Dressing dolls as a child at her parents’ Wisconsin farm, future costume designer Betty Pecha Madden created stories using clothes. By age 17, her interest in costuming having grown serious via high school plays, she left home upon graduation and went to Chicago to find work in the industry.
Madden clothed rock groups and college nightclub acts to pay the rent, but her sights were set higher, and in 1969 she headed to Las Vegas. There she toiled day and night — days as a host at the Hilton International Hotel, nights designing tuxedos for lounge singers and outfits for showgirls. But it was the functional changes to Hilton’s service uniforms that signaled her future direction: costume design.
Moving to Los Angeles in 1972, Madden got her first Hollywood jobs a few years later and, in 1976, scored a gig for producer Mike Wuergler for “The New Mickey Mouse Club.” The videotaped series allowed...
Madden clothed rock groups and college nightclub acts to pay the rent, but her sights were set higher, and in 1969 she headed to Las Vegas. There she toiled day and night — days as a host at the Hilton International Hotel, nights designing tuxedos for lounge singers and outfits for showgirls. But it was the functional changes to Hilton’s service uniforms that signaled her future direction: costume design.
Moving to Los Angeles in 1972, Madden got her first Hollywood jobs a few years later and, in 1976, scored a gig for producer Mike Wuergler for “The New Mickey Mouse Club.” The videotaped series allowed...
- 3/8/2019
- by James C. Udel
- Variety Film + TV
As a pitched battle in Wisconsin continues to escalate, SAG and AFTRA members are on scene at the state capitol building in Madison, helping fight efforts by the state’s Republican governor to limit public employee wages, require employees to pay more for pension and health benefits and, perhaps most controversially, constrict the scope of collective bargaining and force public unions to hold yearly votes on whether they should remain in existence.
The acting contingent includes Emmy and SAG Award winner Bradley Whitford (The West Wing), SAG and AFTRA National Board member Gabrielle Carteris (The Event, Beverly Hills, 90210), AFTRA National Board member Robert Newman (Guiding Light) and local union members.
The proposals by Gov. Scott Walker have resulted in two weeks of protests both in and at the capitol building. Thousands of protesters have occupied all levels of the rotunda, with many sleeping overnight on bedrolls. Media estimates of crowds...
The acting contingent includes Emmy and SAG Award winner Bradley Whitford (The West Wing), SAG and AFTRA National Board member Gabrielle Carteris (The Event, Beverly Hills, 90210), AFTRA National Board member Robert Newman (Guiding Light) and local union members.
The proposals by Gov. Scott Walker have resulted in two weeks of protests both in and at the capitol building. Thousands of protesters have occupied all levels of the rotunda, with many sleeping overnight on bedrolls. Media estimates of crowds...
- 2/26/2011
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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