Elizabeth Haffenden
British costume designer

Elizabeth Haffenden

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British costume designer
Gender:
Female
Places:
United KingdomGreat Britain
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Fashion designerCostume designer
Work field:
Fashion
Birth:
18 April 1906(Croydon)
Death:
29 May 1976(London)
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Elizabeth Haffenden (April 18, 1906 – May 29, 1976) was a British costume designer who won two Academy Awards; the first was for the film Ben-Hur in the category Best Costume design-Color during the 1959 Academy Awards. Her second was for the film A Man for All Seasons during the 1966 Oscars, also for Best Costume design-Color. She also won the BAFTA Award.
Haffenden designed the costumes for most of the Gainsborough Melodramas of the 1940s.

Selected Filmography

  • The Last Waltz (1936)
  • The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
  • The Man in Grey (1943)
  • Fanny by Gaslight (1944)
  • Give Us the Moon (1944)
  • Two Thousand Women (1944)
  • Love Story (1944)
  • Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945)
  • A Place of One's Own (1945)
  • I'll Be Your Sweetheart (1945)
  • Caravan (1946)
  • Bedelia (1946)
  • The Magic Bow (1946)
  • The Man Within (1947)
  • Jassy (1947)
  • Uncle Silas (1947)
  • The First Gentleman (1948)
  • The Bad Lord Byron (1949)
  • Christopher Columbus (1949)
  • Call of the Blood (1949)
  • Ben-Hur (1959)
  • The Sundowners (1960)
  • A Man for All Seasons (1966)
  • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
  • Fiddler on the Roof (1971)