Madam Karinska's Motion Picture Academy Award Costume Design "Oscar," for Howard Hughes produced RKO 1948 feature film "Joan of Arc" is shared with Dorothy Jeakins. The original feature film "Joan of Arc" costume designer was New York City Broadway set and costume/couturier designer, resident Raoul Pene du Bois, who asked Karinska to collaborate with him on the costume film extravaganza starring Ingrid Bergman. The first costume they designed in New York City was the suit of armor that Bergman would wear as Joan of Arc. Raoul Pene du Bois and Barbara Karinska worked with the head of the Metropolitan Museum's historical armor collection - where the film's suit of armor for Joan of Arc was made, in the Metropolitan's back-room armor restoration department. This was the first costume completed for the film. Moving to Hollywood, Raoul Pene du Bois and Madam Karinska continued their film collaboration-partnership, with Raoul Pene du Bois designing costumes and Karinska supervising costume construction in the studio wardrobe shop. Raoul Pene du Bois tired of the slow production process abruptly departed for his return to New York City, leaving Karinska to proceed with the costumes for the costume epic. After Raoul Pene du Bois's departure, the film producers insisted on seeing more costume sketches - which Karinska could not accomplish with her costume construction time schedule nor lack of talent in illustrating. Karinska hired a newspaper-advertising fashion illustrator from the Bullock's Wilshire department store advertising staff - Dorothy Jeakins - to illustrate the additional feature film's costume proposals. As production proceeded, Dorothy Jeakins became more involved in the costume construction supervision, fittings, and finishing of wardrobe specifics required in the filming process. After filming began, wardrobe requirements completed, Karinska returned to New York leaving Dorothy Jeakins to finish the film's shooting schedule. In the best Hollywood tradition, Dorothy Jeakins' film studio career was launched after winning the shared Motion Picture Academy Award "Oscar" trophy statuette.

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