Doris Zinkeisen
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Doris Clare Zinkeisen (31 July 1898-3 January 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.
in 1935, Zinkeisen was commissioned by John Brown and Company Shipbuilders of Clydebank to paint the murals in the Verandah Grill of the famous ocean liner the RMS Queen Mary. Her work can still be seen on the ship, now permanently moored in Long Beach, California.
In 1941, during World War II, Zinkeisen and her sister Anna Zinkeisen were both employed as war artists for the North West Europe Commission of the Joint War Organisation of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St John.
Doris was the mother of British children's book illustrators Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone.
