Don Loper Born in Toledo

Toledo, Ohio

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, Ohio

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 was an American

United States

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 costume and necktie

Necktie

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 designer http://www.donloper.com/about/, as well as a screenwriter

Screenwriter

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, choreographer, associate producer, actor

Actor

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 http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=100132, and assistant to MGM musicals producer Arthur Freed

Arthur Freed

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Loper is also known for introducing Judy Garland

Judy Garland

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 to her future husband, director Vincente Minnelli

Vincente Minnelli

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 (Meet Me in St. Louis

Meet Me in St. Louis

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Loper's work, some of which was designed for stars like Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald

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 http://trio.caamuseum.org/search_results.asp?searchterm=Don+Loper&type=browse&cat=artist is featured in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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 http://www.davidrumsey.com/amica/amico660575-70715.html and the California African American Museum http://trio.caamuseum.org/search_results.asp?searchterm=Don+Loper&type=browse&cat=artist. He also played himself in an episode of I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy

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titled The Fashion Show in 1955.

He died in Santa Monica

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, California

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, from complications following a lung puncture.

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