Costume design featuring Elizabethan headdress from The Greenwich Village Follies
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Title
Costume design featuring Elizabethan headdress from The Greenwich Village Follies
Collection
Greenwich Village Follies designs
Costumes
Charles LeMaire
Names
Le Maire, Charles (Costume designer)
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1925 - 1926
Library Location
Billy Rose Theatre Division
Shelf locator: *T-Vim 2010-081
Subjects
Anderson, John Murray. Greenwich Village Follies
Genres
Costume Design Drawings
Design Drawings
Notes
Biographical/Historical: Charles Le Maire designed costumes, with Mark Mooring, for the 1925 Greenwich Village Follies, having designed the costumes for the revue's more famous rival, the Ziegfeld Follies, a year earlier. He began his design career for theater in the 1920's and later worked in film, becoming the director of wardrobe at 20th Century Fox Studios from 1942-1960.
Physical Description
Pencil and ink, metallic paint and gouche on wove paper
Abstract
Original color costume and set designs for the theater production Greenwich Village Follies; a musical revue performed in two acts originally presented in a small Greenwich Village theatre but later moved to larger playhouses uptown. Editions were offered from 1919 through 1925 and again in 1928. The production is based on the book by John Murray Anderson, dialogue is by Thomas J. Gray, lyrics by John Murray Anderson and Arthur Swanstrom, music by A. Baldwin Sloane and costume designs by James Reynolds. A collection of costume sketches and set designs by Mark Mooring, Gilbert Adrian (Adrian), Henriette Dallett, James Reynolds, Herman Rosse, Charles LeMaire, Erté, Kiviat, Kivette, Franke, Alice V. O'Neill, Robert Ten Eyck Stevenson, Clifton & DeRex and Dallet McRae.
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NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b18891416
Archives ID: 22052
Archives EAD ID: 1079813
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 8dbcaa10-c607-012f-60a6-58d385a7bc34
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Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "Costume design featuring Elizabethan headdress from The Greenwich Village Follies" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1925 - 1926. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8dbcaa10-c607-012f-60a6-58d385a7bc34
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Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. (1925 - 1926). Costume design featuring Elizabethan headdress from The Greenwich Village Follies Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8dbcaa10-c607-012f-60a6-58d385a7bc34
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Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "Costume design featuring Elizabethan headdress from The Greenwich Village Follies" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 4, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8dbcaa10-c607-012f-60a6-58d385a7bc34
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