# @clevelandmagazine on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DEu66Ezt53X
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/25921461-clevelandmagazine-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-01-12T17:00:05.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Cleveland Magazine (@clevelandmagazine) — https://gondola.cc/clevelandmagazine

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🎬 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 scene, which he calls “the best decision that I have ever made, because coming to Cleveland, I got to reinvent myself, I got to reinvent myself as a costumer.”

Cleveland Magazine spoke with Crawford about his career as a costumer in Hollywood and his time in Cleveland’s theater scene.

🔗 Read the conversation at the link in our bio.

🖊️ Jaden Stambolia
📸 Courtesy Harold Crawford

#cleveland #InTheCLE #haroldcrawford

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