Orry-Kelly Net Worth is$7 Million Orry-Kelly Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Orry-Kelly was the professional name of Orry George Kelly (31 December 1897 – 27 February 1964), a prolific Hollywood costume designer.He was born in Kiama, New South Wales, Australia, and was known as Jack Kelly. His father William Kelly, was born on the Isle of Man and was a gentleman tailor in Kiama. Orry was a name of an ancient King of Man. He studied art in Sydney, and worked as a tailor's apprentice and window dresser.He journeyed to New York to pursue an acting career. He shared an apartment there with Charlie Spangles and Cary Grant. A job painting murals in a nightclub led to his employment by Fox East Coast studios illustrating titles. He designed costumes and sets for Broadway's Shubert Revues and George White's Scandals.He went to Hollywood in 1932, working for all the major studios (Warner Brothers, Universal, RKO, 20th Century Fox, and MGM), and designed for all the great actresses of the day, including Bette Davis, Kay Francis, Olivia de Havilland, Katharine Hepburn, Dolores del Río, Ava Gardner, Ann Sheridan, Barbara Stanwyck, and Merle Oberon.He worked on many films now deemed classics, including 42nd Street, The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, Arsenic and Old Lace, Harvey, Oklahoma!, Auntie Mame, and Some Like It Hot.He won three Academy Awards for Best Costume Design (for An American in Paris, Cole Porter's Les Girls, and Some Like It Hot) and was nominated for a fourth (for Gypsy).He wrote a column 'Hollywood Fashion Parade' for the International News Service, owned by William Randolph Hearst, during the war years.A longtime alcoholic, he died of liver cancer in Hollywood and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills). His pallbearers included Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Billy Wilder and George Cukor and his eulogy was read by Jack Warner. His Academy Awards went to Jack Warner's wife, Ann.
Date Of Birth December 31, 1897 Died 1964-02-27 Place Of Birth Kiama, New South Wales, Australia Profession Costume Designer, Costume Department, Miscellaneous Crew Star Sign Capricorn
# Fact 1 His 'long-lost' memoirs, Women I've Undressed: A Memoir, are to be published in August 2015. 2 Was also a renowned oil-painter, designer of neckties, cushions and shawls, and author of an internationally syndicated newspaper column, Hollywood Fashion Parade. 3 The subject of the feature-length Gillian Armstrong-produced documentary film Women He's Undressed (2015). 4 Will be the subject of the special exhibition Orry-Kelly: Dressing Hollywood at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, from 18 August 2015 to 17 January 2016. 5 Biographical profile by Joel Greenberg published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 14, (MUP), 1996, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University (also online). 6 He worked on more than 300 films during his career. 7 His eulogy was read by Jack L. Warner . 8 He was the chief costume designer for Warner Bros. Studios from 1932 to 1944. 9 Exclusive costume/gown designer for Kay Frances.
Costume Designer Title Year Status Character The Maltese Falcon 1941 gowns The Little Foxes 1941 costumes The Bride Came C.O.D. 1941 gowns Throwing a Party 1941 Short Million Dollar Baby 1941 gowns Affectionately Yours 1941 gowns The Great Lie 1941 gowns The Lady and the Lug 1941 Short gowns The Strawberry Blonde 1941 gowns Honeymoon for Three 1941 gowns The Letter 1940 gowns A Dispatch from Reuter's 1940 gowns No Time for Comedy 1940 gowns My Love Came Back 1940 gowns All This, and Heaven Too 1940 costumes The Sea Hawk 1940 costumes by 'Til We Meet Again 1940 gowns Virginia City 1940 uncredited On Your Toes 1939 costumes by The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex 1939 costumes by The Old Maid 1939 costumes by When Tomorrow Comes 1939 uncredited Indianapolis Speedway 1939 gowns Juarez 1939 costumes by Dark Victory 1939 gowns Women in the Wind 1939 gowns The Oklahoma Kid 1939 gowns Wings of the Navy 1939 gowns King of the Underworld 1939 gowns Comet Over Broadway 1938 gowns Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 gowns The Sisters 1938 gowns Secrets of an Actress 1938 gowns Four Daughters 1938 gowns Four's a Crowd 1938 gowns My Bill 1938 gowns Women Are Like That 1938 gowns Jezebel 1938 costumes by Tovarich 1937 gowns Hollywood Hotel 1937 gowns First Lady 1937 gowns It's Love I'm After 1937 gowns That Certain Woman 1937 gowns Confession 1937 gowns The Singing Marine 1937 gowns Ever Since Eve 1937 gowns Another Dawn 1937 gowns Kid Galahad 1937 gowns The Go Getter 1937 gowns Call It a Day 1937 gowns Marked Woman 1937 gowns The King and the Chorus Girl 1937 gowns Green Light 1937 gowns Stolen Holiday 1937 gowns Gold Diggers of 1937 1936 gowns Three Men on a Horse 1936 gowns Polo Joe 1936 gowns Here Comes Carter 1936 gowns Isle of Fury 1936 gowns Cain and Mabel 1936 gowns Give Me Your Heart 1936 gowns Stage Struck 1936 gowns China Clipper 1936 gowns Jailbreak 1936 gowns Satan Met a Lady 1936 gowns Public Enemy's Wife 1936 gowns The White Angel 1936 gowns Murder by an Aristocrat 1936 gowns Hearts Divided 1936 gowns The Golden Arrow 1936 gowns The Law in Her Hands 1936 gowns Sons o' Guns 1936 gowns Times Square Playboy 1936 gowns, uncredited I Married a Doctor 1936 gowns The Singing Kid 1936 gowns Snowed Under 1936 gowns Colleen 1936 gowns The Walking Dead 1936 gowns The Petrified Forest 1936 uncredited Freshman Love 1936 gowns Ceiling Zero 1936 uncredited Dangerous 1935 gowns The Widow from Monte Carlo 1935 gowns Broadway Hostess 1935 gowns Miss Pacific Fleet 1935 gowns Frisco Kid 1935 gowns Stars Over Broadway 1935 as Orry Kelly, gowns I Found Stella Parish 1935 gowns The Payoff 1935 gowns Personal Maid's Secret 1935 gowns Shipmates Forever 1935 gowns I Live for Love 1935 gowns The Goose and the Gander 1935 gowns Special Agent 1935 uncredited Little Big Shot 1935 uncredited Page Miss Glory 1935 gowns We're in the Money 1935 uncredited The Irish in Us 1935 gowns, uncredited Bright Lights 1935 gowns Broadway Gondolier 1935 gowns Front Page Woman 1935 uncredited Going Highbrow 1935 gowns Stranded 1935 gowns Oil for the Lamps of China 1935 gowns The Girl from 10th Avenue 1935 gowns In Caliente 1935 gowns Go Into Your Dance 1935 gowns The Case of the Curious Bride 1935 gowns The Florentine Dagger 1935 gowns Traveling Saleslady 1935 gowns Gold Diggers of 1935 1935 gowns Living on Velvet 1935 gowns While the Patient Slept 1935 gowns Sweet Music 1935 The Woman in Red 1935 gowns Devil Dogs of the Air 1935 uncredited The Right to Live 1935 gowns Maybe It's Love 1935 gowns The White Cockatoo 1935 gowns Bordertown 1935 gowns Sweet Adeline 1934 gowns The Secret Bride 1934 gowns Murder in the Clouds 1934 gowns Babbitt 1934 gowns Flirtation Walk 1934 gowns I Am a Thief 1934 gowns Gentlemen Are Born 1934 gowns The Firebird 1934 gowns The St. Louis Kid 1934 gowns I Sell Anything 1934 gowns Happiness Ahead 1934 gowns Big Hearted Herbert 1934 gowns A Lost Lady 1934 gowns The Case of the Howling Dog 1934 gowns British Agent 1934 gowns Kansas City Princess 1934 gowns Desirable 1934 gowns The Dragon Murder Case 1934 gowns Dames 1934 gowns Housewife 1934 gowns Friends of Mr. Sweeney 1934 gowns Here Comes the Navy 1934 gowns Midnight Alibi 1934 gowns Side Streets 1934 gowns Return of the Terror 1934 The Circus Clown 1934 gowns Dr. Monica 1934 gowns Madame Du Barry 1934 gowns The Personality Kid 1934 gowns Fog Over Frisco 1934 gowns The Key 1934 gowns The Merry Frinks 1934 gowns Smarty 1934 gowns He Was Her Man 1934 gowns Twenty Million Sweethearts 1934 gowns Upperworld 1934 gowns A Very Honorable Guy 1934 gowns Merry Wives of Reno 1934 gowns Harold Teen 1934 gowns Registered Nurse 1934 gowns A Modern Hero 1934 gowns Journal of a Crime 1934 gowns Jimmy the Gent 1934 gowns Gambling Lady 1934 gowns Heat Lightning 1934 gowns Wonder Bar 1934 gowns As the Earth Turns 1934 gowns Fashions of 1934 1934 gowns created and designed by Mandalay 1934 gowns I've Got Your Number 1934 gowns Dark Hazard 1934 gowns Bedside 1934 gowns Hi, Nellie! 1934 gowns Massacre 1934 Easy to Love 1934 gowns The Big Shakedown 1934 gowns Convention City 1933 Lady Killer 1933 gowns The House on 56th Street 1933 gowns Son of a Sailor 1933 gowns Havana Widows 1933 gowns From Headquarters 1933 gowns Female 1933 gowns College Coach 1933 gowns The Kennel Murder Case 1933 as Orry Kelly, gowns Bureau of Missing Persons 1933 uncredited Goodbye Again 1933 gowns Captured! 1933 gowns Voltaire 1933 gowns Mary Stevens, M.D. 1933 gowns She Had to Say Yes 1933 gowns Baby Face 1933 gowns The Narrow Corner 1933 gowns The Mayor of Hell 1933 gowns Heroes for Sale 1933 gowns Private Detective 62 1933 gowns The Silk Express 1933 gowns Irma la Douce 1963 The Life of Jimmy Dolan 1933 gowns Gypsy 1962 costumes designed by Gold Diggers of 1933 1933 gowns The Chapman Report 1962 Ex-Lady 1933 gowns Five Finger Exercise 1962 gowns: Miss Russell Lilly Turner 1933 gowns Sweet Bird of Youth 1962 costumes by Picture Snatcher 1933 gowns A Majority of One 1961 Elmer, the Great 1933 gowns Auntie Mame 1958 costumes designed by The Working Man 1933 gowns Too Much, Too Soon 1958 as Orry Kelly Central Airport 1933 gowns Les Girls 1957 The Little Giant 1933 gowns Oklahoma! 1955 as Orry Kelly, costumes by The Mind Reader 1933 gowns Pat and Mike 1952 The Keyhole 1933 gowns The Lady Says No 1951 Girl Missing 1933 gowns An American in Paris 1951 costumes designed by 42nd Street 1933 gowns Under the Gun 1951 Blondie Johnson 1933 gowns Harvey 1950 as Orry Kelly, gowns Grand Slam 1933 gowns South Sea Sinner 1950 Mystery of the Wax Museum 1933 gowns Colt .45 1950 uncredited Ladies They Talk About 1933 gowns One Way Street 1950 as Orry Kelly Hard to Handle 1933 gowns Woman in Hiding 1950 Parachute Jumper 1933 gowns Undertow 1949 as Orry Kelly, gowns Employees' Entrance 1933 gowns Once More, My Darling 1949 The King's Vacation 1933 gowns Johnny Stool Pigeon 1949 The Match King 1932 gowns Take One False Step 1949 Frisco Jenny 1932 gowns The Lady Gambles 1949 as Orry Kelly, gowns 20,000 Years in Sing Sing 1932 gowns Family Honeymoon 1948 Lawyer Man 1932 gowns Rogues' Regiment 1948 Central Park 1932 gowns Larceny 1948 Silver Dollar 1932 gowns For the Love of Mary 1948 You Said a Mouthful 1932 gowns One Touch of Venus 1948 gowns I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 gowns A Woman's Vengeance 1948 They Call It Sin 1932 gowns Mother Wore Tights 1947 Scarlet Dawn 1932 gowns Something in the Wind 1947 as Orry Kelly, gowns Three on a Match 1932 gowns Ivy 1947 as Orry-Kelly, gowns: Joan Fontaine One Way Passage 1932 gowns The Shocking Miss Pilgrim 1947 The Crash 1932 gowns Temptation 1946 The Cabin in the Cotton 1932 gowns London Town 1946 uncredited Tiger Shark 1932 gowns The Dolly Sisters 1945 Life Begins 1932 gowns Conflict 1945 gowns Two Against the World 1932 gowns The Corn Is Green 1945 Crooner 1932 Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 gowns Jewel Robbery 1932 uncredited Mr. Skeffington 1944 gowns Winner Take All 1932 uncredited The Adventures of Mark Twain 1944 Week-End Marriage 1932 uncredited Old Acquaintance 1943 gowns The Rich Are Always with Us 1932 gowns, uncredited Princess O'Rourke 1943 gowns So Big! 1932 uncredited Watch on the Rhine 1943 gowns Mammy 1930 uncredited This Is the Army 1943 as Pvt. Orry-Kelly The Constant Nymph 1943 gowns Mission to Moscow 1943 gowns Edge of Darkness 1943 gowns The Hard Way 1943 gowns Casablanca 1942 gowns George Washington Slept Here 1942 gowns Now, Voyager 1942 gowns In This Our Life 1942 gowns Murder in the Big House 1942 uncredited Always in My Heart 1942 gowns Kings Row 1942 gowns Wild Bill Hickok Rides 1942 gowns The Man Who Came to Dinner 1942 gowns
Costume Department Title Year Status Character A Stolen Life 1946 wardrobe - as Orry Kelly 'G' Men 1935 wardrobe - uncredited Sunday in New York 1963 wardrobe In the Cool of the Day 1963 wardrobe designer: Jane Fonda Two for the Seesaw 1962 costumes: Miss MacLaine The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 1962 additional gowns: Miss Thulin Some Like It Hot 1959 gowns: Miss Monroe The Hanging Tree 1959 wardrobe: Miss Schell I Confess 1953 wardrobe The Star 1952 gowns: Miss Davis Pat and Mike 1952 wardrobe: Katharine Hepburn Behave Yourself! 1951 gowns: Miss Winters Deported 1950 costume designer: gowns for Marta Toren - as Orry Kelly Caught 1949 gowns: Miss Bel Geddes Berlin Express 1948 gowns: Miss Oberon's - as Orry Kelly Night Song 1947 gowns: Miss Oberon - as Orry Kelly
Miscellaneous Title Year Status Character Wonderful Town 1958 TV Movie clothes: Miss Russell
Self Title Year Status Character The 32nd Annual Academy Awards 1960 TV Special Himself - Winner: Best Costume Design, Black-and-White
Won Awards Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie 2000 Hall of Fame Costume Designers Guild Awards 1960 Oscar Academy Awards, USA Best Costume Design, Black-and-White Some Like It Hot (1959) 1958 Oscar Academy Awards, USA Best Costume Design Les Girls (1957) 1952 Oscar Academy Awards, USA Best Costume Design, Color An American in Paris (1951)
Nominated Awards Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie 1963 Oscar Academy Awards, USA Best Costume Design, Color Gypsy (1962)
Known for movies Casablanca (1942)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Harvey (1950)
$7 Million
