Edith Head

Personal Info

Know For

Costume & Make-Up

Gender

Female

Birthday

1897-10-28 (84 years old)

Deathday

1981-10-24

Place of Birth

San Bernadino, California, USA

Edith Head

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).

Acting

1966

The Oscar

as Edith Head

1981

Edith Head

as Self

2002

Edith Head: The Paramount Years

as Self (archive footage)

1961

The Pleasure of His Company

as Dress Designer (uncredited)

1955

Lucy Gallant

as Edith Head

1950

The Costume Designer

as Self (uncredited)

1935

Hollywood Extra Girl

as Edith Head (uncredited)

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

2016

The Women Who Run Hollywood

as Self (archive footage)

Production

1961

Breakfast at Tiffany's

as Costume Supervisor

1955

To Catch a Thief

as Costume Design

1946

Notorious

as Costume Design

1944

Double Indemnity

as Costume Design

1958

Vertigo

as Costume Design

1958

Houseboat

as Costume Design

1954

Rear Window

as Costume Design

1963

The Birds

as Costume Design

1950

Sunset Boulevard

as Costume Design

1950

All About Eve

as Costume Design

1953

Roman Holiday

as Costume Design

1953

Arrowhead

as Costume Design

1941

The Lady Eve

as Costume Design

1944

Ministry of Fear

as Costume Design

1976

Family Plot

as Costume Design

1957

Hear Me Good

as Costume Design

1944

I'll Be Seeing You

as Costume Design

1969

1954

Sabrina

as Costume Supervisor

1942

Road to Morocco

as Costume Design

1941

Road to Zanzibar

as Costume Design

1932

Love Me Tonight

as Costume Design

1947

Road to Rio

as Costume Design

1973

The Sting

as Costume Design

1942

I Married a Witch

as Costume Design

1943

No Time for Love

as Costume Design

1965

The Great Race

as Costume Design

1945

The Bells of St. Mary's

as Costume Design

1959

A Hole in the Head

as Costume Design

1947

Saigon

as Costume Design

1953

Road to Bali

as Costume Design

1945

Christmas in Connecticut

as Costume Design

1957

Funny Face

as Costume Design

1942

Holiday Inn

as Costume Design

1949

The Heiress

as Costume Design

1945

The Lost Weekend

as Costume Design

1940

Road to Singapore

as Costume Design

1970

Story of a Woman

as Costume Design

1936

Poppy

as Costume Design

1940

The Mad Doctor

as Costume Design

1946

Road to Utopia

as Costume Design

1944

The Great Moment

as Costume Design

1940

Remember the Night

as Costume Design

1940

The Great McGinty

as Costume Design

1944

Hail the Conquering Hero

as Costume Design

1941

Ball of Fire

as Costume Design

1940

The Ghost Breakers

as Costume Design

1938

The Big Broadcast of 1938

as Costume Design

1969

Sweet Charity

as Costume Design

1939

Beau Geste

as Costume Design

1934

Death Takes a Holiday

as Costume Design

1943

Five Graves to Cairo

as Costume Design

1944

1937

Souls at Sea

as Costume Design

1944

Here Come the Waves

as Costume Design

1933

She Done Him Wrong

as Costume Design

1942

This Gun for Hire

as Costume Design

1941

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

as Costume Design

1938

Mad About Music

as Costume Design

1941

Sullivan's Travels

as Costume Design

1942

The Glass Key

as Costume Design

1958

St. Louis Blues

as Costume Design

1944

The Uninvited

as Costume Design

1942

The Major and the Minor

as Costume Design

1944

Going My Way

as Costume Design

1943

Lady of Burlesque

as Costume Design

1942

The Fleet's In

as Costume Design

1936

The Texas Rangers

as Costume Design

1936

Rhythm on the Range

as Costume Design

1939

Invitation to Happiness

as Costume Design

1941

Hold Back the Dawn

as Costume Design

1939

1937

Waikiki Wedding

as Costume Design

1937

Double or Nothing

as Costume Design

1926

Mantrap

as Costume Design

1961

1948

My Own True Love

as Costume Design

1942

The Gay Sisters

as Costume Design

1941

New York Town

as Costume Design

1941

Birth of the Blues

as Costume Design

1941

Bahama Passage

as Costume Design

1940

Buck Benny Rides Again

as Costume Design

1941

You Belong to Me

as Costume Design

1937

This Way Please

as Costume Design

1938

Spawn of the North

as Costume Design

1942

The Remarkable Andrew

as Costume Design

1942

The Lady Has Plans

as Costume Design

1944

Tender Comrade

as Costume Design

1942

My Favorite Blonde

as Costume Design

1941

The Great Man's Lady

as Costume Design

1942

Beyond the Blue Horizon

as Costume Design

1924

Peter Pan

as Costume Design

1925

Are Parents People?

as Costume Design

1944

Lady in the Dark

as Costume Design

1941

Skylark

as Costume Design

1939

Honeymoon in Bali

as Costume Design

1941

Nothing But the Truth

as Costume Design

1943

Young and Willing

as Costume Design

1941

Caught in the Draft

as Costume Design

1964

1942

Star Spangled Rhythm

as Costume Design

1934

She Loves Me Not

as Costume Design

1945

Love Letters

as Costume Design

1938

The Texans

as Costume Design

1937

Wells Fargo

as Costume Design

1944

And Now Tomorrow

as Costume Design

1938

College Swing

as Costume Design

1938

If I Were King

as Costume Design

1940

Rhythm on the River

as Costume Design

1945

The Stork Club

as Costume Design

1948

Dream Girl

as Costume Design

1939

Never Say Die

as Costume Design

1945

Incendiary Blonde

as Costume Design

1945

A Medal for Benny

as Costume Design

1943

Flesh and Fantasy

as Costume Design

1927

Underworld

as Assistant Costume Designer

1942

Lucky Jordan

as Costume Design

1948

The Emperor Waltz

as Costume Design

1939

The Cat and the Canary

as Costume Design

1949

Manhandled

as Costume Design

1964

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

as Costume Design

1966

Inside Daisy Clover

as Costume Design

1952

Caribbean

as Costume Design

1953

The War of the Worlds

as Costume Design

1952

Just for You

as Costume Design

1964

Marnie

as Costume Design

1947

The Farmer's Daughter

as Costume Design

1954

Knock on Wood

as Costume Design

1964

What a Way to Go!

as Costume Design

1968

House of Cards

as Costume Design

1959

Alias Jesse James

as Costume Design

1948

Night Has a Thousand Eyes

as Costume Design

1955

The Far Horizons

as Costume Design

1955

The Trouble with Harry

as Costume Design

1955

The Court Jester

as Costume Design

1969

Topaz

as Costume Design

1929

The Saturday Night Kid

as Costume Design

1937

Sophie Lang Goes West

as Costume Design

1940

Adventure in Diamonds

as Costume Design

1938

Give Me a Sailor

as Costume Design

1943

China

as Costume Design

1954

Casanova's Big Night

as Costume Design

1955

The Seven Little Foys

as Costume Design

1957

Beau James

as Costume Design

1964

Roustabout

as Costume Design

1967

Easy Come, Easy Go

as Costume Design

1933

Cradle Song

as Costume Design

1940

Love Thy Neighbor

as Costume Design

1936

Murder with Pictures

as Costume Design

1939

The Magnificent Fraud

as Costume Design

1950

Mr. Music

as Costume Design

1941

Aloma of the South Seas

as Costume Design

1972

The Screaming Woman

as Costume Design

1945

The Affairs of Susan

as Costume Design

1939

Man of Conquest

as Costume Design

1969

The Lost Man

as Costume Design

1958

The Party Crashers

as Costume Design

1940

Typhoon

as Costume Design

1943

They Got Me Covered

as Costume Design

1943

Let's Face It

as Costume Design

1967

Warning Shot

as Costume Design

1943

The Crystal Ball

as Costume Design

1937

Blossoms On Broadway

as Costume Design

1973

A Doll's House

as Costume Design

1970

1964

A House Is Not a Home

as Costume Design

1959

Career

as Costume Design

1936

College Holiday

as Costume Design

1944

Standing Room Only

as Costume Design

1936

The Return of Sophie Lang

as Costume Design

1937

Ebb Tide

as Costume Design

1937

Thrill of a Lifetime

as Costume Design

1936

Till We Meet Again

as Costume Design

1928

Ladies of the Mob

as Costume Design

1931

The Lawyer's Secret

as Costume Design

1928

1936

Early to Bed

as Costume Design

1937

Turn Off the Moon

as Costume Design

1937

Exclusive

as Costume Design

1937

Her Husband Lies

as Costume Design

1937

John Meade's Woman

as Costume Design

1938

Dangerous to Know

as Costume Design

1938

Cocoanut Grove

as Costume Design

1938

Her Jungle Love

as Costume Design

1938

Men with Wings

as Costume Design

1938

Artists and Models Abroad

as Costume Design

1939

Disbarred

as Costume Design

1939

Man About Town

as Costume Design

1943

Riding High

as Costume Design

1939

The Star Maker

as Costume Design

1939

Sudden Money

as Costume Design

1939

Paris Honeymoon

as Costume Design

1939

King of Chinatown

as Costume Design

1940

1940

Moon Over Burma

as Costume Design

1940

Safari

as Costume Design

1939

The Great Victor Herbert

as Costume Design

1941

Kiss the Boys Goodbye

as Costume Design

1941

Life with Henry

as Costume Design

1940

Dancing on a Dime

as Costume Design

1942

Are Husbands Necessary?

as Costume Design

1939

Hotel Imperial

as Costume Design

1938

Tropic Holiday

as Costume Design

1943

True to Life

as Costume Design

1944

Rainbow Island

as Costume Design

1944

1944

I Love a Soldier

as Costume Design

1944

And the Angels Sing

as Costume Design

1948

The Sainted Sisters

as Costume Design

1938

Zaza

as Costume Design

1968

In Enemy Country

as Costume Design

1968

Blue

as Costume Design

1948

Isn't It Romantic?

as Costume Design

1955

Hell's Island

as Wardrobe Supervisor

1946

The Virginian

as Costume Design

1945

You Came Along

as Costume Design

1951

1947

Desert Fury

as Costume Design

1951

Ace in the Hole

as Costume Design

1956

The Rainmaker

as Costume Design

1939

Disputed Passage

as Costume Design

1966

1966

The Swinger

as Costume Design

1976

Amelia Earhart

as Costume Design

1950

Let's Dance

as Costume Design

1950

Riding High

as Costume Design

1977

Sex and the Married Woman

as Costume Design

1950

My Foolish Heart

as Costume Design

1959

Last Train from Gun Hill

as Costume Design

1949

Samson and Delilah

as Costume Design

1970

1953

Pony Express

as Costume Design

1975

Rooster Cogburn

as Costume Design

1949

Red, Hot and Blue

as Costume Design

1965

Love Has Many Faces

as Costume Design

1959

That Kind of Woman

as Costume Design

1957

The Devil's Hairpin

as Costume Design

1964

Sex and the Single Girl

as Costume Design

1982

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

as Costume Design

1978

The Big Fix

as Costume Design

1976

Gable and Lombard

as Costume Design

1977

Airport '77

as Costume Design

1976

W.C. Fields and Me

as Costume Design

1978

Olly Olly Oxen Free

as Costume Design

1976

1946

To Each His Own

as Costume Design

1945

Masquerade in Mexico

as Costume Design

1945

Out of This World

as Costume Design

1946

Blue Skies

as Costume Design

1946

Cross My Heart

as Costume Design

1946

The Bride Wore Boots

as Costume Design

1945

Hold That Blonde!

as Costume Design

1946

The Blue Dahlia

as Costume Design

1970

Skullduggery

as Costume Design

1939

Cafe Society

as Costume Design

1964

Lady in a Cage

as Costume Design

1978

Sextette

as Costume Design

1947

The Other Love

as Costume Design

1952

Carrie

as Costume Design

1962

Who's Got the Action?

as Costume Design

1961

Pocketful of Miracles

as Costume Design

1964

Where Love Has Gone

as Costume Design

1955

The Girl Rush

as Costume Design

1948

Sorry, Wrong Number

as Costume Design

1966

Assault on a Queen

as Costume Design

1963

Come Blow Your Horn

as Costume Design

1968

Hellfighters

as Costume Design

1965

The Hallelujah Trail

as Costume Design

1956

The Birds and the Bees

as Costume Design

1956

The Scarlet Hour

as Costume Design

1966

1955

The Rose Tattoo

as Costume Design

1953

Come Back, Little Sheba

as Costume Design

1956

The Mountain

as Costume Design

1975

The Man Who Would Be King

as Wardrobe Designer

1967

Chuka

as Costume Design

1972

1949

Beyond the Forest

as Costume Design

1948

So Evil My Love

as Costume Design

1948

Rachel and the Stranger

as Costume Design

1956

The Man Who Knew Too Much

as Costume Design

1957

Loving You

as Costume Design

1961

Blue Hawaii

as Costume Design

1960

G.I. Blues

as Costume Design

1950

The Furies

as Costume Design

1953

Shane

as Costume Design

1957

1967

1951

A Place in the Sun

as Costume Design

1946

The Blue Dahlia

as Costumer

1962

My Geisha

as Costume Design

1954

Elephant Walk

as Costume Design

1958

Teacher's Pet

as Costume Design

1954

Alaska Seas

as Costume Design

1956

1953

Houdini

as Costume Design

1958

Maracaibo

as Costume Design

1962

The Counterfeit Traitor

as Costume Design

1954

White Christmas

as Costume Design

1954

About Mrs. Leslie

as Costume Design

1953

Forever Female

as Costume Design

1947

The Perils of Pauline

as Costume Design

1947

Wild Harvest

as Costume Design

1947

Blaze of Noon

as Costume Design

1947

The Trouble with Women

as Costume Design

1947

My Favorite Brunette

as Costume Design

1947

Dear Ruth

as Costume Design

1947

The Perfect Marriage

as Costume Design

1947

Ramrod

as Costume Design

1947

Welcome Stranger

as Costume Design

1947

Variety Girl

as Costume Design

1947

Where There's Life

as Costume Design

1947

I Walk Alone

as Costume Design

1951

Darling, How Could You!

as Costume Design

1955

The Desperate Hours

as Costume Design

1941

Ball of Fire

as Costumer

1952

Something to Live For

as Costume Design

1951

Detective Story

as Costume Design

1966

El Dorado

as Costume Design

1961

Summer and Smoke

as Costume Design

1962

A Girl Named Tamiko

as Costume Design

1963

Critic's Choice

as Costume Design

1957

1951

Peking Express

as Costume Design

1952

1948

A Foreign Affair

as Costume Design

1957

Wild Is the Wind

as Costume Design

1958

The Matchmaker

as Costume Design

1967

Hotel

as Costume Design

1950

September Affair

as Costume Design

1950

Branded

as Costume Design

1949

The Great Lover

as Costume Design

1950

Copper Canyon

as Costume Design

1963

Donovan's Reef

as Costume Design

1978

Return Engagement

as Costume Design

1964

36 Hours

as Costume Design

1977

Sunshine Christmas

as Costume Design

1959

The Jayhawkers!

as Costume Design

1966

Johnny Reno

as Costume Design

1965

Boeing, Boeing

as Costume Design

1970

Airport

as Costume Design

1953

1954

Jivaro

as Costume Design

1957

The Sad Sack

as Costume Design

1960

The Rat Race

as Costume Design

1973

The Don Is Dead

as Costume Design

1954

The Country Girl

as Costume Design

1949

My Friend Irma

as Costume Design

1952

Thunder in the East

as Costume Design

1952

Jumping Jacks

as Costume Design

1952

Denver and Rio Grande

as Costume Design

1951

That's My Boy

as Costume Design

1952

The Savage

as Costume Design

1952

The Turning Point

as Costume Design

1952

Son of Paleface

as Costume Design

1952

The Atomic City

as Costume Design

1950

My Friend Irma Goes West

as Costume Design

1952

Sailor Beware

as Costume Design

1952

Off Limits

as Costume Design

1951

The Lemon Drop Kid

as Costume Design

1951

My Favorite Spy

as Costume Design

1951

Here Comes the Groom

as Costume Design

1953

Here Come the Girls

as Costume Design

1953

The Caddy

as Costume Design

1953

Sangaree

as Costume Design

1951

Dear Brat

as Costume Design

1959

The Trap

as Costume Design

1951

When Worlds Collide

as Costume Design

1948

June Bride

as Costume Design

1959

But Not for Me

as Costume Design

1956

The Ten Commandments

as Costume Design

1954

The Bridges at Toko-Ri

as Costume Design

1952

Somebody Loves Me

as Costume Design

1963

Fun in Acapulco

as Costume Design

1963

A New Kind of Love

as Costume Design

1957

Fear Strikes Out

as Costume Design

1956

The Leather Saint

as Costume Design

1957

The Delicate Delinquent

as Costume Design

1960

Cinderfella

as Costume Design

1952

My Son John

as Costume Design

1966

Penelope

as Costume Design

1960

The Facts of Life

as Costume Design

1947

Cry Wolf

as Costume Design

1946

My Reputation

as Costume Design

1950

No Man of Her Own

as Costume Design

1947

California

as Costume Design

1947

The Two Mrs. Carrolls

as Costume Design

1949

The Great Gatsby

as Costume Design

1963

Hud

as Costume Design

1955

Run for Cover

as Costume Design

1959

The Hangman

as Costume Design

1958

Hot Spell

as Costume Design

1957

The Buster Keaton Story

as Costume Design

1969

Eye of the Cat

as Costume Design

1971

Sometimes a Great Notion

as Costume Design

1949

The Accused

as Costume Design

1943

Hostages

as Costume Design

1930

Only the Brave

as Costume Design

1948

Miss Tatlock's Millions

as Costume Design

1940

Untamed

as Costume Design

1945

Bring on the Girls

as Costume Designer

1960

Heller in Pink Tights

as Costume Design

1972

Pete 'n' Tillie

as Costume Design

1961

Too Late Blues

as Costume Design

1965

Sylvia

as Costume Design

1954

The Naked Jungle

as Costume Design

1962

Hatari!

as Costume Design

1964

Man's Favorite Sport?

as Costume Design

1949

Rope of Sand

as Costume Design

1955

Strategic Air Command

as Costume Design

1955

Artists and Models

as Costume Design

1964

The Disorderly Orderly

as Costume Design

1965

The Family Jewels

as Costume Design

1961

The Ladies Man

as Costume Design

1961

The Errand Boy

as Costume Design

1957

The Tin Star

as Costume Design

1963

The Nutty Professor

as Costume Design

1941

West Point Widow

as Costume Design

1952

Stolen Face

as Costume Design

1966

Penelope

as Costumer

1965

The Slender Thread

as Costume Design

1958

Separate Tables

as Costume Design

1967

Barefoot in the Park

as Costume Design

1963

1948

The Big Clock

as Costume Design

1974

Airport 1975

as Costume Design

1965

The Sons of Katie Elder

as Costume Design

1963

My Six Loves

as Costume Design

1958

King Creole

as Costumer

1955

Lucy Gallant

as Costume Design

1959

The Five Pennies

as Costume Design

1949

The File on Thelma Jordon

as Costume Design

1966

Torn Curtain

as Costume Design

1962

Escape from Zahrain

as Costume Design

1950

Dark City

as Costume Design

1964

The Patsy

as Costume Design

1961

On the Double

as Costume Design

1952

1961

All in a Night's Work

as Costume Design

1960

Pepe

as Costume Design

1958

Rock-a-Bye Baby

as Costume Design

1963

1963

Who's Minding the Store?

as Costume Design

1962

It's Only Money

as Costume Design

1959

Don't Give Up the Ship

as Costume Design

1960

Visit to a Small Planet

as Costume Design

1958

The Geisha Boy

as Costume Design

1955

You're Never Too Young

as Costume Design

1954

3 Ring Circus

as Costume Design

1956

Hollywood or Bust

as Costume Design

1954

Living It Up

as Costume Design

1956

Pardners

as Costume Design

1953

Money from Home

as Costume Design

1951

The Stooge

as Costume Design

1953

Scared Stiff

as Costume Design

1969

Winning

as Costume Design

1973

Showdown

as Costume Design

1956

That Certain Feeling

as Costume Design

1959

The Black Orchid

as Costume Design

1965

Harlow

as Costume Design

1962

Girls! Girls! Girls!

as Costume Design

1954

Secret of the Incas

as Costume Design

1975

The Great Waldo Pepper

as Costume Design

1969

Downhill Racer

as Costume Design

1965

Red Line 7000

as Costume Design

1966

Paradise, Hawaiian Style

as Costume Design

1938

Thanks for the Memory

as Costume Design

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