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- Costume Designer
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Adrian Adolph Greenburg, born in Naugatuck, Connecticut, March 3, 1903, to Gilbert and Helena (Pollack) Greenburg. He began his professional career while still attending the New York School for Fine and Applied Arts by contributing to the costumes for "George White's Scandals" in 1921. He is credited for that production by his created name of Gilbert Adrian, a combination of his father's first name and his own. He transferred to NYSFAA's Paris campus in 1922 and while there was hired by Irving Berlin. In the fall of 1922 he returned to New York and began work on Berlin's 1922-1923 edition of "The Music Box Revue". Adrian continued to work on the Berlin reviews as well as other theatrical and film projects.
His big film break was designing costumes for Mae Murray in her first M.G.M. film, The Merry Widow (1925). He was then hired by Natacha Rambova to design for the independent films of her husband, Rudolph Valentino. In mid-1925, after designing costumes for the prologue of "The Gold Rush" at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, Adrian was hired by Cecil B. DeMille to become head of the wardrobe department at his new studio. When DeMille moved to M.G.M. in 1928, Adrian moved there also. When his DeMille contract expired, Adrian signed with M.G.M. and remained with that studio until 1942.
He opened his own very successful couture business and continued to do some films until such time as his business expanded, with a salon in New York as well as Beverly Hills. His fashions were sold in department stores around the U.S. and he was the recipient of the 1944 Coty Award for Fashion. He also received a Lord & Taylor award for his work on Marie Antoinette (1938) in 1938 and a special award from Parsons, the successor to NYSFAA. His last film was Lovely to Look At (1952). He retired from the fashion industry in 1952 after a heart attack. He relocated to Brazil with his wife (since 1938) actress Janet Gaynor and their son, Robin. He returned to the U.S. to do "Grand Hotel", a musical with Viveca Lindfors and Paul Muni and his last career credit was the costume design for the Broadway musical "Camelot". He was working on this production when he died of a heart attack on September 13, 1959. Adrian never received an Oscar.- Born Antonia (Antoñita) Brochalo Lopesino in Sayatón, province of Guadalajara, Spain, in 1917, she was the second of a family of nine brothers and sisters. She was only 14 when she moved to Madrid to attempt a career as an actress in the Spanish film industry. . She had already played her first, and only, leading role in a film (La Famosa Luz María, 1941) when she began a relationship with Spain's then most famous matador, Manolete, who completely fell in love with her despite all advice against the affair coming from the bullfighter's closest environment. Manolete and Lupe Sino were planning their marriage when, in August 1947, a bull by the name of Islero took the matador's life on the arena at Linares (Jaen). . Lupe later married a Mexican lawyer and moved to America, but she soon divorced and came back to live in Spain where she played only a few minor roles in films before she died in 1959.
- Diomira Jacobini was born on 25 May 1899 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress, known for Cento di questi giorni (1933), The Miser's Millions (1913) and Jolly, der Teufelskerl (1921). She was married to Luciano Ghezzi. She died on 13 September 1959 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.