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Juri Pavlovich (1901-1974). Costume designer from Russia. Born in Petropavlovsk, he worked on the scenery for the first great revolutionary shows and attended the Meyerhold theater school. In 1924 he abandoned Russia for Germany, where he began to work for the cinema, designing the costumes for F.W. Murnau’s Faust. Later he worked principally in France, changing his first name to Georges. He collaborated with Marcel L’Herbier (L’Affaire du Collier de la Reine), Jean Delannoy (L’Eternel Retour, Symphonie Pastorale) and, above all, with Max Ophüls, designing costumes for his masterpieces (Le Plaisir, Madame de…, and Lola Montès, for which he and Marcel Escoffier designed the costumes of Martine Carol). He also worked in Italy, on Giacomo Gentilomo’s Due Orfanelle. In 1951 he published an autobiography entitled En habillant les vedettes (Dressing the Stars).