Adrian Adolph Greenburg, born in Naugatuck, Connecticut, March 3, 1903, to Gilbert and Helena Pollack Greenburg. He began his professional career while still attending the New York School for Fine and Applied Arts by contributing to the costumes for George Whites Scandals in 1921. He is credited for that production by his created name of Gilbert Adrian, a combination of his fathers first name and his own. He transferred to NYSFAAs Paris campus in 1922 and while there was hired by Irving Berlin. In the fall of 1922 he returned to New York and began work on Berlins 19221923 edition of The Music Box Revue. Adrian continued to work on the Berlin reviews as well as other theatrical and film projects.His big film break was designing costumes for Mae Murray in her first M.G.M. film, The Merry Widow 1925. He was then hired by Natacha Rambova to design for the independent films of her husband, Rudolph Valentino. In mid1925, after designing costumes for the prologue of The Gold Rush at Graumans Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, Adrian was hired by Cecil B. DeMille to become head of the wardrobe department at his new studio. When DeMille moved to M.G.M. in 1928, Adrian moved there also. When his DeMille contract expired, Adrian signed with M.G.M. and remained with that studio until 1942.

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