Edith Head The Most Famous Costume Designer in Hollywood

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Edith Head (October 28, 1897 - October 24, 1981) was an American costume designer who had a long career in Hollywood that garnered her more Academy Awards than any other woman in history.

IMBD web page for Edith Head

Date of Birth:
28 October 1897, San Bernadino, California, USA more
Date of Death:
24 October 1981, Los Angeles, California, USA. (bone marrow disease) more
Trivia:
She is tied with composer Alan Menken for third most Academy Awards won... more
Awards:
Won 8 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 28 nominations more

suite101.com article about Edith Head

Would you like to look younger, prettier, slimmer? Would you like to attract a new man, hold on to the current one? Would you like to get a better job, earn more money? Would you like your husband to move up the ladder of success, attract more friends? All this and more were promised to women all over America if they simply listened to the advice of Edith Head, possibly the most famous Hollywood designer in history.

Thinkexist.com web page of Edith Head quotes

"Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady."
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Turner Classic Movies web page about Edith Head

ith 35 Academy Award nominations, eight-time Oscar winner Edith Head emerged from Hollywood's fitting rooms to become a household name. One of the film industry's pioneering professional women, she became a major American fashion force, designing for Vogue patterns and airlines as well. Her ability to shape each gown to a character or image made her as popular with film directors as with the glamour girls she dressed in both their private lives and screen roles. Yet the image she

Stairway to the Stars web page showcasing famous Edith Head

This web page showcases the famous beaded gown that Edith Head designed for Veronica Lake in the movie "I Wanted Wings" Paramount, 1941

Edith Head Biography page from the web site for the play SKETCHES - Edith Head's Hollywood

Edith Head was undoubtedly Hollywood's most famous costume designer, or "magician," as she liked to call herself. Her career spanned fifty-eight years of movie making. In those years she dressed almost every major star who shone in the industry and, with her straight-cut bangs, dark glasses and tailored suits as her trademark, became more famous than most of them. Just a few weeks before she died, she was still waving at fans as the Universal City Studio Tour stopped at her bungalow.

Edith Head page at nnbd.com

Edith Head

AKA Edith Claire Posener

Born: 28-Oct-1897
Birthplace: San Bernadino, CA
Died: 24-Oct-1981
Location of death: Los Angeles, CA
Cause of death: Cancer - Bone
Remains: Buried, Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glandale, CA

New York Times archive article " STYLE OVER SUBSTANCE; Edith Head, the Costume Drama" 1998

AT a time when even the grungiest pop singers are playing the diva and dressing like Hollywood starlets, fashion is having an Edith Head moment. The spirit of Ms. Head, the legendary costume designer, is felt in every drop-dead evening gown on VH1 and every prim below-the-knee skirt on the runways. As the designer Betsey Johnson said last week, ''Fashion is more vintage and old-movie-inspired than ever.''

Fathom web site outline of seminar that Edith did for American Film Institute "Costuming and Cinematic Language: A Conversation with Edith Head"

On the role of the costume designer

What we do is a cross between magic and camouflage. We ask the public to believe that every time they see an actress or an actor that they are a different person.

We have three magicians: hair, make-up and clothes. Through those, we're supposed to kid the great public that it really isn't Robert Redford at all, he's Butch Cassidy or he's in The Sting (1973), or he's somebody else.