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Erté(1892-1990)

• Costume Designer
• Art Director
• Costume and Wardrobe Department

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• Alternative names

  • Romaine de Tirtoff Erte

• Born

  • November 23, 1892
  • St. Petersburg, Russia

• Died

  • April 21, 1990
  • Paris, France

• Other works
  Artists and Models (1925). Musical revue. Music by Alfred Goodman, J. Fred Coots, Maurice Ruebens and Sigmund Romberg. Material by Harold Atteridge and Harry Wagstaff Gribble. Lyrics by Clifford Grey. Musical orchestration by Emil Gerstenberger. Musical direction by Oscar Bradley. Costume design by Erté and George Barbier. Choreography by Jack Haskell and Gertrude Hoffmann. Directed by J.J. Shubert and Alexander Leftwich. Winter Garden Theatre: 24 Jun 1925- 7 May 1926 (416 performances). Cast: May Lexander, Al Allison, Herbert Ashton, Yvonne Bacon, Phil Baker, Leon Barter, Leon Bartels, Louise Blackburn, Jay Brennan, Murray Browne, Dorothy Burnell, Joseph Caits, Grace Cantrell, Thelma Carlton, Jane Carroll, Marion Chase, Gloria Christy, Teddy CLaire, Morine Clarke, Herbert Corthell, Arthur Craig, Eileen Culshaw, Marguerite Dalby, Claire de Figaniere, Patricia DeLong, Ferral Dewees, Billy De Wolfe, Jane DObbin, Mildred Douglas, Dorothy Drum, Pudgie Duker, Dottie Ellis, Jean English, Mildred Espy, Alberta Faust, Miriam Fine, Harriet Fowler, Helene Frederic, Catherine Gallimore, Janice Glenn, Gladys Granzow, Sarah Granzow, Toots Gregory, Florence Gunther, Joe Higgins, Shari Hockman, Llora Hoffman [final Broadway appearance], Margie Hoffman, The Gertrude Hoffman Girls, Dorothy Horden, Sunshine Jarrman, Andrew Joachim, May Judels, Kathleen Karr, Thelma Kay, John Kenny, Mary Kissell, Emma Kleigge, FLorence Kolinsky, Ada Landis, Betty Lawrence, Alice MacDonald, Aline MacMahon, Carol Maybury, Lulu McConnell, Billy McKay, Margaret McKay, Margaret Merle, Margie Minor, Maxine Morton, Helen Murray, Evelyn Nelson, Jack Oakie, Gene Owens, Agatha Phillips, Florence Quinn, Stanley Rogers, George Rosener, Marion Ross, Agnes Schrieder, Sid Silvers, Margaret Sloan, Charlotte Suddath, Jacqueline Surprise, Beatrice Swanson, Penn Thornton, Peggy Timmons, Eric Titus, Latrina Trask, Billy B. Van, Dorothy Van Heft, Lew Walker, June Wall, Gene Wallin, Dorothy Weber, Eleanor Willems, Frances Willems, Minerva Wilson, Walter Woolf, Ruth Zackey. Produced by Lee Shubert and J.J. Shubert. Note: These Artist and Model revues were mounted annually from 1923-25 and again produced in 1927, 1930 and 1943.

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  Designed sets and costumes for stage shows, including productions for Ziegfeld Follies and Greenwich Village Follies, from the 1920's onward.

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