# Howard Greer

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American fashion designer

For the United States Navy admiral, see [Howard E. Greer](/source/Howard_E._Greer).

Actress [Rita Hayworth](/source/Rita_Hayworth) models a pink and silver [lamé](/source/Lam%C3%A9_(fabric)) [evening gown](/source/Evening_gown) designed by Howard Greer, 1941.

Evening gowns by Dorothy O'Hara, [Orry-Kelly](/source/Orry-Kelly), Al Teitelbaum and Howard Greer, 1947.

**Howard Greer** (16 April 1896 – April 1974, in [Los Angeles](/source/Los_Angeles))[1] was a [Hollywood](/source/Cinema_of_the_United_States) [fashion designer](/source/Fashion_designer) and a [costume designer](/source/Costume_designer) in the Golden Age of [American cinema](/source/American_cinema).[2]

Greer began his fashion career at [Lucile](/source/Lucy%2C_Lady_Duff-Gordon) in 1916, working in both her [New York City](/source/New_York_City) and [Chicago](/source/Chicago) branches before serving in [France](/source/France) in [World War I](/source/World_War_I). After the war, he remained in [Europe](/source/Europe), working for Lucille, [Paul Poiret](/source/Paul_Poiret), and [Molyneux](/source/Edward_Molyneux), and designing for the theatre. He returned to [America](/source/United_States) in 1921, and through his theatre work was hired as chief designer for [Famous Players–Lasky](/source/Famous_Players%E2%80%93Lasky) studios,[2] which was later to emerge from several reorganizations and mergers as [Paramount Pictures](/source/Paramount_Pictures).

Greer left his post at Paramount and opened his own couture operation in Hollywood in December 1927,[2] where he designed custom clothing for the stars until his retirement in 1962. He also continued to create costumes for films into the 1950s, and designed mass-market clothing. Greer designed the wedding gowns of actress [Bessie Love](/source/Bessie_Love)[3] and socialite [Gloria Vanderbilt](/source/Gloria_Vanderbilt).[4]

His best-known film work includes the [Katharine Hepburn](/source/Katharine_Hepburn) films *[Christopher Strong](/source/Christopher_Strong)* (1933) and *[Bringing Up Baby](/source/Bringing_Up_Baby)* (1938), and the gowns for 1940's *[My Favorite Wife](/source/My_Favorite_Wife)*.

Greer published an autobiography, *Designing Male*, in 1951.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-imdb_1-0)** [per IMDb retrieved 28 October 2007](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0339448/)

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-CD_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-CD_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-CD_2-2) Leese, Elizabeth (1991). *Costume Design in the Movies*. Dover Books. p. 45. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-486-26548-X](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-486-26548-X).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Greer, Howard (October 1933). ["I've Dressed Them All...!"](https://archive.org/details/modernscreen56unse/page/n859/). *Modern Screen*. pp. 40–42.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Chrisman-Campbell, Kimberly (2020). *The Way We Wed: A Global History of Wedding Fashion*. Running Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780762470303](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780762470303).

## External links

- [Howard Greer](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0339448/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier))

- [Howard Greer](https://www.fashionmodeldirectory.com/designers/howard-greer/) at [FMD](/source/Fashion_Model_Directory)

- [Howard Greer](http://www.virtual-history.com/movie/person/30636/howard-greer) at Virtual History

- [Howard Greer](https://web.archive.org/web/20160422080014/http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/U745434INP/dorothy-parker-sitting-down/?tab=details&caller=search), 1935, back row center behind [Dorothy Parker](/source/Dorothy_Parker) in hat (Wayback Machine)

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