This spectacular gown, covered in nearly 2,000,000 hand-sewn glass bugle beads, was designed by Adrian for Joan Crawford in the 1937 film π»ππ π©πππ
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. π°ββοΈ The gown weighs around thirty pounds, is still in existence, and is still in excellent condition considering its age. Despite the filmβs title, π»ππ π©πππ
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was made in black and white, β« βͺ and the color of the dress was not able to be fully appreciated. The dress made its second appearance in π»ππ π©ππ πΊππππ in 1941 in a fashion show scene, πππ where an uncredited extra wore it as a model. Though this film was also in black and white, Groucho Marx explains to the audience, βThis is a bright red dressβ because βTechnicolor is sooo expensive!β Finally, the dress appeared in color in the 1943 film π«π π©ππππ πππ π¨ π³ππ
π, where it was worn without the matching capelet. It was worn by Inez Cooper as βMiss December.β π This gown has been used in even more films than listed above. Find out which ones by visiting our website.
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β’ Joan Crawford examines a costume sketch for The Bride Wore Red , 1937 πͺ
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Up next on my Freddy Krueger movie marathon...Freddy's Nightmares: The Bride Wore Red (1988) on Tubi #tv #television #horror #anightmareonelmstreet #freddysnightmares #thebrideworered #wescraven #RIPWesCraven #freddy #freddykrueger #robertenglund #robertshaye #80s #tubi #nightmare38
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JOAN CRAWFORD in The Bride Wore Red (1937)
β dir. Dorothy Arzner
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I love the fact that the people in the front of the picture are mudlarking, as the bride in her red gown is being photographed, while her new husband in his brown suit looks on. The maroon clad figure in the background is presumably, the brideβs or groomβs mother. Out of picture is a man casting a fishing rod on what must be the dirtiest part of the whole of the Thames #thamesriver #thames #weddingphoto #thebrideworered #mudlarking #london #downthebanks #riverbank (at River Thames)
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A futuristic weddingπππ #wedding #jupiterascending #milakunis #weddingdress #thebrideworered
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Mudlarking #thebrideworered #wedding #wedfingphotography #thames #mudlarking (at London Bridge)
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