Margaret Furse
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Margaret Furse (18 February 1911 – 8 July 1974) was an English costume designer.
Personal life
She was born Alice Margaret Watts on 18 February 1911 to Punch magazine illustrator Arthur G. Watts and his wife, Phyllis Gordon Watts. She married art director Roger K. Furse on 4 December 1936 at Chelsea Old Church.[1]
Career
She trained at Central School of Art and Design and then joined Motley Theatre Design Group. She became a costume designer in films, her first film was Sir Laurence Olivier’s Henry V as assistant designer to Roger Kemble Furse.[2] She had her own costumier business called New Sheridan House. In 1970, she was awarded an Academy Award for Best Costume Design for Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) and had five other nominations for The Mudlark (1951), Becket (1964), The Lion in Winter (1968), Scrooge (1970) and Mary, Queen of Scots (1971).[3] She was also posthumously awarded an Emmy in 1975 for Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design for "Love Among the Ruins" (ABC Theatre, 6th March 1975) (her only nomination).[4]
Later years
Roger and Margaret Furse divorced. She remarried and remained with her second husband, the Scottish author, film and drama critic Stephen G. Watts (no relation to her parents)[5], until her death from breast cancer on 8 July 1974, in Kensington, London.
A portrait is in the permanent collection of London's National Portrait Gallery. She was also painted by Gluck.
References
- ^ Margaret Furse personal life info. at Yasni.co.uk
- ^ "IMDB Entry for Margaret Furse". IMDB. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
- ^ "The Official Academy Awards Database". Retrieved 12 March 2018.
- ^ "Entry for Margaret Furse on Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Database". Retrieved 12 March 2018.
- ^ Entry for Stephen Watts (1977). Who’s Who in the Theatre (16th ed.). London: Pitman Publishing Ltd. pp. 1232–1233.
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