Elizabeth Haffenden

Elizabeth Haffenden (18 April 1906 – 29 May 1976) was a British costume designer who won two Academy Awards for Best Costume Design, for Ben-Hur at the 1959 Academy Awards[1] and A Man for All Seasons at the 1966 Academy Awards.[2] She also won the BAFTA Award.

Elizabeth Haffenden
Born	18 April 1906 Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
Died	29 May 1976 (aged 70) London, England, UK
Occupation	Costume designer
Years active	1934–1975

Haffenden designed the costumes for most of the Gainsborough melodramas of the 1940s.

Selected filmography

Costumes from Ben-Hur (1959)

• 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)
• The Spider and the Fly (1949)
• Ben-Hur (1959)
• The Sundowners (1960)
• A Man for All Seasons (1966)
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
• Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

References

1. "32nd Academy Awards Winners | Oscar Legacy | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences". Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
2. "39th Academy Awards Winners | Oscar Legacy | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences". oscars.org. Retrieved 7 March 2014.

External links

• Elizabeth Haffenden at IMDb