# Edith Head

Edith Head (San Bernardino, Califòrnia, Estats Units, 28 d'octubre de 1897 - Los Angeles, Califòrnia, 24 d'octubre de 1981) va ser una sastressa estatunidenca de cinema, que va guanyar vuit Oscars al millor vestuari.

## Carrera

Va treballar als estudis Paramount Pictures durant tota la seva carrera. Atreta per Howard Greer, sastre en cap de la Paramount, s'imposà ràpidament als estudis. La seva llarga carrera a Hollywood li va permetre guanyar més Oscars que qualsevol altra dona en la història del cinema.
Edith Head feu aparicions com a actriu a The Oscar de Russell Rouse (1966), i el 1973 a la sèrie Columbo, l'episodi Requiem for a Falling Star, 1973, temporada 2, també amb Anne Baxter), on fa el seu propi paper, i on es veuen els Oscars que ha guanyat, excepte l'últim, guanyat el 1974 per El cop.
Va escriure dos llibres: The Dress Doctor i How to Dress with Success
Va morir als 84 anys a Los Angeles d'una malaltia de la medul·la òssia.

## Filmografia
### Sastressa

* 1927: Wings
* 1928: The Legion of the Condemned
* 1928: Ladies of the Mob
* 1929: The Saturday Night Kid
* 1932: Love Me Tonight
* 1933: She Done Him Wrong
* 1933: Cradle Song
* 1934: Death Takes a Holiday
* 1934: She Loves Me Not
* 1934: You Belong to Me
* 1936: Till We Meet Again
* 1936: Early to Bed
* 1936: Poppy
* 1936: The Return of Sophie Lang
* 1936: Rhythm on the Range
* 1936: The Texas Rangers
* 1936: Murder with Pictures
* 1936: College Holiday
* 1937: John Meade's Woman
* 1937: Her Husband Lies
* 1937: Waikiki Wedding
* 1937: Turn Off the Moon
* 1937: Souls at Sea
* 1937: Sophie Lang Goes West
* 1937: This Way Please
* 1937: Ebb Tide
* 1937: Blossoms on Broadway
* 1937: Thrill of a Lifetime
* 1937: Wells Fargo
* 1938: Mad About Music
* 1938: The Big Broodcast of 1938
* 1938: Dangerous to Know
* 1938: Her Jungle Love
* 1938: College Swing
* 1938: Coconut Grove
* 1938: Tropic Holiday
* 1938: Men with Wings
* 1938: Give Me a Sailor
* 1938: Spawn of the North
* 1938: If I Were King
* 1938: Artists and Models Abroad
* 1939: Zaza
* 1939: Disbarred
* 1939: Paris Honeymoon
* 1939: King of Chinatown
* 1939: Sudden Money
* 1939: Never Say Die
* 1939: The Gracie Allen Murder Case
* 1939: Invitation to Happiness
* 1939: Man about Town
* 1939: The Magnificent Fraud
* 1939: Beau Geste
* 1939: The Star Maker
* 1939: Honeymoon in Bali
* 1939: The Cat and the Canary
* 1939: The Great Victor Herbert
* 1940: Remember the Night
* 1940: Adventure in Diamonds
* 1940: Road to Singapore
* 1940: Buck Benny Rides Again
* 1940: The Ghost Breakers
* 1940: Safari de Edward H. Griffith
* 1940: The Great McGinty
* 1940: Rhythm on the River
* 1940: The Texas Rangers Ride Again
* 1940: Love Thy Neighbor
* 1941: Life with Henry
* 1941: The Mad Doctor
* 1941: The Lady Eve
* 1941: Road to Zanzibar
* 1941: Caught in the Draft
* 1941: Here Comes Mr. Jordan
* 1941: Kiss the Boys Goodbye
* 1941: Aloma of the South Seas
* 1941: Nothing But the Truth
* 1941: You Belong to Me
* 1941: New York Town
* 1941: Birth of the Blues
* 1941: Skylark
* 1941: Sullivan's Travels
* 1942: The Lady Has Plans
* 1942: The Fleet's In
* 1942: The Remarkable Andrew
* 1942: My Favorite Blonde
* 1942: The Great Man's Lady
* 1942: This Gun for Hire
* 1942: Beyond the Blue Horizon
* 1942: Are Husbands Necessary?
* 1942: The Major and the Minor
* 1942: The Glass Key
* 1942: I Married a Witch
* 1942: Road to Morocco
* 1942: Lucky Jordan
* 1942: Star Spangled Rhythm
* 1942: The Gay Sisters
* 1943: Flesh and Fantasy
* 1943: Young and Willing
* 1943: China
* 1943: Five Graves to Cairo
* 1943: Riding High
* 1943: True to Life
* 1944: The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
* 1944: Standing Room Only
* 1944: The Uninvited
* 1944: Lady in the Dark
* 1944: And the Angels Sing
* 1944: Going My Way
* 1944: Hail the Conquering Hero
* 1944: I Love a Soldier
* 1944: Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
* 1944: Rainhow Island
* 1944: The Great Moment
* 1944: Double Indemnity
* 1944: 'And Now Tomorrow
* 1944: Here Come the Waves
* 1945: The Affairs of Susan
* 1945: You Came Along
* 1945: Out of This World
* 1945: La rossa dels cabells de foc (Incendiary Blonde)
* 1945: Love Letters
* 1945: Hold That Blonde
* 1945: Dies perduts (The Lost Weekend)
* 1945: Masquerade in Mexico
* 1945: The Bells of St. Mary's
* 1945: The Stork Club
* 1946: Road to Utopia
* 1946: To Each His Own
* 1946: The Virginian
* 1946: The Blue Dahlia
* 1946: The Bride Wore Boots
* 1946: My Reputation de Curtis Bernhardt
* 1946: The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
* 1946: Blue Skies
* 1946: Cross My Heart
* 1946: California
* 1947: The Perfect Marriage
* 1947: Morena i perillosa (My Favorite Brunette)
* 1947: Blaze of Noon
* 1947: Ramrod
* 1947: L'altre amor (The Other Love)
* 1947: Dear Ruth
* 1947: Welcome Stranger
* 1947: The Trouble with Women
* 1947: Desert Fury
* 1947: La noia de varietats (Variety Girl)
* 1947: Wild Harvest
* 1947: Where There's Life
* 1947: Road to Rio
* 1947: Les dues senyores Carroll (The Two Mrs. Carrolls)
* 1948: I Walk Alone
* 1948: Saigon
* 1948: The Big Clock
* 1948: The Emperor Waltz
* 1948: The Sainted Sisters
* 1948: Dream Girl
* 1948: A Foreign Affair
* 1948: Beyond Glory
* 1948: Sorry, Wrong Number
* 1948: Isn't It Romantic?
* 1948: Night Has a Thousand Eyes
* 1948: June Bride
* 1948: Miss Tatlock's Millions
* 1949: La culpa (The Accused)
* 1949: My Own True Love
* 1949: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
* 1949: Manhandled
* 1949: El gran Gatsby (The Great Gatsby)
* 1949: Rope of Sand
* 1949: My Friend Irma
* 1949: The Heiress
* 1949: Red, Hot and Blue
* 1949: Beyond the Forest
* 1949: Samson and Delilah
* 1949: The Great Lover
* 1949: My Foolish Heart
* 1950: The File on Thelma Jordon
* 1950: No Man of Her Own
* 1950: Riding High
* 1950: My Friend Irma Goes West
* 1950: Sunset Blvd.
* 1950: The Furies
* 1950: September Affair
* 1950: Dark City
* 1950: Copper Canyon
* 1950: Let's Dance
* 1950: Marcat a foc (Branded)
* 1950: All about Eve
* 1951: The Lemon Drop Kid
* 1951: The Last Outpost
* 1951: Dear Brat
* 1951: That's My Boy
* 1951: Ace in the Hole
* 1951: Peking Express
* 1951: Darling, How Could You!
* 1951: A Place in the Sun
* 1951: Rhubarb
* 1951: When Worlds Collide
* 1951: Here Comes the Groom
* 1951: Detective Story
* 1951: Silver City
* 1951: My Favorite Spy
* 1952: The Greatest Show on Earth
* 1952: Sailor Beware
* 1952: Something to Live For
* 1952: Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
* 1952: My Son John
* 1952: The Atomic City
* 1952: Denver and Rio Grande
* 1952: Jumping Jacks
* 1952: Carrie
* 1952: Somebody Loves Me
* 1952: Just for You
* 1952: The Turning Point
* 1952: Road to Bali
* 1952: Come Back, Little Sheba
* 1953: Tropic Zone
* 1953: Off Limits
* 1953: The Stars Are Singing
* 1953: The Girls of Pleasure Island
* 1953: Arrels profundes (Shane)
* 1953: Scared Stiff
* 1953: Sangaree
* 1953: The Vanquished
* 1953: Pony Express
* 1953: Houdini
* 1953: Foguera d'odis (Arrowhead)
* 1953: The Caddy
* 1953: La guerra dels mons
* 1953: Roman Holiday
* 1953: Forever female
* 1953: Little Boy Lost
* 1953: Those Redheads from Seattle
* 1953: Here Come the Girls
* 1953: Money from Home
* 1954: Alaska Seas
* 1954: Jivaro
* 1954: The Naked Jungle
* 1954: Knock on Wood
* 1954: Elephant Walk
* 1954: About Mrs. Leslie
* 1954: Living It Up
* 1954: Rear Window
* 1954: Sabrina
* 1954: Nadal blanc (White Christmas)
* 1954: The Country Girl
* 1954: 3 Ring Circus
* 1954: The Bridges at Toko-Ri
* 1955: Busca el teu refugi (Run for Cover)
* 1955: Horitzons blaus (The Far Horizons)
* 1955: The Seven Little Foys
* 1955: To Catch a Thief
* 1955: You're Never Too Young
* 1955: The Girl Rush
* 1955: The Trouble with Harry
* 1955: The Desperate Hours
* 1955: Lucy Gallant
* 1955: Artists and Models
* 1955: The Rose Tattoo
* 1955: The Court Jester
* 1956: The man who knew too much
* 1956: The Come On
* 1956: The Birds and the Bees
* 1956: The Scarlet Hour
* 1956: Anything Goes
* 1956: That Certain Feeling
* 1956: The Leather Saint
* 1956: The Proud and Profane
* 1956: Pardners
* 1956: The Search for Bridey Murphy
* 1956: Els Deu Manaments (The Ten Commandments)
* 1956: The Mountain
* 1956: Hollywood o res (Hollywood or Bust)
* 1956: The Rainmaker
* 1957: Funny Face
* 1957: Fear Strikes Out
* 1957: Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
* 1957: The Delicate Delinquent
* 1957: Beau James
* 1957: The Joker Is Wild
* 1957: Short Cut to Hell
* 1957: The Devil's Hairpin
* 1957: La llei dels forts (Three Violent People)
* 1957: The Tin Star
* 1957: Hear Me Good
* 1957: El recluta (The Sad Sack)
* 1957: Wild Is the Wind
* 1958: Vertigen (D'entre els morts) (Vertigo)
* 1958: Teacher's Pet
* 1958: St. Louis Blues
* 1958: Hot Spell
* 1958: King Creole
* 1958: Rock-a-Bye Baby
* 1958: The Matchmaker
* 1958: The Black Orchid
* 1958: As Young as We Are
* 1958: The Geisha Boy
* 1958: Houseboat
* 1958: Maracaibo
* 1958: El bucaner (The Buccaneer)
* 1959: The Trap
* 1959: Alias Jesse James
* 1959: The Five Pennies
* 1959: That Kind of Woman
* 1959: Don't Give Up the Ship
* 1959: Milionari d'il·lusions (A Hole in the Head)
* 1959: L'últim tren de Gun Hill (Last Train from Gun Hill)
* 1959: But Not for Me
* 1959: Career
* 1960: El pistoler de Cheyenne (Heller in Pink Tights)
* 1960: Un marcià a Califòrnia (Visit to a Small Planet)
* 1960: Perduts a la gran ciutat (The Rat Race)
* 1960: G.I. Blues
* 1960: El ventafocs (Cinderfella)
* 1960: Pepe
* 1960: The Facts of Life
* 1961: Obra d'una nit (All in a Night's Work) de Joseph Anthony
* 1961: On the Double
* 1961: The Pleasure of His Company
* 1961: The Ladies Man
* 1961: Love in a Goldfish Bowl
* 1961: Man-Trap
* 1961: Too Late Blues
* 1961: Summer and Smoke
* 1961: Blue Hawaii
* 1961: The Errand Boy
* 1962: Els ocells (The Birds)
* 1962: La meva dolça geisha (My Geisha)
* 1962: The Counterfeit Traitor
* 1962: L'home que va matar Liberty Valance (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance)
* 1962: Escape from Zahrain
* 1962: Hatari (Hatari!)
* 1962: Girls! Girls! Girls!
* 1962: It'$ Only Money
* 1962: Trampa al meu marit (Who's got the action ?)
* 1962: A Girl Named Tamiko
* 1963: Papa's Delicate Condition
* 1963: My Six Loves
* 1963: Critic's Choice
* 1963: Hud
* 1963: El professor guillat (The Nutty Professor)
* 1963: Come Blow Your Horn
* 1963: La taverna de l'irlandès (Donovan's Reef)
* 1963: Wives and Lovers
* 1963: Samantha (A New Kind of Love)
* 1963: Fun in Acapulco
* 1963: Who's Minding the Store?
* 1963: Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?
* 1963: Love with the Proper Stranger
* 1963: I Could Go On Singing
* 1964: L'esport favorit de l'home (Man's Favorite Sport?)
* 1964: The Carpetbaggers
* 1964: Mr. and Mrs. (TV)
* 1964: The Patsy
* 1964: A House Is Not a Home
* 1964: Where Love Has Gone
* 1964: Roustabout
* 1964: The Disorderly Orderly
* 1964: Sex and the Single Girl
* 1964: The Yellow Rolls-Royce
* 1965: 36 Hours
* 1965: Sylvia de Gordon Douglas
* 1965: Who Has Seen the Wind? (TV)
* 1965: Love Has Many Faces
* 1965: John Goldfarb, Please Come Home
* 1965: La batalla dels turons del whisky (The Hallelujah Trail)
* 1965: Harlow
* 1965: The Sons of Katie Elder
* 1965: The Family Jewels
* 1965: Red Line 7000
* 1965: Boeing (707)
* 1965: The Slender Thread
* 1966: The Oscar
* 1966: The Last of the Secret Agents?
* 1966: Paradise, Hawaiian Style
* 1966: Propietat condemnada (This Property Is Condemned), de Sydney Pollack
* 1966: Penelope
* 1966: The Swinger
* 1966: El Dorado
* 1967: Warning Shot
* 1967: Easy Come, Easy Go
* 1967: Descalços pel parc (Barefoot in the Park)
* 1967: The Caper of the Golden Bulls
* 1968: The Secret War of Harry Frigg
* 1968: Blue
* 1968: Què hi ha de dolent a ser feliç? (What's So Bad About Feeling Good?) de George Seaton
* 1968: In Enemy Country
* 1968: The Pink Jungle
* 1968: House of Cards
* 1968: Hellfighters
* 1969: Sweet Charity
* 1969: Winning
* 1969: Eye of the Cat
* 1969: The Lost Man
* 1969: Topaz
* 1969: La vall del fugitiu (Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here)
* 1970: Storia di una donna
* 1970: Airport
* 1970: Skullduggery
* 1970: Colossus: The Forbin Project
* 1971: Casta invencible (Sometimes a Great Notion)
* 1971: Red Sky at Morning
* 1972: The Screaming Woman (TV)
* 1972: Pete i Tillie (Pete 'n' Tillie)
* 1972: The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
* 1973: Cara a cara (Showdown)
* 1973: Casa de nines (A Doll's House)
* 1973: Dimecres de cendra (Ash Wednesday)
* 1973: The Don Is Dead
* 1973: El cop (The Sting)
* 1975: The Great Waldo Pepper
* 1975: L'home que volia ser rei (The Man Who Would Be King)
* 1976: Gable and Lombard
* 1976: W.C. Fields and Me
* 1976: The Blue Bird
* 1976: Family Plot, la trama (Family Plot)
* 1976: Amelia Earhart (TV)
* 1976: The Disappearance of Aimee (TV)
* 1977: Airport '77
* 1977: Sex and the Married Woman (TV)
* 1977: Sunshine Christmas (TV)
* 1978: Sextette
* 1978: Olly, Olly, Oxen Free
* 1978: Donetes (Little Women) (TV)
* 1978: The Big Fix
* 1978: Return Engagement (TV)
* 1979: Women in White (TV)
* 1980: The Last Married Couple in America
* 1982: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

### com a actriu

* 1966: The Oscar de Russell Rouse
* 1973: Requiem for a Falling Star, episodi de Columbo, temporada 2, on fa el seu propi paper.

## Premis
### Premi Oscar

| Any | Premi | Pel·lícula | Resultat |
| 1948 | Millor vestuari color | The Emperor Waltz (juntament amb Gile Steele) | Nominat |
| 1949 | Millor vestuari blanc i negre | The Heiress (juntament amb Gile Steele) | Guanyador |
| 1950 | Millor vestuari color | Samson and Delilah (juntament amb Gile Steele, Elois Jenssen, Dorothy Jeakins i Gwen Wakeling) | Guanyador |
| 1950 | Millor vestuari blanc i negre | Tot sobre Eva (juntament amb Charles Le Maire ) | Guanyador |
| 1951 | Millor vestuari blanc i negre | A Place in the Sun | Guanyador |
| 1952 | Millor vestuari color | L'espectacle més gran del món (juntament amb Dorothy Jeakins i Miles White) | Nominat |
| 1952 | Millor vestuari blanc i negre | Carrie | Nominat |
| 1953 | Millor vestuari blanc i negre | Vacances a Roma | Guanyador |
| 1954 | Millor vestuari blanc i negre | Sabrina | Guanyador |
| 1955 | Millor vestuari color | To Catch a Thief | Nominat |
| 1955 | Millor vestuari blanc i negre | The Rose Tattoo | Nominat |
| 1956 | Millor vestuari color | Els Deu Manaments (juntament amb Ralph Jester, John Jensen, Dorothy Jeakins i Arnold Friberg) | Nominat |
| 1956 | Millor vestuari blanc i negre | The Proud and Profane | Nominat |
| 1957 | Millor vestuari | Funny Face (juntament amb Hubert de Givenchy) | Nominat |
| 1958 | Millor vestuari blanc i negre o color | El bucaner (juntament amb Ralph Jester i John Jensen) | Nominat |
| 1959 | Millor vestuari color | The Five Pennies | Nominat |
| 1959 | Millor vestuari blanc i negre | Career | Nominat |
| 1960 | Millor vestuari color | Pepe | Nominat |
| 1960 | Millor vestuari blanc i negre | The Facts of Life (juntament amb Edward Stevenson) | Guanyador |
| 1961 | Millor vestuari color | Pocketful of Miracles (juntament amb Walter Plunkett) | Nominat |
| 1962 | Millor vestuari color | La meva dolça geisha | Nominat |
| 1962 | Millor vestuari blanc i negre | L'home que va matar Liberty Valance | Nominat |
| 1963 | Millor vestuari color | Samantha | Nominat |
| 1963 | Millor vestuari blanc i negre | Love with the Proper Stranger | Nominat |
| 1963 | Millor vestuari blanc i negre | Wives and Lovers | Nominat |
| 1964 | Millor vestuari color | What a Way to Go! (juntament amb Moss Mabry) | Nominat |
| 1964 | Millor vestuari blanc i negre | A House Is Not a Home | Nominat |
| 1965 | Millor vestuari color | La rebel (juntament amb Bill Thomas) | Nominat |
| 1965 | Millor vestuari blanc i negre | The Slender Thread | Nominat |
| 1966 | Millor vestuari color | The Oscar | Nominat |
| 1969 | Millor vestuari | Sweet Charity | Nominat |
| 1970 | Millor vestuari | Airport | Nominat |
| 1973 | Millor vestuari | El cop | Guanyador |
| 1975 | Millor vestuari | L'home que volia ser rei | Nominat |
| 1977 | Millor vestuari | Airport '77 (juntament amb Burton Miller) | Nominat |

### Premi BAFTA

| Any | Premi | Pel·lícula | Resultat |
| 1975 | Millor vestuari | L'home que volia ser rei | Nominat |

## Referències

* ↑ Jean Tulard Dictionnaire du cinéma, tom II, Robert Laffont, 1984
* 1 2 imdb.com