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name: "René Hubert"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rene-hubert"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "7 October 1895"
died: "5 June 1976"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_over: 6
updated: "2026-09-20T01:12:20.330673+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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# René Hubert

Costume designer. Born 7 October 1895 in Frauenfeld - Switzerland. Died 5 June 1976.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 7 October 1895, Frauenfeld - Switzerland
- **Died:** 5 June 1976
- **Active:** 1932–1945
- **Also known as:** Rene Hubert
- **Frequently works with:** [Henry King](https://film.one/person/henry-king.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscar nominations
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 80 (1), 1940s 70 (5)
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 5, Romance 3, Comedy 2, Family 1, Fantasy 1, War 1
- **Screen time:** 12 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $2m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Hubert_(costume_designer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q119384, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0399484/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/33176

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Heaven Can Wait*](https://film.one/film/heaven-can-wait-1943.md) (84)
- **Pluto TV:** [*The Pride of the Yankees*](https://film.one/film/the-pride-of-the-yankees.md) (71)

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## Biography

René Hubert (1895–1976) was a Swiss costume designer. He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in St Gallen and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and worked in theatre and fashion before entering film in the mid-1920s.

He designed costumes for films from 1925 to 1964, including *State Fair* (1945), *Lifeboat* (1944), *My Darling Clementine* (1946), *And Then There Were None* (1945), *Heaven Can Wait* (1943), *Things to Come* (1936), *Broken Arrow* (1950), *Anastasia* (1956), *Jane Eyre* (1943) and *The Pride of the Yankees* (1942). He often designed for Gloria Swanson and received Academy Award nominations for *Désirée* (1954, shared with Charles LeMaire) and *The Visit* (1964).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, catalog.afi.com, de.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (6)

- *State Fair* (1945), Fi1m 70, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/state-fair.md)
- *Wilson* (1944), Fi1m 61, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/wilson.md)
- *Heaven Can Wait* (1943), Fi1m 84, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/heaven-can-wait-1943.md)
- *The Song of Bernadette* (1943), Fi1m 63, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-song-of-bernadette.md)
- *The Pride of the Yankees* (1942), Fi1m 71, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-pride-of-the-yankees.md)
- *Shanghai Express* (1932), Fi1m 80, Costumer — [page](https://film.one/film/shanghai-express.md)

## Complete filmography (112)

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

- *The Visit* (1964), Costume Design
- *The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse* (1962), Costume Design
- *The Journey* (1959), Costume Consultant
- *Anastasia* (1956), Costume Design
- *Désirée* (1954), Costume Design
- *Broken Arrow* (1950), Costume Design
- *Love That Brute* (1950), Costume Design
- *A Ticket to Tomahawk* (1950), Costume Design
- *Oh, You Beautiful Doll* (1949), Costume Design
- *The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend* (1949), Costume Design
- *The Fan* (1949), Costume Design
- *When My Baby Smiles at Me* (1948), Costume Design
- *That Lady in Ermine* (1948), Costume Design
- *Fury at Furnace Creek* (1948), Costume Design
- *Forever Amber* (1947), Costume Design
- *Moss Rose* (1947), Costume Design
- *Carnival in Costa Rica* (1947), Costume Design
- *The Late George Apley* (1947), Costume Design
- *13 Rue Madeleine* (1947), Costume Design
- *Wake Up and Dream* (1946), Costume Design
- *My Darling Clementine* (1946), Costume Design
- *Centennial Summer* (1946), Costume Design
- *Dragonwyck* (1946), Costume Design
- *And Then There Were None* (1945), Costume Design
- *State Fair* (1945), Costume Design — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/state-fair.md)
- *Nob Hill* (1945), Costume Design
- *Diamond Horseshoe* (1945), Costume Design
- *A Royal Scandal* (1945), Costume Design
- *Hangover Square* (1945), Costume Design
- *Dark Waters* (1944), Costume Design
- *Irish Eyes Are Smiling* (1944), Costume Design
- *Wilson* (1944), Costume Design — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/film/wilson.md)
- *Pin Up Girl* (1944), Costume Design
- *Buffalo Bill* (1944), Costume Design
- *It Happened Tomorrow* (1944), Costume Design
- *The Fighting Sullivans* (1944), Costume Design
- *Lifeboat* (1944), Costume Design
- *The Lodger* (1944), Costume Design
- *Jane Eyre* (1943), Costume Design
- *The Song of Bernadette* (1943), Costume Design — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/the-song-of-bernadette.md)
- *Happy Land* (1943), Costume Designer
- *Claudia* (1943), Costume Design
- *Sweet Rosie O'Grady* (1943), Costume Design
- *Wintertime* (1943), Costume Design
- *Holy Matrimony* (1943), Costume Design
- *Heaven Can Wait* (1943), Costume Design — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/heaven-can-wait-1943.md)
- *The Pride of the Yankees* (1942), Costume Design — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/the-pride-of-the-yankees.md)
- *Father Takes a Wife* (1941), Costume Design
- *Lydia* (1941), Costume Design
- *New Wine* (1941), Costume Design
- *The Flame of New Orleans* (1941), Costume Design
- *That Hamilton Woman* (1941), Costume Design
- *Over the Moon* (1939), Costume Design
- *The Four Feathers* (1939), Costume Design
- *A Yank at Oxford* (1938), Costumer
- *The Divorce of Lady X* (1938), Costume Design
- *Dark Journey* (1937), Costume Design
- *Under the Red Robe* (1937), Costume Design
- *Fire Over England* (1937), Costume Design
- *Wings of the Morning* (1937), Costume Design
- *The Sky’s the Limit* (1937), Costume Design
- *Men Are Not Gods* (1936), Costume Design
- *Rembrandt* (1936), Costume Designer
- *Things to Come* (1936), Costume Design
- *The Ghost Goes West* (1935), Costume Design
- *The Daring Young Man* (1935), Costume Design
- *Doubting Thomas* (1935), Costume Design
- *It's A Small World* (1935), Costume Design
- *The Lottery Lover* (1935), Costume Design
- *Music in the Air* (1934), Costume Design
- *Marie Galante* (1934), Costume Design
- *Liliom* (1934), Costume Design
- *Volga in Flames* (1934), Costume Design
- *Waltz War* (1933), Costume Design
- *July 14* (1933), Costume Design
- *Flesh* (1932), Costume Design
- *Tumultes* (1932), Costume Design
- *Students in Paris* (1932), Costume Design
- *Shanghai Express* (1932), Costumer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/shanghai-express.md)
- *À Nous la Liberté* (1931), Costume Design
- *Casanova Against His Will* (1931), Costume Design
- *Bombs Over Monte Carlo* (1931), Costume Design
- *Guilty Hands* (1931), Costume Designer
- *The Great Lover* (1931), Wardrobe Supervisor
- *Buster se marie* (1931), Costume Design
- *Stepping Out* (1931), Costume Design
- *A Tailor-Made Man* (1931), Costume Design
- *Parlor, Bedroom and Bath* (1931), as Wardrobe Master
- *The Easiest Way* (1931), Costume Design
- *The Trial of Mary Dugan* (1931), Costume Designer
- *The Great Meadow* (1931), Costume Design
- *Reducing* (1931), Costume Designer
- *Min and Bill* (1930), Costume Designer
- *War Nurse* (1930), Wardrobe Designer
- *Darling of the Gods* (1930), Costume Design
- *Those Three French Girls* (1930), Wardrobe Designer
- *The Three from the Filling Station* (1930), Costume Design
- *What a Widow!* (1930), Costume Design
- *The Love Waltz* (1930), Costume Design
- *The Temporary Widow* (1930), Costume Design
- *Hokuspokus* (1930), as Loiret
- *Under the Roofs of Paris* (1930), Costume Design
- *Liebeswalzer* (1930), Costume Design
- *The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna* (1929), Costume Assistant
- *Asphalt* (1929), Costume Design
- *Quality Street* (1927), Costume Design
- *Body and Soul* (1927), Costume Design
- *Foreign Devils* (1927), Costume Design
- *After Midnight* (1927), Costume Design
- *Mr. Wu* (1927), Costume Designer
- *Beau Geste* (1926), Costume Designer
- *Stage Struck* (1925), Costume Designer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- 1965: Best Costume Design, Black-and-White (nominated), for *The Visit (1964 film)*
- 1955: Best Costume Design, Color (nominated), for *Désirée*

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

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