Costume design
Costume Design
1959 (made)
1959 (made)
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Watercolour sketch, costume design for a woman, possibly the actress Leslie Canon (born 1931), probably created by Cecil Beaton for the film The Doctor's Dilemma, 1959.
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, CBE (14 January 1904 – 18 January 1980) was an English fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre.
The Doctors Dilemma, was a film based on the original 1906 play by George Bernard Shaw. The plot centres on the dilemma of a doctor, Sir Colenso Ridgeon, recently honoured for his work on a revolutionary new cure for tuberculosis. However, his private medical practice, with limited staff and resources, can only treat ten patients at a time. From a selection of fifty patients he must select ten he believes he can cure and who, he believes, are most worthy of being saved.
The film was directed by Anthony Asquith and starred Leslie Caron as the heroine Mrs. Dubedat and Dirk Bogarde as her husband, Louis Dubedat, with John Robinson as the doctor of the title, Sir Colenso Ridgeon. Beaton designed the costumes.
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, CBE (14 January 1904 – 18 January 1980) was an English fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre.
The Doctors Dilemma, was a film based on the original 1906 play by George Bernard Shaw. The plot centres on the dilemma of a doctor, Sir Colenso Ridgeon, recently honoured for his work on a revolutionary new cure for tuberculosis. However, his private medical practice, with limited staff and resources, can only treat ten patients at a time. From a selection of fifty patients he must select ten he believes he can cure and who, he believes, are most worthy of being saved.
The film was directed by Anthony Asquith and starred Leslie Caron as the heroine Mrs. Dubedat and Dirk Bogarde as her husband, Louis Dubedat, with John Robinson as the doctor of the title, Sir Colenso Ridgeon. Beaton designed the costumes.
Object details
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| Title | Costume design (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour paint on beige paper. |
| Brief description | Watercolour sketch showing a full length female figure in a stylised late nineteenth century dress, probably created by Cecil Beaton for the film The Doctor's Dilemma, 1959 |
| Physical description | Watercolour sketch showing a full length female figure in a stylised late nineteenth century dress. The dress has a long trained skirt, the bodice waistline is defined with a pleated sash and the sleeves are full. The figure also wears a long, wide, shawl draped over her right arm, and is holding up the full skirt with her right hand. She is positioned facing forwards and leaning with her left arm on a mantlepiece. |
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| Credit line | Given by the executors of Eileen Hose |
| Object history | The design in this sketch, bears a strong resemblance to a further colour design for a costume created for Leslie Canon in The Doctor's Dilemma, as depicted in Charles Spencer, Cecil Beaton: Stage and Film Design (Academy Editions, London, 1975): 98. |
| Subject depicted | |
| Literary reference | The Doctor's Dilemma |
| Summary | Watercolour sketch, costume design for a woman, possibly the actress Leslie Canon (born 1931), probably created by Cecil Beaton for the film The Doctor's Dilemma, 1959. Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, CBE (14 January 1904 – 18 January 1980) was an English fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. The Doctors Dilemma, was a film based on the original 1906 play by George Bernard Shaw. The plot centres on the dilemma of a doctor, Sir Colenso Ridgeon, recently honoured for his work on a revolutionary new cure for tuberculosis. However, his private medical practice, with limited staff and resources, can only treat ten patients at a time. From a selection of fifty patients he must select ten he believes he can cure and who, he believes, are most worthy of being saved. The film was directed by Anthony Asquith and starred Leslie Caron as the heroine Mrs. Dubedat and Dirk Bogarde as her husband, Louis Dubedat, with John Robinson as the doctor of the title, Sir Colenso Ridgeon. Beaton designed the costumes. |
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| Accession number | S.2204-2014 |
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| Record created | October 28, 2014 |
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