Elizabeth Haffenden

Elizabeth Haffenden
Born	(1906-04-18)April 18, 1906 Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
Died	May 29, 1976(1976-05-29) (aged 70) London, England, UK
Occupation	Costume designer
Years active	1934–1975

Elizabeth Haffenden (April 18, 1906 – May 29, 1976) was a British costume designer who won two Academy Awards; the first was for the film Ben-Hur in the category Best Costume design-Color during the 1959 Academy Awards. Her second was for the film A Man for All Seasons during the 1966 Oscars, also for Best Costume design-Color. She also won the BAFTA Award.

Haffenden designed the costumes for most of the Gainsborough Melodramas of the 1940s.

Selected Filmography

• The Last Waltz (1936)
• The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
• The Man in Grey (1943)
• Fanny by Gaslight (1944)
• Give Us the Moon (1944)
• Two Thousand Women (1944)
• Love Story (1944)
• Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945)
• A Place of One's Own (1945)
• I'll Be Your Sweetheart (1945)
• Caravan (1946)
• Bedelia (1946)
• The Magic Bow (1946)
• The Man Within (1947)
• Jassy (1947)
• Uncle Silas (1947)
• The First Gentleman (1948)
• The Bad Lord Byron (1949)
• Christopher Columbus (1949)
• Call of the Blood (1949)
• Ben-Hur (1959)
• The Sundowners (1960)
• A Man for All Seasons (1966)
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
• Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

External links

• Elizabeth Haffenden at IMDb