Edith Head (1897 - 1981)


* October 28, 1897 San Bernardino, California, USA
 as Edith Claire Posener
 October 24, 1981 Los Angeles, California, USA



Books with substantial mentioning of Edith Head

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.) International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 4. Writers and Production Artists
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Amy L. Unterburger (editor) Women Filmmakers & Their Films Amy L. Unterburger (editor)
Women Filmmakers & Their Films
Detroit - New York - London, 1998

Ally Acker Reel Women Ally Acker
Reel Women, Pioneers of the Cinema 1896-Present
New York, 1991

Books with an entry on Edith Head

David Thomson The New Biographical Dictionary of Film David Thomson
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
New York, 2003

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1982, A Survey of 1981 Films
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1982
pp. 490-491 info

Articles on Edith Head

Head and shoulders, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 12, 2010 pp. 7

Films

1928
Ladies of the Mob
The Legion of the Condemned

1931
The Lawyer's Secret

1933
Cradle Song

1934
She Loves Me Not

1936
Three Married Men
Early to Bed
Rhythm on the Range
College Holiday
The Return of Sophie Lang
Till We Meet Again
Murder with Pictures

1937
Thrill of a Lifetime
Ebb Tide
Sophie Lang Goes West
Turn Off the Moon
This Way Please
Wells Fargo
Waikiki Wedding
Souls at Sea
Exclusive

1938
College Swing
Men with Wings
Cocoanut Grove
Dangerous to Know
Tropic Holiday
Artists and Models Abroad
If I Were King
Spawn of the North
The Big Broadcast of 1938
Give Me a Sailor
The Texans
Zaza

1939
Beau Geste
Sudden Money
The Magnificent Fraud
Invitation to Happiness
King of Chinatown
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Paris Honeymoon
The Cat and the Canary
Disbarred
Never Say Die
Man About Town
The Star Maker
The Great Victor Herbert

1940
Safari
Moon Over Burma
Buck Benny Rides Again
The Great McGinty
Rhythm on the River
The Texas Rangers Ride Again
Remember the Night
Road to Singapore
Adventure in Diamonds
Life with Henry
The Ghost Breakers

1941
You Belong to Me
Sullivan's Travels
Aloma of the South Seas
Nothing But the Truth
Kiss the Boys Goodbye
Bahama Passage
Road to Zanzibar
Caught in the Draft
New York Town
Birth of the Blues
West Point Widow

1942
Lucky Jordan
The Fleet's In
The Major and the Minor
The Lady Has Plans
Star-Spangled Rhythm
The Glass Key
My Favorite Blonde
Road to Morocco
I Married a Witch

1943
Riding High
True to Life
Five Graves to Cairo
China
Young and Willing
Hostages

1944
The Great Moment
And the Angels Sing
Lady in the Dark
And Now Tomorrow
Double Indemnity
Standing Room Only
Hail the Conquering Hero
The Uninvited
Going My Way
Ministry of Fear

1945
The Bells of St. Mary's
You Came Along
The Affairs of Susan
Love Letters
Incendiary Blonde
Road to Utopia
Out of This World

1946
The Blue Dahlia
Blue Skies
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
To Each His Own

1947
Dear Ruth
Variety Girl
Where There's Life
The Perfect Marriage
Wild Harvest
My Favorite Brunette
Welcome Stranger
Blaze of Noon
I Walk Alone
Road to Rio
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Ramrod
Desert Fury

1948
Beyond Glory
Sorry, Wrong Number
My Own True Love
A Foreign Affair
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
The Big Clock
June Bride
Saigon

1949
The Accused
The Great Lover
Rope of Sand
The Great Gatsby
My Friend Irma
My Foolish Heart
Red, Hot and Blue
Manhandled
The Heiress
Samson and Delilah
Beyond the Forest

1950
The Furies
The File on Thelma Jordon
My Friend Irma Goes West
Dark City
September Affair
No Man of Her Own
Copper Canyon
Let's Dance
Sunset Boulevard

1951
The Last Outpost
A Place in the Sun
Branded
Dear Brat
Darling, How Could You!
Rhubarb
Peking Express
When Worlds Collide
My Favorite Spy
Silver City
The Lemon Drop Kid
Here Comes the Groom
Detective Story
Ace in the Hole

1952
Road to Bali
Denver and Rio Grande
The Atomic City
Come Back, Little Sheba
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
Off Limits
Something to Live For
Just for You
Carrie
Sailor Beware
Jumping Jacks
The Turning Point
My Son John
Thunder in the East
Son of Paleface
Anything Can Happen
The Savage

1953
Pony Express
Shane
Those Redheads from Seattle
Houdini
Tropic Zone
The War of the Worlds
Scared Stiff
Sangaree
The Girls of Pleasure Island
Little Boy Lost
Arrowhead
The Stars Are Singing
The Caddy
Elephant Walk
Here Come the Girls
Forever Female
The Vanquished

1954
About Mrs. Leslie
Sabrina
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Jivaro
The Country Girl
Knock on Wood
Alaska Seas
Living It Up
The Naked Jungle
3 Ring Circus

1955
Lucy Gallant
The Desperate Hours
The Trouble with Harry
The Court Jester
Run for Cover
The Far Horizons
Strategic Air Command
The Rose Tattoo
Artists and Models
The Girl Rush
The Seven Little Foys

1956
Anything Goes
The Proud and Profane
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Search for Bridey Murphy
The Come On
Hollywood or Bust
The Birds and the Bees
The Mountain
The Leather Saint
The Rainmaker
Three Violent People

1957
The Delicate Delinquent
Beau James
The Tin Star
Funny Face
Hear Me Good
The Joker Is Wild
The Sad Sack
Wild Is the Wind
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Short Cut to Hell
The Devil's Hairpin
The Buster Keaton Story
Loving You

1958
The Geisha Boy
The Matchmaker
The Buccaneer
Houseboat
Hot Spell
The Black Orchid
As Young as We Are
Maracaibo
King Creole
Teacher's Pet
St. Louis Blues

1959
But Not for Me
Last Train from Gun Hill
The Trap
Alias Jesse James
A Hole in the Head
The Jayhawkers!
Don't Give Up the Ship
Career

1960
G.I. Blues
Pepe
Heller in Pink Tights
The Rat Race

1961
The Pleasure of His Company
On the Double
Summer and Smoke
The Errand Boy
Blue Hawaii

1962
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
My Geisha
The Counterfeit Traitor
Hatari!
Who's Got the Action?
Escape from Zahrain

1963
Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?
Hud
A New Kind of Love
Donovan's Reef
The Nutty Professor
Come Blow Your Horn

1964
Sex and the Single Girl
Where Love Has Gone
The Patsy
The Carpetbaggers
Man's Favorite Sport?
A House Is Not a Home

1965
The Slender Thread
Who Has Seen the Wind?
Boeing, Boeing
The Family Jewels
Harlow
The Hallelujah Trail
Love Has Many Faces

1966
The Oscar
El Dorado
The Last of the Secret Agents?
This Property Is Condemned
Not with My Wife, You Don't!

1967
Barefoot in the Park
Warning Shot

1968
The Secret War of Harry Frigg
The Pink Jungle
Hellfighters
In Enemy Country

1969
Winning
The Lost Man
Sweet Charity
Topaz
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

1970
Airport
Sometimes a Great Notion
Colossus: The Forbin Project

1972
The Screaming Woman
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

1973
The Don Is Dead

1974
Airport 1975

1976
Family Plot
The Disappearance of Aimee

1977
Airport '77

1978
Sextette
The Big Fix

1982
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

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