Career
Foreign over three decades, Renié was noted for clothing the stars in subtle, elegant outfits, as can be seen in the eponymous costumes Ginger Rogers wore as the glamorous all-American working girl in Kitty Foyle (1940). She got her start designing theatre sets and then working as a sketch artist for Paramount Pictures. In 1937, she became a costume designer for Radio-Keith-Orpheum Pictures.
She remained with the studio, attiring its biggest stars until the 1950s when she started freelancing.
In addition to films, Renié"s work can also be seen on such television series as Haywire (1990 - 1991). In 1963, Renié"s costumes for the epic Cleopatra earned her an Oscar (she received four other nominations).
Foreign a while, she also designed costumes for "Shipstead & Johnson"s Ice Follies". She also designed the costumes for the 1942 film A Date with the Falcon and the 1943 The Falcon and the Company-eds.