About

Credited for creating the 'look' of screen legends Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer, couturier and costume designer Gilbert Adrian, known simply as Adrian, became synonymous with the lavish spectacle films of MGM film studios during the 1930s and 1940s. His pioneering mix of Parisian couture and North American sensibilities also influenced the ready-to-wear industry in the United States at the time. Adrian's ability to bring together character and star quality through texture, line and silhouette epitomised the mystique of Hollywood. Silent films in the program are accompanied live by David Bailey on the Gallery's Wurlitzer Organ.

Talk: William Rothman and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock
2010 Daphne Mayo scholar Professor William Rothman explores the intersection between film and philosophy, presenting an introduction to his research which traced the trajectory of Hitchcock's career and the philosophical conflict which provide the key to his authorship as a whole. Professor Rothman will then introduce the 6.00pm screening of Alfred Hitchcock's A Shadow of a Doubt 1943.

Talk: Adrian: Supersized Glamour
Presenter: Roger Leong, Curator, International Fashion and Textiles, National Gallery of Victoria. Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Katharine Hepburn and Judy Garland are just a handful of Hollywood actresses who Adrian transformed into screen goddesses. Roger Leong will discuss the components of Adrian's unique brand of turbocharged glamour. Mr Leong will also introduce the 7.00pm screening of The Women 1939 by director George Cukor.

The Australian Cinematheque gratefully acknowledges the generous assistance of the Academy Film Archive, Museum of Modern Art, British Film Institute, Universal Studios, Hollywood Classics and the National Film and Sound Archive.

List of Works

• Cobra 1925 | Director: Joseph Henabery
• The Eagle 1925 | Director: Clarence Brown
• Her Sister from Paris 1925 | Director: Sidney Franklin
• Fig Leaves 1926 | Director: Howard Hawks
• The Volga Boatman 1926 | Director: Cecil B Demille
• The King of Kings 1927 | Director: Cecil B Demille
• Chicago 1927 | Director: Frank Urson
• A Woman of Affairs 1928 | Director: Clarence Brown
• The Kiss 1929 | Director: Jacques Feyder
• Madam Satan 1930 | Director: Cecil B Demille
• Anna Christie 1930 | Director: Clarence Brown
• Mata Hari 1931 | Director: George Fitzmaurice
• Possessed 1931 | Director: Clarence Brown
• Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise 1931 | Director: Robert Z Leonard
• Red-Headed Woman 1932 | Director: Jack Conway
• Red Dust 1932 | Director: Victor Fleming
• Grand Hotel 1932 | Director: Edmund Goulding
• Dancing Lady 1933 | Director: Robert Z Leonard
• Dinner at Eight 1933 | Director: George Cukor
• Bombshell 1933 | Director: Victor Fleming
• Queen Christina 1933 | Director: Rouben Mamoulian
• Secrets 1933 | Director: Frank Borzage
• Today We Live 1933 | Directors: Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson
• Chained 1934 | Director: Clarence Brown
• The Merry Widow 1934 | Director: Ernst Lubitsch
• Sadie McKee 1934 | Director: Clarence Brown
• Anna Karenina 1935 | Director: Clarence Brown
• Naughty Marietta 1935 | Director: Robert Z Leonard
• Reckless 1935 | Director: Victor Fleming
• Camille 1936 | Director: George Cukor
• The Great Ziegfeld 1936 | Director: Robert Z Leonard
• Romeo and Juliet 1936 | Director: George Cukor
• San Francisco 1936 | Director: W S Van Dyke
• The Great Waltz 1938 | Directors: Julian Duvivier, Victor Fleming, Josef Von Sternberg
• Marie Antoinette 1938 | Director: W S Van Dyke
• Ninotchka 1939 | Director: Ernst Lubitsch
• The Wizard of Oz 1939 | Director: Victor Fleming
• The Women 1939 | Director: Victor Fleming
• The Philadelphia Story 1940 | Director: George Cukor
• Ziegfeld Girl 1941 | Directors: Robert Z Leonard, Busby Berkeley
• Shadow of a Doubt 1943 | Director: Alfred Hitchcock
• Rope 1948 | Director: Alfred Hitchcock