Renié and Leland Conley costume design collection
Scope and Contents
This collection includes production stills, costuming notes, and costume illustrations from various film projects worked on by American costume designer Renié. Costume illustrations include swatches of fabric. Illustrations for films include The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951), Tonight We Sing (1953), The Big Fisherman (1959), Snow White and the Three Stooges (1961), and Cleopatra (1963). The stills cover her early career at RKO and include notes on fabrics and construction. The Costume Breakdown for Cleopatra binder contains costuming notes and swatches for Cleopatra’s handmaidens and other minor characters.
Dates
- Creation: c. 1940-1966
Creator
- Renie (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Advance notice required for access.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Cinematic Arts Library at ctlibarc@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Cinematic Arts Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Biographical / Historical
Renié Conley was an American costume designer who was trained at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles and at UCLA before serving her apprenticeship as a theatrical set designer. She then became a sketch artist for MGM and Paramount. Conley was active in film costume design from 1937-1981. Nominated for five Academy Awards, she won an Oscar for her work on the costumes of Cleopatra (1963), in collaboration with star designer Irene Sharaff. Conley was one of the founders and past presidents of the Costume Designers Guild, she later taught in Los Angeles.
Extent
6.35 Linear Feet (3 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection includes production stills, costuming notes, and costume illustrations from various film projects worked on by American costume designer Renié.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Renié Conley and her husband Leland, October 1, 1976.
Processing Information
Collection is partially processed.
Subject
- Renie -- Archives (Person)
- Title
- Finding Aid for the Renié and Leland Conley costume design collection
- Status
- Unprocessed
- Author
- Sarah Jardini for History Associates Incorporated
- Date
- 2022 April
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library Repository
Doheny Memorial Library G4
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0185 United States
ctlibarc@usc.edu