Early life and careereditShe was born Edith Claire Posener in San Bernardino, California, the daughter of Jewish parents, Max Posener and Anna E. Levy. Her father, born in January 1. American citizen from Germany, who came to the United States in 1. Her mother was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1. New Pokmon movie I Choose You is a remake of the first TV season but where are Brock and Misty Fans who havent watched the show in years are OUTRAGED. Sources. David Chierichetti 2003. Edith Head The Life and Times of Hollywoods Celebrated Costume Designer. New York HarperCollins. ISBN 0060194286. Download The New The Incredibles Movie ReviewAustrian father and a Bavarian mother. It is not known where Max and Anna met, but they married in 1. United States Federal Census records. Just before Ediths birth, Max Posener opened a small haberdashery in San Bernardino which failed within a year. In 1. 90. 5 Anna married mining engineer Frank Spare, from Pennsylvania. The family moved frequently as Spares jobs moved. The only place Head could later recall living in during her early years was Searchlight, Nevada. Frank and Anna Spare passed Edith off as their mutual child. As Frank Spare was a Catholic, Edith ostensibly became one as well. In 1. Edith received a bachelor of arts degree in letters and sciences with honors in French from the University of California, Berkeley, and in 1. Watch Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem Online. Stanford University. She became a language teacher with her first position as a replacement at Bishops School in La Jolla teaching French. After one year, she took a position teaching French at the Hollywood School for Girls. Wanting a slightly higher salary, she told the school that she could also teach art, even though she had only briefly studied the discipline in high school. To improve her drawing skills, at this point rudimentary, she took evening classes at the Chouinard Art College. On July 2. 5, 1. 92. Charles Head, the brother of one of her Chouinard classmates, Betty Head. Although the marriage ended in divorce in 1. Edith Head until her death. The Paramount yearseditIn 1. Head was hired as a costume sketch artist at Paramount Pictures. Later she admitted to borrowing other students sketches for her job interview. She began designing costumes for silent films, commencing with The Wanderer in 1. Hollywoods leading costume designers. She worked at Paramount for 4. Universal Pictures on March 2. Alfred Hitchcock, who had moved to Universal in 1. Heads marriage to set designer Wiard Ihnen, on September 8, 1. Over the course of her long career, she was nominated for 3. Academy Awards, annually from 1. Oscars than any other woman. Although Head was featured in studio publicity from the mid 1. Paramounts lead designers, first Howard Greer, then Travis Banton. Head was instrumental in conspiring against Banton, and after his resignation in 1. Her association with the sarong dress designed for Dorothy Lamour in The Hurricane 1. Head was a more restrained designer than either Banton or Adrian. She gained public attention for the top mink lined gown she created for Ginger Rogers in Lady in the Dark 1. The establishment, in 1. Academy Award for Costume Designer further boosted her career, because it began her record breaking run of Award nominations and wins, beginning with her nomination for The Emperor Waltz. Head and other film designers like Adrian became well known to the public. Head was known for her low key working style and, unlike many of her male contemporaries, usually consulted extensively with the female stars with whom she worked. As a result, she was a favorite among many of the leading female stars of the 1. Ginger Rogers, Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck, Shirley Mac. Laine, Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, and Elizabeth Taylor. In fact, Head was frequently loaned out by Paramount to other studios at the request of their female stars. She herself always dressed very plainly, preferring thick framed glasses and conservative two piece suits. On February 3, 1. Season 5 Episode 2. Edith Head appeared as a contestant on the Groucho Marx quiz show You Bet Your Life. She and her partner won a total of 1. Her winnings were donated to charity. Head also authored two books, The Dress Doctor 1. How To Dress For Success 1. These books have been re edited in 2. The Universal yearseditIn 1. Paramount Pictures and joined Universal Pictures, where she remained until her death in 1. By this point, Hollywood was rapidly changing from what it had been during Heads heyday in the 1. Studio based production was giving way to outdoors and on scene shooting, and many of the actresses from that era whom she worked with and knew intimately had retired or were working less. She thus turned more of her attention to TV, where some old friends such as Olivia De Havilland had begun working, and made a cameo appearance in 1. Columbo beside Anne Baxter, playing herself and displaying her Oscars to date. In 1. Head received a final Oscar win for her work on The Sting. During the late 1. Edith Head was asked to design a womans uniform for the United States Coast Guard, because of the increasing number of women in the Coast Guard. Head called the assignment a highlight in her career and received the Meritorious Public Service Award for her efforts. Her designs for a TV mini series based on the novel Little Women were well received. Her last film project was the black and white comedy Dead Men Dont Wear Plaid 1. Steve Martin and Carl Reiner, a job Head was chosen for because of her expertise on 1. She modeled Martin and Reiners outfits on classic film noir and the movie, released in theaters just after her death, was dedicated to her memory. She also did Endoras clothing on Bewitched. Head died on October 2. She is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Hollywood Walk of FameeditEdith Heads star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is located at 6. Hollywood Boulevard. Actors and actresses designed foreditAmong the actresses Edith Head designed for were Mae West in She Done Him Wrong, 1. Myra Breckinridge, 1. Sextette, 1. 97. 8Frances Farmer in Rhythm on the Range, 1. Ebb Tide, 1. 93. 7Dorothy Lamour in The Hurricane, 1. The Road movies. Paulette Goddard in The Cat and the Canary, 1. Veronica Lake in Sullivans Travels, 1. I Married a Witch, 1. Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Eve and Ball of Fire, both 1. Double Indemnity, 1. My Reputation, 1. Ginger Rogers in Lady in the Dark, 1. Ruth Hussey, Gail Russell in The Uninvited, 1. Ingrid Bergman in Notorious, 1. Betty Hutton in Incendiary Blonde, 1. The Perils of Pauline, 1. Loretta Young in The Farmers Daughter, 1. Bette Davis in June Bride 1. All About Eve, 1. Olivia de Havilland in The Heiress, 1. Hedy Lamarr and Angela Lansbury in Samson and Delilah, 1. Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard, 1. Elizabeth Taylor in A Place in the Sun, 1. Elephant Walk, 1. Joan Fontaine in Something to Live For, 1. Carmen Miranda in Scared Stiff 1. Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday, 1. Sabrina, 1. 95. 4 Funny Face, 1. Breakfast at Tiffanys, 1. Ann Robinson in The War of the Worlds, 1. Grace Kelly in Rear Window, 1. To Catch a Thief, 1. Rosemary Clooney in White Christmas, 1. Jane Wyman in Lucy Gallant, 1. Shirley Mac. Laine in Artists and Models, 1. The Matchmaker, 1. What a Way to Go, 1. Doris Day in The Man Who Knew Too Much, 1. Anne Baxter in The Ten Commandments, 1. Marlene Dietrich in Witness for the Prosecution, 1. Rita Hayworth in Separate Tables, 1. Watch Movies Online Free in HD at Watch.