Kermit Love
| Kermit Love | |
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Love as Willy the Vendor
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| Born |
Kermit Ernest Hollingshead Love August 7, 1916 Spring Lake, New Jersey |
| Died | June 21, 2008 (aged 91) Poughkeepsie, New York |
| Occupation | Puppetmaker, Puppeteer, costume designer and actor |
| Partner(s) | Christopher Lyall |
Kermit Ernest Hollingshead Love (August 7, 1916 – June 21, 2008) was an American puppet maker, puppeteer, costume designer, and actor in children's television and on Broadway. He was best known as a designer and builder with the Muppets, in particular those on Sesame Street.
Love was born in Spring Lake, New Jersey on August 7, 1916 to Ernest and Alice Love. He was raised by his grandmother and great-grandmother following after his mother's death when he was three years old.
Love began his theatrical career working as a marionette maker for a federal Works Progress Administration theater in Newark, New Jersey in 1935. He was also a costume designer for Broadway and other stage productions as in the 1930s, including Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre troupe. Love also appeared on stage in a bit part as a student for the 1937 play Naught Naught 00.
Love worked with many of the great figures of mid-century Broadway and American ballet. He was the costumer for the Agnes de Mille ballet Rodeo (1942), for the Kurt Weill musical One Touch of Venus (1943), and for Merce Cunningham's The Wind Remains (1943) and Jerome Robbins's ballet Fancy Free (1944). For George Balanchine he designed, amongst other items, a 28 ft (8.5 m) marionette giant for Don Quixote (1965).
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