You may not have heard of Australian-born costume designer Orry-Kelly, a three-time Academy Award winner. But the NSW town of ...

The Orry-Kelly exhibition coincides with the release of a new documentary on the designer, ‘Women He’s Undressed’, by veteran Australian director Gillian Armstrong.

Orry-Kelly and Marilyn Monroe Courtesy of Wolfe Video. Leach had been evicted from a boarding house for nonpayment, and had turned up at Kelly’s artist’s studio at 21 Commerce St. in the West ...

Born Orry George Kelly in the tourist seaside town of Kiama, Australia, Kelly headed to Hollywood by way of New York City. With a radical sketchbook (he included the actresses ' heads in his ...

Orry-Kelly was a gay man who didn’t hide his sexuality, despite Hollywood’s pervasive homophobia. But his pal and roommate Grant/Leach took a different tack, marrying various women over the years.

Orry-Kelly was born Orry George Kelly in Kiama, a small Australian town, in 1897 to a difficult, hard-drinking father and a kind, straight-talking mother who thought nothing of replacing her son ...

Whatever the reality, Grant cut Orry-Kelly out of his life, and the burden of their lost friendship was a heavy one for the designer. “It’s also about friendship and loyalty,” Armstrong says.

Orry-Kelly (Jack to his friends) won three Academy Awards and was nominated for a fourth. Orry-Kelly was Head of Warner Brothers Costume Department during the richest period of American film, ...

The Orry-Kelly exhibition coincides with the release of a new documentary on the designer, ‘Women He’s Undressed’, by veteran Australian director Gillian Armstrong.