Kay Nelson

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Nationality USA
Birth 14 september 1909
Death 1 september 2003 (at 93 years)

Kay Nelson, née en 1909 , est une costumière américaine.

Biography

Au sein de la 20th Century Fox principalement, Kay Nelson est costumière au cinéma sur près de cinquante films américains, depuis Up in Mabel's Room d'Allan Dwan (1944, avec Marjorie Reynolds et Dennis O'Keefe) jusqu'à La Tête à l'envers de Joshua Logan (1960, avec Anthony Perkins et Jane Fonda). Son dernier film, britannique, est La Marque de Guy Green (1961, avec Maria Schell et Stuart Whitman).

Parmi ses films notables, mentionnons Péché mortel de John M. Stahl (1945, avec Gene Tierney et Cornel Wilde), Chaînes conjugales de Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949, avec Jeanne Crain et Linda Darnell) et Papa longues jambes de Jean Negulesco (1955, avec Fred Astaire et Leslie Caron).

Pour la télévision américaine, elle contribue à un épisode, diffusé en 1952, de la série The Jack Benny Program .

En 1950, Kay Nelson obtient son unique nomination à l'Oscar de la meilleure création de costumes (qu'elle ne gagne pas), pour Maman est étudiante de Lloyd Bacon (1949, avec Loretta Young et Van Johnson).

Best films

Gentleman's Agreement

(1947)
(Costume Design)

Miracle on 34th Street

(1947)
(Costume Design)

Sitting Pretty

(1948)
(Costume Design)

A Letter to Three Wives

(1949)
(Costume Design)

Leave Her to Heaven

(1946)
(Costume Design)

Usually with

Ben Nye
(27 films)

Thomas Little
(27 films)

Lyle Wheeler
(26 films)

Darryl F. Zanuck
(14 films)

Fred Sersen
(14 films)

Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Kay Nelson (38 films)

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Year	Name	Job
1961	The Mark	Costume Design
1960	Tall Story	Costume Design
1955	Daddy Long Legs	Costume Design
1955	Violent Saturday	Costume Design
1955	The Racers	Costume Design
1953	Blowing Wild	Wardrobe Supervisor
1953	A Lion Is in the Streets	Wardrobe Designer
1949	A Letter to Three Wives	Costume Design
1949	Father Was a Fullback	Costume Design
1949	Slattery's Hurricane	Costume Design
1949	Come to the Stable	Costume Designer
1949	Everybody Does It	Costume Design
1949	Thieves' Highway	Costume Design
1948	Call Northside 777	Costume Design
1948	Hollow Triumph	Wardrobe Designer
1948	The Street with No Name	Costume Design
1948	Road House	Costume Design
1948	The Walls of Jericho	Costume Design
1948	Apartment for Peggy	Costume Design
1948	Sitting Pretty	Costume Design
1948	You Were Meant for Me	Costume Design
1947	The Homestretch	Costume Design
1947	Miracle on 34th Street	Costume Design
1947	Gentleman's Agreement	Costume Design
1947	The Crimson Key	Costume Design
1946	Leave Her to Heaven	Costume Design
1946	Home Sweet Homicide	Costume Design
1946	The Dark Corner	Costume Design
1946	Somewhere in the Night	Costume Design
1946	Shock	Costume Design
1946	Do You Love Me	Costume Design
1946	Behind Green Lights	Costume Design
1946	Colonel Effingham's Raid	Costume Design
1946	Margie	Costume Design
1946	Do You Love Me	Costume Design
1945	Hangover Square	Costume Design
1945	Diamond Horseshoe	Costume Design
1945	Within These Walls	Costume Design
1944	Up in Mabel's Room	Costume Design
1944	Winged Victory	Costume Design