Kay Nelson
Kay Nelson was a Cinema of [the United States|Hollywood] costume designer at 20th Century Fox whose first film was Up in Mabel's Room in 1944. Over the next 17 years, she provided the costumes for such films as Leave Her to Heaven, Boomerang, Miracle on 34th Street and Gentleman's Agreement and A Letter to Three Wives.
At 20th Century Fox she worked under Charles LeMarie who assembled a talented department of costume designers including Rene Hubert, Bonnie Cashin and Oleg Cassini.
She was married to Lyle Wheeler, an Art Director at 20th Century Fox.
She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design for Mother Is a Freshman.
Her last film was the British crime drama The Mark in 1961.
Costume design credits
- Up in Mabel's Room
- Take it or Leave it
- Something [for the Boys |Something for the Boys]
- Winged Victory
- Sunday Dinner for a Soldier
- Hangover Square
- Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe
- Within These Walls
- Leave Her to Heaven
- Behind Green Lights
- Shock
- Sentimental Journey
- The Dark Corner
- Do You Love Me
- Somewhere in the Night
- Margie
- Boomerang
- Miracle on 34th Street,
- Gentleman's Agreement
- The Homestretch
- Call Northside 777
- You were Meant for Me
- Street With No Name
- Sitting Pretty
- The [Walls of Jericho |The Walls of Jericho]
- Hollow Triumph, released as The Scar in Great Britain
- Apartment for Peggy
- Road House
- Mother Is a Freshman, also realised as Mother Knows Best in Great Britain
- A Letter to Three Wives
- Come to the Stable
- Everybody Does It
- Father was a Fullback
- Slattery's Hurricane
- Thieves Highway
- Blowing Wild
- A Lion Is in the Streets
- Witness to Murder
- Violent Saturday
- Daddy Long Legs
- Tall Story
- ''The Mark''