Rita Riggs

Costume designer Rita Riggs was interviewed for over 3 hours in Los Angeles. She chronicles working with Norman Lear throughout the 1970s on: All in the F amily (1971-79), Maude (1972-78), Sanford and Son (1972-77), Good Times (1974-79), One Day at A Time (1975-84), Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1975-78), and The Jeffersons (1975-85).  Riggs describes her early career at CBS in 1954 working in the costume department on such shows as Climax! and Shower of Stars, as well as the classic "live" series Playhouse 90.  Riggs also describes her work at Revue Studios which included working with Alfred Hitchcock on his introductions for Alfred Hitchcock Presents and led to her work on Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963), and Marnie (1964).  Riggs also talks about her extensive work in features that include Seconds (1966), Petulia (1968), and Yes, Giorgio (1982).  Riggs speaks of some of her later work including the television movie Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (1999). Conducted August 19, 2003 by Gary Rutkowski.