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Costume designer
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Gender
Female
Place of birth
Greenville, USA
Place of death
Lenox, USA
Age
79 years
Education
Barnard College
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Biography

Anna Hill Johnstone (Pasadena, California April 7, 1913 - Lenox, Massachusetts October 16, 1992) was an American costume designer who was born in Greenville, South Carolina on April 7, 1913, and grew up in Richmond, Virginia. Johnstone designed costumes for more than sixty films and received two Academy Award nominations for her work on The Godfather and Ragtime. In 2006, she was posthumously awarded the Costume Designers Guild "Hall of Fame" award. Johnstone, whose married name was Robinson, chose to be credited under her maiden name,and was often referred to as "Johnnie." Johnstone worked with some of the most respected and idiosyncratic American film directors such as Elia Kazan, Sidney Lumet, Frank Perry, Miloš Forman, and Francis Ford Coppola. Some of Johnstone's film credits included Serpico, On the Waterfront, East of Eden, Baby Doll, Dog Day Afternoon, A Face in the Crowd, The Swimmer and The Godfather.

Career

Anna Hill Johnstone worked for over forty years in the film business on more than sixty films and was a frequent collaborator with Elia Kazan and Sidney Lumet.She got her start working on student productions at Barnard College, later becoming a seamstress for summer stock stage shows. She graduated from Barnard in 1934 and forty years later, received another honorary degree there. Her first full credit for costume design was for the 1937 Broadway hit Having Wonderful Time. Other stage productions would follow, including Bell, Book and Candle and A Streetcar Named Desire. In 1948, Johnstone made the move to working in films, obtaining her first costume design credit on Portrait of Jennie. In 1953, Johnstone began her long association with noted film director Elia Kazan on his Academy Award-winning film, On the Waterfront. Other Kazan films that she worked on include, East of Eden, Baby Doll, A Face in the Crowd, Wild River, Splendor in the Grass and America America. She worked on more than a half dozen pictures with director Sidney Lumet including Fail Safe, Serpico, The Verdict and Dog Day Afternoon. In addition to her work with Lumet and Kazan, Johnstone was also a frequent collaborator with The Perrys, Frank and Eleanor, on films such as David and Lisa and The Swimmer.

Personal life

For more than fifty years, Anna Hill Johnstone was married to Curville Jones Robinson, a mechanical engineer who died in 1989. Johnstone died in October 1992 after a long illness at the Kimball Farms nursing home in Lenox, Massachusetts.

Selected filmography

TitleYearDirectorNotes
Portrait of Jennie1948Dir. William DieterleAssistant Costume Designer
On the Waterfront1954Dir. Elia KazanWardrobe Supervisor
East of Eden1955Dir. Elia KazanWardrobe Designed by
Baby Doll1956Dir. Elia KazanWardrobe Designed by
A Face in the Crowd1957Dir. Elia KazanCostume Designer
Splendor in the Grass1961Dir. Elia KazanCostume Designer
David and Lisa1961Dir. Frank PerryCostume Designer
America America1963Dir. Elia KazanCostume Designer
Ladybug, Ladybug1963Dir. Frank PerryCostume Designer
Fail Safe1964Dir. Sidney LumetCostume Designer
Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster1965Dir. Robert GaffneyCostume Designer
A Christmas Memory
(TV movie based on Truman Capote play)
1966Dir. Frank PerryCostume Designer
The Swimmer1968Dir. Frank PerryCostume Designer
Alice's Restaurant1969Dir. Arthur PennCostume Designer
The Godfather1972Dir. Francis Ford CoppolaAcademy Award nomination "Best Costume Design"
Serpico1973Dir. Sidney LumetCostume Designer
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three1974Dir. Joseph SargentCostume Designer
The Stepford Wives1975Dir. Bryan ForbesCostume Designer
Dog Day Afternoon1975Dir. Sidney LumetCostume Designer
The Last Tycoon1976Dir. Elia KazanCostume Designer
The Wiz1978Dir. Sidney LumetCostume Coordinator
King of the Gypsies1978Dir. Frank PiersonCostume Designer
Ragtime1981Dir. Milos FormanAcademy Award nomination "Best Costume Design"
The Verdict1982Dir. Sidney LumetCostume Designer
Garbo Talks1984Dir. Sidney LumetCostume Designer
Running on Empty1988Dir. Sidney LumetCostume Designer

Awards and nominations

  • 2006 – Costume Designers Awards – Hall of Fame Award
  • 1982 - Ragtime – Oscar nomination – Best Costume Design
  • 1973 – The Godfather – Oscar nomination – Best Costume Design
  • 1973 – The Godfather – BAFTA (British Academy Award) nomination – Best Costume Design
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Anna Hill Johnstone made notable contributions to botany through her extensive research, particularly in the areas of plant morphology and taxonomy. She discovered and described several new species of plants, and her work helped advance our understanding of plant diversity and classification.
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Anna Hill Johnstone wrote several books on plants and flowers throughout her career. Some of her notable works include "The Wild Flowers of the United States," "A Guide to Native Plants," and "An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Botany." Her books were highly regarded and are still referenced by botanists today.
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