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Costume shop founder turns wardrobe into film fame
Maurine Whitlock runs a Newark costume shop with nearly 7,000 pieces and a New Castle warehouse. His inventory outfits Hollywood productions from Dances With Wolves to Glory, while he rents props to theaters and maintains a Civil War reproduction empire with seamstresses, shipping as far as Australia.
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Newark
Maurine Whitlock
Mr. Waites
Cucadalusions
New Castle
Hollywood
Whitlock
Kevin Costner
Mr. Whitlock
Vanessa Redgrave
Denzel Washington
Matthew Broderick
Delaware Historical Reenactment Society Inc
Shell Oil:Co
George Patton
Air Transport Command
Ralph Lauren
Lord de la Warr High School
Australia
East Tennessee State
Aiey
Delaware City