Known for Costume & Make-Up
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Born as Fred Valles on 4 May 1886 in London, this Hollywood costume designer took the name Arlington Valles as his professional handle, eventually jettisoning the "Arlington" part completely. He first provided costumes for the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol. He did noticeably good work on National Velvet (1944), Albert Lewin's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), The Yearling (1946) and That Forsyte Woman (1949, for which he received an Academy Award nomination). In 1960, his efforts on his last film, Spartacus, won him an Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Color, shared with Bill Thomas. Valles died on 12 April 1970 in Los Angeles, California, aged 83.
Born
May 4, 1886
Died
April 12, 1970 (age 83)
Filmography
38 films


Spartacus
1960 · 3h 17m
country: United States
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.


The Sword and the Rose
1953 · 1h 32m
country: United States
Tells the story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love. Henry VIII, for political reasons, determines to wed her to the King of France. She tries to flee to America with her love but is captured when she is "un-hatted" on board ship. In return for her consent to the marriage with France, Henry agrees to let her choose her second husband. When King Louis of France dies, Mary is kidnaped by the Duke of Buckingham. He tries to force her to marry him but she is rescued by her love in an exciting battle on the beach.


Kim
1950 · 1h 53m
country: United States
During the British Raj, the orphan of a British soldier poses as a Hindu and is torn between his loyalty to a Buddhist mystic and aiding the English secret service.


That Forsyte Woman
1949 · 1h 53m
country: United States
Soames and Irene Forsyte have a marriage of convenience. Young Jolyon Forsyte is a black sheep who ran away with the maid after his wife's death. Teenager June Forsyte has found love with an artist, Phillip Bosinny. The interactions between the Forsytes and the people and society around them is the truss for this love story set in the rigid and strict times of the Victorian age.


Challenge to Lassie
1949 · 1h 16m
country: United States
When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.


In the Good Old Summertime
1949 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.


The Great Sinner
1949 · 1h 50m
country: United States
A young man succumbs to gambling fever.


The Barkleys of Broadway
1949 · 1h 48m
country: United States
Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship. Dinah feels overshadowed by Josh and limited by the lighthearted musical roles he directs her in. So she decides to stretch her skills by taking a role in a serious drama, directed by another man.


Big Jack
1949 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Wallace Beery, in his final film, plays a bandit in this period drama set in Colonial America.


Take Me Out to the Ball Game
1949 · 1h 33m
country: United States
The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a suspected "fathead" who intends to take an active interest in running the team. But K.C. turns outs to be a beautiful woman who really knows her baseball. Second baseman Dennis Ryan promptly falls in love. But his playboy roommate Eddie O'Brien has his own notions about how to treat the new lady owner and some unsavory gamblers have their own ideas about how to handle Eddie.


Words and Music
1948 · 2h 1m
country: United States
Encomium to Larry Hart (1895-1943), seen through the fictive eyes of his song-writing partner, Richard Rodgers (1902-1979): from their first meeting, through lean years and their breakthrough, to their successes on Broadway, London, and Hollywood. We see the fruits of Hart and Rodgers' collaboration - elaborately staged numbers from their plays, characters' visits to night clubs, and impromptu performances at parties. We also see Larry's scattered approach to life, his failed love with Peggy McNeil, his unhappiness, and Richard's successful wooing of Dorothy Feiner.


Easter Parade
1948 · 1h 43m
country: United States
On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affection) Nadine Hale refuses to start a new contract with him. To prove Nadine's not important to him, Don acquires innocent new protege Hannah Brown, vowing to make her a star in time for next year's Easter parade.


Good News
1947 · 1h 35m
country: United States
At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring '20s, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe. Unfortunately, he has his eye on gold-digging vamp Pat McClellan. Tommy's grades start to slip, which keeps him from playing in the big game. Connie eventually finds out Tommy really loves her and devises a plan to win him back and to get him back on the field.


Song of Love
1947 · 1h 55m
country: United States
Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms.


The Romance of Rosy Ridge
1947 · 1h 45m
country: United States
A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid postwar unrest.


The Sea of Grass
1947 · 2h 3m
country: United States
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.


Green Dolphin Street
1947 · 2h 21m
country: United States
Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. Sophie's daughter, Marguerite, and William fall in love. Marguerite's sister, Marianne, also loves William. Timothy, a lowly carpenter, secretly loves Marianne. He kills a man in a fight, and Edmund helps him flee to New Zealand. William deserts inadvertently from the navy, and also flees in disgrace to New Zealand, where he and Timothy start a profitable business. One night, drunk, William writes Octavius, demanding his daughter's hand; but, being drunk, he asks for the wrong sister.


The Yearling
1946 · 2h 8m
country: United States
Jody convinces his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?


Two Sisters from Boston
1946 · 1h 52m
country: United States
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.


Bad Bascomb
1946 · 1h 52m
country: United States
A western bandit is reformed by his love for a little girl.


The Hoodlum Saint
1946 · 1h 31m
country: United States
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.


The Harvey Girls
1946 · 1h 44m
country: United States
On a train trip out west to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.


Her Highness and the Bellboy
1945 · 1h 52m
country: United States
In a fictional European country, a beautiful princess meets a handsome American reporter and falls in love with him. On a trip to New York, she hopes to find him again. While staying at one of the city's finest hotels she meets a kind-hearted bellhop who mistakes her for a maid. She invites him to be her escort, not realizing that he believes he has fallen in love with her. Every nice thing the princess does encourages him to believe that she feels the same way he does.


Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
1945 · 1h 23m
country: United States
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.


Mrs. Parkington
1944 · 2h 4m
country: United States
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.


The Canterville Ghost
1944 · 1h 35m
country: United States
The descendent of a ghost imprisoned for cowardice hopes to free the spirit by displaying courage when under duress.


Broadway Melody of 1940
1940 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.


At the Circus
1939 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter's accomplices steal the money so he can take over the circus. Antonio Pirelli and Punchy, who work at the circus, together with lawyer Loophole try to find the thief and get the money back.


Thunder Afloat
1939 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.


Maisie
1939 · 1h 15m
country: United States
Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely. She meets ranch foreman Charles "Slim" Martin when he accuses her of lifting his wallet and ends up being hired as a maid for ranch owners Cliff and Sybil, who are attempting to mend their rocky marriage after Sybil's infidelity with a cowboy.


The Kid From Texas
1939 · 1h 11m
country: United States
A loud-mouthed Texas cowpuncher tries his hand at polo finding himself at odds with high society and trying to save a floundering Wild West show.


Broadway Serenade
1939 · 1h 54m
country: United States
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.


Stand Up and Fight
1939 · 1h 37m
country: United States
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.


A Christmas Carol
1938 · 1h 9m
country: United States
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.