ANGELA LANSBURY An opera coat made from a 1920s shawl of black silk woven with gold lamé ferns and printed with brightly coloured flowers trimmed with elaborate tassels and fringing labelled BARBARA MATERA Ltd. New York Miss Lansbury; matching turban surmounted by two black feathers and a corresponding still; another turban of coral and cream brocade trimmed with mother-of-pearl sequins and a rhinestone brooch and corresponding still; and a straw hat trimmed with an ivory silk scarf and decorated with a brass brooch, by Anthony Powell for Angela Lansbury as Mrs Salome Otterbourne in the 1978 E.M.I. film Death On The Nile. (4)

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ANGELA LANSBURY An opera coat made from a 1920s shawl of black silk woven with gold lamé ferns and printed with brightly coloured flowers trimmed with elaborate tassels and fringing labelled BARBARA MATERA Ltd. New York Miss Lansbury; matching turban surmounted by two black feathers and a corresponding still; another turban of coral and cream brocade trimmed with mother-of-pearl sequins and a rhinestone brooch and corresponding still; and a straw hat trimmed with an ivory silk scarf and decorated with a brass brooch, by Anthony Powell for Angela Lansbury as Mrs Salome Otterbourne in the 1978 E.M.I. film Death On The Nile. (4)

Literature

Film Revue, April 1978, pp.30-31.

Lot Essay

Anthony Powell designed the costumes to suit the personalities of the characters. In this instance, Angela Lansbury played the outrageously flamboyant novelists Mrs Salome Otterbourne. Many of Anthony Powell's designs were made by the talented Barbara Matera in New York..who found some costume trimmings, and part of actual outfits in bazaars or markets in New York, Paris and London, and combined them with exquisite, rich, rare fabrics....

Photograph courtesy of Lumiere Pictures Ltd.

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