I found out just yesterday that someone will be writing a book about my great-aunt irene. Irene Lentz was a famous Hollywood costume designer until the early 1960's. She usually went by her first name alone - irene - and with a small «i». She was married twice, once to F. Richard Jones, then to Elliot Gibbons, brother of Cedric Gibbons of MGM and creator of the famous gold Oscar statuette.

Aside from being my great aunt (My mother's aunt), she designed for some of the most famous movies of the classic Hollywood era and received two Academy Award Nominations. Some of my personal favorites are her designs for Ginger Rogers in Shall we Dance, Lana Turner in The Postman always rings twice (See Photo to the left), Judy Garland and others in Meet me in St. Louis and Doris Day in Midnight Lace. Other celebrities she dressed were Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, Irene Dunne, Dolores del Rio, Ingrid Bergman, Ann Miller, Katherine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, & Ava Gardner. Some of her elegant fashions can be seen here. Irene designed my mother's wedding dress too. I almost wore it at my own wedding, but couldn't quite get the zipper all the way up in the back no matter how much I dieted to get it there. It just wasn't tailored for my bod.


I wrote a few weeks ago about irene. It was an article titled «My family on Wikipedia». Just since then, I've seen even more documents pop up online about her. I remember years and years ago, when I first googled Irene, there wasn't much at all in the way of articles or images. Now they are simply all over. Here is another article at Time Magazine I found just today.

I'm interested to find out more about this upcoming book about irene. I'll let you know. :)

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