"Bell, Book and Candle" starring Kim Novak, Jimmy Stewart, Elsa Lanchester, Jack Lemmon and Hermione Gingold. Kim Novak stars as a reluctant witch looking for love in NYC.
Director: Richard Quine
Costume Designer: Jean Louis
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Year: 1958

Larry McQueen is a Hollywood Costume Collector who has been collecting and preserving costumes since the early 1980s. We were joined by him over the summer to discuss his collection and history.

"Charade" starring Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Walter Mattheau and James Coburn. Hepburn plays Regina Lampert who is being pursued by three dangerous thieves. Turns out her husband screwed them over which got him murdered.
Director: Stanley Donen
Costume Designer: Hubert de Givenchy
Studio: Universal Picture
Year: 1963

"Now, Voyager" starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper, Ilka Chase and Mary Wickes. Davis stars as a frumpy young woman under the thumb of a domineering mother. With the help of therapy she blossoms into an elegant and independent woman.
Director: Irving Rapper
Costume Designer: Orry-Kelly
Studio: Warner Bros.
Year: 1942

"Easy to Love" starring Esther Williams, Van Johnson, Tony Martin and John Bromfield. Williams plays a water skiing star pining for the love of her boss. After a trip to NYC love gets complicated as well as moist.
Director: Charles Walters and Busby Berkeley
Costume Designer: Helen Rose (Women’s Costumes)
Studio: MGM
Year: 1953

"Million Dollar Mermaid" starring Esther Williams, Victor Mature, Walter Pidgeon and David Brian. Williams stars in the biopic of Annette Kellerman, famed Australian swimming star during the early part of the 20th Century.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Costume Designer: Walter Plunkett and Helen Rose for the musical numbers
Studio: MGM
Year: 1952

"Fiesta" starring Esther Williams, Howard Keel, Rita Moreno and Charles Mauu. Williams stars as a half Tahitian young woman who falls for a transplant from Ohio who inherits a coconut farm.
Director: Robert Alton
Costume Designer: Helen Rose
Studio: MGM
Year: 1950

"Fiesta" starring Esther Williams, Ricardo Montalban, Cyd Chariesse, Mary Astor and John Carroll. Esther Williams plays twins with Ricardo Montalban who wants to be a composer but his father wants him to be a matador.
Director: Richard Thorpe
Costume Designer: Irene (Gowns)
Studio: MGM
Year: 1947

"Bathing Beauty" starring Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Basil Rathbone, Jean Porter, Xavier Cugat and Ethel Smith. Williams stars as a college swim instructor who’s husband is trying to win back her love after a plan to break them up.
Director: George Sidney
Costume Designer: Irene (Gowns) and Irene Sharaff (Water Ballet Costumes)
Studio: MGM
Year: 1944

"Thoroughly Modern Millie" starring Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing, James Fox and John Gavin. Julie Andrews stars as Millie, a modern New York City girl in the 1920s looking for love but getting mixed up in hijinks along the way.
Director: George Roy Hill
Costume Designer: Jean Louis
Studio: Universal Pictures
Year: 1967