Dorothy Jeakins

Personal Info

Know For

Costume & Make-Up

Gender

Female

Birthday

1914-01-11 (81 years old)

Deathday

1995-11-21

Place of Birth

San Diego, California, USA

Dorothy Jeakins

Biography

Dorothy Jeakins (January 11, 1914 – November 21, 1995) was an American costume designer. Born in San Diego, California, she attended public school in Los Angeles from first grade through high school. As a senior at Fairfax High School, she was offered a scholarship to study at the Otis Art Institute (now known as Otis College of Art and Design). She also attended the Art Students League of Los Angeles, under Stanton Macdonald-Wright. She was later awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Otis College in 1987. Jeakins worked on WPA projects and as a Disney artist in the 1930s. Her fashion career began as a designer at I. Magnin's, where she was sp...

Acting

1966

Hawaii

as Hepzibah Hale

Production

1967

1974

Young Frankenstein

as Costume Design

1958

Desire Under the Elms

as Costume Design

1972

Fuzz

as Costume Design

1964

The Best Man

as Costume Supervisor

1965

The Sound of Music

as Costume Design

1959

Green Mansions

as Costume Design

1952

Belles on Their Toes

as Costume Design

1952

Les Miserables

as Costume Design

1952

1953

White Witch Doctor

as Costume Design

1978

The Betsy

as Costume Design

1981

1949

Samson and Delilah

as Costume Design

1953

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef

as Costume Design

1968

1973

The Way We Were

as Costume Design

1979

Love and Bullets

as Costume Design

1950

Cyrano de Bergerac

as Costume Design

1957

Annie Get Your Gun

as Costume Design

1970

The Molly Maguires

as Costume Design

1977

Audrey Rose

as Costume Design

1964

The Night of the Iguana

as Costume Design

1981

On Golden Pond

as Costume Design

1974

The Savage Is Loose

as Costume Design

1953

City of Bad Men

as Costume Design

1964

Ensign Pulver

as Costume Design

1948

Joan of Arc

as Costume Design

1953

Niagara

as Costume Design

1979

North Dallas Forty

as Costume Design

1972

Fat City

as Costume Design

1954

1975

The Hindenburg

as Costume Design

1976

I Will, I Will...For Now

as Costume Design

1956

Friendly Persuasion

as Costume Design

1958

South Pacific

as Costume Design

1967

The Flim-Flam Man

as Costume Design

1953

Inferno

as Costume Design

1960

The Unforgiven

as Costume Design

1956

The Ten Commandments

as Costume Design

1960

Let's Make Love

as Costume Design

1965

The Fool Killer

as Costume Design

1953

1952

My Cousin Rachel

as Costume Design

1962

All Fall Down

as Costume Design

1962

The Music Man

as Costume Design

1952

Stars and Stripes Forever

as Costume Design

1966

Hawaii

as Costume Designer

1969

True Grit

as Costume Design

1974

The Yakuza

as Costume Design

1968

Finian's Rainbow

as Costume Design

1987

The Dead

as Costume Designer

1952

The Big Sky

as Costume Design

1968

The Fixer

as Costume Design

1961

The Children's Hour

as Costume Design

1957

Mayerling

as Costume Design

1952

1960

Elmer Gantry

as Costume Design

1966

Any Wednesday

as Costume Design

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