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Dec 18, 2020 · White Christmas is no exception. What makes the movie such a holiday classic are its performances, song and dance numbers, heartwarming charm and splendid visuals of the Technicolor, lavish sets - and Head’s costume design brings it all together. White Christmas Costume Designs Edith Head White Christmas. By.
Dec 9, 2012 · There are plenty of truly timeless designs in 1954's White Christmas and amazing that even in a holiday classic we can find cinema's influence on fashion. Edith's turquoise lace dresses for "Sisters," for example, are beloved by nearly every designer today and a big inspiration for the colorful lace dresses that are now on trend for Fall/Winter ...
Dec 18, 2009 · Labels: Barbara Stanwyck, Cary Grant, Christmas in Connecticut, Edith Head, Film Fashion Friday, Holiday Inn, Irene Sharaff, It Happened on 5th Avenue, Loretta Young, The Bishop's Wife, White Christmas
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“Listen, when women go wrong, men go right after them.” This quip, one of many in She Done Him Wrong, goes hand-in-hand with Head’s vision for its costumes. Mae West stars in this pre-Hays-code film as Lady Lou, a saloon beauty in the gay 1890s with an affinity for diamonds and a million cheeky one-liners. Navigating a crooked boss, ruthless ex-boy...
For all the significant reasons this film has achieved classic status (chiefly Bing Crosby’s timeless croons), one of the most underrated is the splendid costuming. The Christmas classic is a cheery tale of two musically-inclined brothers who team up with a singing sister act to help a friend and former WWII military commander escape financial ruin...
Another Best Picture winner and one of the all-time greats, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid owes its costumes to Head. Butch (Paul Newman) and Sundance (Robert Redford) go on the run with a schoolteacher to Bolivia after a train robbery gone wrong, and fight to the bitter end to evade the law. Based on the real-life story of the titular outlaws,...
Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant star in this celebrated Alfred Hitchcockfilm noir, one of many collaborations between Hitchcock and Head. When the story begins, Alicia Huberman (Bergman) is a reputational floozy whose father is being jailed for being a Nazi conspirator. U.S. government agent T.R. Delvin (Grant) loops her into an operation in Rio wher...
All About Eve is one of the most masterfully written and acted films of all time, chronicling the cat-and-mouse game between a veteran Broadway actress, Margo Channing (Bette Davis), and her biggest fan, Eve (Anne Baxter). When Eve’s presence becomes more malignant than benign, the hostilities and deception come out from the shadows and into the li...
Rich with heavy thematic material, A Place in the Sun is a film that required Head’s acute attention to detail. Factory worker George Eastman (Montgomery Clift) tries to climb the corporate ladder and seize his American dream, but when a half-accidental/half-intentional drowning takes place, his dreams are dashed, and he is sentenced to the electri...
Alfred Hitchcock trusted Edith Head to translate his vision into clothing, as is evidenced by their frequent collaborations. One such collaboration, To Catch a Thief, was unique among his films because of its charming and light tone, lacking in the usual terror and suspense he employed. As a result of this unusually carefree tone, the costumes Head...
Not all makeover sequences are created equal. We have Head to thank for that. When Princess Anne (Audrey Hepburn) gets tired of the dull life of a royal, she runs away for a day of pure fun in the Eternal City with hunky reporter Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck). Rarely has an outfit been more imitated than Princess Anne’s undercover citizen look (kind o...
This film is not the mountaintop of cinematic excellence. But it is perhaps the greatest showcase for Edith Head’s enormous talent and wildly intoxicating imagination, earning it a high spot on this list. What a Way to Go! chronicles the many husbands of Louisa May Foster (Shirley McClaine), all of whom die and leave her richer and richer with each...
Perhaps not the most visually exciting entry on this list, The Sting certainly is one of the most masterful executions of costume. Unlike What a Way to Go!, the costumes aren’t supposed to be a focal point, rather, they work as a flawlessly executed storytelling strategy, symbiotic with the script and direction. In the film, small-time grifter John...
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Dec 14, 2014 · There are some interesting fashion connections in the film, first and foremost the costumes were designed by Edith Head and Milo Anderson. Borrowed from Paramount, Head dressed Stanwyck, while the other costumes were by Anderson, chief designer at Warner Brothers for 24 years between the early ‘30s and the ‘50s.
Aug 5, 2022 · Paramount Pictures. White Christmas is one of the most classic movies to come out of the 1950s (1954 to be precise) due in large part to Bing Crosby's songs and Edith Head's costumes. It came out ...
Oct 28, 2013 · Barbara Stanwyck Double Indemnity, 1944 Photo: John Kobal Foundation. Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper in Ball of Fire, 1941 Photo: George Hurrell. Grace Kelly in Rear Window, 1954 Photo: Archive Photos/2012 Getty Images. Mae West in She Done Him Wrong, 1933 Photo: Archive Photos/2012 Getty Images.
