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Dorothy, known as Dolly (1906). A costume designer, English by birth, who worked in America. She was well known for her elegant creations in Victorian style. She debuted on Broadway in the 1920s, designing costumes for musical comedies and, in particular, for Mae West. She was hired as a costume designer by Twentieth Century Fox, and three years later she moved on to MGM, where she stayed for a decade. Her creations were worn by Judy Garland, Lana Turner, and Jean Harlow (Saratoga, 1937) and by the sophisticated Myrna Loy in The Thin Man (1934). Her finest creations had to do with period pictures, in which Dolly’s costumes contributed in decisive manner to the creation of the atmosphere. For instance Little Women (1933) and David Copperfield (1934).