Less than a decade after Marilyn Monroe’s 1962 death, Billy made an emotional decision that, had he lived until friend Debbie Reynolds 2012 auction, he would have severely regretted.
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That fetching Travilla confection fetched just under six million dollars.Īlthough Billy Travilla appreciated the significance of his costumes’ contribution to a film’s plotline, like the former movie studios themselves, he did NOT recognize their eventual financial value. She did so in Beverly Hills in 2012, when her sale of Billy’s “little white halter dress” worn by Marilyn in The Seven Year Itch sold at auction. The significance of film costumes were long ignored by both film fans and the film industry itself … until … Debbie Reynolds made a vital point of showing the world otherwise. Billy’s Bus Stop costumes played as much a vital role in telling that film’s story, as did the acrid Arizona sun. In a movie, costumes play vital supporting roles. It has been accurately said that, clothes may make the man or woman, but costumes make the actor or actress. It was one of the smallest wardrobes ever called for in a major film production, but each piece of clothing she wears helps establish the character of Cherie “chantoosie” in the Blue Dragon Café in Phoenix.” Apparently, even the reporter understood that, stating, “ three-piece wardrobe consists of an abbreviated theatrical costume, a simple and a raincoat. They certainly may have appeared simple, to anyone outside of the film industry but to a costume designer and anyone who understands this art more deeply, those 3 costumes were sheer perfection. The duo was here to film Marilyn Monroe in the role of saloon singer Cherie, opposite Don Murray, as Beauregard Decker, in his first film role.įor the costume designers 93rd film credit, Billy Travilla designed three well thought out pieces that a Los Angeles Times reporter once called simple. In the middle of a mild March in 1956, Director Joshua Logan and Producer Buddy Adler, set up camp in Phoenix at the Arizona State Fair Grounds. Billy Travilla designed the incredible costumes for many of Monroe’s films and Arizona was the shooting location for the last stop on Travilla’s train of iconic Marilyn Monroe styles. While, as a designer, I began my career in Arizona, Billy Travilla and his muse, Marilyn Monroe, did the opposite. The blonde actress, who, herself, raised temperatures in films like, Some Like it Hot … actually experienced both Hollywood spotlights and Arizona sun. It could be said, however, that the intense heat of each, share much in common. The sizzling sun in Arizona is as hot as a studio spotlight in Hollywood.
Billy Travilla and Marilyn Monroe’s Last Stop
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