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Costume Designer Born: October 28, 1897 in Los Angeles, CA Death: October 24, 1981 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:Along with composer "Max Steiner" and cinematographer "James Wong Howe", American costume designer "Edith Head" was one of the few behind-the-scenes movie technicians that the general public knew by name. Holding a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and an MA from Stanford, Ms. Head spent her early professional years as a language and art teacher. Reportedly, she also tried her luck as a movie starlet in 1923. While attracted to films, Ms. Head was more at home designing for them than appearing in them. She joined the costume department of Paramount in 1932, graduating to head designer in the late '30s. Her name was attached to virtually every prestige production turned out by the studio over the next thirty years, including the autonomously-produced films of "Cecil B. DeMille"; Ms. Head gained DeMille's lifelong respect by being one of the few Hollywoodites who refused to kowtow to... Full Biography
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