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Known ForCostume & Make-Up

GenderMale

Born / DiedAug 17, 1894 (Died at 64)

Zodiac Sign♌Leo

Place of BirthWaco, Texas, USA

Career Span1925 – 1958

Known Credits187 Titles

Official Links

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Costume & Make-UpPopularity Score 0.7

Travis Banton

Total Works

187

187 movies • 0 shows

Avg Rating

6.5 / 10

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Biography

Travis Banton (August 18, 1894 – February 2, 1958) was an American costume designer. He is perhaps best known for his long collaboration with actress Marlene Dietrich and director Josef von Sternberg. He is generally considered one of the most important Hollywood costume designers of the golden age.

Signature Roles & Milestones

Top-rated highlights from Travis Banton's career

7.6

Scarlet Street

1945•movie

Role: Costume Designer

7.6

My Man Godfrey

1936•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.8

Letter from an Unknown Woman

1948•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.2

Wings

1927•movie

Role: Costume Design

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Full Filmography & Credits

Showing 187 titles featuring Travis Banton

7.6

Scarlet Street

1945•movie

Role: Costume Designer

7.6

My Man Godfrey

1936•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.8

Letter from an Unknown Woman

1948•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.2

Wings

1927•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.2

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1931•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.4

Trouble in Paradise

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.3

The Paradine Case

1947•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Shanghai Express

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.2

The Mark of Zorro

1940•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.1

Design for Living

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

Morocco

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

Secret Beyond the Door

1947•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.1

A Farewell to Arms

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.8

Blonde Venus

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.9

The Scarlet Empress

1934•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.4

The Return of Frank James

1940•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.9

Man Hunt

1941•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

The Docks of New York

1928•movie

Role: Costume Designer

6.3

Nothing Sacred

1937•movie

Role: Costume Designer

7.0

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

1938•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.1

Cleopatra

1934•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.4

Cover Girl

1944•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.4

The Last Command

1928•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.6

Love Me Tonight

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.0

Western Union

1941•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Imitation of Life

1934•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.1

Ruggles of Red Gap

1935•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.4

One Hour with You

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Dishonored

1931•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.7

Angel

1937•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.4

The Devil Is a Woman

1935•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.9

1927•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.8

Canyon Passage

1946•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.2

Easy Living

1937•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

Blood and Sand

1941•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.4

I'm No Angel

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.1

Made for Each Other

1939•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.2

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

1945•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.6

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

1935•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Desire

1936•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.3

Death Takes a Holiday

1934•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.7

Intermezzo: A Love Story

1939•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.6

Wonder Man

1945•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

The Story of Temple Drake

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.1

Supernatural

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.2

The Velvet Touch

1948•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.1

Sun Valley Serenade

1941•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.4

Down Argentine Way

1940•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.6

The Eagle and the Hawk

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.1

The Song of Songs

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.7

The Canary Murder Case

1929•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.6

A Yank in the R.A.F.

1941•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

No Man of Her Own

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.4

Kiss and Make-Up

1934•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.7

International House

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.0

Children of Divorce

1927•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.1

True Confession

1937•movie

Role: Costume Designer

5.6

Goin' to Town

1935•movie

Role: Costume Designer

6.5

The General Died at Dawn

1936•movie

Role: Costume Designer

5.3

Daughter of the Dragon

1931•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.9

Eternally Yours

1939•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.3

Mourning Becomes Electra

1947•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.3

Night After Night

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.1

The Milky Way

1936•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.2

That Night in Rio

1941•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Hands Across the Table

1935•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

Monte Carlo

1930•movie

Role: Costume Designer

6.2

Raffles

1939•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

Internes Can't Take Money

1937•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.2

The Princess Comes Across

1936•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.1

The Benson Murder Case

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.3

An American Tragedy

1931•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.1

Bulldog Drummond Escapes

1937•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

Moon Over Miami

1941•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.9

Belle Starr

1941•movie

Role: Costumer

6.3

The Man I Married

1940•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.1

Devil and the Deep

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.1

Love Before Breakfast

1936•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.7

The Gilded Lily

1935•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.7

Murder at the Vanities

1934•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.8

The Wild Party

1929•movie

Role: Costume Designer

6.1

Belle of the Nineties

1934•movie

Role: Costume Designer

4.6

Ladies' Man

1931•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.9

Ladies Should Listen

1934•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.9

The Royal Family of Broadway

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.0

The Greene Murder Case

1929•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.2

Mantrap

1926•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.6

Lillian Russell

1940•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.7

For the Defense

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.5

Sarah and Son

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

The Crime of the Century

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.1

Never a Dull Moment

1950•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.8

Street of Chance

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.1

Hudson's Bay

1940•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.8

The Dance of Life

1929•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.1

Magnificent Doll

1946•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.1

Tall, Dark and Handsome

1941•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.4

Tin Pan Alley

1940•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.6

Girls About Town

1931•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.3

Fast and Loose

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.4

Bolero

1934•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.9

The Woman Accused

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.7

We're Not Dressing

1934•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.4

Torch Singer

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.1

Slightly Honorable

1939•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.3

Charley's Aunt

1941•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

Tangier

1946•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.8

Anything Goes

1936•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.4

Private Worlds

1935•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.9

The Vagabond King

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.6

College Humor

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.0

Three Cornered Moon

1933•movie

Role: Costume Designer

4.3

Valentino

1951•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.6

Time Out of Mind

1947•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.0

The Great American Broadcast

1941•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.2

Maid of Salem

1937•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.1

I Met Him in Paris

1937•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.7

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

1936•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.2

I Take This Woman

1931•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.1

Working Girls

1931•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.1

The Bride Comes Home

1935•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.9

Behind the Make-Up

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.6

Follow Thru

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.7

Terror Aboard

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

4.8

The Virtuous Sin

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.0

Up Pops the Devil

1931•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.3

Here Is My Heart

1934•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.2

Pointed Heels

1929•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.0

Nana

1934•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

The Phantom President

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.7

Enter Madame

1935•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.2

The Big Broadcast of 1937

1936•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.2

Paris Underground

1945•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.3

Artists & Models

1937•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.7

The Notorious Sophie Lang

1934•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.2

The Lawyer's Secret

1931•movie

Role: Costume Design

4.9

Public Deb No. 1

1940•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.0

The Great Commandment

1939•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.2

The Man from Yesterday

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.5

Strangers in Love

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.2

High, Wide and Handsome

1937•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.4

Tovarich

1937•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.8

Roughly Speaking

1945•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.0

The Case of Lena Smith

1929•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.2

Luxury Liner

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.2

Romance in the Dark

1938•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Chad Hanna

1940•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Four Sons

1940•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.8

The Great Profile

1940•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.5

Safety in Numbers

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

Girl Without a Room

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.8

Love in Bloom

1935•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.8

So Red the Rose

1935•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Doomsday

1928•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.5

The Man I Love

1929•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

Maryland

1940•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.8

From Hell to Heaven

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.7

Let's Go Native

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.3

24 Hours

1931•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.3

Shanghai

1935•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.7

Accent on Youth

1935•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.3

Yours for the Asking

1936•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Evenings for Sale

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

The Fashion Side of Hollywood

1935•movie

as Self

7.0

Give Us This Night

1936•movie

Role: Costume Design

8.0

Sophie Lang Goes West

1937•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Smart Girl

1935•movie

Role: Costume Design

8.0

The Swan

1925•movie

Role: Costume Design

8.5

Red Hair

1928•movie

Role: Costume Design

8.0

A Man from Wyoming

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

8.5

Two-Fisted

1935•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Slightly Scarlet

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

Disgraced!

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

The Mad Parade

1931•movie

Role: Costume Design

8.0

Miss Brewster's Millions

1926•movie

Role: Costume Designer

10.0

Are Parents People?

1925•movie

Role: Costume Design

10.0

The Legion of the Condemned

1928•movie

Role: Costume Design

10.0

Ladies of the Mob

1928•movie

Role: Costume Design

10.0

Tonight Is Ours

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Rose of the Rancho

1936•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Thunder Below

1932•movie

Role: Costume Supervisor

10.0

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

1928•movie

Role: Costume Design

8.0

The Dressmaker from Paris

1925•movie

Role: Costume Design

8.0

Manhattan Cocktail

1928•movie

Role: Costume Designer

8.0

Grounds for Divorce

1925•movie

Role: Costume Design

9.0

Wives Never Know

1936•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

His Tiger Lady

1928•movie

Role: Costume Design