- Second only to Edith Head in winning "Oscars" for costume design. Ms. Head receiving 8 and Ms. Sharaff 5.
- She was the only costume designer to work on both the original stage and film versions of two Rodgers and Hammerstein shows, "The King and I" and "Flower Drum Song", and also the original stage and film versions of "West Side Story" and "Funny Girl".
- Won Broadway's 1952 Tony Award for Best Costumes for "The King and I." This was followed by six additional Tony nominations as Best Costume Designer: in 1957 for "Candide, "" Happy Hunting," "Shangri-La," and "Small War On Murray Hill;" in 1958 for "West Side Story;" in 1959 for "Flower Drum Song," in 1964 for "The Girl Who Came to Supper;" in 1966 for "Sweet Charity," and in 1968 for "Hallelujah, Baby!".
- Great-great aunt of costume designer Mikael Sharafyan.
- Great-aunt of famous Armenian actor Levon Sharafyan.
- During her lengthy career she worked with actresses from Alla Nazimova to Faye Dunaway.
- Sharaff walked out on her final big screen assignment, refusing to continue working with Faye Dunaway (playing Joan Crawford) on Mommie Dearest, after a series of angry clashes between the two of them.
- Was assistant to legendary designer Aline Bernstein in the 1930s at New York's famed Civic Repertory Theatre run by actress Eva Le Gallienne.
- In addition to films she also designed wardrobe and sometimes scenery for some 60 stage productions in New York and London and did all her own costume sketches.
- Early on did story illustrations for Vogue,and Harpers Bazaar magazines.
- Although she was the personal costume designer for Elizabeth Taylor on several films, she was intensely disliked by Taylor's husband, Richard Burton.
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