Julie Harris : Beatles And Bond Costume Designer Dies at 94, Julie Harris, an Academy Award-winning outfit creator who furnished James Bond and the Beatles, passed on Saturday in London. She was 94.
Her passing was affirmed by Jo Botting, a British Film Institute guardian and companion.
Ms. Harris assumed a noteworthy part in catching the look of "Swinging London" on film in the 1960s. She dressed the Beatles for both "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help!" (She later said, "I must be one of only a handful few individuals who can guarantee they have seen John, Paul, George and Ringo bare.")
She won an Oscar for "Sweetheart," the style-setting 1965 film about London models and media sorts featuring Dirk Bogarde and Julie Christie, and a recompense from Bafta, the British film foundation, for the 1966 Michael Caine parody "The Wrong Box."
She once said of Ms. Christie: "She goaded me to make the skirts shorter. Furthermore, she was correct."
Ms. Harris dealt with the James Bond parody "Gambling club Royale" in 1967 and made ensembles for Roger Moore's first trip as 007, "Live and Let Die," in 1973. She intended for Frank Langella in a 1979 film rendition of "Dracula" and for "The Great Muppet Caper" (1981).
Ms. Harris was conceived on March 26, 1921, in London and learned at the Chelsea School of Art there. She has no quick survivors.
In a meeting with The New York Times in 1966, she said she was regularly mistaken for the observed American on-screen character of the same name, who passed on in 2013 at 87.
"When I first came to New York in 1948, I was so satisfied to see my name in lights on Broadway," she said. "I had such a great amount of needed to be an on-screen character as a young lady, yet my dad said no."
Her passing was affirmed by Jo Botting, a British Film Institute guardian and companion.
Ms. Harris assumed a noteworthy part in catching the look of "Swinging London" on film in the 1960s. She dressed the Beatles for both "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help!" (She later said, "I must be one of only a handful few individuals who can guarantee they have seen John, Paul, George and Ringo bare.")
She won an Oscar for "Sweetheart," the style-setting 1965 film about London models and media sorts featuring Dirk Bogarde and Julie Christie, and a recompense from Bafta, the British film foundation, for the 1966 Michael Caine parody "The Wrong Box."
She once said of Ms. Christie: "She goaded me to make the skirts shorter. Furthermore, she was correct."
Ms. Harris dealt with the James Bond parody "Gambling club Royale" in 1967 and made ensembles for Roger Moore's first trip as 007, "Live and Let Die," in 1973. She intended for Frank Langella in a 1979 film rendition of "Dracula" and for "The Great Muppet Caper" (1981).
Ms. Harris was conceived on March 26, 1921, in London and learned at the Chelsea School of Art there. She has no quick survivors.
In a meeting with The New York Times in 1966, she said she was regularly mistaken for the observed American on-screen character of the same name, who passed on in 2013 at 87.
"When I first came to New York in 1948, I was so satisfied to see my name in lights on Broadway," she said. "I had such a great amount of needed to be an on-screen character as a young lady, yet my dad said no."
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