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Known ForCostume & Make-Up

GenderMale

Born / DiedMar 3, 1903 (Died at 56)

Zodiac Sign♓Pisces

Place of BirthNaugatuck, Connecticut, USA

Career Span1925 – 1959

Known Credits250 Titles

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Costume & Make-UpPopularity Score 0.7

Adrian

Also known as:Adrian Adolph GreenbergGilbert Adrian

Total Works

250

250 movies • 0 shows

Avg Rating

6.4 / 10

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Biography

Adrian Adolph Greenberg, most widely known as Adrian, was an American costume designer whose most famous costumes were for The Wizard of Oz and other MGM films of the 1930s and 1940s. During his career he designed costumes for over 250 films, and his screen credits usually read as "Gowns by Adrian". On occasion he was credited as Gilbert Adrian, a combination of his father's forename and his own.

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Top-rated highlights from Adrian's career

7.6

The Wizard of Oz

1939•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.9

Rope

1948•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.5

Shadow of a Doubt

1943•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.5

The Philadelphia Story

1940•movie

Role: Costume Design

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Full Filmography & Credits

Showing 250 titles featuring Adrian

7.6

The Wizard of Oz

1939•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.9

Rope

1948•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.5

Shadow of a Doubt

1943•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.5

The Philadelphia Story

1940•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.5

Ninotchka

1939•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Grand Hotel

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.1

The Bishop's Wife

1947•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1941•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.5

Waterloo Bridge

1940•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.2

The Women

1939•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Woman of the Year

1942•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.9

Pride and Prejudice

1940•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Camille

1936•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.3

The Great Ziegfeld

1936•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.2

Mark of the Vampire

1935•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.9

Queen Christina

1934•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.8

Dinner at Eight

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.6

Anna Karenina

1935•movie

Role: Costume Designer

7.4

The Mortal Storm

1940•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.6

San Francisco

1936•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.4

The Mask of Fu Manchu

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.9

Possessed

1947•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.9

Red Dust

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Humoresque

1947•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.8

A Woman's Face

1941•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.4

The King of Kings

1927•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.2

Mata Hari

1931•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.7

Wife vs. Secretary

1936•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.3

The Divorcee

1930•movie

Role: Costume Designer

7.0

Boom Town

1940•movie

Role: Costume Designer

6.4

The Eagle

1925•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.0

Anna Christie

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

Bombshell

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.6

Red-Headed Woman

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Strange Cargo

1940•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.2

A Free Soul

1931•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.6

Keeper of the Flame

1943•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.9

Dancing Lady

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.9

Possessed

1931•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.1

That's Entertainment! III

1994•movie

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.9

Broadway Melody of 1940

1940•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.3

China Seas

1935•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.6

Ziegfeld Girl

1941•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.3

Romeo and Juliet

1936•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.2

The Stranger's Return

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.6

Blossoms in the Dust

1941•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.6

Marie Antoinette

1938•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.8

Come Live with Me

1941•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.4

Double Wedding

1937•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.1

Born to Dance

1936•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.4

The Last Gangster

1937•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.0

Madam Satan

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.8

The Sin of Madelon Claudet

1931•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.0

Smilin' Through

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.4

Two-Faced Woman

1941•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.4

The Kiss

1929•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.8

Midnight Mary

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.1

Comrade X

1940•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.9

The Beast of the City

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

A Woman of Affairs

1928•movie

Role: Costume Designer

5.9

Fig Leaves

1926•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.9

Chicago

1927•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Sadie McKee

1934•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

Broadway Melody of 1936

1935•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.5

Naughty Marietta

1935•movie

Role: Costume Designer

6.7

The Bride Wore Red

1937•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.4

Rage in Heaven

1941•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.6

Conquest

1937•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.4

Dance, Fools, Dance

1931•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.3

Hold Your Man

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.2

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

1934•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Arsène Lupin

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.0

Mannequin

1938•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.9

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

1937•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.7

The Shining Hour

1938•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.1

Their Own Desire

1929•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.6

Our Blushing Brides

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.1

Susan Lenox

1931•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.9

Penthouse

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.8

The Shopworn Angel

1938•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.3

Today We Live

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.0

Forsaking All Others

1934•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.3

Wild Orchids

1929•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.7

When Ladies Meet

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

Romance

1930•movie

Role: Costume Designer

6.7

Paid

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.9

The Great Waltz

1938•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Chained

1934•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.9

Operator 13

1934•movie

Role: Costume Designer

6.5

Susan and God

1940•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

Private Lives

1931•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.7

Payment Deferred

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

Love on the Run

1936•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.4

Escape

1940•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.1

Idiot's Delight

1939•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.1

The Crystal Ball

1943•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.9

Cobra

1925•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

The Godless Girl

1928•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.6

Our Modern Maidens

1929•movie

Role: Costume Design

4.7

Montana Moon

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.4

Rasputin and the Empress

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.6

Hollywood Party

1934•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.4

The Girl from Missouri

1934•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.5

The Gorgeous Hussy

1936•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.1

Rose Marie

1936•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.5

Lady Be Good

1941•movie

Role: Costume Designer

6.0

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

1929•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.4

Dynamite

1929•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.5

The Thirteenth Chair

1929•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.6

Emma

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.8

Gabriel Over the White House

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.1

The Barbarian

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.5

Going Hollywood

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.6

Broadway Melody of 1938

1937•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.3

Laughing Sinners

1931•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.1

Five and Ten

1931•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.4

As You Desire Me

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.3

Men in White

1934•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.1

Reckless

1935•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.6

Hi Diddle Diddle

1943•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

After Office Hours

1935•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.2

Secrets

1933•movie

Role: Costume Designer

5.9

This Modern Age

1931•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.2

The Guardsman

1931•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.6

Strange Interlude

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.8

Sweethearts

1938•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.8

Maytime

1937•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.4

The Squaw Man

1931•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.8

Anna Christie

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Letty Lynton

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.6

The Ice Follies of 1939

1939•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.7

A Ship Comes In

1928•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.4

Passion Flower

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.7

The Unholy Night

1929•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.5

The Lady of Scandal

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.2

Strangers May Kiss

1931•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.3

Blondie of the Follies

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.8

The Mystery of Mr. X

1934•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.6

Polly of the Circus

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.6

Lovely to Look At

1952•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.3

Untamed

1929•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.9

When Ladies Meet

1941•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.8

Skyscraper

1928•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.4

Turn Back the Clock

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.2

They Got Me Covered

1943•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.8

I Take This Woman

1940•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.6

I Live My Life

1935•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.1

The Feminine Touch

1941•movie

Role: Costume Design

4.9

The Emperor's Candlesticks

1937•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.2

Her Sister from Paris

1925•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

Marianne

1929•movie

Role: Costume Design

4.3

Let Us Be Gay

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.9

Inspiration

1931•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.2

Men Must Fight

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.4

The White Sister

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.3

Not So Dumb

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

4.4

A Lady to Love

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

4.8

Should Ladies Behave

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.3

Smilin' Through

1941•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.0

No More Ladies

1935•movie

Role: Costume Design

4.6

Parnell

1937•movie

Role: Costume Design

4.8

The Cuban Love Song

1931•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Faithless

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

4.2

Three Loves Has Nancy

1938•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.8

The Single Standard

1929•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

The Bachelor Father

1931•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.7

The Man in Possession

1931•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.1

The Cat and the Fiddle

1934•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.0

The Toy Wife

1938•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.9

New Moon

1940•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

Honolulu

1939•movie

Role: Costume Designer

6.0

Bitter Sweet

1940•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.4

Gallant Sons

1940•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

Dramatic School

1938•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

The Solitaire Man

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

4.3

The Women in His Life

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.7

Riptide

1934•movie

Role: Costume Design

4.2

The Secret of Madame Blanche

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.3

Balalaika

1939•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.3

The Fighting Eagle

1927•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.5

The Florodora Girl

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.0

A Lady's Morals

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.0

Lovers Courageous

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.2

The Wet Parade

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Huddle

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

The Rogue Song

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.2

Devil-May-Care

1929•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.2

Reunion in Vienna

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.0

Peg o' My Heart

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.2

Beauty for Sale

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.0

Nana

1934•movie

Role: Costume Design

4.0

Paris Interlude

1934•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

The Firefly

1937•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.5

Smart Woman

1948•movie

Role: Costume Designer

6.4

Dulcy

1940•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.8

The Road to Yesterday

1925•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.2

Dress Parade

1927•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.0

Stand and Deliver

1928•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

A Lady of Chance

1928•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.4

The Trial of Mary Dugan

1929•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.0

New Moon

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.8

Flying High

1931•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.8

The Washington Masquerade

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.6

Looking Forward

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.6

Storm at Daybreak

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.8

Hollywood Party

1937•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.6

Broadway Serenade

1939•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.6

What Every Woman Knows

1934•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.8

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

1940•movie

as Self

7.0

Hollywood Goes to Town

1938•movie

as Self

6.5

The Volga Boatman

1926•movie

Role: Costume Design

8.4

Walking Back

1928•movie

Role: Costume Design

8.0

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

1929•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.2

But the Flesh Is Weak

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.2

Unashamed

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

The Son-Daughter

1932•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.8

Another Language

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.8

Biography of a Bachelor Girl

1935•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.2

Outcast Lady

1934•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

Love Is a Headache

1938•movie

Role: Costume Design

8.3

Almost Human

1927•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Let 'Er Go Gallegher

1928•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.3

Dream of Love

1928•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.7

Redemption

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.7

In Gay Madrid

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Made on Broadway

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.3

Stage Mother

1933•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.7

Young April

1926•movie

Role: Costume Designer

7.0

The Romance of Celluloid

1937•movie

as Self

7.5

The Country Doctor

1927•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.5

My Friend from India

1927•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.5

This Mad World

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

4.5

Florian

1940•movie

Role: Costume Design

10.0

Vacation from Love

1938•movie

Role: Costume Design

8.0

The Masks of the Devil

1928•movie

Role: Costume Design

10.0

What Price Beauty?

1928•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Gigolo

1926•movie

Role: Costume Design

10.0

Vanity

1927•movie

Role: Costume Design

10.0

The Angel of Broadway

1927•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

The Wise Wife

1927•movie

Role: Costume Design

9.0

The Main Event

1927•movie

Role: Costume Design

10.0

The Wreck of the Hesperus

1927•movie

Role: Costume Design

10.0

The Blue Danube

1928•movie

Role: Costume Design

9.0

Midnight Madness

1928•movie

Role: Costume Design

8.0

For Alimony Only

1926•movie

Role: Costume Design

8.0

The Little Adventuress

1927•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

The Forbidden Woman

1927•movie

Role: Costume Design

8.0

Every Woman's Longing

1930•movie

Role: Costume Design

9.0

A Single Man

1929•movie

Role: Costume Designer

9.0

Man-Made Women

1928•movie

Role: Costume Design