Sophie Wachner

Early life Wachner was born in 1879 in Akron, Ohio, to Jewish immigrant parents from Hungary. In 1919, she moved to Los Angeles to work for Goldwyn Studios. Wachner was well known among the Los Angeles clothiers who supplied Goldwyn Studios' productions. While employed there, Wachner's opinion was greatly respected by the actors and directors she worked with, who "court[ed] her favor exactly as they court the favor of the public". William Wellman and G. B. Manly gave her the nickname 'Colonel Wachner'. Her early work for Goldwyn included costumes for the Hobart Henley film So This Is Marriage, which included a technicolor sequence depicting the story of Bathsheba and David, and He Who Gets Slapped, a 1924 psychological thriller starring Lon Chaney. For the 1930 film Just Imagine, she collaborated with Alice O'Neill and Dolly Tree to create a wardrobe for futuristic 1980s New Yorkers and Martians. Wachner worked in Hollywood for over fifteen years, with her final film Little Lord Fauntleroy being released in 1936.

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