Actors and Actresses Designed For
Among the actresses Edith Head designed for were:
- Carmen Miranda in Scared Stiff 1953
- Mae West in She Done Him Wrong, 1933; Myra Breckinridge, 1970; Sextette, 1978
- Frances Farmer in Rhythm on the Range, 1936, and Ebb Tide, 1937
- Paulette Goddard in The Cat and the Canary, 1939
- Veronica Lake in Sullivan's Travels, 1941; I Married a Witch, 1942
- Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Eve and Ball of Fire, both 1941; Double Indemnity, 1944
- Ginger Rogers in Lady in the Dark, 1944
- Ingrid Bergman in Notorious, 1946
- Dorothy Lamour in The Hurricane, 1937; in most of "The Road" movies.
- Betty Hutton in Incendiary Blonde, 1945; The Perils of Pauline, 1947
- Loretta Young in The Farmer's Daughter, 1947
- Bette Davis in June Bride (1948); All About Eve, 1950
- Olivia de Havilland in The Heiress, 1949
- Hedy Lamarr and Angela Lansbury in Samson and Delilah, 1949
- Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard, 1950
- Elizabeth Taylor in A Place in the Sun, 1951; Elephant Walk, 1954
- Joan Fontaine in Something to Live For, 1952
- Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday, 1953; Sabrina, 1954; Funny Face, 1957
- Ann Robinson in The War of the Worlds, 1953
- Grace Kelly in Rear Window, 1954; To Catch a Thief, 1955
- Rosemary Clooney in White Christmas, 1954
- Jane Wyman in Lucy Gallant, 1955
- Doris Day in The Man Who Knew Too Much, 1956
- Anne Baxter in The Ten Commandments, 1956
- Marlene Dietrich in Witness for the Prosecution, 1957
- Rita Hayworth in Separate Tables, 1958
- Kim Novak in Vertigo, 1958
- Sophia Loren in That Kind of Woman, 1959
- Natalie Wood in Love with the Proper Stranger, 1963; Sex and the Single Girl, 1964; Inside Daisy Clover, 1965; The Great Race, 1965; Penelope, 1966; This Property Is Condemned, 1966; The Last Married Couple in America, 1980
- Shirley MacLaine in What A Way To Go!, 1964
- Tippi Hedren in The Birds, 1963; Marnie, 1964
- Claude Jade in Topaz, 1969
- Katharine Hepburn in Rooster Cogburn, 1975
- Jill Clayburgh in Gable and Lombard, 1976
- Valerie Perrine in W.C. Fields and Me, 1976
Among the actors Edith Head designed for were:
- Danny Kaye in White Christmas, 1954
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