Oscar-winning British costume designer Julie Harris has
died at the age of 94. She died Saturday May 30th at the Chelsea and
Westminster Hospital in London after a brief illness from a chest infection.
Born Diana Julie Harris in London on March 21, 1921, designed costumes for the
1967 film Casino Royale starring David Niven and Peter Sellers, Goodbye Mr
Chips (1969), Dracula (1979) starring Laurence Olivier and for the Muppets in
The Great Muppet Caper (1981).
On The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958), a producer asked
Harris to raise Jayne Mansfield’s plunging neckline to a more modest level. But
when the star saw that the bar-room girls in the film had more revealing
costumes, she objected strongly. Harris had to adjust all their necklines to be
higher than Mansfield’s.
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