Edith Head

Her 35 Oscar nominations and 8 awards make her both the most honored costume designer and woman in Academy Award history to date.

Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, USA, in the Cathedral Slope section, plot #1675.

Rarely did her own sketching because of her time schedule. Almost all sketches of "hers" one sees today were actually done by a devoted staff of sketch artists.

During the 1920s, she taught French and art at the Hollywood School for Girls.

On They Might Be Giants 2001 album, "Mink Car", there is a song called "She Thinks Shes Edith Head".

Was a close friend of actress Anne Baxter. She was godmother to one of Baxters children.

A photograph of Miss Head working on a dress design appears on one stamp of a sheet of 10 USA 37 commemorative postage stamps, issued 25 February 2003, celebrating American Filmmaking: Behind the Scenes. The stamp honors costume design.

Received a masters degree in French from Stanford University in 1920.

The Costume Department building on the Paramount lot is named after her.

The character "Edna Mode" in Disney/Pixars The Incredibles was modeled on her.

Extremely diplomatic, she went out of her way to get along with co-workers and rarely gossiped. In later interviews, however, she mentioned that she did not enjoy working with Mary Martin , Claudette Colbert or Hedy Lamarr. In Paulette Goddard s case, she thought it was insensitive for the glamorous star to bring her bulging jewelry boxes to the studio workroom and tell her seamstresses (who were working for minimum wage) that they could "look, but not touch.".

Her trademark "sunglasses" were not "sunglasses" but rather blue lensed glasses. Looking through a blue glass was a common trick of costumers in the days of Black and White film to get a sense of how a color would photograph. Edith had a pair of glasses made out of the proper shade of blue glass to save herself from looking through a single lens. Her friends commonly would see her in regular "clear" glasses.

She is tied with composer Alan Menken for third most Academy Awards won. Each of them have eight.

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 376-378. New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1998.

Alumnae Initiate of Delta Zeta sorority, Mu chapter.

She is credited with putting Dorothy Lamour in her first sarong for "The Jungle Princess".

Her first job was as a teacher of French, Spanish and Art at the Bishop School for Girls at La Jolla, California. She got into films by answering a wanted ad as a sketch artist for Paramount. Edith worked there in that capacity under Howard Greer from 1924 to 1927. In 1928 she was promoted assistant to Travis Banton. From 1938 to 1966, she held the top job as Head of Design at Paramount, contributing in one way or another to over 1,000 motion pictures (supervising costumes for 47 films in 1940 alone).

Raised in the mining town of Searchlight, Nevada. Studied at the University of California, Berkeley. Attended the Otis Art Institute and the Chouinard Art School in Los Angeles.

The project she was most proud of was in the late 1970s when she designed a womans uniform for the United States Coast Guard, in response to growing number of women in the service. She received the Meritorious Public Service Award for her efforts.

On October 28, 2013 - which would have been her 116th birthday - Googles homepage was a tribute to her.

An Edith Head costume exhibition was displayed at the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio in 2014.

Amassed 500 costume credits over her long career.

Was in shock when she didnt win the Oscar for "The Emperor Waltz" ("Joan of Arc" was the winner); sat through the remainder of the ceremonies in a state of stupor.

Her real Academy Awards were shown in 1973 during an episode of Columbo. 7 awards as she has yet to win her last one the following year for The Sting.

If it is a Paramount film, I probably designed it.

[on viewing what many tanned actresses wore to the 1966 Academy Awards],I looked at all those white dresses and I thought we were doing a,reprise of White Christmas (1954) .

If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too much whipped cream and French pastry to keep your figure in shape, you can say no to those yearned-for but unneeded purchases that lead to a wardrobe that is shapeless and without form.

A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.