Orry-Kelly: Dressing Hollywood at ACMI
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Tue 18 Aug 2015 - Sun 17 Jan 2016
The Australian Centre for Moving Image (ACMI) has announced an elegant exhibition filled with all the glamour of the
'golden years of Hollywood', due to open in Melbourne this August.
Orry-Kelly: Dressing Hollywood takes an up-close and personal look at the life of one of Hollywood's most admired costume designers, born and raised right here in Australia.
Born in 1898 in the tiny town of Kiama in New South Wales, Orry-Kelly
(the professional name of Orry George Kelly), studied art and worked as a tailor's apprentice and window dresser before sailing to New York with the intention of becoming an actor. Instead, Orry-Kelly followed a career in art and illustration before making a break into Hollywood designing costumes and sets in the 1930's. The designer worked for all the major film studios and designed pieces for many stars of the Silver Screen including Bette Davis, Kay Francis, Olivia de Havilland, Katharine Hepburn, Dolores del Río, Ava Gardner, Ann Sheridan, Barbara Stanwyck, Marilyn Monro, and Merle Oberon.
Orry-Kelly: Dressing Hollywood opening at the ACMI on 18 August 2015, celebrates the life and works of one of Hollywood's most successful costume designers, with an impressive 285 movies under his name, helping to create countless magical moments in cinematic history.
The exhibition also takes a look into the personal life of the talented costume designer, touching on his life as a proud young gay man and his troubled relationship with great love, Cary Grant.
The exquisite display will feature clippings, paintings, drawings and letters alongside archival footage and photographs, as well as some of the designer's magnificent costumes, objects on loan from prestigious archives and private collections to reflects Orry-Kelly's glamorous career.
To coincide with
Orry-Kelly: Dressing Hollywood, ACMI will screen the documentary Women He's Undressed (2015) from internationally-respected filmmaker Gillian Armstrong.
Orry-Kelly: Dressing Hollywood at ACMI will be FREE for all to enjoy, running from 18 August to 17 January 2016. Visit
acmi.net.au/exhibitions for more information.
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