Mary Grant Price | |
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Born | Eleanor Mary Grant (1917-02-20)20 February 1917 |
Died | 2 March 2002(2002-03-02) (aged 85) Boston,Massachusetts, U.S. |
Alma mater | University of Washington |
Occupation | Costume designer |
Years active | 1943–1972 |
Spouse | |
Children | Victoria Price |
Mary Grant Price (20 February 1917 – 2 March 2002) was a Welsh-American costume designer who worked in theatre and film. She worked professionally under the nameMary Grant. She began her career on Broadway in the mid-1930s, first as an assistant toRaoul Pene Du Bois, and later as a lead designer during the 1940s. In 1943 she began working in film and spent much of the 1940s and 1950s designing costumes for Hollywood motion pictures. She was a member of theAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Price was born Eleanor Mary Grant inBroad Haven,Pembrokeshire,Wales.[1] She studied dance for one semester at theUniversity of Washington before moving to New York City to study design. She began her career as an assistant designer toRaoul Pene Du Bois in 1935 at the age of 18. She also worked during the late 1930s and early 1940s as an assistant toMiles White. She worked with these two men on several notableBroadway shows, including the original productions ofDuBarry Was a Lady (1939),Sons o' Fun (1941), andOklahoma! (1943) among others. As head designer, she designed costumes for eight Broadway shows, includingMexican Hayride (1944) andMarinka (1945).
Between 1943–1972, Grant designed costumes for 14 motion pictures, beginning withFollies Girl which was released in 1943. While working on the filmUp in Central Park (1948) she met actorVincent Price. She became Price's second wife in 1949, becoming the stepmother ofVincent Barrett Price (b. 1940) and giving birth to the couple's daughter,Victoria Price, in 1962. In 1950, the family were living at 1815 Benedict Canyon Drive in Beverly Hills.[2] Between the years 1965 and 1969, Grant co-authored a series of cookbooks with her husband.[3]
Mary and Vincent divorced in 1973. Mary died, aged 85, inBoston, Massachusetts[4]