Head, Edith Costumers Makeup and Costumes Filmmaking

Head, Edith Costumers Makeup and Costumes Filmmaking

Head, Edith

(1897-1981; San Bernardino, California) Sites devoted to the eight-time Academy Award-winning Costume Designer (forty nominations) who worked on hundreds of films during her career.

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- Biography and filmography provided for the designer.
- Filmography and biography presented for the designer.
- Notes offered on the costume and makeup for the Billy Wilder film.
- Biography by Anne Paxton who calls Head "the first American fashion designer for the normal American woman."
- Official site for the play based on the costume designer's professional life.
- Edith Head got her first Hollywood gig by submitting someone else's drawings with her application. Fifteen years later in 1938, Paramount made her the first woman to head a major studio's Costume Design department.
- Biography offered for the designer, "arguably the most famous costume designer in Hollywood history".

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