Hollywood Costumes Come to Oklahoma City

We celebrated my birthday on Saturday and visited the Oklahoma City of Art for the "Sketch to Screen: The Art of Hollywood Costume Design" exhibit.  I expected it to be impressive, and was delighted, captivated and entertained by this wonderful collection of costumes and design drawings from the age of the silent screen to the movies of the 21st century.

All of the costumes are originals used in the movies with the exception of the three from Gone with the Wind.  Those three costumes designed for Scarlett are reproductions; the originals were not preserved.  Some of the original costumes featured are Mary Pickford's from Tess of the Storm Country , Rudolph Valentino's from Blood and Sand, Jean Harlow's from Bombshell, Claudette Colbert's from Cleopatra, Audrey Hepburn's from Funny Face, Deborah Kerr's from An Affair to Remember, Gregory Peck's eyeglasses and briefcase from To Kill a Mockingbird, Glenn Close's from 1001 Dalmations, as well as costumes from True Lies, Three Amigos, Quigly Down Under, A Foreign Affair, From the Terrace, Valley of the Dolls, Witness for the Prosecution, Apollo 13, Raging Bull, Dick Tracy, Flintstones, X-Men: The Last Stand, Hello Dolly, Mama Mia, The Sound of Music, Ben Hur,  Chicago, The King and I, Camelot, Titanic, and others.  Also displayed are many original designer drawings of the costumes, as well as backgrounds on the movies, costumes, awards, actors and actresses.

If you live in Oklahoma or will be visiting between now and August 15, be sure to put this exhibit on your calendar.  In case you don't already know, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art is home to a comprehensive collection of glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly.    You'll find more information about the museum at http://www.okcmoa.com/aboutokcmoa, about the costume display (including photographs) at  http://www.okcmoa.com//sketchtoscreen  and about the Dale Chihuly collection at http://www.okcmoa.com/exhibitions/dalechihuly-theexhibition/chihulyglass .

Here is a photograph of the multi-storied Eleanor Blake Kirkpatrick Memorial Tower Chihuly sculpture which graces the atruim of the museum.