🎬 We always hear stories of how someone made the jump to being an actor or director in Hollywood, but legendary Hollywood costumer Harold Crawford's story is written a bit differently.
🧵 Crawford graduated from Compton High in 1968 and enrolled in the Los Angeles Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, where he was one of three men in the 26-person class. At first, he wanted to be a fashion buyer. The mother of a girl he was dating at the time was an actor, and she told him to apply at Paramount Studios to be a costumer through the minority labor program. The rest is history.
📺 Crawford has worked on more than 100 movies and TV shows in his 50-year career. He has worked at major Hollywood studios like 20th Century Fox Studios, Paramount Studios, Warner Bros Studios and Universal Studios, where he would stay for seven years as a costumer.
🎭 Yet, he moved to Cleveland with his wife so that she could be closer to her family. Then, he started to break into Cleveland’s theater...
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