Edith Head
Born: 1897-10-28 in San Bernadino, California, USA
Died: 1981-10-24
Known For: Costume & Make-Up
Biography
Edith Head (October 28, 1897 – October 24, 1981) was an American costume designer who won a record eight Academy Awards for Best Costume Design, starting with The Heiress (1949) and ending with The Sting (1973).
Filmography
2016
- The Women Who Run Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
2002
- Edith Head: The Paramount Years as Self (archive footage)
1982
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid ... (Costume Design)
1981
- Edith Head as Self
1980
- The Last Married Couple in America ... (Costume Design)
1979
- Women in White ... (Costume Design)
1978
- Sextette ... (Costume Design)
- Return Engagement ... (Costume Design)
- The Big Fix ... (Costume Design)
- Olly Olly Oxen Free ... (Costume Design)
- Little Women ... (Costume Design)
1977
- Airport '77 ... (Costume Design)
- Sunshine Christmas ... (Costume Design)
- Sex and the Married Woman ... (Costume Design)
1976
- Amelia Earhart ... (Costume Design)
- Gable and Lombard ... (Costume Design)
- The Disappearance of Aimee ... (Costume Design)
- Family Plot ... (Costume Design)
- W.C. Fields and Me ... (Costume Design)
1975
- Rooster Cogburn ... (Costume Design)
- The Man Who Would Be King ... (Wardrobe Designer)
- The Great Waldo Pepper ... (Costume Design)
1974
- Dinah! as Self
- Airport 1975 ... (Costume Design)
- Flick Flack
1973
- Showdown ... (Costume Design)
- The Sting ... (Costume Design)
- A Doll's House ... (Costume Design)
- The Don Is Dead ... (Costume Design)
1972
- The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean ... (Costume Design)
- Pete 'n' Tillie ... (Costume Design)
- The Screaming Woman ... (Costume Design)
- Hammersmith Is Out ... (Costumer)
1971
- Columbo as Edith Head
- Sometimes a Great Notion ... (Costume Design)
- V.I.P. Schaukel as Self
1970
- Skullduggery ... (Costume Design)
- Colossus: The Forbin Project ... (Costume Design)
- Airport ... (Costume Design)
- Myra Breckinridge ... (Costumer)
- Story of a Woman ... (Costume Design)
1969
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ... (Costume Design)
- Downhill Racer ... (Costume Design)
- Sweet Charity ... (Costume Design)
- Winning ... (Costume Design)
- Topaz ... (Costume Design)
- The Lost Man ... (Costume Design)
- Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here ... (Costume Design)
- Eye of the Cat ... (Costume Design)
- The Art of Exaggeration: Designs for Sweet Charity by Edith Head as Host
1968
- Blue ... (Costume Design)
- Hellfighters ... (Costume Design)
- What's So Bad About Feeling Good? ... (Costume Design)
- House of Cards ... (Costume Design)
- In Enemy Country ... (Costume Design)
1967
- Warning Shot ... (Costume Design)
- Chuka ... (Costume Design)
- Hotel ... (Costume Design)
- Barefoot in the Park ... (Costume Design)
- The Caper of the Golden Bulls ... (Costume Design)
- Easy Come, Easy Go ... (Costume Design)
1966
- The Oscar as Edith Head
- El Dorado ... (Costume Design)
- Penelope ... (Costume Design)
- Johnny Reno ... (Costume Design)
- This Property Is Condemned ... (Costume Design)
- Assault on a Queen ... (Costume Design)
- The Swinger ... (Costume Design)
- Paradise, Hawaiian Style ... (Costume Design)
- The Last of the Secret Agents? ... (Costume Design)
- Inside Daisy Clover ... (Costume Design)
- Torn Curtain ... (Costume Design)
1965
- Harlow ... (Costume Design)
- Boeing, Boeing ... (Costume Design)
- The Great Race ... (Costume Design)
- The Sons of Katie Elder ... (Costume Design)
- The Hallelujah Trail ... (Costume Design)
- Red Line 7000 ... (Costume Design)
- Sylvia ... (Costume Design)
- The Slender Thread ... (Costume Design)
- The Family Jewels ... (Costume Design)
- Love Has Many Faces ... (Costume Design)
- John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! ... (Costume Design)
1964
- 36 Hours ... (Costume Design)
- The Disorderly Orderly ... (Costume Design)
- A House Is Not a Home ... (Costume Design)
- Marnie ... (Costume Design)
- Lady in a Cage ... (Costume Design)
- The Patsy ... (Costume Design)
- The Yellow Rolls-Royce ... (Costume Design)
- What a Way to Go! ... (Costume Design)
- The Lucille Ball Comedy Hour ... (Costume Design)
- Man's Favorite Sport? ... (Costume Design)
- Sex and the Single Girl ... (Costume Design)
- Roustabout ... (Costume Design)
- Where Love Has Gone ... (Costume Design)
1963
- The Birds ... (Costume Design)
- The Nutty Professor ... (Costume Design)
- Who's Minding the Store? ... (Costume Design)
- Donovan's Reef ... (Costume Design)
- A New Kind of Love ... (Costume Design)
- Fun in Acapulco ... (Costume Design)
- Love with the Proper Stranger ... (Costume Design)
- Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? ... (Costume Design)
- My Six Loves ... (Costume Design)
- Critic's Choice ... (Costume Design)
- Hud ... (Costume Design)
- Come Blow Your Horn ... (Costume Design)
1962
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- Hatari! ... (Costume Design)
- My Geisha ... (Costume Design)
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ... (Costume Design)
- It's Only Money ... (Costume Design)
- The Counterfeit Traitor ... (Costume Design)
- Escape from Zahrain ... (Costume Design)
- Who's Got the Action? ... (Costume Design)
- A Girl Named Tamiko ... (Costume Design)
- Girls! Girls! Girls! ... (Costume Design)
1961
- Blue Hawaii ... (Costume Design)
- Breakfast at Tiffany's ... (Costume Supervisor)
- The Pleasure of His Company as Dress Designer (uncredited)
- Pocketful of Miracles ... (Costume Design)
- On the Double ... (Costume Design)
- The Errand Boy ... (Costume Design)
- The Ladies Man ... (Costume Design)
- All in a Night's Work ... (Costume Design)
- Summer and Smoke ... (Costume Design)
- Too Late Blues ... (Costume Design)
1960
- Cinderfella ... (Costume Design)
- Heller in Pink Tights ... (Costume Design)
- Pepe ... (Costume Design)
- The Facts of Life ... (Costume Design)
- Visit to a Small Planet ... (Costume Design)
- G.I. Blues ... (Costume Design)
- The Rat Race ... (Costume Design)
1959
- The Hangman ... (Costume Design)
- The Trap ... (Costume Design)
- Last Train from Gun Hill ... (Costume Design)
- But Not for Me ... (Costume Design)
- The Black Orchid ... (Costume Design)
- Alias Jesse James ... (Costume Design)
- A Hole in the Head ... (Costume Design)
- The Five Pennies ... (Costume Design)
- Don't Give Up the Ship ... (Costume Design)
- That Kind of Woman ... (Costume Design)
- The Jayhawkers! ... (Costume Design)
- Career ... (Costume Design)
1958
- Houseboat ... (Costume Design)
- Hot Spell ... (Costume Design)
- Vertigo ... (Costume Design)
- King Creole ... (Costumer)
- The Matchmaker ... (Costume Design)
- Separate Tables ... (Costume Design)
- Rock-a-Bye Baby ... (Costume Design)
- Maracaibo ... (Costume Design)
- Teacher's Pet ... (Costume Design)
- The Party Crashers ... (Costume Design)
- St. Louis Blues ... (Costume Design)
- The Geisha Boy ... (Costume Design)
1957
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
- Loving You ... (Costume Design)
- Witness for the Prosecution ... (Costume Design)
- Funny Face ... (Costume Design)
- Fear Strikes Out ... (Costume Design)
- Wild Is the Wind ... (Costume Design)
- The Tin Star ... (Costume Design)
- Beau James ... (Costume Design)
- The Sad Sack ... (Costume Design)
- The Buster Keaton Story ... (Costume Design)
- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral ... (Costume Design)
- The Devil's Hairpin ... (Costume Design)
- The Delicate Delinquent ... (Costume Design)
- Hear Me Good ... (Costume Design)
1956
- The Rainmaker ... (Costume Design)
- The Ten Commandments ... (Costume Design)
- The Mountain ... (Costume Design)
- Pardners ... (Costume Design)
- The Scarlet Hour ... (Costume Design)
- Hollywood or Bust ... (Costume Design)
- The Birds and the Bees ... (Costume Design)
- That Certain Feeling ... (Costume Design)
- The Man Who Knew Too Much ... (Costume Design)
- The Leather Saint ... (Costume Design)
- The Search for Bridey Murphy ... (Costume Design)
1955
- Lucy Gallant as Edith Head
- To Catch a Thief ... (Costume Design)
- The Court Jester ... (Costume Design)
- The Far Horizons ... (Costume Design)
- Strategic Air Command ... (Costume Design)
- Hell's Island ... (Wardrobe Supervisor)
- Run for Cover ... (Costume Design)
- The Rose Tattoo ... (Costume Design)
- The Seven Little Foys ... (Costume Design)
- The Trouble with Harry ... (Costume Design)
- The Girl Rush ... (Costume Design)
- Artists and Models ... (Costume Design)
- The Desperate Hours ... (Costume Design)
- You're Never Too Young ... (Costume Design)
1954
- Jivaro ... (Costume Design)
- White Christmas ... (Costume Design)
- Alaska Seas ... (Costume Design)
- Sabrina ... (Costume Supervisor)
- Rear Window ... (Costume Design)
- The Bridges at Toko-Ri ... (Costume Design)
- Secret of the Incas ... (Costume Design)
- Knock on Wood ... (Costume Design)
- The Naked Jungle ... (Costume Design)
- The Country Girl ... (Costume Design)
- About Mrs. Leslie ... (Costume Design)
- Living It Up ... (Costume Design)
- 3 Ring Circus ... (Costume Design)
- Elephant Walk ... (Costume Design)
- Casanova's Big Night ... (Costume Design)
1953
- The Caddy ... (Costume Design)
- Roman Holiday ... (Costume Design)
- Arrowhead ... (Costume Design)
- Pony Express ... (Costume Design)
- Shane ... (Costume Design)
- Sangaree ... (Costume Design)
- Houdini ... (Costume Design)
- Come Back, Little Sheba ... (Costume Design)
- Money from Home ... (Costume Design)
- Those Redheads from Seattle ... (Costume Design)
- Scared Stiff ... (Costume Design)
- The War of the Worlds ... (Costume Design)
- Here Come the Girls ... (Costume Design)
- Forever Female ... (Costume Design)
1952
- Jumping Jacks ... (Costume Design)
- The Savage ... (Costume Design)
- Carrie ... (Costume Design)
- Off Limits ... (Costume Design)
- Sailor Beware ... (Costume Design)
- Stolen Face ... (Costume Design)
- Caribbean ... (Costume Design)
- The Greatest Show on Earth ... (Costume Design)
- The Turning Point ... (Costume Design)
- The Atomic City ... (Costume Design)
- Just for You ... (Costume Design)
- My Son John ... (Costume Design)
- Denver and Rio Grande ... (Costume Design)
- Thunder in the East ... (Costume Design)
- Something to Live For ... (Costume Design)
- Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick ... (Costume Design)
- Somebody Loves Me ... (Costume Design)
- Road to Bali ... (Costume Design)
- Son of Paleface ... (Costume Design)
1951
- Detective Story ... (Costume Design)
- Submarine Command ... (Costumer)
- Ace in the Hole ... (Costume Design)
- Dear Brat ... (Costume Design)
- A Place in the Sun ... (Costume Design)
- My Favorite Spy ... (Costume Design)
- Peking Express ... (Costume Design)
- The Stooge ... (Costume Design)
- The Lemon Drop Kid ... (Costume Design)
- Here Comes the Groom ... (Costume Design)
- That's My Boy ... (Costume Design)
- Darling, How Could You! ... (Costume Design)
- When Worlds Collide ... (Costume Design)
1950
- Riding High ... (Costume Design)
- Branded ... (Costume Design)
- Dark City ... (Costume Design)
- September Affair ... (Costume Design)
- The Furies ... (Costume Design)
- Copper Canyon ... (Costume Design)
- Sunset Boulevard ... (Costume Design)
- All About Eve ... (Costume Design)
- No Man of Her Own ... (Costume Design)
- Let's Dance ... (Costume Design)
- My Foolish Heart ... (Costume Design)
- My Friend Irma Goes West ... (Costume Design)
- Mr. Music ... (Costume Design)
- The Costume Designer as Self (uncredited)
1949
- Samson and Delilah ... (Costume Design)
- The Heiress ... (Costume Design)
- The Great Gatsby ... (Costume Design)
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ... (Production Design)
- The Accused ... (Costume Design)
- Beyond the Forest ... (Costume Design)
- The File on Thelma Jordon ... (Costume Design)
- My Friend Irma ... (Costume Design)
- The Great Lover ... (Costume Design)
- Rope of Sand ... (Costume Design)
- Manhandled ... (Costume Design)
- Red, Hot and Blue ... (Costume Design)
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- A Foreign Affair ... (Costume Design)
- Sorry, Wrong Number ... (Costume Design)
- So Evil My Love ... (Costume Design)
- Dream Girl ... (Costume Design)
- Rachel and the Stranger ... (Costume Design)
- My Own True Love ... (Costume Design)
- The Big Clock ... (Costume Design)
- Night Has a Thousand Eyes ... (Costume Design)
- June Bride ... (Costume Design)
- Isn't It Romantic? ... (Costume Design)
- The Sainted Sisters ... (Costume Design)
- Miss Tatlock's Millions ... (Costume Design)
- The Emperor Waltz ... (Costume Design)
1947
- Cry Wolf ... (Costume Design)
- California ... (Costume Design)
- Dear Ruth ... (Costume Design)
- Saigon ... (Costume Design)
- Desert Fury ... (Costume Design)
- Wild Harvest ... (Costume Design)
- Ramrod ... (Costume Design)
- The Other Love ... (Costume Design)
- Welcome Stranger ... (Costume Design)
- The Two Mrs. Carrolls ... (Costume Design)
- The Trouble with Women ... (Costume Design)
- The Farmer's Daughter ... (Costume Design)
- I Walk Alone ... (Costume Design)
- Road to Rio ... (Costume Design)
- Variety Girl ... (Costume Design)
- Blaze of Noon ... (Costume Design)
- Where There's Life ... (Costume Design)
- The Perfect Marriage ... (Costume Design)
- My Favorite Brunette ... (Costume Design)
- The Perils of Pauline ... (Costume Design)
1946
- The Virginian ... (Costume Design)
- My Reputation ... (Costume Design)
- The Strange Love of Martha Ivers ... (Costume Design)
- To Each His Own ... (Costume Design)
- Notorious ... (Costume Design)
- The Bride Wore Boots ... (Costume Design)
- Blue Skies ... (Costume Design)
- Road to Utopia ... (Costume Design)
- The Blue Dahlia ... (Costume Design)
- Cross My Heart ... (Costume Design)
1945
- The Lost Weekend ... (Costume Design)
- The Bells of St. Mary's ... (Costume Design)
- Christmas in Connecticut ... (Costume Design)
- The Affairs of Susan ... (Costume Design)
- Incendiary Blonde ... (Costume Design)
- Masquerade in Mexico ... (Costume Design)
- You Came Along ... (Costume Design)
- Out of This World ... (Costume Design)
- Hold That Blonde! ... (Costume Design)
- The Stork Club ... (Costume Design)
- Bring on the Girls ... (Costume Design)
- A Medal for Benny ... (Costume Design)
- Love Letters ... (Costume Design)
1944
- The Uninvited ... (Costume Design)
- Tender Comrade ... (Costume Design)
- The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek ... (Costume Design)
- Going My Way ... (Costume Design)
- Lady in the Dark ... (Costume Design)
- Double Indemnity ... (Costume Design)
- Rainbow Island ... (Costume Design)
- Hail the Conquering Hero ... (Costume Design)
- And Now Tomorrow ... (Costume Design)
- And the Angels Sing ... (Costume Design)
- I'll Be Seeing You ... (Costume Design)
- The Great Moment ... (Costume Design)
- Standing Room Only ... (Costume Design)
- Here Come the Waves ... (Costume Design)
- Ministry of Fear ... (Costume Design)
- I Love a Soldier ... (Costume Design)
- Our Hearts Were Young and Gay ... (Costume Design)
1943
- China ... (Costume Design)
- Hostages ... (Costume Design)
- Riding High ... (Costume Design)
- Flesh and Fantasy ... (Costume Design)
- Lady of Burlesque ... (Costume Design)
- Five Graves to Cairo ... (Costume Design)
- Let's Face It ... (Costume Design)
- True to Life ... (Costume Design)
- No Time for Love ... (Costume Design)
- The Crystal Ball ... (Costume Design)
- They Got Me Covered ... (Costume Design)
- Young and Willing ... (Costume Design)
1942
- Lucky Jordan ... (Costume Design)
- The Major and the Minor ... (Costume Design)
- The Glass Key ... (Costume Design)
- The Lady Has Plans ... (Costume Design)
- Beyond the Blue Horizon ... (Costume Design)
- The Remarkable Andrew ... (Costume Design)
- This Gun for Hire ... (Costume Design)
- I Married a Witch ... (Costume Design)
- The Fleet's In ... (Costume Design)
- Road to Morocco ... (Costume Design)
- Are Husbands Necessary? ... (Costume Design)
- Star Spangled Rhythm ... (Costume Design)
- Holiday Inn ... (Costume Design)
- My Favorite Blonde ... (Costume Design)
- The Gay Sisters ... (Costume Design)
1941
- Bahama Passage ... (Costume Design)
- Skylark ... (Costume Design)
- The Great Man's Lady ... (Costume Design)
- Nothing But the Truth ... (Costume Design)
- Ball of Fire ... (Costume Design)
- Birth of the Blues ... (Costume Design)
- Sullivan's Travels ... (Costume Design)
- Life with Henry ... (Costume Design)
- Aloma of the South Seas ... (Costume Design)
- You Belong to Me ... (Costume Design)
- Hold Back the Dawn ... (Costume Design)
- New York Town ... (Costume Design)
- Road to Zanzibar ... (Costume Design)
- The Lady Eve ... (Costume Design)
- Caught in the Draft ... (Costume Design)
- West Point Widow ... (Costume Design)
- Kiss the Boys Goodbye ... (Costume Design)
- Here Comes Mr. Jordan ... (Costume Design)
1940
- Typhoon ... (Costume Design)
- Safari ... (Costume Design)
- The Great McGinty ... (Costume Design)
- Moon Over Burma ... (Costume Design)
- The Texas Rangers Ride Again ... (Costume Design)
- Road to Singapore ... (Costume Design)
- The Ghost Breakers ... (Costume Design)
- The Farmer's Daughter ... (Costume Design)
- Rhythm on the River ... (Costume Design)
- The Mad Doctor ... (Costume Design)
- Love Thy Neighbor ... (Costume Design)
- Remember the Night ... (Costume Design)
- Adventure in Diamonds ... (Costume Design)
- Buck Benny Rides Again ... (Costume Design)
- Dancing on a Dime ... (Costume Design)
- Untamed ... (Costume Design)
1939
- Beau Geste ... (Costume Design)
- Sudden Money ... (Costume Design)
- Paris Honeymoon ... (Costume Design)
- Disputed Passage ... (Costume Design)
- Hotel Imperial ... (Costume Design)
- Never Say Die ... (Costume Design)
- King of Chinatown ... (Costume Design)
- The Cat and the Canary ... (Costume Design)
- Invitation to Happiness ... (Costume Design)
- The Gracie Allen Murder Case ... (Costume Design)
- Honeymoon in Bali ... (Costume Design)
- The Star Maker ... (Costume Design)
- Man of Conquest ... (Costume Design)
- The Magnificent Fraud ... (Costume Design)
- Man About Town ... (Costume Design)
- The Great Victor Herbert ... (Costume Design)
- Cafe Society ... (Costume Design)
- Disbarred ... (Costume Design)
1938
- Tropic Holiday ... (Costume Design)
- The Texans ... (Costume Design)
- College Swing ... (Costume Design)
- If I Were King ... (Costume Design)
- Zaza ... (Costume Design)
- Cocoanut Grove ... (Costume Design)
- Spawn of the North ... (Costume Design)
- Give Me a Sailor ... (Costume Design)
- The Big Broadcast of 1938 ... (Costume Design)
- Dangerous to Know ... (Costume Design)
- Mad About Music ... (Costume Design)
- Thanks for the Memory ... (Costume Design)
- Her Jungle Love ... (Costume Design)
- Men with Wings ... (Costume Design)
- Artists and Models Abroad ... (Costume Design)
1937
- Exclusive ... (Costume Design)
- Souls at Sea ... (Costume Design)
- Wells Fargo ... (Costume Design)
- This Way Please ... (Costume Design)
- Blossoms On Broadway ... (Costume Design)
- Double or Nothing ... (Costume Design)
- Her Husband Lies ... (Costume Design)
- Sophie Lang Goes West ... (Costume Design)
- Waikiki Wedding ... (Costume Design)
- Thrill of a Lifetime ... (Costume Design)
- Ebb Tide ... (Costume Design)
- Turn Off the Moon ... (Costume Design)
- John Meade's Woman ... (Costume Design)
1936
- Poppy ... (Costume Design)
- College Holiday ... (Costume Design)
- The Texas Rangers ... (Costume Design)
- The Return of Sophie Lang ... (Costume Design)
- Rhythm on the Range ... (Costume Design)
- Early to Bed ... (Costume Design)
- Till We Meet Again ... (Costume Design)
- Murder with Pictures ... (Costume Design)
1935
- Hollywood Extra Girl as Edith Head (uncredited)
1934
- Death Takes a Holiday ... (Costume Design)
- She Loves Me Not ... (Costume Design)
1933
- She Done Him Wrong ... (Costume Design)
- Cradle Song ... (Costume Design)
1932
- Love Me Tonight ... (Costume Design)
1931
- The Lawyer's Secret ... (Costume Design)
1930
- Only the Brave ... (Costume Design)
1929
- The Saturday Night Kid ... (Costume Design)
1928
- The Legion of the Condemned ... (Costume Design)
- Ladies of the Mob ... (Costume Design)
1926
- Mantrap ... (Costume Design)
1925
- Are Parents People? ... (Costume Design)
1924
- Peter Pan ... (Costume Design)