White, Miles Edgren

▪ 2001

      American costume designer (b. July 27, 1914, Oakland, Calif.—d. Feb. 17, 2000, New York, N.Y.), had a seven-decade-long career during which he designed costumes for such Broadway musicals as Oklahoma! (1943), Carousel (1945), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1950), Take Me Along (1959), Bye Bye Birdie (1960), and The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1960), as well as for the Ice Capades, the Ziegfeld Follies, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, films such as The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) and Around the World in 80 Days (1956), and ballets such as Agnes de Mille's Fall River Legend (1948); he won two Tony Awards and was nominated for three Academy Awards.

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