Edith Head

Edith Head

Birthday: 1897-10-28
Deathday: 1981-10-24
Place of birth: San Bernadino, California, USA
Also know as: Edith Claire Posener

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Edith Head, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

The Oscar

1966

As Edith Head

The Pleasure of His Company

1961

As Dress Designer (uncredited)

Lucy Gallant

1955

As Edith Head

The Costume Designer

1950

As Self (uncredited)

Hollywood Extra Girl

1935

As Edith Head (uncredited)

And the Oscar Goes To...

2014

As Self (archive footage)

The Women Who Run Hollywood

2016

As Herself (archive footage)

The Art of Exaggeration: Designs for Sweet Charity by Edith Head

1969

As Host

Edith Head: The Paramount Years

2002

As Self (archive footage)

Edith Head

1981

As Self

Production

Breakfast at Tiffany's

1961

As Costume Supervisor

Notorious

1946

As Costume Design

To Catch a Thief

1955

As Costume Design

Vertigo

1958

As Costume Design

Rear Window

1954

As Costume Design

The Birds

1963

As Costume Design

Sunset Boulevard

1950

As Costume Design

All About Eve

1950

As Costume Design

Roman Holiday

1953

As Costume Design

Double Indemnity

1944

As Costume Design

Houseboat

1958

As Costume Design

The Lady Eve

1941

As Costume Design

Ministry of Fear

1944

As Costume Design

Family Plot

1976

As Costume Design

I'll Be Seeing You

1944

As Costume Design

Sabrina

1954

As Costume Supervisor

Love Me Tonight

1932

As Costume Design

Road to Zanzibar

1941

As Costume Design

Road to Morocco

1942

As Costume Design

Road to Rio

1947

As Costume Design

No Time for Love

1943

As Costume Design

The Bells of St. Mary's

1945

As Costume Design

The Sting

1973

As Costume Design

I Married a Witch

1942

As Costume Design

Saigon

1947

As Costume Design

A Hole in the Head

1959

As Costume Design

Road to Bali

1953

As Costume Design

Funny Face

1957

As Costume Design

Holiday Inn

1942

As Costume Design

Christmas in Connecticut

1945

As Costume Design

The Heiress

1949

As Costume Design

The Lost Weekend

1945

As Costume Design

Road to Singapore

1940

As Costume Design

Poppy

1936

As Costume Design

Wings

1927

As Costume Design

Road to Utopia

1946

As Costume Design

The Mad Doctor

1940

As Costume Design

Remember the Night

1940

As Costume Design

Hail the Conquering Hero

1944

As Costume Design

The Great McGinty

1940

As Costume Design

The Great Moment

1944

As Costume Design

Ball of Fire

1941

As Costume Design

The Ghost Breakers

1940

As Costume Design

Sweet Charity

1969

As Costume Design

Beau Geste

1939

As Costume Design

Five Graves to Cairo

1943

As Costume Design

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

1943

As Costume Design

The Big Broadcast of 1938

1938

As Costume Design

Death Takes a Holiday

1934

As Costume Design

Souls at Sea

1937

As Costume Design

She Done Him Wrong

1933

As Costume Design

Here Come the Waves

1944

As Costume Design

Mad About Music

1938

As Costume Design

Sullivan's Travels

1941

As Costume Design

The Uninvited

1944

As Costume Design

This Gun for Hire

1942

As Costume Design

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

1941

As Costume Design

The Glass Key

1942

As Costume Design

The Major and the Minor

1942

As Costume Design

Going My Way

1944

As Costume Design

Lady of Burlesque

1943

As Costume Design

The Fleet's In

1942

As Costume Design

The Texas Rangers

1936

As Costume Design

Hold Back the Dawn

1941

As Costume Design

The Gracie Allen Murder Case

1939

As Costume Design

Rhythm on the Range

1936

As Costume Design

Invitation to Happiness

1939

As Costume Design

Mantrap

1926

As Costume Design

Waikiki Wedding

1937

As Costume Design

Double or Nothing

1937

As Costume Design

My Own True Love

1948

As Costume Design

The Gay Sisters

1942

As Costume Design

Buck Benny Rides Again

1940

As Costume Design

Spawn of the North

1938

As Costume Design

Skylark

1941

As Costume Design

New York Town

1941

As Costume Design

Nothing But the Truth

1941

As Costume Design

Bahama Passage

1941

As Costume Design

Birth of the Blues

1941

As Costume Design

This Way Please

1937

As Costume Design

You Belong to Me

1941

As Costume Design

The Lady Has Plans

1942

As Costume Design

Tender Comrade

1944

As Costume Design

My Favorite Blonde

1942

As Costume Design

The Remarkable Andrew

1942

As Costume Design

Beyond the Blue Horizon

1942

As Costume Design

The Great Man's Lady

1942

As Costume Design

Honeymoon in Bali

1939

As Costume Design

Lady in the Dark

1944

As Costume Design

Peter Pan

1924

As Costume Design

Are Parents People?

1925

As Costume Design

Young and Willing

1943

As Costume Design

Caught in the Draft

1941

As Costume Design

Star Spangled Rhythm

1942

As Costume Design

Love Letters

1945

As Costume Design

The Texans

1938

As Costume Design

If I Were King

1938

As Costume Design

The Stork Club

1945

As Costume Design

She Loves Me Not

1934

As Costume Design

Wells Fargo

1937

As Costume Design

Rhythm on the River

1940

As Costume Design

Never Say Die

1939

As Costume Design

A Medal for Benny

1945

As Costume Design

And Now Tomorrow

1944

As Costume Design

College Swing

1938

As Costume Design

Incendiary Blonde

1945

As Costume Design

Flesh and Fantasy

1943

As Costume Design

Lucky Jordan

1942

As Costume Design

The Saturday Night Kid

1929

As Costume Design

Adventure in Diamonds

1940

As Costume Design

Sophie Lang Goes West

1937

As Costume Design

China

1943

As Costume Design

Give Me a Sailor

1938

As Costume Design

The Magnificent Fraud

1939

As Costume Design

Aloma of the South Seas

1941

As Costume Design

The Affairs of Susan

1945

As Costume Design

Man of Conquest

1939

As Costume Design

The Lost Man

1969

As Costume Design

The Crystal Ball

1943

As Costume Design

Cradle Song

1933

As Costume Design

Murder with Pictures

1936

As Costume Design

Typhoon

1940

As Costume Design

Love Thy Neighbor

1940

As Costume Design

Blossoms On Broadway

1937

As Costume Design

A Doll's House

1973

As Costume Design

A House Is Not a Home

1964

As Costume Design

Career

1959

As Costume Design

Riding High

1943

As Costume Design

Tropic Holiday

1938

As Costume Design

The Great Victor Herbert

1939

As Costume Design

Standing Room Only

1944

As Costume Design

Till We Meet Again

1936

As Costume Design

Ladies of the Mob

1928

As Costume Design

The Legion of the Condemned

1928

As Costume Design

The Lawyer's Secret

1931

As Costume Design

Early to Bed

1936

As Costume Design

The Sainted Sisters

1948

As Costume Design

Zaza

1938

As Costume Design

The Return of Sophie Lang

1936

As Costume Design

Ebb Tide

1937

As Costume Design

Thrill of a Lifetime

1937

As Costume Design

Cocoanut Grove

1938

As Costume Design

Her Jungle Love

1938

As Costume Design

John Meade's Woman

1937

As Costume Design

Her Husband Lies

1937

As Costume Design

Turn Off the Moon

1937

As Costume Design

College Holiday

1936

As Costume Design

Disbarred

1939

As Costume Design

Artists and Models Abroad

1938

As Costume Design

Exclusive

1937

As Costume Design

Men with Wings

1938

As Costume Design

Dangerous to Know

1938

As Costume Design

The Texas Rangers Ride Again

1940

As Costume Design

The Star Maker

1939

As Costume Design

Man About Town

1939

As Costume Design

Are Husbands Necessary?

1942

As Costume Design

Paris Honeymoon

1939

As Costume Design

Life with Henry

1941

As Costume Design

Hotel Imperial

1939

As Costume Design

Safari

1940

As Costume Design

I Love a Soldier

1944

As Costume Design

Rainbow Island

1944

As Costume Design

Sudden Money

1939

As Costume Design

Kiss the Boys Goodbye

1941

As Costume Design

True to Life

1943

As Costume Design

King of Chinatown

1939

As Costume Design

Moon Over Burma

1940

As Costume Design

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

1944

As Costume Design

And the Angels Sing

1944

As Costume Design

Dancing on a Dime

1940

As Costume Design

In Enemy Country

1968

As Costume Design

You Came Along

1945

As Costume Design

The Virginian

1946

As Costume Design

Blue

1968

As Costume Design

Desert Fury

1947

As Costume Design

The Rainmaker

1956

As Costume Design

Ace in the Hole

1951

As Costume Design

Amelia Earhart

1976

As Costume Design

My Foolish Heart

1950

As Costume Design

Samson and Delilah

1949

As Costume Design

Pony Express

1953

As Costume Design

Colossus: The Forbin Project

1970

As Costume Design

Gable and Lombard

1976

As Costume Design

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

1982

As Costume Design

The Last Married Couple in America

1980

As Costume Design

Airport '77

1977

As Costume Design

The Big Fix

1978

As Costume Design

The Disappearance of Aimee

1976

As Costume Design

W.C. Fields and Me

1976

As Costume Design

Olly, Olly, Oxen Free

1978

As Costume Design

Skullduggery

1970

As Costume Design

The Devil's Hairpin

1957

As Costume Design

Sex and the Single Girl

1964

As Costume Design

Cafe Society

1939

As Costume Design

Hold That Blonde!

1945

As Costume Design

To Each His Own

1946

As Costume Design

The Bride Wore Boots

1946

As Costume Design

Cross My Heart

1946

As Costume Design

Masquerade in Mexico

1945

As Costume Design

The Blue Dahlia

1946

As Costume Design

Out of This World

1945

As Costume Design

Blue Skies

1946

As Costume Design

Lady in a Cage

1964

As Costume Design

The Other Love

1947

As Costume Design

Carrie

1952

As Costume Design

Who's Got the Action?

1962

As Costume Design

Where Love Has Gone

1964

As Costume Design

The Girl Rush

1955

As Costume Design

Sorry, Wrong Number

1948

As Costume Design

Assault on a Queen

1966

As Costume Design

Come Blow Your Horn

1963

As Costume Design

Hellfighters

1968

As Costume Design

The Hallelujah Trail

1965

As Costume Design

Come Back, Little Sheba

1952

As Costume Design

This Property Is Condemned

1966

As Costume Design

The Rose Tattoo

1955

As Costume Design

The Trouble with Women

1947

As Costume Design

The Mountain

1956

As Costume Design

Chuka

1967

As Costume Design

Beyond the Forest

1949

As Costume Design

The Man Who Knew Too Much

1956

As Costume Design

Blue Hawaii

1961

As Costume Design

G.I. Blues

1960

As Costume Design

Loving You

1957

As Costume Design

Shane

1953

As Costume Design

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

1962

As Costume Design

The Furies

1950

As Costume Design

Witness for the Prosecution

1957

As Costume Design

The Caper of the Golden Bulls

1967

As Costume Design

A Place in the Sun

1951

As Costume Design

Elephant Walk

1954

As Costume Design

My Geisha

1962

As Costume Design

The Search for Bridey Murphy

1956

As Costume Design

Houdini

1953

As Costume Design

Alaska Seas

1954

As Costume Design

Teacher's Pet

1958

As Costume Design

White Christmas

1954

As Costume Design

About Mrs. Leslie

1954

As Costume Design

Forever Female

1953

As Costume Design

Dear Ruth

1947

As Costume Design

My Favorite Brunette

1947

As Costume Design

Where There's Life

1947

As Costume Design

The Perfect Marriage

1947

As Costume Design

Variety Girl

1947

As Costume Design

The Perils of Pauline

1947

As Costume Design

Blaze of Noon

1947

As Costume Design

Darling, How Could You!

1951

As Costume Design

Welcome Stranger

1947

As Costume Design

Wild Harvest

1947

As Costume Design

I Walk Alone

1947

As Costume Design

Ramrod

1947

As Costume Design

The Desperate Hours

1955

As Costume Design

Critic's Choice

1963

As Costume Design

A Foreign Affair

1948

As Costume Design

The Great Lover

1949

As Costume Design

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

1957

As Costume Design

September Affair

1950

As Costume Design

The Matchmaker

1958

As Costume Design

Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick

1952

As Costume Design

A Girl Named Tamiko

1962

As Costume Design

Wild Is the Wind

1957

As Costume Design

Branded

1950

As Costume Design

Peking Express

1951

As Costume Design

Summer and Smoke

1961

As Costume Design

Copper Canyon

1950

As Costume Design

Hotel

1967

As Costume Design

Something to Live For

1952

As Costume Design

Detective Story

1951

As Costume Design

Sunshine Christmas

1977

As Costume Design

36 Hours

1964

As Costume Design

The Jayhawkers!

1959

As Costume Design

Boeing, Boeing

1965

As Costume Design

Airport

1970

As Costume Design

The Don Is Dead

1973

As Costume Design

The Sad Sack

1957

As Costume Design

The Rat Race

1960

As Costume Design

The Country Girl

1954

As Costume Design

My Friend Irma

1949

As Costume Design

Off Limits

1952

As Costume Design

That's My Boy

1951

As Costume Design

Sailor Beware

1952

As Costume Design

Jumping Jacks

1952

As Costume Design

Son of Paleface

1952

As Costume Design

The Atomic City

1952

As Costume Design

My Friend Irma Goes West

1950

As Costume Design

The Turning Point

1952

As Costume Design

Thunder in the East

1952

As Costume Design

Here Comes the Groom

1951

As Costume Design

Sangaree

1953

As Costume Design

The Savage

1952

As Costume Design

My Favorite Spy

1951

As Costume Design

The Lemon Drop Kid

1951

As Costume Design

Here Come the Girls

1953

As Costume Design

Dear Brat

1951

As Costume Design

The Caddy

1953

As Costume Design

Denver and Rio Grande

1952

As Costume Design

When Worlds Collide

1951

As Costume Design

But Not for Me

1959

As Costume Design

The Ten Commandments

1956

As Costume Design

The Bridges at Toko-Ri

1954

As Costume Design

A New Kind of Love

1963

As Costume Design

Fear Strikes Out

1957

As Costume Design

Fun in Acapulco

1963

As Costume Design

The Delicate Delinquent

1957

As Costume Design

The Leather Saint

1956

As Costume Design

Cinderfella

1960

As Costume Design

The Great Gatsby

1949

As Costume Design

My Reputation

1946

As Costume Design

The Two Mrs. Carrolls

1947

As Costume Design

No Man of Her Own

1950

As Costume Design

Cry Wolf

1947

As Costume Design

The Facts of Life

1960

As Costume Design

California

1947

As Costume Design

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

1969

As Costume Design

Hud

1963

As Costume Design

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

1972

As Costume Design

The Hangman

1959

As Costume Design

Hot Spell

1958

As Costume Design

The Buster Keaton Story

1957

As Costume Design

Run for Cover

1955

As Costume Design

Eye of the Cat

1969

As Costume Design

Hostages

1943

As Costume Design

The Accused

1949

As Costume Design

Miss Tatlock's Millions

1948

As Costume Design

Heller in Pink Tights

1960

As Costume Design

Pete 'n' Tillie

1972

As Costume Design

Too Late Blues

1961

As Costume Design

Sylvia

1965

As Costume Design

The Naked Jungle

1954

As Costume Design

Rope of Sand

1949

As Costume Design

Strategic Air Command

1955

As Costume Design

The Disorderly Orderly

1964

As Costume Design

Artists and Models

1955

As Costume Design

The Family Jewels

1965

As Costume Design

The Ladies Man

1961

As Costume Design

The Errand Boy

1961

As Costume Design

The Tin Star

1957

As Costume Design

The Nutty Professor

1963

As Costume Design

West Point Widow

1941

As Costume Design

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

1965

As Costume Design

Stolen Face

1952

As Costume Design

Penelope

1966

As Costumer

The Slender Thread

1965

As Costume Design

Separate Tables

1958

As Costume Design

Barefoot in the Park

1967

As Costume Design

Love with the Proper Stranger

1963

As Costume Design

The Big Clock

1948

As Costume Design

Airport 1975

1974

As Costume Design

The Sons of Katie Elder

1965

As Costume Design

My Six Loves

1963

As Costume Design

King Creole

1958

As Costumer

Lucy Gallant

1955

As Costume Design

The Five Pennies

1959

As Costume Design

The File on Thelma Jordon

1949

As Costume Design

Torn Curtain

1966

As Costume Design

Escape from Zahrain

1962

As Costume Design

The Patsy

1964

As Costume Design

Dark City

1950

As Costume Design

On the Double

1961

As Costume Design

The Greatest Show on Earth

1952

As Costume Design

Rock-a-Bye Baby

1958

As Costume Design

Living It Up

1954

As Costume Design

Hollywood or Bust

1956

As Costume Design

Visit to a Small Planet

1960

As Costume Design

The Geisha Boy

1958

As Costume Design

It's Only Money

1962

As Costume Design

Who's Minding the Store?

1963

As Costume Design

You're Never Too Young

1955

As Costume Design

Don't Give Up the Ship

1959

As Costume Design

Money from Home

1953

As Costume Design

3 Ring Circus

1954

As Costume Design

The Stooge

1951

As Costume Design

Pardners

1956

As Costume Design

Scared Stiff

1953

As Costume Design

All in a Night's Work

1961

As Costume Design

Pepe

1960

As Costume Design

Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?

1963

As Costume Design

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

1949

As Production Design

Showdown

1973

As Costume Design

Winning

1969

As Costume Design

That Certain Feeling

1956

As Costume Design

The Black Orchid

1959

As Costume Design

Harlow

1965

As Costume Design

Secret of the Incas

1954

As Costume Design

Girls! Girls! Girls!

1962

As Costume Design

The Great Waldo Pepper

1975

As Costume Design

Downhill Racer

1969

As Costume Design

Red Line 7000

1965

As Costume Design

Paradise, Hawaiian Style

1966

As Costume Design

Arrowhead

1953

As Costume Design

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

1969

As Costume Design

The Great Race

1965

As Costume Design

St. Louis Blues

1958

As Costume Design

The Pleasure of His Company

1961

As Costume Design

Dream Girl

1948

As Costume Design

The Cat and the Canary

1939

As Costume Design

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

1946

As Costume Design

The Farmer's Daughter

1947

As Costume Design

The Emperor Waltz

1948

As Costume Design

Night Has a Thousand Eyes

1948

As Costume Design

Manhandled

1949

As Costume Design

Caribbean

1952

As Costume Design

Just for You

1952

As Costume Design

The War of the Worlds

1953

As Costume Design

Knock On Wood

1954

As Costume Design

The Far Horizons

1955

As Costume Design

The Trouble with Harry

1955

As Costume Design

The Court Jester

1955

As Costume Design

Alias Jesse James

1959

As Costume Design

Marnie

1964

As Costume Design

What a Way to Go!

1964

As Costume Design

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

1964

As Costume Design

Inside Daisy Clover

1965

As Costume Design

House of Cards

1968

As Costume Design

Topaz

1969

As Costume Design

What's So Bad About Feeling Good?

1968

As Costume Design

The Screaming Woman

1972

As Costume Design

Myra Breckinridge

1970

As Costumer

Isn't It Romantic?

1948

As Costume Design

The Swinger

1966

As Costume Design

The Last of the Secret Agents?

1966

As Costume Design

Last Train from Gun Hill

1959

As Costume Design

That Kind of Woman

1959

As Costume Design

Red Hot and Blue

1949

As Costume Design

Sextette

1978

As Costume Design

Pocketful of Miracles

1961

As Costume Design

Hammersmith Is Out

1972

As Costumer

Hear Me Good

1957

As Costume Design

Story of a Woman

1970

As Costume Design

The Lucille Ball Comedy Hour

1964

As Costume Design

Underworld

1927

As Assistant Costume Designer

The Party Crashers

1958

As Costume Design

They Got Me Covered

1943

As Costume Design

Let's Face It

1943

As Costume Design

Casanova's Big Night

1954

As Costume Design

The Seven Little Foys

1955

As Costume Design

Beau James

1957

As Costume Design

Roustabout

1964

As Costume Design

Easy Come, Easy Go

1967

As Costume Design

Mr. Music

1950

As Costume Design

Submarine Command

1951

As Costumer

Hell's Island

1955

As Wardrobe Supervisor

Disputed Passage

1939

As Costume Design

Let's Dance

1950

As Costume Design

Riding High

1950

As Costume Design

Sex and the Married Woman

1977

As Costume Design

Rooster Cogburn

1975

As Costume Design

Love Has Many Faces

1965

As Costume Design

The Scarlet Hour

1956

As Costume Design

The Man Who Would Be King

1975

As Wardrobe Designer

The Blue Dahlia

1946

As Costumer

The Counterfeit Traitor

1962

As Costume Design

Ball of Fire

1941

As Costumer

El Dorado

1966

As Costume Design

Donovan's Reef

1963

As Costume Design

Return Engagement

1978

As Costume Design

Sometimes a Great Notion

1971

As Costume Design

Hatari!

1962

As Costume Design

Man's Favorite Sport?

1964

As Costume Design

Warning Shot

1967

As Costume Design

The Birds and the Bees

1956

As Costume Design

Rachel and the Stranger

1948

As Costume Design

So Evil My Love

1948

As Costume Design

Maracaibo

1958

As Costume Design