Anna Hill Johnstone


Costume Designer

About

Also Known As
Anna Johnstone Robinson
Born
April 07, 1913
Died
October 16, 1992

Biography

A prolific, Oscar-nominated costume designer, Anna Hill Johnstone was a frequent collaborator with directors Elia Kazan and Sidney Lumet. Her costume stylings graced such Kazan films as "On the Waterfront" (1954), "East of Eden" (1955), "Baby Doll" (1956), "A Face in the Crowd" (1957), "Wild River" (1960), "Splendor in the Grass" (1961), "America, America" (1963), and "The Last Tycoon" (...

Family & Companions

Curville Jones Robinson
Husband
Mechanical engineer. Married for more than 50 years; died in 1989.

Biography

A prolific, Oscar-nominated costume designer, Anna Hill Johnstone was a frequent collaborator with directors Elia Kazan and Sidney Lumet. Her costume stylings graced such Kazan films as "On the Waterfront" (1954), "East of Eden" (1955), "Baby Doll" (1956), "A Face in the Crowd" (1957), "Wild River" (1960), "Splendor in the Grass" (1961), "America, America" (1963), and "The Last Tycoon" (1976). She also provided appropriate garb for many of Lumet's distinctive films: "Fail Safe" (1964), "The Pawnbroker" (1965), "Serpico" (1973), "Dog Day Afternoon" (1975), "Prince of the City" (1981), "The Verdict" (1982), "Daniel" (1983), "Garbo Talks" (1984), "Power" (1986), and "Running on Empty" (1988). Johnstone received Academy Award nominations for Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather" (1972) and Milos Forman's "Ragtime" (1981).

Filmography

 

Costume-Wardrobe (Feature Film)

The Man in the Moon (1991)
Costumes
Fletch Lives (1989)
Costume Designer
Arthur 2: On The Rocks (1988)
Costume Designer
Backfire (1988)
Costume Designer
Running on Empty (1988)
Costume Designer
Power (1986)
Costume Designer
Garbo Talks (1984)
Costume Designer
A Night in Heaven (1983)
Costume Designer
Daniel (1983)
Costume Designer
The Verdict (1982)
Costume Designer
Prince of the City (1981)
Costume Designer
Ragtime (1981)
Costume Designer
Going in Style (1979)
Costumes
King Of The Gypsies (1978)
Costumes
Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye (1977)
Costume Designer
The Last Tycoon (1976)
Costume Designer
The Next Man (1976)
Costume Designer
The Stepford Wives (1975)
Costume Designer
Report To The Commissioner (1975)
Costume Designer
Serpico (1974)
Costume Designer
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973)
Costume Designer
Come Back Charleston Blue (1972)
Costume Design
The Godfather (1972)
Costume Design
Play It Again, Sam (1972)
Costume Design
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972)
Costumes
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971)
Costume Design
There Was a Crooked Man ... (1970)
Costumes
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
Costumes
Trilogy (1969)
Costume Design
Alice's Restaurant (1969)
Costume Design
The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968)
Costumes
The Subject Was Roses (1968)
Costume Design
The Swimmer (1968)
Wardrobe Designer
Bye Bye Braverman (1968)
Costume Design
The Group (1966)
Costume Design
The Pawnbroker (1965)
Costumes
Harvey Middleman, Fireman (1965)
Costumes
Fail Safe (1964)
Costumes
Ladybug Ladybug (1963)
Costumes
America America (1963)
Costumes
David and Lisa (1962)
Costumes
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Costumes
Wild River (1960)
Costumes
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
Costumes
Edge of the City (1957)
Costumes
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
Costume Design
Baby Doll (1956)
Costumes
East of Eden (1955)
Wardrobe Designer
On the Waterfront (1954)
Wardrobe Supervisor
Portrait of Jennie (1949)
Assistant

Life Events

1937

Earned her first full credit for the Broadway hit, "Having Wonderful Time"

1948

First feature credit on "Portrait of Jennie"

Videos

Trailer

Serpico - (Original Trailer) A rookie (Al Pacino) risks his life going undercover to ferret out police corruption in Serpico (1973) directed by Sidney Lumet.
Night They Raided Minsky's, The - (Original Trailer) An Amish girl (Britt Ekland) in turn-of-the-century New York gets mixed up in burlesque and accidentally invents the strip tease in The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968).
Face in the Crowd, A - (Original Trailer) Television turns a folk-singing drifter (Andy Griffith) into a media celebrity in Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd (1957).
Baby Doll - (Original Trailer) Carroll Baker stars as the child bride Baby Doll (1956) in the most notorious movie from a Tennessee Williams' play, directed by Elia Kazan.
Swimmer, The - (Original Trailer) A tortured man reflects on past mistakes while "swimming" home through his neighbors' pools in The Swimmer (1968) starring Burt Lancaster.
Edge of the City - (Original Trailer) An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt union official in Edge of the City (1957).
Pawnbroker, The - (Original Trailer) A Harlem pawnbroker (Rod Steiger) tries to cope with his changing neighborhood while haunted by memories of the concentration camps in The Pawnbroker (1965).
Play It Again, Sam - (Original Trailer) Woody Allen gets romantic advice from the ghost of Humphrey Bogart in Play It Again, Sam (1972), co-starring Diane Keaton.
Splendor in the Grass - (Original Trailer) Warren Beatty made his screen debut in Elia Kazan's Splendor In The Grass (1961) co-starring Natalie Wood.
Subject Was Roses, The - (Original Trailer) A young veteran (Martin Sheen) returns home to deal with family conflicts in The Subject Was Roses (1968), co-starring Patricia Neal and Jack Albertson.

Companions

Curville Jones Robinson
Husband
Mechanical engineer. Married for more than 50 years; died in 1989.

Bibliography