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)
Hi Diddle Diddle ... (Costume Design)
They Got Me Covered ... (Costume Design)
The Crystal Ball ... (Costume Design)

1942

Woman of the Year ... (Costume Design)

1941

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

1940

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

1939

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

1938

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

1937

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

1936

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

1935

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

1934

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

1933

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

1932

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

1931

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

1930

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

1929

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

1928

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

1927

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

1926

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

1925

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