Doris Zinkeisen

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Doris Zinkeisen (1898-1991) was a Scottish costume designer and artist. She worked on no more than a handful of films, nearly all of them British, but some have come to be regarded as among the greatest British film classics of all time. Among them are the 1933 film version of Noel Coward's operetta Bitter Sweet, the 1934 Nell Gwyn, Peg of Old Drury, and the famous screen biography of Queen Victoria, Victoria the Great, together with its sequel, Sixty Glorious Years. British director James Whale specifically directed Zinkeisen to design the costumes for the only American film she ever worked on, the 1936 screen version of Show Boat. It remains today the most popular and highly regarded film that Zinkeisen ever worked on.

Doris was the mother of British children's book illustrators Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone.