Phyllis Dalton a career in costume : from Lawrence of Arabia to The princess bride Ballinger, Alexander creator author. text biography xxk 2025 monographic eng print 320 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 27 cm "In conversation with film historian Alexander Ballinger, Phyllis Dalton (1925-2025) reveals how she created some of the silver screen's most unforgettable and iconic costumes, working with such legendary directors as Alfred Hitchcock and David Lean, a woman in a man's world. The book spans Dalton's extraordinary fifty-year career in the film industry, from sewing in Soho workrooms on Laurence Olivier's Henry V via intelligence work at Bletchley Park; apprenticeship at Gainsborough Studios to designing costumes on The Man Who Knew Too Much; the epic undertakings of costuming Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago (Oscar, Best Costume Design), and Oliver!; through to cult classics A Private Function and The Princess Bride to her successful late collaboration with a young Kenneth Branagh on Henry V (Oscar, Best Costume Design), Dead Again, and Much Ado About Nothing. Many of the book's illustrations, sourced from Dalton's personal archive, showcase unique ephemera, fabric swatches, production stills, large format pencil-and-watercolour sketches, and production notebooks from six decades of filmmaking. Many of these stunning images, including Dalton's personal on-location photographs from the Lawrence of Arabia shoot, have never been published before."-- Provided by distributor. Alexander Ballinger. Dalton, Phyllis Costume designers England London 20th century Costume design History 20th century Biography Costume (Arts décoratifs) Création Histoire 20e siècle Costume design History 1900-1999 fast TT505.D258 B35 2025 791.43026 9781399995641 1399995642 POD UKMGB 251125 20260412195328.2 in00005778320 eng