
A Lady of Chance ... (Costume Design)
The Masks of the Devil ... (Costume Design)
Man-Made Women ... (Costume Design)
Skyscraper ... (Costume Design)
What Price Beauty? ... (Costume Design)
The Blue Danube ... (Costume Design)
A Ship Comes In ... (Costume Design)
Midnight Madness ... (Costume Design)

1927

The King of Kings ... (Costume Design)
Vanity ... (Costume Design)
Dress Parade ... (Costume Design)
The Angel of Broadway ... (Costume Design)
The Country Doctor ... (Costume Design)
The Fighting Eagle ... (Costume Design)
Chicago ... (Costume Design)
The Forbidden Woman ... (Costume Design)
The Wreck of the Hesperus ... (Costume Design)
My Friend from India ... (Costume Design)
The Wise Wife ... (Costume Design)
Almost Human ... (Costume Design)
The Main Event ... (Costume Design)
The Little Adventuress ... (Costume Design)

1926

Gigolo ... (Costume Design)
Fig Leaves ... (Costume Design)
The Volga Boatman ... (Costume Design)
For Alimony Only ... (Costume Design)
Young April ... (Costume Designer)

1925

Cobra ... (Costume Design)
The Eagle ... (Costume Design)
The Road to Yesterday ... (Costume Design)
Her Sister from Paris ... (Costume Design)