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Title A name given to the resource Details Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Images Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Film Costumes Costume - Film Cataloguing of costumes for Film Location The location of the interview Pulled for AMPAS- 9/21- 1-22 Old Location AMPAS reviewed 1/28/19 Sex Female Location Audit Date February 2022 Actor Claudette Colbert Character Cleopatra Film Title Cleopatra Studio Paramount Production Year Year the Film produced 1934 Time Period Time period in which Film set 48 B.C. Costume Designer Travis Banton Costumer Labels / TAGS / COA / Invoices Invoice dated 12/12/90 from Christie's East New York. paper PARAMOUNT cleaning tag marked [8 70567]. Inventory Photos YES Exhibition Photos YES Photos B/W 2-Best Color Photo NO Lobby Card NO Poster NO Purchase Date 12/12/1990 Purchased From Christies' New York (Lot # 196) Purchase Price 1540 Estimated Value 8000 Past Exhibitions “Cecil B. DeMille: Lights, Camera, Action," Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, CA., April 22, 1994 – June 19, 1994; “Hollywood Glamour," Fashion Institute of Design Merchandising, Los Angeles, CA, March 15, - May 15, 1993; “Cinema Fashion & Hollywood Designers,” The Fashion Foundation, Tokyo Japan, August 1 - August 30, 1995; "Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth," The Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois, October 20, 2001- March 3, 2002; "Hollywood Costume," (V&A-2012-2013), (Melbourne 2013), (VMFA 2013-2014), (Phoenix MOA- 2014), (AMPAS 2014-2015); "Cleopatra" 90th Anniversary of Chinese Theatre and Screening of Restored film, Hollywood, California, May 1, 2017; "Celebrate Texas: Arts & Fashion," Ellen Noel Art Museum of the Permian Basin, Odessa Texas, June 1, 2018 - September 2, 2018. Additional Notes There seems to be some controversy on what the problem was between Claudette Colbert and the costumes designed for the film “Cleopatra,” but there are enough reports that indicate that things did not go well. Cecil B. De Mille, who directed the film and had his own staff at Paramount, had costumes made for Colbert but, as shooting began, she refused to wear them. Travis Banton, who was the head costume designer at Paramount was called in to design a whole new wardrobe to appease the actress. Colbert was known for her incredible body, but she also had very specific ideas on what her flaws were. She requested that Banton expose as much of her chest as possible to detract from what she felt was her thick waist and short neck. It is reported that after rejecting many of his initial designs, she pricked her finger and “x’d” out the designs with her own blood and said that she would cut her wrists if any more bad designs came through. But, working day and night, Banton did come up with designs that appeased the star and costumes were being created overnight for the scenes the next day. Very dramatic stuff and probably the story has been elaborated on over the years. The designs that were created by Banton played more of an homage to the Deco period of the thirties than they did to the actual historical costumes of Egyptian times, but to a large extent, these looks have created an image in the minds of people of what they must have looked like. No undergarments or underpinnings were created and the usually bias cut creations clung to Colbert’s body and left nothing to the imagination. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 00033 Title A name given to the resource Claudette Colbert as Cleopatra in 'Cleopatra' Designed by Travis Banton Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Film Description An account of the resource 1930's inspired Egyptian gown of green silk slipper satin, bias-cut full-length gown ornamented with self-pleated fabric at torso ending in an extremely long train and ten-foot self-satin panels attached at bust. The garment has two cloth labels one hand inscribed [CLAUDETTE COLBERT] and the other inscribed [995-AU3]. 1930's Biography Drama Historical Paramount Travis Banton War