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F I L M S A N D V I D E O M E D I A
1910S
Cruel, Cruel Love. Directed by George Nichols and Mack Sennett. Keystone Film
Company, 1914.
Lucille Love: The Girl of Mystery. Directed by Francis Ford. Universal Film Manu-
facturing, 1914.
Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World’s Fair at San Francisco. Directed by Roscoe
‘‘Fatty’ Arbuckle and Mabel Normand. Keystone Film Company, 1915.
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The Forbidden Path. Directed by J. Gordon Edwards. Fox Film Corporation,
1918.
1920S
Fine Manners. Directed by Richard Rosson. Famous Players-Lasky Corporation,
1926.
Head Over Heels. Directed by Paul Bern and Victor Schertzinger. Goldwyn Pic-
tures Corporation, 1922.
Ladies of the Mob. Directed by William A. Wellman. Paramount Famous Lasky
Corporation, 1928.
Rolled Stockings. Directed by Richard Rosson. Paramount Famous Lasky Corpora-
tion, 1927.
The Law Forbids. Directed by Jess Robbins. Universal Pictures, 1924.
1930S
Big Business Girl. Directed by William A. Seiter. Vitaphone Corporation, 1931.
Curly Top. Directed by Irving Cummings. Fox Film Corporation, 1935.
Front Page Woman. Directed by Michael Curtiz. Warner Bros. Pictures, 1935.
Grand Hotel. Directed by Edmund Goulding. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1932.
It Happened One Night. Directed by Frank Capra. Columbia Pictures Corpora-
tion, 1934.
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. Directed by Frank Capra. Frank Capra Productions,
1936.
No Man of Her Own. Directed by Wesley Ruggles. Paramount Pictures, 1932.
Platinum Blonde. Directed by Frank Capra. Columbia Pictures Corporation, 1931.
Storm in a Teacup. Directed by Ian Dalrymple and Victor Saville. Victor Saville
Productions, 1937.
The Divorcee. Directed by Robert Z. Leonard. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1930.
The Thin Man. Directed by W. S. Van Dyke. Cosmopolitan Productions, 1934.
Wife vs. Secretary. Directed by Clarence Brown. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1936.
You Can’t Take It With You. Directed by Frank Capra. Columbia Pictures Corpo-
ration, 1938.
1940S
A Song to Remember. Directed by Charles Vidor. Columbia Pictures Corporation, 1945.
Adam’s Rib. Directed by George Cukor. Loew’s, 1949.
Anchors Aweigh. Directed by George Sidney. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1945.
Casablanca. Directed by Michael Curtiz. Warner Bros. Pictures, 1942.
His Girl Friday. Directed by Howard Hawks. Columbia Pictures Corporation, 1940.
Hollywood Canteen. Directed by Delmer Daves. Warner Bros. Pictures, 1944.
Lost Weekend. Directed by Billy Wilder. Paramount Pictures, 1945.
Manpower. Directed by Raoul Walsh. Warner Bros. Pictures, 1941.
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Mildred Pierce. Directed by Michael Curtiz. Warner Bros.-First National Pictures, 1945.
Miracle on 34th Street. Directed by George Seaton. Twentieth Century Fox Film
Corporation, 1947.
Notorious. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Vanguard Films, 1946.
Spellbound. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Vanguard Films, 1945.
Suspicion. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. RKO Radio Pictures, 1941.
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer. Directed by Irving Reis. RKO Radio Pictures, 1947.
The Best Years of Our Lives. Directed by William Wyler. Samuel Goldwyn Com-
pany, 1946.
The Great Man’s Lady. Directed by William A. Wellman. Paramount Pictures, 1942.
The Maltese Falcon. Directed by John Huston. Warner Bros. Pictures, 1941.
The Philadelphia Story. Directed by George Cukor. Loew’s, 1940.
The Postman Always Rings Twice. Directed by Tay Garnett. Loew’s, 1946.
The Well-Groomed Bride. Directed by Sidney Lanfield. Paramount Pictures, 1946.
Woman of the Year. Directed by George Stevens. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1942.
M U S E U M S , ORGANIZATIONS, SPECIAL
CO LLE C T I O N S , AND USEF UL WEBSITES
MUSEUMS AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Bata Shoe Museum
327 Bloor Street West
Toronto, ON
Canada M5S 1W7
416-979-7799
www.batashoemuseum.ca
Chicago Historical Museum
An extensive collection of more than 50,000 costume and textile artifacts,
designed by and worn by Chicagoans from the famous (Abraham Lincoln and
Michael Jordan) to everyday people.
Cincinnati Art Museum
Has an extensive costume and textile collection, searchable online.
953 Eden Park Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45202
513-721-2787
www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org
Costume Museum of Canada
Contains more than 35,000 artifacts from more than 400 years, including design-
ers such as Chanel.
109 Pacific Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba
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Canada, R3B 0M1
204-989-0072
www.costumemuseum.com
Elizabeth Sage Hist
oric Costume Collection
Includes ‘ military, occupational, and sports uniforms; hand-crafted haute couture
ensembles; ready-to-wear apparel … garments designed by Hoosier natives
Bill Blass and Norman Norell and home sewing patterns’’ (from the website).
Indiana University-Bloomington
1021 East Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
812-855-5497
www.indiana.edu/sagecoll/
Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising
Includes more than 10,000 costumes, accessories and textiles, from the eighteenth
century to the present
919 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90015 1421
213-623-5821
www.fidm.edu/resources/museumþgalleries/index.html
Fashion Institute of Technology
The Museum
One of the few museums in the world devoted entirely to fashion design, span-
ning more than 250 years of fashion and textiles.
Seventh Avenue at 27th Street
New York, NY 10001 5992
212-217-5800
www.fitnyc.edu/aspx/Content.aspx?menu¼FutureGlobal:Museum
Goldstein Museum of Design
Selections from the Costume Collection are searchable online. It ‘‘features works
from designers Elsa Schiaparelli and Issey Miyake to a Chinese Imperial Robe;
from an assortment of beaded handbags to children’s shoes’ (from the website).
University of Minnesota
240 McNeal Hall
1985 Buford Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108
612-624-7434
http://goldstein.che.umn.edu/
Henry Ford Museum
The Clothing and Personal Effects Collection contains more than 10,000 items
from 1750 to the present.
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P.O. Box 1970
Dearborn, MI 48121
313-982-6001
www.hfmgv.org/
Hope B. McCormick Costume Collection
1601 N. Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60614
312-642-5035
www.chicagohs.org
Indiana State Museum
Features an online catalog of clothes donated to the museum, with items from
the nineteenth century through the twentieth century.
202 N. Alabama Street
Indianapolis, IN 46204
317-232-1637
www.in.gov/ism/
Kent State University Museum
The museum provides an online dictionary of fashion, ‘‘Bisonnette on Costume’’ by
Anne Bissonette, curator of the Fashion Museum at Kent State, featuring pho-
