Gwen Wakeling
Personal Info
Know For
Costume & Make-Up
Gender
Female
Birthday
1901-03-03 (81 years old)
Deathday
1982-06-16
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Also known As
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Gwen Wakeling
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Costume designer Gwen Wakeling (birth name Gwen Sewell, March 3, 1901, Detroit, Michigan – June 16, 1982, Los Angeles, California) was a personal favourite of Cecil B. DeMille. Indeed her first film was his 1927 epic "The King of Kings", and she earned an Academy Award for her work on his version of "Samson and Delilah" in 1950. In a career spanning over 140 films, she also worked for director John Ford on such films as "The Prisoner of Shark Island" (1936), "Drums Along the Mohawk" (1939), "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940) and "How Green Was My Valley" (1941), and provided the costumes for most of the Shirl...
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1940
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1936
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1954
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1930
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1936
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1966
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1929
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1938
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1942
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1930
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1957
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1954
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1956
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1939
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1934
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1944
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1939
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1940
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1958
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1942
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1939
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1932
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1936
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1942
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