As a young girl, Dorothy Jeakins found theater to be a “sweet escape
into fantasy,” which later led her to discover a vocation in costume
design.
She studied at the Otis Art Institute, and after the Depression, she
worked briefly at Disney studios as an illustrator for $16 a week until
a strike left her unemployed. She then took work as a fashion
illustrator for I. Magnin’s advertising department.
When a studio art director saw her sketches, he recommended her as (showing 500 of 2719 characters). |
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