Edith Head

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Edith Head (October 28, 1897 – October 24, 1981) was an influential American costume designer whose work defined the glamorous aesthetic of mid-20th-century Hollywood cinema., she responded to a classified ad in the Los Angeles Times for a costume sketch artist at Paramount Pictures; lacking formal training, she borrowed sketches from her students to secure an interview and the job, marking her entry into the film industry., All About Eve (1950), Samson and Delilah (1950), A Place in the Sun (1951), Roman Holiday (1953), Sabrina (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955), The Ten Commandments (1956), and Vertigo (1958). and The Sting (1973) until her retirement.( Married twice—first briefly to Charles Head from 1923 until their divorce, and then to art director Wiard Ihnen from 1940 until his death in 1979—Head had no children and lived a private life, famously characterized by her bobbed hair, thick bangs, and oversized glasses.( She died in Los Angeles from myelofibrosis, a rare bone marrow disease, at age 83.(

In brief

Edith Claire Head (née Posener; October 28, 1897 – October 24, 1981) was an American film costume designer. She received a record 35 nominations for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design and won a record eight times, making her both the most honored and most nominated woman in the Academy's history. She also holds the Guinness World Record for most-credited costume designer in film history, with a total of 432 credits.

Raised between California and Nevada, Head earned degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University before beginning a career as a French and Spanish languages teacher. After taking courses at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, she was hired in 1923 as a costume sketch artist at Famous Players–Lasky, which later became Paramount Pictures. She won acclaim for her design of Dorothy Lamour’s trademark sarong in the 1936 film The Jungle Princess, and became a household name after the Academy Award for Best Costume Design was created in 1948.