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Edith Head (1897–1981)


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She is tied with composer Alan Menken for third most Academy Awards won. Each of them have eight. See more trivia »

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Filmography

Hide HideCostume Designer (437 titles)
1980 The Last Married Couple in America (costume designer: Natalie Wood and Valerie Harper)
 
1979 Women in White (TV movie)
 
1978 Return Engagement (TV movie)
 
1978 The Big Fix
 
1978 Little Women (TV series)
Pilot (1978)
 
1977 Sunshine Christmas (TV movie)
 
1977 Sex and the Married Woman (TV movie)
 
1977 Airport '77
 
1976 The Disappearance of Aimee (TV movie)
 
1976 Amelia Earhart (TV movie)
 
1976 Family Plot (costumes designed by)
 
1976 The Blue Bird
 
1975 The Man Who Would Be King (wardrobe designed by)
 
1974 Earthquake (uncredited)
 
1974 Airport 1975
 
1973 The Sting (costumes)
 
1973 The Don Is Dead
 
1973/II A Doll's House (jane Fonda's costumes)
 
1973 Showdown
 
1972 Pete 'n' Tillie
 
1972 The Screaming Woman (TV movie)
 
1970 Skullduggery
 
1970 Airport (costumes designed by)
 
1969 Topaz (costumes)
 
1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (uncredited)
 
1969 The Lost Man
 
1969 Eye of the Cat
 
1969 Winning
 
1969 Sweet Charity (costumes designed by)
 
1968 Hellfighters (costumes designed by)
 
1968 House of Cards
 
1968 The Pink Jungle
 
1968 Blue
 
1967 Chuka
 
1967 Hotel (gowns)
 
1967 Warning Shot (TV movie)
 
1966 El Dorado
 
1966 The Swinger
 
1966 Penelope
 
1966 The Oscar (gowns)
 
1965 Red Line 7000
 
1965/I Harlow
 
1965 Who Has Seen the Wind? (TV movie)
 
1965 Sylvia
 
1965 36 Hours (uncredited)
 
1964 Roustabout
 
1964 The Patsy
 
1964 Mr. and Mrs. (TV movie)
 
1963 The Judy Garland Show (TV series)
 
1963 Fun in Acapulco
 
1963 Donovan's Reef
 
1963 Hud (costumes)
 
1963 Critic's Choice
 
1963 My Six Loves
 
1962 It's Only Money
 
1962 Hatari!
 
1962 My Geisha
 
1961 Pocketful of Miracles (costumes)
 
1961 The Errand Boy
 
1961 Blue Hawaii
 
1961 Too Late Blues
 
1961 Man-Trap
 
1961 The Ladies Man
 
1961 On the Double (costumes)
 
1960 Pepe
 
1960 Cinderfella
 
1960 G.I. Blues
 
1960 The Rat Race
 
1959 The Jayhawkers!
 
1959 Career
 
1959 But Not for Me
 
1959 A Hole in the Head (costumes)
 
1959 The Five Pennies (costumes)
 
1959 The Trap
 
1958 The Buccaneer
 
1958 Houseboat
 
1958 The Geisha Boy
 
1958 The Matchmaker
 
1958 Rock-a-Bye Baby
 
1958 King Creole
 
1958 Hot Spell
 
1958 Maracaibo
 
1958 Vertigo (costumes)
 
1958 St. Louis Blues
 
1958 Teacher's Pet
 
1957 The Sad Sack
 
1957 Hear Me Good
 
1957 The Tin Star
 
1957 Loving You
 
1957 Beau James
 
1957 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (costumes)
 
1957 Fear Strikes Out (costumes)
 
1957 Funny Face
 
1956 The Rainmaker (costumes)
 
1956 The Mountain
 
1956 Pardners
 
1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much (costumes)
 
1956 Anything Goes
 
1956 The Come On
 
1955 The Court Jester (costumes)
 
1955 The Rose Tattoo
 
1955 Lucy Gallant
 
1955 The Desperate Hours (costumes)
 
1955 The Girl Rush
 
1955 The Trouble with Harry (costumes)
 
1955 To Catch a Thief (costumes)
 
1955 Run for Cover
 
1954 3 Ring Circus
 
1954 White Christmas
 
1954 Rear Window (costumes)
 
1954 Living It Up (gowns)
 
1954 Elephant Walk
 
1954 Casanova's Big Night (costumes: women)
 
1954 Knock on Wood (costumes)
 
1954 Jivaro
 
1954 Red Garters (costumes: women)
 
1954 Alaska Seas
 
1953 Money from Home
 
1953 Forever Female
 
1953 Little Boy Lost
 
1953 Roman Holiday (costumes)
 
1953 The Caddy
 
1953 Arrowhead
 
1953 Houdini
 
1953 The Vanquished
 
1953 Pony Express
 
1953 Sangaree
 
1953 Scared Stiff
 
1953 Shane (costumes)
 
1953 Off Limits
 
1953 Tropic Zone
 
1952 Road to Bali
 
1952 Just for You
 
1952 Carrie
 
1952 Son of Paleface
 
1952 Jumping Jacks
 
1952 The Atomic City
 
1952 My Son John
 
1952 Sailor Beware
 
1952 The Greatest Show on Earth (costumes)
 
1951 My Favorite Spy
 
1951 Silver City
 
1951 Detective Story (costumes)
 
1951 Rhubarb
 
1951 A Place in the Sun (costumes)
 
1951 Peking Express
 
1951 Ace in the Hole
 
1951 That's My Boy
 
1951 Dear Brat
 
1950 Mr. Music (gowns)
 
1950 Branded
 
1950 Let's Dance
 
1950 Dark City
 
1950 Copper Canyon
 
1950 The Furies
 
1950 Sunset Blvd. (costumes)
 
1950 Riding High (costumes)
 
1949 The Great Lover
 
1949 The Heiress (costumes)
 
1949 My Friend Irma
 
1949 Rope of Sand
 
1949 The Accused
 
1948 Beyond Glory
 
1948 Dream Girl
 
1948 Saigon
 
1948 The Big Clock
 
1948 I Walk Alone
 
1947 Road to Rio
 
1947 Wild Harvest
 
1947 Variety Girl
 
1947 Desert Fury
 
1947 The Perils of Pauline (gowns)
 
1947 Dear Ruth
 
1947 The Other Love
 
1947 Blaze of Noon
 
1947 Ramrod
 
1946 Cross My Heart
 
1946 Blue Skies
 
1946 The Blue Dahlia
 
1946 The Virginian
 
1946 To Each His Own
 
1946 Road to Utopia
 
1945 The Stork Club
 
1945 The Lost Weekend (costumes)
 
1945 Love Letters
 
1945 You Came Along
 
1944 Rainbow Island
 
1944 Hail the Conquering Hero (costumes)
 
1944 Going My Way (costumes)
 
1944 Double Indemnity (costumes)
 
1944 The Uninvited
 
1944 Lady in the Dark (modern gowns)
 
1943 True to Life
 
1943 Riding High
 
1943 China
 
1943 The Crystal Ball (gowns)
 
1943 No Time for Love (gowns)
 
1942 Lucky Jordan (gowns)
 
1942 Road to Morocco
 
1942 The Glass Key
 
1942 The Major and the Minor (costumes)
 
1942 Holiday Inn (gowns)
 
1942 The Remarkable Andrew (gowns)
 
1942 The Fleet's In
 
1941 Bahama Passage
 
1941 Skylark
 
1941 New York Town
 
1941 You Belong to Me (gowns)
 
1941 Hold Back the Dawn (gowns)
 
1941 Here Comes Mr. Jordan (gowns)
 
1941 The Lady Eve (costumes)
 
1941 The Mad Doctor
 
1941 Life with Henry
 
1940 Moon Over Burma
 
1940 Safari
 
1940 The Ghost Breakers (costumes)
 
1940 Typhoon
 
1940 Road to Singapore (costumes)
 
1939 The Star Maker
 
1939 Beau Geste (costumes)
 
1939 Man About Town
 
1939 Never Say Die
 
1939 Sudden Money
 
1939 Paris Honeymoon
 
1939 Disbarred
 
1938 Zaza
 
1938 If I Were King
 
1938 The Texans
 
1938 Men with Wings
 
1938 Tropic Holiday
 
1938 Cocoanut Grove
 
1938 College Swing
 
1938 Her Jungle Love
 
1938 The Big Broadcast of 1938 (costumes)
 
1937 Wells Fargo (costumes)
 
1937 Ebb Tide
 
1937 This Way Please
 
1937 Souls at Sea
 
1937 Exclusive
 
1937 Waikiki Wedding
 
1936 College Holiday
 
1936 Poppy (costumes designed by)
 
1936 Early to Bed
 
1934 Death Takes a Holiday (uncredited)
 
1933 Cradle Song
 
1933 She Done Him Wrong (uncredited)
 
1932 Love Me Tonight (uncredited)
 
1929 The Saturday Night Kid (uncredited)
 
1927 Wings (uncredited)
 
1925 The Golden Bed (uncredited)
 
Show ShowCostume and Wardrobe Department (83 titles)
1978 Sextette (gowns designer: Miss West)
 
1975 Rooster Cogburn (wardrobe: Miss Hepburn)
 
1973 Ash Wednesday (costumes: Elizabeth Taylor)
 
1973 Divorce His - Divorce Hers (TV movie) (costumes: Miss Taylor)
 
1972 Hammersmith Is Out (costumes: Elizabeth Taylor)
 
1970 Myra Breckinridge (costumes: Miss Mae West)
 
1967 Berserk (designer: Joan Crawford's leotard - uncredited)
 
1966 Not with My Wife, You Don't! (wardrobe designer: Miss Lisi)
 
1966 Torn Curtain (costume designer: Miss Andrews)
 
1966 Waco (wardrober: Jane Russell)
 
1966 Assault on a Queen (costumes: Miss Lissi)
 
1966 Johnny Reno (costumes: Jane Russell)
 
1965 Inside Daisy Clover (costume designer: Natalie Wood)
 
1965 The Great Race (clothes: Miss Wood)
 
1965 Love Has Many Faces (wardrobe: Miss Turner)
 
1964 The Yellow Rolls-Royce (wardrobe: Miss MacLaine)
 
1964 Marnie (costume designer: Miss Hedren and Miss Baker)
 
1964 What a Way to Go! (gowns: Miss MacLaine)
 
1963 The Birds (costume designer: Miss Hedren)
 
1963 Judy and Her Guests, Phil Silvers and Robert Goulet (TV movie) (gowns: Miss Garland)
 
1963 I Could Go on Singing (costumes: Miss Garland)
 
1961 Breakfast at Tiffany's (costume supervisor)
 
1961 Love in a Goldfish Bowl (costume supervisor)
 
1961 All in a Night's Work (costumes)
 
1960 The Facts of Life (wardrobe: Miss Ball)
 
1959 A Touch of Larceny (costumes: Miss Vera Miles)
 
1959 The Jayhawkers! (costumes)
 
1958 Separate Tables (gowns: Miss Hayworth)
 
1957 Witness for the Prosecution (costumes: Miss Dietrich)
 
1957 Hear Me Good (costumer)
 
1956 Three Violent People (costumes)
 
1956 The Mountain (costumes)
 
1956 The Ten Commandments (costumes)
 
1955 The Seven Little Foys (costumes)
 
1955 Hell's Island (wardrobe supervisor)
 
1954 Sabrina (costume supervisor)
 
1954 Secret of the Incas (costumes)
 
1953 Jamaica Run (costumer)
 
1952 Hurricane Smith (costumes)
 
1952 Caribbean (costumes: Arlene Dahl)
 
1952 The Savage (costumes)
 
1952 Stolen Face (wardrobe: Lizabeth Scott)
 
1952 Anything Can Happen (costumer)
 
1952 Hong Kong (costumes: Miss Fleming)
 
1951 Submarine Command (costumes)
 
1951 Crosswinds (costumes: Miss Fleming)
 
1951 Payment on Demand (gowns: Bette Davis)
 
1950 All About Eve (costume designer: Miss Bette Davis)
 
1949 Samson and Delilah (costumes)
 
1949 Manhandled (costumes: Miss Lamour)
 
1948 June Bride (wardrobe: Bette Davis)
 
1948 Rachel and the Stranger (costumes: Miss Young)
 
1948 So Evil My Love (costume designer: Ann Todd and Geraldine Fitzgerald)
 
1948 Arch of Triumph (costume designer: Miss Bergman)
 
1947 Cry Wolf (wardrobe: Miss Stanwyck)
 
1947 The Farmer's Daughter (costume designer: Miss Loretta Young)
 
1947 The Two Mrs. Carrolls (gowns: Miss Stanwyck)
 
1947 California (costumes: women)
 
1946 Notorious (gowns designer: Miss Ingrid Bergman)
 
1946 Miss Susie Slagle's (costumer)
 
1946 My Reputation (costume designer: Barbara Stanwyck)
 
1945 Duffy's Tavern (costume designer: Dorothy Lamour and Betty Hutton)
 
1945 Christmas in Connecticut (gowns: Miss Stanwyck)
 
1944 I'll Be Seeing You (costumes: Miss Rogers)
 
1944 Ministry of Fear (costumes)
 
1943 Tender Comrade (costume designer: Miss Rogers)
 
1943 Flesh and Fantasy (gowns: Miss Stanwyck)
 
1943 Lady of Burlesque (costumes: Dixie)
 
1943 They Got Me Covered (gowns: Miss Lamour)
 
1942 I Married a Witch (costumes)
 
1942 The Gay Sisters (gowns: Miss Stanwyck)
 
1942 Beyond the Blue Horizon (costumer)
 
1942 This Gun for Hire (gowns: Miss Lake)
 
1941 Ball of Fire (costumes: Miss Stanwyck - uncredited)
 
1940 Dancing on a Dime (costumer)
 
1939 Hotel Imperial (costumes: Isa Miranda)
 
1939 Man of Conquest (gowns: Miss Patrick)
 
1938 Mad About Music (gowns: Miss Patrick)
 
1927 Underworld (assistant costume designer - uncredited)
 
1926 Mantrap (assistant costume designer - uncredited)
 
1925 The Trouble with Wives (assistant costume designer)
 
1925 Are Parents People? (assistant costume designer)
 
1924 Peter Pan (textile artist - uncredited)
 
Show ShowActress (3 titles)
1966 The Oscar
Edith Head
 
1961 The Pleasure of His Company
Dress Designer (uncredited)
 
1935 Hollywood Extra Girl (documentary short)
Edith Head (uncredited)
 
Show ShowThanks (2 titles)
1982 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (this motion picture is affectionately dedicated to)
 
1978 Flying High (TV series) (special thanks - 1 episode)
The Great Escape (1978) (special thanks)
 
Show ShowSelf (21 titles)
1981 Edith Head (TV documentary short)
Herself
 
1980 Omnibus (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 15 June 1980 (1980) … Herself
 
1979 AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Alfred Hitchcock (TV special documentary)
Herself
 
1976 Dinah! (TV series)
Herself
Episode #2.119 (1976) … Herself
 
1975 The Norman Gunston Show (TV series)
Herself
Episode #2.8 (1975) … Herself
 
1975 V.I.P.-Schaukel (TV series documentary)
Herself
Episode #5.2 (1975) … Herself
 
1974 The 46th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Herself - Winner: Best Costume Design
 
1973 Columbo (TV series)
Herself
Requiem for a Falling Star (1973) … Herself
 
1971 This Is Your Life (TV series)
Herself
Bette Davis (1971) … Herself
 
1957-1968 The Linkletter Show (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 23 September 1968 (1968) … Herself
Episode dated 26 August 1964 (1964) … Herself
Episode dated 19 May 1964 (1964) … Herself
Episode dated 21 August 1958 (1958) … Herself
Episode dated 5 November 1957 (1957) … Herself
 
1967 Dateline: Hollywood (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 29 August 1967 (1967) … Herself
 
1967 Girl Talk (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 2 May 1967 (1967) … Herself
Episode dated 30 April 1967 (1967) … Herself
 
1966 The Merv Griffin Show (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 19 July 1966 (1966) … Herself
 
1966 Penelope's Fashion Show (documentary short)
Herself/Narrator (uncredited)
 
1962 The Tonight Show (TV series)
Herself - Guest
Episode dated 12 April 1962 (1962) … Herself - Guest
 
1962 The DuPont Show of the Week (TV series)
Herself
The Beauty of a Woman (1962) … Herself
 
1959 Person to Person (TV series documentary)
Herself
Episode #7.1 (1959) … Herself
 
1959 This Is Your Life (TV series)
Herself
Frank Capra (1959) … Herself
 
1959 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV series)
Herself
Episode #12.25 (1959) … Herself
 
1955 Lucy Gallant
Herself
 
1950 The Costume Designer (documentary short)
Herself (uncredited)
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (4 titles)
2002 Edith Head: The Paramount Years (video documentary short)
Herself
 
2000 Biography (TV series documentary)
 
1997 Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (documentary)
Herself - Pins Costume (uncredited)
 
1995 The Hollywood Fashion Machine (TV documentary)
Herself
 
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Other Works:

(1958) Stage: Costume Designer for "The Pleasure of His Company" on Broadway. Comedy. Directed by Cyril Ritchard. Longacre Theatre (moved to The Music Box Theatre from 15 Jun 1959-close): 22 Oct 1958-21 Nov 1959 (474 performances).

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Height:

5' 1½" (1.56 m)
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Personal Quote:

[on Kim Novak] I don't usually get into battles, but dressing Kim Novak for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo put to the test all my training in psychology. See more »

Trivia:

She is tied with composer Alan Menken for third most Academy Awards won. Each of them have eight. See more »

Nickname:

The Doctor See more »

Star Sign:

Scorpio