Peggy Hamilton modeling a Max Rée hostess gown of apple-green satin and metallic gold fabric, 1929

Title: Peggy Hamilton modeling a Max Rée hostess gown of apple-green satin and metallic gold fabric, 1929
Photographer: Estep, Junius Dunlavy, 1877-1953
Date Created: 1929
Date: 1929
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers

Description: Max Rée (1889–1953) was a Danish costume designer who designed for films from 1926 to 1935 and was the supervising director for sets and costumes at RKO from 1929 through 1932. He won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Cimarron. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and died in Los Angeles, California.
For a similar gown by Max Rée , see also: ark no. 21198/zz002bzz7x.
Peggy Hamilton modeling a hostess gown of apple-green satin, with a bodice of metallic gold fabric. The fitted gown has a train. The sheer bell sleeves are edged with grey fox, and the ornaments are of emerald crystal.
A different photograph of Peggy Hamilton wearing this gown appears in her Los Angeles Times feature "Fashions," January 13, 1929, pg. J3.
Caption: Handwritten on edge of negative: D 718

Genre: Fashion photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Black-and-white photographs
Names: Adams, Peggy Hamilton, 1890-1984
Location: California--Culver City
Resource type: still image
Subjects: trains (costume components)
evening dresses (garments)
satin

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1373_0120
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002bzg6n
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Rights statement: copyrighted
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.