Hollywood Flashback: Bob Mackie Won His First Emmy for 1966’s ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’

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The first Emmy ever awarded for costume design went to Bob Mackie and his late partner (creatively and, later, romantically), Ray Aghayan, for their fanciful designs on NBC’s 1966 TV movie Al…

The first Emmy ever awarded for costume design went to Bob Mackie and his late partner , Ray Aghayan, for their fanciful designs on NBC’s 1966 TV movieWonderful World of Burlesque II,awarded no trophy in the category’s introductory year , butThe production’s starry cast included the Smothers Brothers as Tweedledee and Tweedledum; Agnes Moorehead and Nanette Fabray as the Red Queen and the White...

respectively; Ricardo Montalbán as the White King; Jack Palance as the Jabberwock and Jimmy Durante as Humpty Dumpty. Mackie and Aghayan put Alice in a sky-blue mod dress, in keeping with the street fashion of the era. Mackie got his start sketching at Paramount in the late ’50s. He was quickly assigned as assistant to Aghayan and his talent was noticed by the likes of Edith Head, working at Paramount at the time.

 

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