Elizabeth Haffenden

Elizabeth Haffenden (18 April 1906 – 29 May 1976) was a British costume designer. She was best known for creating the costumes for most of the Gainsborough melodramas in the 1940s and for her longstanding collaboration with Joan Bridge on many notable film productions in latter years. Her accolades include two Academy Awards and a BAFTA Award.

Life and career Elizabeth Haffenden was born in Croydon to wholesale draper James Wilson-Haffenden and Edith Carruthers. Elizabeth Haffenden trained at Croydon School of Art and the Royal College of Art. After working as a commercial artist she entered theatre costume design working with Laurence Irving.

Haffenden's first film costume designs were for Colonel Blood (1933, working alongside art directors Laurence Irving and John Bryan.

In the 1950s Haffenden worked as resident costume designer for the British branch of MGM-British studios, Elstree.

From the late 1950s Haffenden worked as a freelance costume designer with Joan Bridge, who had worked as a Technicolor consultant at Gainsborough in 1946, where the pair met.

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