Yahoo Movies Beatles And Bond Costume Designer Dies
Oscar winner Julie Harris, who designed some of the most famous costumes in showbusiness, has died at the age of 94.
She designed the clothes worn by The Beatles in the films A Hard Day's Night and Help! and by Sir Roger Moore in Bond movie Live And Let Die.
In 1965, after working with The Beatles, she was quoted as saying: "I must be one of the few people who can claim they have seen John, Paul, George and Ringo naked."
The Kensington resident won an Academy Award for her designs in the 1965 film Darling, which starred Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde.
Her other work included designing costumes for 1967 film Casino Royale starring David Niven and Peter Sellers, Goodbye Mr Chips (1969), Dracula (1979) starring Laurence Olivier, and for the Muppets in The Great Muppet Caper in 1981.
She retired at the age of 70.
Miss Harris, who never married and had no children, died on Saturday at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital after a chest infection, according to her close friend Jo Botting.
She is survived by her god-daughter Serena Dilnot.
Ms Botting, a senior curator at the British Film Institute National Archive, said her friend was "an amazing woman" whose work was "constantly nominated for awards".
She added: "In a career that embraced more than 80 films and television productions, as well as several stage plays, Julie worked with some of the greatest international stars in the history of the cinema, and for some of its most legendary directors and producers."
