May Ruth, a fashion illustrator, became a well-known costume designer who made a cult appearance in films such as The man who fell to the ground, my favorite year s what presence, died. He was 87 years old.
Ruth died peacefully on June 1 at her home in Los Angeles, decorator and family member Brown Foster said. the hollywood reporter.
Ruth also co-directed several projects with director John Frankenheimer, starting with the famous 1996 film Civil War. Andersonville And it was followed by another TNT miniseries, 1997. George WallaceGary Sinis as Governor of Alabama and Thriller on the big screen ronin (1998) and deer games (2000).
Ruth received Emmy nominations for her work Andersonville And the 1991 CBS TV movie Lucy and Desi: Facing a LaughWith Frances Fisher and Maurice Benard.
She earned her first screen credit as a costume designer on Nicolas Roge Hall. The man who fell to the ground (1976), starring David Bowie as the humanoid alien Thomas Jerome Newton.
“I designed it [one] Custom [used early in the film] “It was made of a strange fabric, like braided plastic, about half an inch thick,” he recalled. “It was a gray matter and I thought it would be really good because [Bowie’s character] “There was one person who was weightless and could shake his head when something collided.” The suit had to be sewn, it couldn’t be sewn, he said.
Ruth designed another costume for Bowie, made of lace and tubes, to show that Newton was incredibly dependent on water for his home planet.
David Bowie in 1976 “The Man Who Fell to Earth”
Courtesy of Everett
About Hal Ashby what presence (1979), Ruth designed the English menswear of the 1920s, inherited by Peter Sellers Chance.
In a 2019 interview, he mentioned getting a job as a costume designer when Anne Roth turned down the opportunity to collaborate with a temperamental actress who refused to work if she saw purple or green anywhere on set. He said he rarely spoke to suppliers during production and warned that he would be fired if he did.
Ida May Ruth was born in India on July 12, 1934. She grew up in Jabalpur, attended a boarding school in England and graduated from St. Martin’s Art School in London before embarking on a career as a model and illustrator.
Ruth’s photos regularly appeared in high-quality magazines such as Fashion s heBut in the late 1960s, editors turned to photography to illustrate their fashion outfits and “went to work because it was all photography,” he said in a recent interview with the Costume Designer Guild Legacy Video Series.
He entered the film business as an assistant to costume designer Anthony Mendelssohn. Oh! what a beautiful war (1969) With the help of Brian Duff, an ex-boyfriend who produced the Richard Attenborough film, he later became an illustrator for Yvonne Blake in a Richard Lester film. musketeer of the hour (1973) and four musketeers (1974).
When you came to the United States to work. The man who fell to the groundHe said: “I was very surprised that most of the costumes weren’t painted here, but others did their designs. I would sit there and draw what the costumes would look like.
In the 1980s, he said, the trend was toward buying costumes rather than making them from scratch.
Peter Sellers (right) and Melvin Douglas in 1979’s “Being There”
Artists United / Courtesy of the Everett Collection
In 2018, he said he was working with Peter O’Toole on Richard Benjamin. my favorite year (1982) “was too dangerous” and created a mermaid costume for Daryl Hanna splash (1984) resemble dolphin skin, smoother, with fewer scales, as per Ron Howard’s guidance.
Routh met English production designer Brian Eatwell musketeer of the hourAnd he became her second husband in 1983. They also worked together The man who fell to the ground And other movies, including Marty Feldman Beau Geste’s latest remake (1977) and Michael Schultz Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) Before his death in 2007.
Your resume is also included. the first family (1980), ისტორიაShow history (1981), Caddyshack II (1988), news (1992) and its last credits, 2004 CBS Television Helter SkelterJeremy Davis as Charles Manson. After working with the Bee Gees sergeant peper, he created colorful outfits for his various tours.
A member of the Costume Designers Guild and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Ruth has also taught at Woodbury University in Burbank and mentored design students. (He said he taught at the Freddie Mercury School of Art and later worked with him on Queen’s 1982 music video for “Body Language”, which was banned by MTV because of its nudity.)
The survivors are her stepmother, Joanna (also a costume designer) and Stephanie (landscaper), and her children, Otis, Finton, Otto and Florence.
The memorial is scheduled for Wednesday at 11:30 am at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Guests are invited to raise a glass to Roth at the Hollywood Women’s Club 1749 N. La Brea Ave.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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