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Gordon Conway (costume designer)

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Gordon Conway (1894-1956) was an illustrator and costume designer who designed for British films in the 1920s and 1930s. Notable films included High Treason (1929), Sunshine Susie (1931) and The Good Companions (1933). She worked closely with leading film producer Michael Balcon, and is created with establishing the first specialist costume department in Britain's film studios in the early 1930s.[1]

  1. ^ "Raye Virginia Allen. <italic>Gordon Conway: Fashioning a New Woman</italic>. Foreword by William H. Goetzmann. (American Studies Series.) Austin: University of Texas Press. 1997. Pp. xv, 304. Cloth $65.00, paper $34.95". The American Historical Review. 1999-02. doi:10.1086/ahr/104.1.207. ISSN 1937-5239. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)