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name: "Adele Palmer"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/adele-palmer"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "22 October 1915"
died: "1 July 2008"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-20T03:07:35.657683+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Adele Palmer

Costume designer. Born 22 October 1915 in Santa Ana, California, USA. Died 1 July 2008.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 22 October 1915, Santa Ana, California, USA
- **Died:** 1 July 2008
- **Active:** 1952–1957
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Palmer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2824201, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0011790/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/960362

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*The Quiet Man*](https://film.one/film/the-quiet-man.md) (78)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Adele Palmer was an American costume designer. She worked on more than 200 films, primarily as wardrobe supervisor and costume designer for Republic Pictures over two decades from the 1930s, and later as a costume designer at 20th Century Fox from 1957 to 1959.

Her credits include *The Quiet Man* (1952), *Rio Grande* (1950), *Peyton Place* (1957) and *The Long, Hot Summer* (1958). She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design (Colour) for *The Best of Everything* (1959). Palmer was born in Santa Ana, California, and died in Santa Barbara, California, in 2008.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Peyton Place* (1957), Fi1m 64, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/peyton-place.md)
- *The Quiet Man* (1952), Fi1m 78, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-quiet-man.md)

## Complete filmography (204)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Best of Everything* (1959), Costume Design
- *The FBI Story* (1959), Costume Designer
- *Say One for Me* (1959), Costume Design
- *The Sound and the Fury* (1959), Costume Designer
- *The Long, Hot Summer* (1958), Costume Design
- *Peyton Place* (1957), Costume Design — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/peyton-place.md)
- *A Woman's Devotion* (1956), Costume Supervisor
- *A Strange Adventure* (1956), Costume Supervisor
- *Lisbon* (1956), Costume Design
- *Dakota Incident* (1956), Costume Design
- *Stranger at My Door* (1956), Costume Design
- *Come Next Spring* (1956), Costume Design
- *A Man Alone* (1955), Costume Design
- *The Last Command* (1955), Costume Design
- *Double Jeopardy* (1955), Costume Design
- *The Road to Denver* (1955), Costume Design
- *I Cover the Underworld* (1955), Costume Design
- *Santa Fe Passage* (1955), Costume Designer
- *The Eternal Sea* (1955), Costume Supervisor
- *Carolina Cannonball* (1955), Costume Design
- *The Shanghai Story* (1954), Costume Designer
- *Hell's Half Acre* (1954), Costume Supervisor
- *Make Haste to Live* (1954), Costume Design
- *Trader Tom of the China Seas* (1954), Wardrobe Supervisor
- *Flight Nurse* (1953), Costume Design
- *Bandits of the West* (1953), Costume Design
- *Sweethearts on Parade* (1953), Costume Design
- *City That Never Sleeps* (1953), Costume Supervisor
- *The Sun Shines Bright* (1953), Costume Design
- *Woman They Almost Lynched* (1953), Costume Designer
- *Fair Wind to Java* (1953), Costume Design
- *Jungle Drums of Africa* (1953), Wardrobe Supervisor
- *Ride the Man Down* (1952), Costume Design
- *Montana Belle* (1952), Costume Design
- *South Pacific Trail* (1952), Costume Design
- *The Quiet Man* (1952), Costume Design — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-quiet-man.md)
- *Gobs and Gals* (1952), Costume Design
- *Oklahoma Annie* (1952), Costume Design
- *Colorado Sundown* (1952), Costume Supervisor
- *Lady Possessed* (1952), Costume Supervisor
- *Honeychile* (1951), Costume Design
- *Utah Wagon Train* (1951), Costume Design
- *Bullfighter and the Lady* (1951), Costume Design
- *Thunder in God's Country* (1951), Costume Supervisor
- *Insurance Investigator* (1951), Costume Supervisor
- *Oh! Susanna* (1951), Costume Design
- *Missing Women* (1951), Costume Design
- *Belle Le Grand* (1951), Costume Design
- *Pride of Maryland* (1951), Costume Supervisor
- *California Passage* (1950), Costume Design
- *Under Mexicali Stars* (1950), Costume Design
- *Rio Grande* (1950), Costume Design
- *North of the Great Divide* (1950), Costume Design
- *Prisoners in Petticoats* (1950), Costume Design
- *Surrender* (1950), Costume Design
- *The Showdown* (1950), Costume Design
- *The Savage Horde* (1950), Costume Design
- *Twilight in the Sierras* (1950), Costume Design
- *Rock Island Trail* (1950), Costume Design
- *Women from Headquarters* (1950), Costume Design
- *Harbor of Missing Men* (1950), Costume Design
- *House by the River* (1950), Costume Design
- *Federal Agent at Large* (1950), Costume Design
- *Singing Guns* (1950), Costume Design
- *Unmasked* (1950), Costume Design
- *Bells of Coronado* (1950), Costume Design
- *Sands of Iwo Jima* (1950), Costume Supervisor
- *Alias the Champ* (1949), Costume Supervisor
- *The Fighting Kentuckian* (1949), Costume Design
- *The Kid from Cleveland* (1949), Costume Supervisor
- *Brimstone* (1949), Costume Design
- *The Red Menace* (1949), Costume Supervisor
- *Too Late for Tears* (1949), Costume Designer
- *Hellfire* (1949), Costume Design
- *Streets of San Francisco* (1949), Costume Design
- *The Red Pony* (1949), Costume Design
- *Wake of the Red Witch* (1948), Costume Design
- *Angel on the Amazon* (1948), Costume Design
- *Macbeth* (1948), Costume Designer
- *Moonrise* (1948), Costume Design
- *Out of the Storm* (1948), Costume Design
- *Train to Alcatraz* (1948), Costume Design
- *Secret Service Investigator* (1948), Costume Design
- *I, Jane Doe* (1948), Costume Design
- *The Gallant Legion* (1948), Costume Design
- *Under California Stars* (1948), Costume Supervisor
- *The Bold Frontiersman* (1948), Costume Design
- *Lightnin' in the Forest* (1948), Costume Design
- *Madonna of the Desert* (1948), Costume Supervisor
- *The Fabulous Texan* (1947), Costume Design
- *Driftwood* (1947), Costume Design
- *The Ghost Goes Wild* (1947), Costume Design
- *Saddle Pals* (1947), Costume Design
- *Angel and the Badman* (1947), Costume Design
- *That Brennan Girl* (1946), Costume Supervisor
- *Heldorado* (1946), Costume Design
- *Affairs of Geraldine* (1946), Costume Design
- *The Plainsman and the Lady* (1946), Costume Design
- *The Magnificent Rogue* (1946), Costume Design
- *The Mysterious Mr. Valentine* (1946), Costume Design
- *Earl Carroll Sketchbook* (1946), Costume Design
- *The Last Crooked Mile* (1946), Costume Supervisor
- *Red River Renegades* (1946), Costume Design
- *Rendezvous with Annie* (1946), Costume Design
- *Night Train to Memphis* (1946), Costume Design
- *Specter of the Rose* (1946), Costume Design
- *Man from Rainbow Valley* (1946), Costume Design
- *One Exciting Week* (1946), Costume Design
- *Valley of the Zombies* (1946), Costume Supervisor
- *Passkey to Danger* (1946), Costume Design
- *The Catman of Paris* (1946), Costume Design
- *Home on the Range* (1946), Costume Design
- *Murder in the Music Hall* (1946), Costume Design
- *Dakota* (1945), Costume Design
- *The Cherokee Flash* (1945), Costume Design
- *Scotland Yard Investigator* (1945), Costume Supervisor
- *Sunset in El Dorado* (1945), Costume Supervisor
- *The Fatal Witness* (1945), Wardrobe Supervisor
- *Love, Honor and Goodbye* (1945), Costume Design
- *Along the Navajo Trail* (1945), Costume Design
- *Swingin' on a Rainbow* (1945), Costume Design
- *Tell It to a Star* (1945), Costume Design
- *The Cheaters* (1945), Costume Supervisor
- *Trail of Kit Carson* (1945), Costume Design
- *Steppin' in Society* (1945), Costume Design
- *Man from Oklahoma* (1945), Costume Design
- *Bells of Rosarita* (1945), Costume Design
- *Flame of Barbary Coast* (1945), Costume Design
- *Three's a Crowd* (1945), Costume Design
- *The Phantom Speaks* (1945), Costume Design
- *Utah* (1945), Costume Design
- *The Big Bonanza* (1944), Costume Design
- *Brazil* (1944), Costume Design
- *Faces in the Fog* (1944), Costume Design
- *Atlantic City* (1944), Costume Design
- *San Fernando Valley* (1944), Costume Design
- *Strangers in the Night* (1944), Costume Design
- *The Port of 40 Thieves* (1944), Costume Design
- *Sing, Neighbor, Sing* (1944), Costume Design
- *The Girl Who Dared* (1944), Costume Design
- *Three Little Sisters* (1944), Costume Design
- *Secrets of Scotland Yard* (1944), Costume Design
- *Goodnight, Sweetheart* (1944), Costume Design
- *Man from Frisco* (1944), Costume Design
- *Jamboree* (1944), Costume Design
- *The Lady and the Monster* (1944), Wardrobe Supervisor
- *My Best Gal* (1944), Costume Design
- *Casanova in Burlesque* (1944), Costume Design
- *The Fighting Seabees* (1944), Costume Design
- *Whispering Footsteps* (1943), Costume Design
- *Mystery Broadcast* (1943), Costume Design
- *A Scream in the Dark* (1943), Wardrobe Supervisor
- *Nobody's Darling* (1943), Costume Design
- *Wagon Tracks West* (1943), Costume Design
- *Secret Service In Darkest Africa* (1943), Wardrobe Supervisor
- *Tahiti Honey* (1943), Costume Designer
- *Hit Parade of 1943* (1943), Costume Design
- *Johnny Doughboy* (1942), Costume Design
- *Flying Tigers* (1942), Wardrobe Designer
- *Moonlight Masquerade* (1942), Costume Design
- *The Girl from Alaska* (1942), Wardrobe Designer
- *Yokel Boy* (1942), Costume Design
- *A Tragedy at Midnight* (1942), Costume Designer
- *Remember Pearl Harbor* (1942), Costume Design
- *Gangs Of The City* (1941), Costume Design
- *Mercy Island* (1941), Costume Design
- *Sailors on Leave* (1941), Costume Design
- *Doctors Don't Tell* (1941), Costume Design
- *Ice-Capades* (1941), Costume Design
- *Rags to Riches* (1941), Costume Design
- *Hurricane Smith* (1941), Costume Design
- *Mountain Moonlight* (1941), Costume Design
- *Puddin' Head* (1941), Costume Design
- *The Gay Vagabond* (1941), Costume Design
- *Country Fair* (1941), Costume Design
- *Sis Hopkins* (1941), Costume Design
- *The Great Train Robbery* (1941), Costume Design
- *Arkansas Judge* (1941), Costume Design
- *Bowery Boy* (1940), Costume Design
- *Behind the News* (1940), Costume Design
- *Who Killed Aunt Maggie?* (1940), Costume Design
- *Hit Parade of 1941* (1940), Costume Design
- *Girl from God's Country* (1940), Costume Design
- *Scatterbrain* (1940), Costume Design
- *Grand Ole Opry* (1940), Costume Design
- *Wagons Westward* (1940), Costume Design
- *Women in War* (1940), Costume Design
- *Gangs of Chicago* (1940), Wardrobe Designer
- *The Crooked Road* (1940), Costume Design
- *Dark Command* (1940), Costume Design
- *Forgotten Girls* (1940), Wardrobe Supervisor
- *Village Barn Dance* (1940), Costume Design
- *Wolf of New York* (1940), Costume Design
- *Jeepers Creepers* (1939), Costume Design
- *Sabotage* (1939), Costume Design
- *Calling All Marines* (1939), Costume Design
- *Flight at Midnight* (1939), Costume Design
- *Smuggled Cargo* (1939), Costume Design
- *Should Husbands Work?* (1939), Costume Design
- *She Married a Cop* (1939), Costume Design
- *Mickey the Kid* (1939), Costume Design
- *The Zero Hour* (1939), Costume Design
- *Man of Conquest* (1939), Costume Design
- *The Girl from Havana* (1929), Costume Design

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1960: Best Costume Design, Color (nominated), for *The Best of Everything*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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