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Adele E. Balkan

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Adele E. Balkan

Birth
Alameda County, California, USA
Death
20 Nov 1999 (aged 92)
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Burial
Westwood, Los Angeles County, California, USA Add to Map
Plot
Room of Prayer, South Wall
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Costume designer and sketch artist for motion pictures and television, with a forty-year career in Hollywood. Worked at RKO Studios, 1947-52 and at 20th Century Fox, 1955-60. Credits include "Fighting Father Dunne" (1948), "The Boy With Green Hair" (1948), "Might Joe Young" (1949), "Two Tickets to Broadway" (1951), "The Fly" (1958), "Blue Denim" (1959), Flaming Star" (1960), "John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!" (1965). She worked as wardrobe supervisor for "The Robe" (1953), "The Ten Commandments" (1956) and "Star!" (1968). Not long before her death, she had helped to create an oral history of her career in Hollywood for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Margaret Herrick Library.
Costume designer and sketch artist for motion pictures and television, with a forty-year career in Hollywood. Worked at RKO Studios, 1947-52 and at 20th Century Fox, 1955-60. Credits include "Fighting Father Dunne" (1948), "The Boy With Green Hair" (1948), "Might Joe Young" (1949), "Two Tickets to Broadway" (1951), "The Fly" (1958), "Blue Denim" (1959), Flaming Star" (1960), "John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!" (1965). She worked as wardrobe supervisor for "The Robe" (1953), "The Ten Commandments" (1956) and "Star!" (1968). Not long before her death, she had helped to create an oral history of her career in Hollywood for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Margaret Herrick Library.

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  • Created by: James Lacy
  • Added: Apr 21, 2013
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/108886467/adele_e-balkan: accessed ), memorial page for Adele E. Balkan (27 Aug 1907–20 Nov 1999), Find a Grave Memorial ID 108886467, citing Westwood Memorial Park, Westwood, Los Angeles County, California, USA; Maintained by James Lacy (contributor 46552116).