Irene (costume designer)
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Irene Maud Lentz, also known mononymously and professionally as Irene, was an American actress turned fashion designer and costume designer. Her work as a clothing designer in Los Angeles led to her c
Irene Lentz, Edythe Chapman, and Charles Ray in A Tailor-Made Man (1922)
Lana Turner in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
1959 Irene skirt suit, striped wool and silk (RISD Museum)
Doris Day in Midnight Lace (1960)
Hollywood Knickerbocker Apartments, formerly Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel, also known as the Knickerbocker, is a historic former apartment hotel, now retirement home, located at 1714 Ivar Avenue in H
Irene (costume designer)
…for Best Costume Design, Color for Midnight Lace (1960) On November 15, 1962, three weeks before her sixty-first birthday, Lentz took room 1129 at the Knickerbocker Hotel, Los Angeles, checking in under an assumed name. She jumped to her death from her bathroom window. She had left suicide notes for friends and family…
Knickerbocker in 2006
Postcard circa 1940s