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Edith Head

The Fifty-Year Career of Hollywood's Greatest Costume Designer

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By Jay Jorgensen

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All About Eve. Funny Face. Sunset Blvd. Rear Window. Sabrina. A Place in the Sun. The Ten Commandments. Scores of iconic films of the last century had one thing in common: costume designer Edith Head (1897 — 1981). She racked up an unprecedented 35 Oscar nods and 400 film credits over the course of a fifty-year career.

Never before has the account of Hollywood’s most influential designer been so thoroughly revealed — because never before have the Edith Head Archives of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences been tapped. This unprecedented access allows this book to be a one-of-a-kind survey, bringing together a spectacular collection of rare and never-before-seen sketches, costume test shots, behind-the- scenes photos, and ephemera.

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On Sale
Oct 5, 2010
Page Count
400 pages
Publisher
Running Press
ISBN-13
9780762441730

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Jay Jorgensen

About the Author

As a longtime editor for Petersen’s Photographic magazine, Jay Jorgensen has written profiles of such celebrities as Janice Dickinson, Graham Nash, and James Galanos. Jorgensen’s photography has appeared in People magazine, TV Guide, independent film festival favorite Bette Fredericks: A Life Lived, and the book Julius Shulman: Palm Springs. He is the coauthor of Creating the Illusion: A Fashionable History of Hollywood Costume Designers (with Donald L. Scoggins) and Grace Kelly: Hollywood Dream Girl (with Manoah Bowman).

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