Edith HeadFilmography

Born:: October 28, 1897 in Los Angeles, CA
Occupation:: Costume Designer
Biography:: Along with composer Max Steiner and cinematographer James Wong Howe, American costume designer Edith Head was one of the few behind-the-scenes movie technicians that the general public knew by name. Holding a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and an MA from Stanford, Ms. Head spent...Read More

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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Reni Santoni, Carl Reiner, George Gaynes

Synopsis: In this post-modernist exercise, star/writer Steve Martin and director Carl Reiner spoof the film noir yarns of the '40s with Martin playing gumshoe Rigby Reardon, who interacts with a legion of Hollywood greats -- including Humphrey Bogart, Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Edward Arnold, Barbara Stanwyck Read More

1982
The Last Married Couple in America

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: George Segal, Natalie Wood, Richard Benjamin, Dom DeLuise, Arlene Golonka, Valerie Harper, Allan Arbus

Synopsis: Natalie Wood and George Segal star in this labored and old-fashioned sex farce, directed by Gilbert Cates. Wood and Segal play Mari and Jeff Thompson, a happily married couple who are thunderstruck when they see all their friends and acquaintances are headed for divorce court. Eventually their own Read More

1980
Little Women

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Meredith Baxter-Birney, Susan Dey, Eve Plumb, William Shatner, Anne Dusenberry

Synopsis: The third filming of Louisa May Alcott's novel is this made-for-TV effort, which follows the hardships faced by the March family during the Civil War. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1978
The Big Fix

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Anspach, Bonnie Bedelia, John Lithgow, Ofelia Medina

Synopsis: Richard Dreyfuss plays Moses Wine, an ex-Sixties radical who pays the bills as a private eye. Wine is hired to stem a smear campaign against a popular political candidate. Gradually the plot thickens into a murder case, involving a hippie leader whose values, like Wine's, have been severely Read More

1978
Sextette

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Mae West, Timothy Dalton, Dom DeLuise, Tony Curtis, Ringo Starr

Synopsis: Mae West (1892-1980) was perhaps the original comic sex goddess of American cinema. Originally a vaudeville performer, she became a national sensation following her 1926 Broadway show Sex, which she wrote, produced, directed and starred in. She continued to outrage the sensibilities of her time on Read More

1978
Olly Olly Oxen Free

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Kevin McKenzie, Dennis Dimster, Peter Kilman

Synopsis: Katharine Hepburnplays a spunky old junk dealer who makes the acquaintance of two adventurous young boys. Through Katharine's intervention, the boys are able to take a long and exciting ride in a hot air balloon over California's Napa Valley. The kids are played by Kevin McKenzie and Dennis Dimster Read More

1978
Airport '77

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Brenda Vaccaro, Joseph Cotten, Olivia de Havilland

Synopsis: Stretching the Airport concept as far as it will go, this third film in the series sticks a jet full of old actors 50 feet underwater in the Bermuda Triangle. Oxygen (and credibility) grows short, and Jimmy Stewart plays an art collector targeted for a heist. Jack Lemmon is the unfortunate pilot Read More

1977
Sunshine Christmas

Crew: Costume Designer

Synopsis: In this drama, a widower takes his adopted daughter for an old-fashioned Texas-style Christmas at his parent's house. While back home, the father meets his childhood love and romance ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1977
Sex and the Married Woman

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Jayne Meadows

Synopsis: Sex and the Married Woman stars Joanna Pettet as a housewife and Barry Newman as her liberal-minded husband. Encouraging his wife to find her "inner self," Newman has no notion that Pettet will translate this invitation into writing a book based on the sex habits of her friends and neighbors. The Read More

1977
The Disappearance of Aimee

Crew: Costumes Supervisor

Synopsis: In 1926, flamboyant evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared for six weeks. At first feared drowned (she'd been vacationing on a California beach at the time she vanished), Aimee finally showed up, wandering barefoot in the Mexican desert. For the benefit of the press, Aimee related a Read More

1976
Gable and Lombard

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: James Brolin, Jill Clayburgh, Allen Garfield, Red Buttons, Melanie Mayron

Synopsis: The love affair between two of Hollywood's greatest stars of the 1930s and '40s is recounted in this biopic. Clark Gable (James Brolin), the tough but quick-witted leading man often called "the King of Hollywood," meets tart-tongued comic actress Carole Lombard (Jill Clayburgh) at a party, and Read More

1976
W.C. Fields and Me

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Rod Steiger, Valerie Perrine, John Marley, Jack Cassidy, Bernadette Peters

Synopsis: W.C. Fields and Me is the film version of the Fields biography written by the comedian's former mistress Carlotta Monti. W. C. Fields was a great comedian in vaudeville and early talking films, who was noted for his ability to say the most hilariously cutting and mean things in a cheery, bright Read More

1976
Family Plot

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock's final film was adapted from Victor Canning's novel The Rainbird Pattern by Ernest Lehman, who previously wrote the screenplay for Hitchcock's North by Northwest. Barbara Harris plays Blanche, a phony psychic, hired by wealthy Julia Rainbird (Cathleen Nesbitt) to trace the Read More

1976
Amelia Earhart

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Susan Clark, John Forsythe, Stephen Macht

Synopsis: Susan Clark, the queen of the made-for-TV biopic (in 1976, at least), stars as legendary aviator Amelia Earhart. The story begins in 1921, with Amelia's first biplane flight. In 1928, she becomes the first woman ever to fly the Atlantic, albeit not at the controls. She gains international fame Read More

1976
The Man Who Would Be King

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey, Shakira Caine

Synopsis: The Man Who Would Be King opens with author Rudyard Kipling (Christopher Plummer) working in his study. His solitude is broken by the arrival of a tattered, half-mad derelict, who is soon revealed to be his old acquaintance Peachy Carnahan (Michael Caine). As Kipling listens in rapt fascination Read More

1975
Rooster Cogburn

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Jordan, John McIntire

Synopsis: John Wayne returned to the role that won him an Oscar in this sequel to the western classic True Grit. Rooster Cogburn (Wayne) has once again been stripped of his badge after some questionable behavior with his gun, but he's given the chance to earn it back after an especially appalling crime Read More

1975
The Great Waldo Pepper

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Robert Redford, Bo Svenson, Bo Brundin, Susan Sarandon, Geoffrey Lewis

Synopsis: Robert Redford plays Waldo Pepper, a former World War I pilot who exaggerates his accomplishments in order to impress the rabble. After a brief rivalry with air-show entrepreneur Axel Olsson (Bo Svenson), Pepper teams with Axel to barnstorm all over the Midwest; later, after a series of unexpected Read More

1975
Airport 1975

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Susan Clark

Synopsis: In the wake of the 45-million-dollar gross of the original Airport (1970), Universal was all but required by an act of Congress to produce Airport '75. Charlton Heston heads the all-star cast as Alan Murdock, the former test pilot who must keep a disabled 747 from crashing in flames. The crisis Read More

1974
Ash Wednesday

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Henry Fonda, Helmut Berger, Keith Baxter, Maurice Teynac

Synopsis: A woman undergoes a surgeon's scalpel in a last-ditch attempt to win back her husband in this drama. Barbara Sawyer (Elizabeth Taylor) has been married to her husband, Mark (Henry Fonda), for 30 years, and she's afraid the spark has gone out of their relationship. Barbara is convinced the problem Read More

1973
A Doll's House

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Jane Fonda, David Warner, Trevor Howard, Delphine Seyrig, Edward Fox

Synopsis: This Joseph Losey-directed 1973 version of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House marks one of two cinematizations of the story released during the same year. Here, Jane Fonda plays Nora Helmer, the mousy Norwegian wife who eventually turns on her insensitive husband Torvald (David Warner). At the time of Read More

1973
Showdown

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Dan Boydston, Dean Martin, Rock Hudson, Susan Clark

Synopsis: In this Western comedy, Billy (Dean Martin) and Chuck (Rock Hudson) were the best of friends until Chuck married the girl they were both courting. Now they have drifted apart. Chuck has since become a sheriff and must hunt down Billy, now a robber. As the chase proceeds, each of them reminisces Read More

1973
The Sting

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston

Synopsis: Four years after setting box offices ablaze in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and director George Roy Hill re-teamed with similar success for The Sting. Redford plays Depression-era confidence trickster Johnny Hooker, whose friend and mentor Luther Coleman (Robert Earl Jones Read More

1973
A Doll's House

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliott, Anna Massey

Synopsis: Henrik Ibsen's oft-filmed play A Doll's House was adapted for the screen in this Anglo-Canadian production. Claire Bloom stars as Nora, the child-like "trophy bride" who matures rather rapidly when her husband is threatened with blackmail. Even after extricating her block-headed hubby from his Read More

1973
The Don Is Dead

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Frederic Forrest, Robert Forster, Al Lettieri, Angel Tompkins

Synopsis: In this organized crime drama (one of many that came in the wake of The Godfather, Tony (Frederic Forrest) and Vince (Al Lettieri) are two brothers whose father is a high-ranking Mafia kingpin; they've followed him into the family business, operating a profitable drug ring. While waiting for a Read More

1973
Hammersmith Is Out

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Carl Donn, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Beau Bridges, Leon Ames

Synopsis: Loosely based on the Faust legend, Hammersmith is Out stars Richard Burton as the title character, a mental patient confined to the sanitarium owned by a loony doctor (Peter Ustinov, who also directed). Befriending a lackadaisical orderly named Billy Breedlove (Beau Bridges), the satanic Read More

1972
Pete 'n' Tillie

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, Geraldine Page, Barry Nelson, René Auberjonois

Synopsis: Based on Peter DeVries' novel Witch's Milk, Pete 'n' Tillie stars Walter Matthau and Carol Burnett in the title roles. Middle-aged when they first meet, eternally joking Pete and repressed "old maid" Tillie don't immediately hit it off. Gradually, their friendship deepens into love and culminates Read More

1972
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Alfred G. Bosnos, Fred Brookfield, Karen Carr, Dolores Clark, Margo Epper, Barbara J. Longo, Lee Meza, Paul Newman, Victoria Principal, Anthony Perkins, Ned Beatty, Jacqueline Bisset, Tab Hunter, John Huston

Synopsis: Paul Newman plays the title role in John Huston's surreal, revisionist western as the infamous Texas hanging judge. Upon arriving in the tiny West Texas town of Vinegaroon, Roy Bean draws a moustache on a wanted poster of himself, marches into a saloon, and declares his presence. He is immediately Read More

1972
The Screaming Woman

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Olivia de Havilland

Synopsis: Olivia De Havilland plays a middle-aged woman who has recently been released from a mental institution after suffering a breakdown. She insists one evening that she can hear the muffled scream of a woman emanating from beneath the ground. Since no one else can hear these screams, De Havilland is Read More

1972
Red Sky at Morning

Crew: Costume Designer

Synopsis: In this drama, based on a novel by Richard Bradford, an adolescent boy and his mother are sent to live in New Mexico after his father goes off to fight WW II. The move is hard on both mother and son. The boy, one of the few whites in the area, must deal with making friends, the strange new land Read More

1971
Sometimes a Great Notion

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Lee Remick, Michael Sarrazin, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: Also known as Never Give an Inch, this film was based on a novel by Ken Kesey. Paul Newman (who also directed) stars as Hank Stamper, the oldest son of an Oregon logging family headed by Henry (Henry Fonda). Hank's half-brother, Leeland (Michael Sarrazin), embittered over Henry's treatment of his Read More

1971
Airport

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, George Kennedy

Synopsis: Airport had enough plot and enough star power in its cast for three feature films, and it only encompassed about half of the complexity or characters found in Arthur Hailey's best-selling potboiler. Essentially built around 12 harrowing hours at a major Midwestern airport, the film had everything Read More

1970
Storia di una Donna

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Robert Stack, James Farentino, Annie Girardot, Didi Perego

Synopsis: This routine melodrama finds an Italian woman torn between her old lover and her husband. Karin (Bibi Andersson) is the resident of Rome who literally bumps into Bruno (James Farentino) after her piano lesson. The married man is immediately taken by her beauty and the two begin a passionate love Read More

1970
Colossus: The Forbin Project

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, William Schallert, Leonid Rostoff

Synopsis: The granddaddy of all "computer run amok" films, Colossus: The Forbin Project concerns a huge electronic brain designed to control the American missile defense system. Colossus' technicians do not count on the computer developing an intelligence of its own. Communicating with its Russian Read More

1970
Skullduggery

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Susan Clark, Roger C. Carmel, Paul Hubschmid, Chips Rafferty

Synopsis: A team of anthropologists travel to New Guinea in search of the missing link in this routine adventure tale. The expedition is financed by Vancruysen (Paul Hubschmid) and lead by Dr. Sybil Greame (Susan Clark). Also on hand are Douglas Temple (Burt Reynolds) and the boozy Otto Kreps (Roger C. Read More

1970
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Henry Jones

Synopsis: Opening with a silent "movie" of Butch Cassidy's Hole in the Wall Gang, George Roy Hill's comically elegiac Western chronicles the mostly true tale of the outlaws' last months. Witty pals Butch (Paul Newman) and Sundance (Robert Redford) join the Gang in successfully robbing yet another train with Read More

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Winning

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Robert Wagner, Richard Thomas, David Sheiner

Synopsis: Successful racecar driver Capua (Paul Newman) falls in love with Elora (Joanne Woodward). The two marry and settle down with Elora's 13-year-old son Charley (Richard Thomas). The honeymoon is short-lived as Capua must spend his time away from home on the racing circuit. Soon the racer's luck Read More

1969
Eye of the Cat

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Michael Sarrazin, Gayle Hunnicutt, Eleanor Parker, Tim Henry, Laurence Naismith

Synopsis: This offbeat potboiler from Psycho scripter Joseph Stefano involves a plot hatched by mod couple Wylie (Michael Sarrazin) and Kassia (Gayle Hunnicutt) to murder Wylie's wealthy, cat-loving aunt Danny (Eleanor Parker). There's only one hitch in their scheme, but it's a doozy: Wylie suffers from a Read More

1969
The Lost Man

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Joanna Shimkus, Sidney Poitier

Synopsis: Jason Higgs (Sidney Poitier) is an angry black man who plans to rob a factory payroll. With the help of his accomplices Dennis (Al Freeman Jr.) and his white girlfriend Cathy (Joanna Shimkus), a racially motivated demonstration diverts attention from the crooks while they rob the safe. Jason is Read More

1969
Topaz

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, John Vernon, Karin Dor, Michel Piccoli

Synopsis: Filmed on locations ranging from Denmark to the Universal backlot, Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz is based on a novel by Leon Uris. Frederick Stafford, a veteran of European-filmed James Bond rip-offs of the 1960s, is cast as Andre Devereaux, a French secret agent assigned to snoop around Cuba in the Read More

1969
Sweet Charity

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, John McMartin, Ricardo Montalban, Sammy Davis, Jr., Chita Rivera

Synopsis: Shirley MacLaine plays Charity Hope Valentine who, despite her job at a seedy dime-a-dance joint, is an incurable optimist. Charity never stops looking for true love and never seems to look for it in the right places. We first see her in the company of Charlie (Dante DiPaolo), a slimeball who Read More

1969
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Robert Blake, Susan Clark, Barry Sullivan

Synopsis: After being blacklisted from Hollywood for 21 years, writer/director Abraham Polonsky made a healthy comeback with Tell Them Willie Boy is Here. The title character, played by Robert Blake, is a Paiute Indian living in 1909 California. After several years in the White Man's world, Willie Boy Read More

1969
In Enemy Country

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Anthony Franciosa, Anjanette Comer, Guy Stockwell, Paul Hubschmid, Tom Bell

Synopsis: Occasionally listed as In Enemy Hands (evidently a working title), In Enemy Country is a war film with "A" ambitions and a TV-movie budget. Wartime secret agents Col. Charles Waslow-Carton (Tony Franciosa) and Lt. Col. Philip Braden (Guy Stockwell) infiltrate enemy lines, posing as POWs. Their Read More

1968
Hellfighters

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton, Vera Miles, Jay C. Flippen

Synopsis: Chance Buckman (John Wayne) heads a team of international trouble shooters who travel around the world to put out oil fires. The dangerous profession has taken a toll on the marriage between Chance and Madelyn (Vera Miles), who leaves when she can no longer endure the stress of saying goodbye and Read More

1968
What's So Bad About Feeling Good?

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: George Peppard, Mary Tyler Moore, Dom DeLuise, John McMartin, Nathaniel Frey

Synopsis: In this comedy, New York City undergoes a dramatic change when a toucan carrying a strange virus is smuggled through customs. In those it infects, the virus causes an intense euphoria and a desire to do good. The first man to receive the infected bird is a misanthropic, cynical artist who lives in Read More

1968
The Pink Jungle

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: James Garner, Eva Renzi, George Kennedy, Nigel Green, Michael Ansara

Synopsis: This combination romantic comedy and political satire finds fashion photographer Ben Morris (James Garner) traveling to Latin American for an assignment with the beautiful model Alison (Eva Renzi). Their arrival in a small village draws suspicions from Colonel Ceyala (Fabrizio Mioni). The Colonel Read More

1968
House of Cards

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: George Peppard, Inger Stevens, Orson Welles, Keith Michell, William Job

Synopsis: Reno Davis (George Peppard) is an American writer who has retired from the gentle art of boxing. Now wandering through France, he takes a job as a tutor for the son of a wealthy widow. Anne de Villemont (Inger Stevens) employs Reno to help in the education of her son Paul (Barnaby Shaw). Reno is Read More

1968
The Secret War of Harry Frigg

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Paul Newman, Sylva Koscina, Tom Bosley, Andrew Duggan, John Williams

Synopsis: This World War II comedy finds Harry Frigg (Paul Newman) as the unwilling volunteer slated to rescue five generals from the clutches of the Germans and Italians. Frigg would rather spend his time goofing off than fighting the war, but his superiors make him a fake general and pack him off to Read More

1968
El Dorado

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Charlene Holt, Michele Carey, Paul Fix

Synopsis: Having struck pay dirt with his 1958 western Rio Bravo, Howard Hawks more or less remade the picture twice in the 1960s. The first of these rehashes was El Dorado, with Rio Bravo star John Wayne back for more. Wayne plays a gunfighter who rides into El Dorado to link up with his old pal, sheriff Robert Mitchum Read More

1967
Who's Minding the Mint?

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Jim Hutton, Dorothy Provine, Milton Berle, Joey Bishop, Walter Brennan

Synopsis: Harry Lucas (Jim Hutton) is a U.S. Mint employee who scrambles to recover $50,000 he accidentally destroyed in this underrated comedy of errors. After he mistakenly throws the money down the garbage disposal, a frantic Harry recruits retired mint employee Pop Gillis (Walter Brennan) to cook up a Read More

1967
Warning Shot

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: David Janssen, Ed Begley, Sr., Keenan Wynn, Sam Wanamaker, Lillian Gish

Synopsis: LAPD detective Sgt. Tom Valens (David Janssen) is a ten-year veteran of the force who has had more than his share of hard luck lately -- his marriage is a wreck, and he hasn't fully recovered from a serious wound suffered in the line of duty a year ago. He and his partner, Sgt. Ed Musso (Keenan Wynn Read More

1967
Hotel

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Rod Taylor, Catherine Spaak, Karl Malden, Melvyn Douglas, Merle Oberon

Synopsis: The posh St. Gregory Hotel in New Orleans is the setting for this drama based on a popular novel by Arthur Hailey. Trent (Melvyn Douglas) is the long-time owner who realizes that the hotel is in dire financial straits. Trent calls on faithful manager Peter McDermott (Rod Taylor) to try and bring Read More

1967
Chuka

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Rod Taylor, Ernest Borgnine, John Mills, Luciana Paluzzi, James Whitmore

Synopsis: The title character (Rod Taylor) is a drifting gunslinger, who enters a Southwestern fort and immediately becomes embroiled with its commander (John Mills). In the end, the wanderer helps the fort guard against attacks from Indians. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1967
The Caper of the Golden Bulls

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Stephen Boyd, Yvette Mimieux, Giovanna Ralli, Walter Slezak, Vito Scotti

Synopsis: Career bank robber Peter Churchman Stephen Boyd plans to retire from his life of crime and live the good life in this uninspired crime thriller. He is blackmailed by Angela Tresler Giovanna Ralli into pulling off one last heist of some precious jewels located in the bank in Pamplona, Spain. Peter Read More

1967
Barefoot in the Park

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Charles Boyer, Mildred Natwick, Herb Edelman

Synopsis: Based on the hit Broadway play by Neil Simon, who made his screenwriting debut with this adaptation, Barefoot In The Park follows the lives of newlyweds Paul (Robert Redford) and Corie Bratter (Jane Fonda) as they adjust to married life in a tiny Greenwich Village apartment. Paul is a Read More

1967
Easy Come, Easy Go

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Elvis Presley, Dodie Marshall, Pat Priest, Pat Harrington, Jr., Elsa Lanchester, Frank McHugh, Skip Ward

Synopsis: Elvis Presley hits the high seas in this musical comedy. Ted Jackson (Presley) is a former Navy frogman who divides his time between twin careers as a deep sea diver and nightclub singer. Ted discovers what he believes could be a fortune in Spanish gold aboard a sunken ship and sets out to rescue Read More

1967
Torn Curtain

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Hansjörg Felmy, Tamara Toumanova

Synopsis: A double agent has to contend with enemies on both sides of the political fence as well as the woman he loves in this thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Prof. Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman) is an gifted American physicist who, at the height of the Cold War, decides to defect to East Germany. Read More

1966
Paradise, Hawaiian Style

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Elvis Presley, Suzanna Leigh, James Shigeta, Donna Butterworth, Marianna Hill

Synopsis: Rick Richards (Elvis Presley) is a helicopter pilot who is grounded when his chopper runs federal aviation official Donald Beldon (John Doucette) off the road in Paradise, Hawaiian Style. Already suspended as a airline pilot, he and partner Danny Kohana (James Shigeta) struggle to keep their Read More

1966
The Oscar

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer, Milton Berle, Eleanor Parker, Joseph Cotten

Synopsis: A heartless actor scrambles to the top of show business' sleazy summit in this drama. Frank Fane (Stephen Boyd) is a Hollywood leading man who is desperate to boost his career by winning an Academy Award, and he doesn't care who he has to betray to achieve his goals -- including his former best Read More

1966
This Property Is Condemned

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Charles Bronson, Kate Reid, Mary Badham

Synopsis: Sydney Pollack's tawdry potboiler, adapted from a one-act play by Tennessee Williams, was rife with production problems, culminating in Williams' failed attempt to have his name removed from the credits. The story is set by a framing device as thirteen-year-old Willie Starr (Mary Badham) sits on Read More

1966
The Last of the Secret Agents?

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Marty Allen, Steve Rossi, John Williams, Nancy Sinatra, Lou Jacobi

Synopsis: Two tourists, portrayed by the comic duo Marty Allen and Steve Rossi, are talked into working for the good guys to keep art thieves from stealing the Venus di Milo at the London World Fair. Minor entry in the comic spy category. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1966
The Swinger

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Ann-Margret, Anthony Franciosa, Robert Coote, Yvonne Romain, Horace McMahon

Synopsis: The most interesting aspect of The Swinger is the name of the character played by Ann-Margret: the former Ann Margaret Olsson essays the role of Kelly Olsson. A naive small-town girl, Kelly aspires to become a writer in the Big City. When her stories are rejected because they aren't exciting and Read More

1966
Assault on a Queen

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Virna Lisi, Anthony Franciosa, Richard Conte, Alf Kjellin

Synopsis: Assault on a Queen is a complex, exciting crime-caper film in which a gang of clever mercenaries try to rob the famous luxury liner, the Queen Mary. Mark Brittain (Frank Sinatra) is hired by wealthy Italian adventuress Rosa Lucchesi (Verna Lisi) and her German partner-in-crime, Eric Laufftiauer (Alf Kjellin Read More

1966
Waco

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Howard Keel, Jane Russell, Brian Donlevy, Wendell Corey, Terry Moore

Synopsis: In this western, a gunfighter is hired to clean up the chaotic streets of Emporia, Wyoming. The gunfighter arrives and finds that his ex-lover is there and is married to the town preacher. Though the two are still attracted, they resist temptation. When he sees how violent the town really is, the Read More

1966
Penelope

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Natalie Wood, Ian Bannen, Dick Shawn, Peter Falk, Jonathan Winters

Synopsis: Can armed robbery help save a marriage? These and other questions about modern relationships are pondered in this comedy. Penelope Elcott (Natalie Wood) married James (Ian Bannen) after a very brief courtship, and as his star has begun to rise in the banking business, he spends less and less time Read More

1966
Not with My Wife, You Don't!

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Tony Curtis, Virna Lisi, George C. Scott, Carroll O'Connor, Richard Eastham

Synopsis: In the words of Hamlet, there's a plentiful lack of wit in Not with My Wife, You Don't! Korean war vet Tony Curtis is living in London, blissfully married (so he thinks) to Virna Lisi. In strolls old air force buddy George C. Scott, who has a history of stealing Curtis' ladies away from him. Read More

1966
Sylvia

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Carroll Baker, George Maharis, Joanne Dru, Peter Lawford, Viveca Lindfors

Synopsis: Carroll Baker, the Sharon Stone of the sixties, plays another classy-looking blonde with a sordid background in Sylvia. Millionaire Peter Lawford is about to marry the glamorous but secretive Sylvia (Baker). Before taking the plunge, he hires private eye George Maharis to do a background check on Read More

1965
Inside Daisy Clover

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford, Roddy McDowall, Ruth Gordon

Synopsis: Daisy Clover (Natalie Wood) goes from teenage girl to movie star practically overnight when her demented mother enters her voice in a talent-search contest. From a broken-down carnival on the Santa Monica Pier, in no time at all she is attending glamorous Hollywood parties. But Daisy soon learns Read More

1965
Love Has Many Faces

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Lana Turner, Cliff Robertson, Hugh O'Brian, Ruth Roman, Stefanie Powers

Synopsis: Repeated infidelities and an unexplained death set the stage for this glossy soap opera. Kit Jordan (Lana Turner) is a wealthy woman slipping into middle age who likes attractive men and isn't averse to the notion of paying for their company. Her husband Pete (Cliff Robertson) is a one-time gigolo Read More

1965
The Sons of Katie Elder

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Martha Hyer, Michael Anderson, Jr., Earl Holliman

Synopsis: Henry Hathaway directs the 1965 psychological Western The Sons of Katie Elder. Four sons reunite in their Texas hometown to attend their mother's funeral. John (John Wayne) is the gunfighter, Tom (Dean Martin) is the gambler, Matt (Earl Holliman) is the quiet one, and Bud (Michael Anderson Jr.) is Read More

1965
Boeing Boeing

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis, Dany Saval, Christiane Schmidtmer, Suzanna Leigh

Synopsis: Marc Camoletti's popular stage farce Boeing Boeing is watered down and realigned into a Tony Curtis/Jerry Lewis vehicle. Curtis plays an American journalist living in Paris; Lewis is his goonish (but surprisingly restrained) buddy. Partial to stewardesses, Curtis manages to juggle the affections Read More

1965
Red Line 7000

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: James Caan, Laura Devon, Gail Hire, Charlene Holt, John Robert Crawford

Synopsis: Legendary director Howard Hawks revs up and hits the track in this drama about race car drivers and the women who love them. Pat Kazarian (Norman Alden) is a racing driver who also oversees a team of racers, among them Jim Loomis (Anthony Rogers) and Mike Marsh (James Caan). Jim is engaged to Read More

1965
The Slender Thread

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Sidney Poitier, Anne Bancroft, Telly Savalas, Steven Hill, Ed Asner

Synopsis: Sidney Pollack marked his feature film directing debut with this taut suspense drama, based upon an actual incident reported in Time Magazine. Sidney Poitier stars as Alan Nuell, a student volunteer at a medical clinic in Seattle who answers the phone to find Inge Dyson (Anne Bancroft) on the Read More

1965
The Hallelujah Trail

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton, Pamela Tiffin, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: In The Hallelujah Trail, Lee Remick plays temperance leader Cora Templeton Massingale, who is determined to halt a shipment of whiskey headed for Denver. The shipment is being escorted by the US cavalry, under the guidance of Col. Thadeus Gearhardt (Burt Lancaster). As the Denver miners thirstily Read More

1965
The Great Race

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: Tony Curtis stars as The Great Leslie, a hero among heroes whose purity of heart is manifested by his spotlessly white wardrobe. Leslie's great rival, played by Jack Lemmon, is Professor Fate, a scowling, mustachioed, top-hatted, black-garbed villain. Long envious of Leslie's record-setting Read More

1965
The Family Jewels

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Sebastian Cabot, Donna Butterworth, Gene Baylos, Neil Hamilton, Jay Adler, Milton Frome

Synopsis: As if one Jerry Lewis wasn't enough, The Family Jewels offers no fewer than seven Jerrys. Fans of Lewis will like the film. Others should be advised to steer clear of any and all French film festivals. The plot revolves around nine-year-old Donna Peyton (Donna Butterworth), who stands to inherit Read More

1965
The Disorderly Orderly

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Glenda Farrell, Everett Sloane, Karen Sharpe, Kathleen Freeman

Synopsis: In this comedy classic, Jerry Lewis plays Jerome Littlefield, an orderly in a mental hospital in this slapstick situation comedy that makes full use of Lewis's patented brand of screwball comedy. Dr. Jean Howard (Glenda Farrell) is the exasperated head of the sanitarium who almost becomes a Read More

1964
Where Love Has Gone

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Susan Hayward, Bette Davis, Michael Connors, Joey Heatherton, Jane Greer

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Harold Robbins, comes this family drama from director Edward Dmytryk. Adapted for the the screen by John Michael Hayes, the film follows the events that befall Luke Miller (Michael Connors) when he discovers that his daughter, Danielle (Joey Heatherton), has been arrested for Read More

1964
36 Hours

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Taylor, Werner Peters, Russell Thorson, John Banner

Synopsis: In 1950, Maj. Jefferson Pike (James Garner), an Army intelligence agent who served with distinction in World War II, awakens in a hospital with severe amnesia. He isn't sure where he is, how he got there, or even who the woman at his side is, even though the doctor tells him that her name is Anna (Eva Marie Saint Read More

1964
Roustabout

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Elvis Presley, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Freeman, Leif Erickson, Sue Ane Langdon

Synopsis: Charlie Rogers (Elvis Presley) is a coffeehouse singer who joins a financially troubled carnival in Roustabout. He is hired by owner Maggie Morgan (Barbara Stanwyck) and soon catches the eye of his pretty female co-worker Cathy Lean (Joan Freeman). Cathy's irate father Joe (Leif Erickson) clashes Read More

1964
The Carpetbaggers

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Martha Hyer, Elizabeth Ashley, Carroll Baker

Synopsis: Edward Dmytryk brings Harold Robbins' trashy, dirt-dishing Hollywood best-seller to the screen with George Peppard starring as Jonas Cord, a rancidly-sketched portrait of Howard Hughes. In 1925, when his father dies of a stroke, Jonas inherits the Cord Chemical factory, a manufacturer of dynamite Read More

1964
Marnie

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker, Martin Gabel, Louise Latham

Synopsis: Condemned as being a "disappointing" and "unworthy" Alfred Hitchcock effort at the time of its release, Marnie has since grown in stature; it is still considered a lesser Hitchcock, but a fascinating one. Tippi Hedren plays Marnie, a compulsive thief who cannot stand to be touched by any man. She Read More

1964
A House is Not a Home

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Shelley Winters, Robert Taylor, Cesar Romero, Ralph Taeger, Kaye Ballard

Synopsis: This drama tells the true story of one of Broadway's most successful madams in the 1920s. It is loosely based on the autobiography of Polly Adler. The story begins when young Polly is seduced and raped at her job by the sweatshop foreman. When her uncle, with whom she lived, learns of the act, he Read More

1964
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Shirley MacLaine, Richard Crenna, Jim Backus, Scott Brady

Synopsis: Politics and sports clash in this occasionally funny spoof centered around a downed U2 pilot and an extravagant oil sheik. John Goldfarb (Richard Crenna), a former football player, now pilot, sent on a reconnaissance mission over the Soviet Union, is lost and crash-lands in the Middle Eastern Read More

1964
The Yellow Rolls-Royce

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Rex Harrison, Jeanne Moreau, Edmund Purdom, Shirley MacLaine, George C. Scott, Moira Lister, Ingrid Bergman, Isa Miranda

Synopsis: In this drama, from director Anthony Asquith, the lives and stories of three different people are linked together by their possession of an unusual car, a yellow Rolls Royce Phantom II. Lord Frinton (Rex Harrison) is a diplomat who purchases the exquisite auto as a gift for his wife (Jeanne Read More

1964
What a Way to Go!

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Gene Kelly

Synopsis: This lavishly produced, big-budget comedy (it cost $20 million in 1964 dollars) stars Shirley MacLaine as Louisa, a widow who is worth $200 million dollars. However, she's convinced that her fortune is cursed, and she wants to give all her money to the IRS. As she explains her sad tale to her Read More

1964
The Patsy

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Ina Balin, Everett Sloane, Phil Harris, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: Toward the end of Jerry Lewis's Paramount studio period, Lewis slapped together this bitter comedy about Hollywood phoniness and fame that has to be the most rancid portrait of the Hollywood star system in the Rat Pack era this side of Clifford Odets. When a famous entertainer suddenly is killed Read More

1964
Sex and the Single Girl

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall, Mel Ferrer

Synopsis: Helen Gurley Brown's self-help best-seller was the nominal source for this Hollywood sex romp, directed by Richard Quine, co-scripted by Joseph Heller and David R. Schwartz, and starring Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood. Tony Curtis plays Bob Weston, a writer for the scandal sheet "Dirt," who is Read More

1964
Who's Got the Action?

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Dean Martin, Lana Turner, Eddie Albert, Nita Talbot, Walter Matthau, Paul Ford, John McGiver

Synopsis: Lawyer Dean Martin's gambling habit is beginning to get on the nerves of his wife Lana Turner. To keep the money in the family, Lana talks Dino's law partner Eddie Albert into acting as Martin's bookie. Not only does this plan not work, but it also rouses the ire of Runyonesque gangster Walter Read More

1963
The Birds

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Veronica Cartwright, Ethel Griffies

Synopsis: The story begins as an innocuous romantic triangle involving wealthy, spoiled Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), handsome Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor), and schoolteacher Annie Hayworth (Suzanne Pleshette). The human story begins in a San Francisco pet shop and culminates at the home of Mitch's mother (Jessica Tandy Read More

1963
Wives and Lovers

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Janet Leigh, Van Johnson, Shelley Winters, Martha Hyer, Ray Walston

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, Bill Austin (Van Johnson) is an unsuccessful writer who lives in a forlorn New York tenement while his wife Bertie (Janet Leigh) earns an income for both of them. Their lives change dramatically when Bill's first novel becomes a best-seller. Bill persuades Bertie to quit Read More

1963
Man's Favorite Sport?

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss, Maria Perschy, John McGiver, Charlene Holt

Synopsis: Roger Willoughby (Rock Hudson) is a super salesman of sporting goods who sells fishing equipment but knows nothing about the sport. Roger's boss Cadwalader (John McGiver) gets an idea from publicity director Abigail (Paula Prentiss) to enter him in a fishing contest, and the inept angler has a Read More

1963
Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Dean Martin, Elizabeth Montgomery, Martin Balsam, Jill St. John, Richard Conte, Carol Burnett

Synopsis: This romantic adult comedy finds psychiatrist Jason Steel (Dean Martin) the leader of a women's group therapy session. Jill St. John, Elizabeth Frazier, Macha Meril, Yoko Tani and Diane Foster all seek the advice of the handsome doctor, while husbands Louis Nye, Jack Soo, Richard Conte, and Martin Read More

1963
Love with the Proper Stranger

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen, Edie Adams, Herschel Bernardi, Tom Bosley

Synopsis: Taken for granted by her Italian family, New Yorker Natalie Wood seeks solace in the arms of irresponsible jazz musician Steve McQueen. She becomes pregnant, but doesn't expect McQueen to marry her; all she wants is enough money to pay for an illegal abortion (this is ten years before Roe v. Read More

1963
Who's Minding the Store?

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Jill St. John, Agnes Moorehead, John McGiver, Ray Walston

Synopsis: This frantic comedy finds Raymond (Jerry Lewis) working in a department store. Mr. Tuttle (John McGiver) is the watchful owner, whose outspoken wife Phoebe (Agnes Moorehead) makes no secret about her feelings that Raymond is an incompetent boob. Barbara (Jill St. John) is the pretty elevator Read More

1963
Papa's Delicate Condition

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Jackie Gleason, Glynis Johns, Charlie Ruggles, Laurel Goodwin, Linda Bruhl

Synopsis: This charming tale is about a young girl's father and his slightly erratic behavior after sampling a refreshing alcoholic beverage. Although Papa Jack Griffith (Jackie Gleason) never appears to be drunk, his "delicate condition" is well known to his family. His wife is definitely unhappy over his Read More

1963
Hud

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon de Wilde, John Ashley, Whit Bissell

Synopsis: Having been burned by compromises to censors on his earlier films Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sweet Bird of Youth, Paul Newman decided to star in as uncompromising a property as he could find. That property was Hud, inspired by a portion of Larry McMurtry's novel, Horseman Pass By. Hud Bannon (Newman Read More

1963
Fun in Acapulco

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Elvis Presley, Ursula Andress, Elsa Cardenas, Paul Lukas, Alejandro Rey, Larry Domasin

Synopsis: Elvis Presley stars as Mike Windgren, a former trapeze artist who's suffered from vertigo ever since accidentally dropping his partner during a performance. Working as a lifeguard/entertainer at an Acapulco resort, Mike falls in love with social director Margarita Dauphine (Ursula Andress). With Read More

1963
I Could Go on Singing

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Judy Garland, Dirk Bogarde, Jack Klugman, Aline MacMahon, Gregory Phillips

Synopsis: This is a standard yet uneven drama featuring Judy Garland as Jenny Bowman, a powerful singer who obviously has a passion for the stage and performing. At the same time, she once had a passion for a certain British doctor, David Donne (Dirk Bogarde), that resulted in the birth of a baby boy. Read More

1963
Come Blow Your Horn

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Lee J. Cobb, Molly Picon, Barbara Rush, Jill St. John

Synopsis: This filmization of Neil Simon's first Broadway hit was adapted for the screen by Norman Lear. Once we get past the illogical casting of middle-aged Frank Sinatra and twentysomething Tony Bill as brothers, we're home free. Sinatra, a swinger supreme, uses his New York apartment as a harem of sorts Read More

1963
The Nutty Professor

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Del Moore, Kathleen Freeman, Howard Morris, Med Flory

Synopsis: Professor Julius F. Kelp (Jerry Lewis) is an addle-brained, absent-minded chemistry instructor always incurring the wrath of the university administration by continually blowing up the classroom laboratory. The shy guy has his eyes on the student body of Stella (Stella Stevens). When a Read More

1963
Donovan's Reef

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Jack Warden, Elizabeth Allen, Dick Foran, Cesar Romero

Synopsis: John Ford's last film to deal with World War II, Donovan's Reef is an alternately comical and sentimental look back on the fighting Navy men from that war, and how and where -- in Ford's eyes, and Frank Nugent and James Edward Grant's script -- they should have ended up. Michael "Guns" Donovan Read More

1963
My Six Loves

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Debbie Reynolds, Cliff Robertson, Eileen Heckart, David Janssen, Hans Conried

Synopsis: This was the first film directed by dancer and choreographer Gower Champion, already experienced at directing television and theatrical productions by the early '60s. The routine romantic comedy, somewhat bogged down by the children it features, is centered on overwrought actress Janice Courtney (Debbie Reynolds Read More

1963
A New Kind of Love

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Thelma Ritter, Eva Gabor, George Tobias

Synopsis: A man falls for an exotic "bad girl," unaware he's already met the nice girl lurking beneath the surface, in this romantic comedy. Samantha Blake (Joanne Woodward) works for a large department store in New York City as a sort of industrial spy; while ostensively a buyer, Blake's greatest Read More

1963
My Geisha

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Yves Montand, Edward G. Robinson, Robert Cummings, Yoko Tani

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a popular actress disguises herself as a Japanese geisha to land a part in a film directed by her husband. Shirley MacLaine stars as Lucy Dell, a comic actress married to equally successful director Paul Robaix (Yves Montand). Though Paul has found success creating comic Read More

1962
The Counterfeit Traitor

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: William Holden, Lilli Palmer, Hugh Griffith, Erica Beer, Ernst Schroeder, Eva Dahlbeck

Synopsis: In this tense espionage drama set in 1942, William Holden plays Eric Erickson, an American-born Swede who is put on the Allied blacklist for trading oil with the Nazis. Collins (Hugh Griffith), a British intelligence agent, offers to expunge Erickson's name from the blacklist after the war in Read More

1962
Critic's Choice

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Marilyn Maxwell, Rip Torn, Jesse Royce Landis

Synopsis: Ira Levin wrote the stage comedy Critic's Choice as a good-natured retort to a comment made by critic Walter Kerr. In his essay How Not to Write a Play, Kerr noted that the worst possible scenario would involve a drama critic forced to review a play written by his wife (we should mention that Read More

1962
Escape from Zahrain

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Yul Brynner, Sal Mineo, Jack Warden, Madlyn Rhue, Anthony Caruso

Synopsis: Essentially a chase film from beginning to end, this standard adventure yarn by director Ronald Neame is set in "Zahrain," a barely-disguised Middle Eastern nation. Sharif (Yul Brynner) is a rebel who has taken up arms against the country's corrupt government and the forces of Western imperialism. Read More

1962
It's Only Money

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Joan O'Brien, Zachary Scott, Jack Weston, Jesse White

Synopsis: Jerry Lewis stars in this broad slapstick comedy as Lester March, a TV repairman who dreams of some day being a private detective like his friend and role model Mr. Flint (Jesse White). One night, Lester sees a report on television about Cecilia Albright (Mae Questel), the elderly owner of a Read More

1962
Hatari!

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: John Wayne, Hardy Kruger, Elsa Martinelli, Gérard Blain, Red Buttons

Synopsis: Hatari! is Swahili for "danger"--and also the word for action, adventure and broad comedy in this two-fisted Howard Hawks effort. John Wayne stars as the head of a daring Tanganyka-based group which captures wild animals on behalf of the world's zoos. Hardy Kruger, Gérard Blain and Red Buttons are Read More

1962
A Girl Named Tamiko

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Laurence Harvey, France Nuyen, Martha Hyer, Gary Merrill, Michael Wilding, Sr.

Synopsis: Certain film historians are perpetually amazed that the doggedly unappetizing Laurence Harvey became a major film star. In Girl Named Tamiko, Harvey is once more the embittered heel, this time playing a Eurasian photographer who pretends to be in love with numerous American ladies. His only true Read More

1962
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien

Synopsis: Like Pontius Pilate, director John Ford asks "What is truth?" in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance--but unlike Pilate, Ford waits for an answer. The film opens in 1910, with distinguished and influential U.S. senator Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) and his wife Hallie (Vera Miles) returning to the Read More

1962
Too Late Blues

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Bobby Darin, Stella Stevens, Everett Chambers, Cliff Carnell, Seymour Cassel

Synopsis: After his pioneering independent film Shadows (1960), actor/writer/director John Cassavetes made his major studio directorial debut with this gritty, low-key drama about jazz musicians. Bobby Darin plays John "Ghost" Walefield, a pianist who scuffles from gig to gig with his band, trying to keep Read More

1962
Girls! Girls! Girls!

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Elvis Presley, Stella Stevens, Jeremy Slate, Laurel Goodwin, Benson Fong

Synopsis: One of Elvis Presley's biggest moneymakers, Girls Girls Girls casts ol' swivel-hips as a tuna-boat fisherman working out of Hawaii. Elvis chases after all the wrong girls, while ignoring the girls who genuinely care for him. Here, as Ross Carpenter, Presley has two main love interests: sexy Read More

1962
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: In an idealized New York City during the early '60s, Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) is a charming socialite with a youthful zest for life who lives alone in a nearly bare apartment. She has such a flippant lifestyle that she won't even give her cat a name, because that would be too much of a Read More

1961
The Errand Boy

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Brian Donlevy, Howard McNear, Dick Wesson, Robert Ivers, Pat Dahl

Synopsis: The second of Jerry Lewis' directorial endeavors, The Errand Boy, like its predecessor The Bellboy, is essentially a series of "spot gags," some hilarious, others only moderately amusing. The gossamer-thin plot finds Morty Tashman (Lewis) being hired by the CEO of "Paramutuel Pictures" (Brian Donlevy Read More

1961
The Pleasure of His Company

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Fred Astaire, Debbie Reynolds, Lilli Palmer, Tab Hunter, Gary Merrill

Synopsis: Based on a play by Samuel Taylor and Cornelia Otis Skinner, The Pleasure of His Company is an old-fashioned romantic comedy. Fred Astaire plays Biddeford "Pogo" Poole, the long-absent prodigal father of Jessica Poole (Debbie Reynolds), who is just about to be married. Much to the dismay of his Read More

1961
The Ladies' Man

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Helen Traubel, Kathleen Freeman, Hope Holiday

Synopsis: Comedian Jerry Lewis began directing movies in 1960, and this often unkind satire on the nature of American womanhood is one of his early efforts in that regard. The rubber-legged, rubber-faced Lewis plays Herbert, a man who is despondent over the break-up of his romance. While looking for a job Read More

1961
Summer and Smoke

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Geraldine Page, John McIntire, Una Merkel, Rita Moreno, Malcolm Atterbury

Synopsis: Tennessee Williams' Broadway play Summer and Smoke (expanded from his one-act piece Eccentricities of a Nightingale) was brought to the screen by adaptors James Poe and Meade Roberts and director Peter Glenville. Geraldine Page repeats her stage role as minister's daughter Alma Winemiller, who Read More

1961
Love in a Goldfish Bowl

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Tommy Sands, Fabian, Jan Sterling, Toby Michaels, Edward Andrews

Synopsis: In this comedy drama, two troubled college freshmen find themselves united by their mutual family woes and so decide to spend the summer together in a beachhouse belonging to the boy's mother. They are platonic friends until the girl gets in trouble during a sailing accident and is rescued by a Read More

1961
Man-Trap

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Stella Stevens, Elaine Devry, Arthur Batanides

Synopsis: Edmond O'Brien became the latest actor to try his hand at directing in Man-Trap (he'd previous functioned as codirector on 1957's Shield for Murder). Jeffrey Hunter stars as an impressionable fellow whose old marine buddy (David Janssen) talks him into a questionable business venture. Hunter joins Read More

1961
On the Double

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Danny Kaye, Dana Wynter, Margaret Rutherford, Diana Dors

Synopsis: Danny Kaye headlines this lively WW II-era comedy. He plays a foot soldier who with his fellow troop is preparing for D-day. Trouble begins when he is caught pretending to be the most important generals in England, a man he closely resembles. The two look so much alike that military intelligence Read More

1961
Pocketful of Miracles

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange, Arthur O'Connell, Peter Falk

Synopsis: Director Frank Capra's last feature film, Pocketful of Miracles is a Technicolor remake of his 1933 film Lady for a Day. A barely recognizable Bette Davis plays Apple Annie, the besotted, unkempt, rag-clad street vendor who controls the activities of all the beggars on Broadway. Apple Annie is the Read More

1961
Visit to a Small Planet

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Joan Blackman, Fred Clark, John Williams

Synopsis: When a space alien's fascination with Earthlings gets the better of him, he breaks one of his planet's laws and speeds off to visit the blue planet. Once there the alien (Jerry Lewis) encounters a nice family who kindly take him in. The father is a news commentator. Ironically, just prior to Read More

1960
The Rat Race

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Tony Curtis, Debbie Reynolds, Jack Oakie, Kay Medford, Don Rickles

Synopsis: A somewhat uneven but still entertaining comedy-drama, The Rat Race, by director Robert Mulligan, co-stars Tony Curtis and Debbie Reynolds as Peter Hammond, Jr. and Peggy Brown, two performers who meet in New York and are thrown together by their mutual poverty. Peter arrives on a bus from the Read More

1960
Cinderfella

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Ed Wynn, Judith Anderson, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Henry Silva

Synopsis: Both director Frank Tashlin and his comic star Jerry Lewis dilute their comic talents to play for the kiddie crowd in this fractured fairy tale version of the Cinderella story. This simply-told tale lards over the fairy story with un-needed songs and production numbers, but the basic story is Read More

1960
The Facts of Life

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Ruth Hussey, Don DeFore, Louis Nye

Synopsis: Unlike the typical Bob Hope and Lucille Ball vehicles, The Facts of Life is essentially a domestic drama with comic undertones. Hope is married to Ruth Hussey, while Ball is the wife of Don DeFore. All four are old friends, who for many years have taken each other for granted. A series of Read More

1960
A Touch of Larceny

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: James Mason, George Sanders, Vera Miles, Oliver Johnston, Robert Flemyng

Synopsis: In this British comedy, a formerly rakish submarine captain is transferred to a desk job. His reputation as a hero and playboy precedes him. He meets an old comrade and his gorgeous fiancee, a Yankee widow. His buddy is quite wealthy and the retired captain realizes that he too must make plenty of Read More

1960
Pepe

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Cantinflas, Dan Dailey, Shirley Jones, Carlos Montalban, Vicki Trickett, Bing Crosby

Synopsis: Popular Mexican comedian Cantinflas (Mario Moreno) plays the title character in this star-studded, amusing comedy drama by George Sidney. Pepe is the same sort of impoverished stereotype Cantinflas made famous in several of his comedies; in this case he is a hired hand on a ranch who chases down a Read More

1960
Heller in Pink Tights

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Eileen Heckart, Ramon Novarro, Margaret O'Brien, Steve Forrest

Synopsis: The talents of the cast and director George Cukor (A Star Is Born, My Fair Lady), combine to bring off this otherwise routine Western based on a Louis L'Amour novel. Sophia Loren is Angela Rossini, a woman who seems to create the situations she gets into, and Anthony Quinn is the strong, silent Read More

1960
That Kind of Woman

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Sophia Loren, Tab Hunter, Jack Warden, Barbara Nichols, Keenan Wynn, George Sanders

Synopsis: That Kind of Woman stars Sophia Loren as an Italian girl, Kay, who enjoys a brief wartime romance with American paratrooper Red (Tab Hunter). But Kay is already the property of a suave millionaire (George Sanders) known only as "The Man." When next we see her, Kay is living Hollywood's concept of Read More

1959
Career

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Dean Martin, Anthony Franciosa, Shirley MacLaine, Carolyn Jones, Joan Blackman

Synopsis: Playwright James Lee adapted his off-Broadway play for the screen in this high-strung adaptation, directed by Joseph Anthony. In this simplistic, backroom show-business-success saga, Anthony Franciosa plays Sam, a struggling young actor who will forsake his family and take any type of menial job Read More

1959
Last Train From Gun Hill

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones, Earl Holliman, Brad Dexter

Synopsis: Just outside the small town of Pauley, a Native American woman is attacked by two riders on horseback, raped, and killed. Her husband, Matt Morgan (Kirk Douglas), the town marshal, has only two clues to their identity, a fancy saddle with the initials "C.B." that one of the men left behind, and Read More

1959
The Five Pennies

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong, Harry Guardino, Tuesday Weld, Bob Crosby

Synopsis: The Five Pennies is the life story of influential jazz cornetist Red Nichols, played here by a remarkably straight-faced Danny Kaye. The somewhat romanticized screenplay chronicles Nichols' rise from obscurity, annotates the many future bandleaders who would play with Nichols' "Five Pennies," and Read More

1959
The Jayhawkers

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Jeff Chandler, Fess Parker, Nicole Maurey, Henry Silva, Herbert Rudley

Synopsis: Set in the Kansas territory during the middle of the 19th century, this is a visually evocative but conventional western. The story deals with Darcy (Jeff Chandler), a ruthless man, one of the raiders known as "Jayhawkers" who wants more than what life is willing to offer. Starting out as Read More

1959
A Hole in the Head

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Eleanor Parker, Carolyn Jones, Thelma Ritter

Synopsis: Although the main character, Tony Manetta (Frank Sinatra), in this light comedy tends to tip the scales towards being unbelievably unrealistic, the story is pulled off because everyone else is convincing. Tony is a widower in need of a financial bailout for himself and his son, so he asks for help Read More

1959
Alias Jesse James

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Jay Silverheels, Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey, Jim Davis, Gloria Talbott

Synopsis: Bob Hope plays a 19th-century insurance agent whose miserable sales record prompts his boss to send him out West, where he can (supposedly) do little harm. Hope manages to sell a $100,000 life insurance policy--to outlaw Jesse James (Wendell Corey), one of the worst "risks" in history! In his Read More

1959
Vertigo

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones

Synopsis: Dismissed when first released, later heralded as one of director Alfred Hitchcock's finest films (and, according to Hitchcock, his most personal one), this adaptation of the French novel D'entre les morts weaves an intricate web of obsession and deceit. It opens as Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) Read More

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The Matchmaker

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Shirley Booth, Anthony Perkins, Shirley MacLaine, Paul Ford, Robert Morse

Synopsis: Thornton Wilder's 1938 stage play The Merchant of Yonkers was based on an old British stage farce by John Oxenford (which in turn served as the basis of an Austrian farce by Johann Nestroy). Merchant of Yonkers was a bomb, but Wilder was quite fond of the piece, so he revised it as the Read More

1958
Teacher's Pet

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Clark Gable, Doris Day, Gig Young, Mamie van Doren, Nick Adams

Synopsis: Hard-boiled, self-educated newspaper editor Clark Gable turns down an opportunity to lecture before a night-school journalism class, publicly ridiculing the notion that the art of news writing can be taught. Gable's publisher, sensing a good story, orders the recalcitrant editor to appear at the Read More

1958
Separate Tables

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Wendy Hiller, Burt Lancaster

Synopsis: Based on Terence Rattigan's play, Separate Tables is about a number of characters and their adventures at a British seaside hotel. Among the guests are an alleged war hero (David Niven), a timid spinster (Deborah Kerr) and her domineering mother (Gladys Cooper), and a divorced couple (Burt Read More

1958
Maracaibo

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Abbe Lane, Francis Lederer, Michael Landon

Synopsis: Maracaibo was actor Cornel Wilde's second directorial effort. Wilde casts himself as troubleshooting oil man Vic Scott, who has arrived in Venezuela to help put out a fire at an offshore well. It's a ticklish situation: if Scott fails, not only will he die in the blaze, but all of Maracaibo will Read More

1958
King Creole

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Walter Matthau, Dolores Hart, Dean Jagger

Synopsis: Elvis Presley delivers one of his finest early performances in King Creole. Elvis plays a teenager named Danny Fisher, who is forced to drop out of school to help support his ineffective father (Dean Jagger). Drawn to trouble like a magnet, Danny is saved from a jail term by New Orleans Read More

1958
The Geisha Boy

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Marie McDonald, Sessue Hayakawa, Barton MacLane, Suzanne Pleshette

Synopsis: Jerry Lewis, plays a third-rate USO magician named Gilbert Woolley, working the Far East circuit with his pet rabbit Harry. Nearly fired for accidentally humiliating haughty movie star Marie McDonald, Gilbert's career is salvaged by kindly Japanese aristocrat Sessue Hayakawa; it seems that Gilbert Read More

1958
The Buccaneer

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Yul Brynner, Charlton Heston, Claire Bloom, Charles Boyer, Inger Stevens

Synopsis: When Cecil B. DeMille was set to direct a re-make of his 1938 swashbuckler The Buccaneer and suddenly became ill, his son-in-law, Anthony Quinn, jumped into DeMille's jodhpurs. In this version, Yul Brynner plays the starring role of debonair pirate Jean Lafitte, who is contacted by General Andrew Read More

1958
Houseboat

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Harry Guardino, Eduardo Ciannelli

Synopsis: Cary Grant scored still another box-office smash with his 1958 vehicle Houseboat. Grant plays a widowed father who packs himself and his spoiled kiddies off to a ramshackle houseboat. Enter Sophia Loren, who is attempting to break loose from her tyrannical father's (Eduardo Cianelli) iron grip. Read More

1958
St. Louis Blues

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Nat "King" Cole, Pearl Bailey, Eartha Kitt, Ruby Dee, Mahalia Jackson, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald

Synopsis: The life of legendary bluesman W.C. Handy is highly dramatized in this tuneful biopic. The story opens as his father, a minister chastises his son for playing "the devil's music." Despite his father's admonitions, Handy is drawn to the blues. He is encouraged by two disparate women, one an earthy Read More

1958
Rock-A-Bye Baby

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Marilyn Maxwell, Connie Stevens, Salvatore Baccaloni, Reginald Gardiner

Synopsis: In this comedy, an awkward TV repairman finds himself falling for an actress who doesn't even know he exists and instead marries a dashing Mexican bullfighter. Unfortunately, he dies the day after their wedding; fortunately, he managed to impregnate her. Unfortunately, she is soon supposed to be Read More

1958
Hear Me Good

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Hal March, Merry Anders, Jean Willes, Milton Frome

Synopsis: This Runyonesque fable serves as a vehicle for TV quiz-show host Hal March. The star plays con artist Marty Holland, who for his own financial gain plans to fix the outcome of a beauty contest. The winner is supposed to be Rita Hall (Jean Willes), the brassy girlfriend of big-time mobster Irving Read More

1957
Fear Strikes Out

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Anthony Perkins, Karl Malden, Norma Moore, Adam Williams, Perry Wilson

Synopsis: Anthony Perkins stars as troubled baseball great Jimmy Piersall in Fear Strikes Out. Based on Piersall's shattering tell-all autobiography, the film traces Jimmy's ascent from the sandlots of Waterbury, CT, to the Boston Red Sox, with his domineering father (Karl Malden) pushing the boy beyond all Read More

1957
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Jo Van Fleet, John Ireland

Synopsis: Of the many filmed versions of the October 26, 1881, O.K. Corral shootout in Tombstone, Arizona, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was one of the most elaborate and star-studded. Burt Lancaster plays Wyatt Earp, the renowned lawman, while Kirk Douglas is consumptive gambler (and gunfighter) Doc Holliday Read More

1957
Funny Face

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson, Michel Auclair, Robert Flemyng

Synopsis: This filmed version of the 1927 George Gershwin Broadway musical Funny Face utilizes the play's original star, Fred Astaire, and several of the original tunes, then goes merrily off on its own. Astaire is cast as as fashion photographer Dick Avery (a character based on Richard Avedon, the film's Read More

1957
Witness for the Prosecution

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Una O'Connor

Synopsis: Having just recovered from a heart attack, fabled British barrister Sir Wilfred Robards (Charles Laughton) has been ordered by his doctor to give up everything he holds dear-brandy, cigars and especially courtroom cases. Robards' already shaky resolve to follow doctor's orders flies out the window Read More

1957
Beau James

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Bob Hope, Vera Miles, Paul Douglas, Alexis Smith, Darren McGavin

Synopsis: New York City is known for choosing colorful characters for its mayors. One its most illustrious was the wisecracking, dancing and singing Mayor James J. Walker (as played by Bob Hope in a rare, serious role) who helmed the Big Apple in the 1920s. This biopic chronicles his surprising rise to Read More

1957
The Devil's Hairpin

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Arthur Franz, Mary Astor, Paul Fix

Synopsis: Actor Cornel Wilde branched out into directing with The Devil's Hairpin--reserving the starring role for himself. Wilde plays a motor racing champion who ruins his career through his reprehensible behavior on and off the track. Thrown off the racing circuit in disgrace after crippling his brother Read More

1957
The Joker Is Wild

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Mitzi Gaynor, Jeanne Crain, Eddie Albert, Beverly Garland

Synopsis: Frank Sinatra stars as legendary nightclub comic Joe E. Lewis in this dramatic screen biography. In the 1920s, Lewis was a popular singer in Chicago who could fill any nightclub he chose to play. This doesn't go unnoticed by the mobsters who control many of the city's venues; when they ask Lewis Read More

1957
Short Cut to Hell

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Robert Ivers, Georgann Johnson, William Bishop, Jacques Aubuchon, Peter Baldwin

Synopsis: As a favor to an old friend, producer Alex Gordon, James Cagney turned director for the first and only time in his career with Short Cut to Hell. The film is a remake of the 1942 Veronica Lake-Alan Ladd starrer This Gun For Hire. Robert Ivers plays Kyle, a hired killer who is double-crossed by his Read More

1957
The Tin Star

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer, Michael Ray, Neville Brand, Lee Van Cleef

Synopsis: Taciturn marshal-turned-bounty hunter Henry Fonda rides into a small town where greenhorn deputy Anthony Perkins is sole representative of the law. Sensing that the boy could use some seasoning, Fonda makes it his mission to teach Perkins how to protect himself against the criminal element. Though Read More

1957
Three Violent People

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Gilbert Roland, Tom Tryon, Forrest Tucker

Synopsis: Set in the American West after the Civil War, this drama is the pull-no-punches story of a lethal family feud. Colt Saunders (Charlton Heston) fought for the Confederacy in the war, and he returns to his family's Texas cattle ranch after impulsively marrying Lorna Hunter (Anne Baxter) following a Read More

1957
Loving You

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Elvis Presley, Lizabeth Scott, Wendell Corey, Dolores Hart, James Gleason

Synopsis: Loving You was the most autobiographical of all Elvis Presley's movies, and, not coincidentally, features the most naturalistic, easygoing performance of his early career. He plays Deke Rivers, a truck driver with a penchant for singing and a raw animal magnetism where women are concerned. He Read More

1957
The Sad Sack

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Jerry Lewis, David Wayne, Phyllis Kirk, Peter Lorre, Joe Mantell

Synopsis: In his second solo starring film after breaking with Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis plays cartoonist George Baker's classic GI misfit The Sad Sack. Lewis' constitutional inability to do anything right brings him under the scrutiny of gorgeous Army psychiatrist Phyllis Kirk. She discovers that Lewis Read More

1957
Hollywood or Bust

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Anita Ekberg, Pat Crowley, "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom

Synopsis: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis made their last joint film appearance in the girl-filled musical Hollywood or Bust. The thinnish plot finds inveterate film fan Jerry making a cross-country journey to Tinseltown for the purpose of meeting his favorite screen star, the buxom Anita Ekberg (the film's Read More

1956
Pardners

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Lori Nelson, Jeff Morrow, John Baragrey, Jackie Loughery

Synopsis: This Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis romp is liberally based on the 1936 Bing Crosby film Rhythm on the Range. Set around 1910, the film stars Lewis as the pampered son of female tycoon Agnes Moorehead. Yearning to return to the Wild West where his father was a famed peacekeeper, Lewis purchases a prize Read More

1956
The Ten Commandments

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: James Coburn, Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo

Synopsis: Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The story relates the life of Moses, from the time he was discovered in the bullrushes as an infant by the pharoah's daughter, to his long, hard Read More

1956
The Birds and the Bees

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor, David Niven, Reginald Gardiner, Fred Clark

Synopsis: This comedy is a remake of 1941's The Lady Eve, and tells the story of the vegetarian son of a prominent meat packer who is sailing back from an African safari when he meets and falls in love with a con-artist's lovely daughter. Posing as a military officer, the card-sharp and his boys have come Read More

1956
The Proud and Profane

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: William Holden, Deborah Kerr, Thelma Ritter, Dewey Martin, William Redfield

Synopsis: In this war romance, set during WW II, a widow falls for a Marine colonel. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1956
Anything Goes

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Bing Crosby, Donald O'Connor, Zizi Jeanmaire, Mitzi Gaynor, Phil Harris

Synopsis: Anything Goes is a Technicolor-and-Vistavision remake of the 1936 film of the same name, which in turn was based on Cole Porter's hit 1934 Broadway musical. The 1956 bears little relationship plotwise to its predecessors, except for the fact that most of the story takes place aboard a luxury Read More

1956
The Delicate Delinquent

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Darren McGavin, Martha Hyer, Robert Ivers, Horace McMahon

Synopsis: Jerry Lewis' first solo effort was also his first headlong plunge into pathos. The Delicate Delinquent stars Jerry as mixed-up teenaged janitor Sidney Pythias, a nice kid on the verge of throwing in with a not-so-nice street gang. Sensing potential in Sidney, police officer Mike Damon (Darren McGavin Read More

1956
The Scarlet Hour

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Carol Ohmart, Tom Tryon, James Gregory, Elaine Stritch

Synopsis: The Scarlet Hour was a relatively bold experiment for a mid-1950s Paramount release. The studio expended a great deal of money on the project and enlisted the services of top-flight director Michael Curtiz -- then populated the cast with young unknowns. Carol Ohmart and Tom Tryon (yes, the future Read More

1956
The Search for Bridey Murphy

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Teresa Wright, Louis Hayward, Nancy Gates, Kenneth Tobey, Richard Anderson

Synopsis: The Search for Bridey Murphy was inspired by the purportedly true story of a Colorado housewife named Virginia Tighe, who while under hypnosis insisted that she'd lived a previous life as an 18th century Irish housemaid named Bridey Murphy. The hypnosis sessions were conducted under the Read More

1956
The Court Jester

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury, Cecil Parker

Synopsis: Danny Kaye spoofs medieval swashbucklers in this classic musical comedy. While the infant King of England awaits his rightful place as leader of the British Empire, his rule is usurped by Roderick (Cecil Parker), an evil pretender to the throne. Brave rebel leader The Black Fox (Edward Ashley) Read More

1956
The Man Who Knew Too Much

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Miles, Daniel Gélin, Ralph Truman

Synopsis: The debate still rages as to whether Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much is superior to his own original 1934 version. This two-hour remake (45 minutes longer than the first film) features more stars, a lusher budget, and the plaintive music of Bernard Herrmann (who Read More

1956
That Certain Feeling

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, George Sanders, Pearl Bailey, David Lewis

Synopsis: For reasons unknown, the change-of-pace Bob Hope vehicle That Certain Feeling is out of favor with many Hope buffs. Bob plays Francis X. Dignan, the overly neurotic "ghost" for popular comic-strip artist Larry Larkin (George Sanders). When Larkin's syndicate complains that his work isn't as Read More

1956
The Rainmaker

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, Wendell Corey, Lloyd Bridges, Earl Holliman

Synopsis: N. Richard Nash's play The Rainmaker has always attracted the most flamboyant of performers, and this 1956 film version is no exception. Burt Lancaster all but bursts from the screen with his arm-waving portrayal of a confidence artist who works the drought-ridden Southwest, promising to bring Read More

1956
The Mountain

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Claire Trevor, William Demarest, Barbara Darrow, Anna Kashfi

Synopsis: To fully enjoy the rugged outdoors adventure The Mountain, one must accept the notion that 55-year-old Spencer Tracy and 25-year-old Robert Wagner are brothers. Tracy plays veteran mountain guide Zachary Wheeler, who is coaxed out of retirement when a passenger plane crashes on high mountain. He Read More

1956
Lucy Gallant

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Edith Head, Jane Wyman, Charlton Heston, Claire Trevor, Thelma Ritter, William Demarest

Synopsis: An unusually matronly Jane Wyman plays the title character in Lucy Gallant. Adapted from a novel by Margaret Cousins, the story concerns the efforts by Lucy Gallant to make the wide-open spaces of Texas a mecca for High Fashion. Jilted at the altar, Lucy retreats to a booming oil town, where she Read More

1955
The Rose Tattoo

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan, Ben Cooper, Jo Van Fleet, Virginia Grey

Synopsis: Scripted by famed playwright Tennessee Williams, The Rose Tattoo stars Anna Magnani as Serafina Delle Rose, a Sicilian woman who now lives in the American South. As the film opens, she is still mourning the death of her beloved husband, constantly telling herself stories of their time together. Read More

1955
Run for Cover

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: James Cagney, John Derek, Viveca Lindfors, Jean Hersholt, Ernest Borgnine, Grant Withers

Synopsis: In his first western since 1939's The Oklahoma Kid, James Cagney is a pillar of integrity in the Pine-Thomas production Run for Cover. Cagney plays Matt Dow, who at the beginning of the film has been released from prison after serving six years for a crime he didn't commit. Heading westward, Matt Read More

1955
Artists and Models

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Shirley MacLaine, Dorothy Malone, Eddie Mayehoff, Eva Gabor

Synopsis: Bearing very little relation to the 1937 Paramount musical of the same name, Artists and Models is a lavish, girl-filled vehicle for the popular team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Martin plays Rick Todd, a comic-book artist who is under fire from his publisher (Eddie Mayehoff), who complains Read More

1955
The Trouble with Harry

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Mildred Natwick, Mildred Dunnock, Jerry Mathers

Synopsis: The trouble with Harry is that he's dead. The scene is a autumnal Vermont village, where a pre-Leave It to Beaver Jerry Mathers stumbles upon Harry's corpse in the woods. Mathers alerts his mother Shirley MacLaine (making her film debut), who recognizes Harry as her ex-husband. Later on, retired Read More

1955
The Far Horizons

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Charlton Heston, Donna Reed, Barbara Hale, William Demarest

Synopsis: The Untamed West is the reissue title of the Pine-Thomas production The Far Horizons. This romanticized retelling of the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1803-06 stars Fred MacMurray as Meriwether Lewis and Charlton Heston as Bill Clark. The film doesn't delve much into the real-life animosity Read More

1955
You're Never Too Young

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Diana Lynn, Nina Foch, Raymond Burr

Synopsis: You're Never Too Young is a slapstick-with-songs remake of the 1944 Ray Milland/Ginger Rogers vehicle The Major and the Minor. Dean Martin plays the Milland part, while Ginger's shoes are filled by...Jerry Lewis? Lewis plays an apprentice barber who inadvertently crosses a homicidal jewel thief (Raymond Burr Read More

1955
Strategic Air Command

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Lovejoy, Barry Sullivan, Alex Nicol

Synopsis: Inspired in part by the true story of baseball great Ted Williams, who after serving in World War II was drafted to serve in the Korean War just as his baseball career was taking off, Strategic Air Command stars James Stewart as "Dutch" Holland, a star third baseman with the St. Louis Cardinals. Read More

1955
The Desperate Hours

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy, Martha Scott, Dewey Martin

Synopsis: Based on the novel and play by Joseph Hayes, which in turn was inspired by an actual event, The Desperate Hours is the prototypical "family-trapped-by-criminals" drama. Escaped convicts Humphrey Bogart, Robert Middleton and Dewey Martin, seeking an appropriate hideout until they can make contact Read More

1955
The Seven Little Foys

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Bob Hope, James Cagney, Milly Vitale, Angela Clarke, George Tobias

Synopsis: With his movie career fading in 1955, Bob Hope was amenable to writer/director Mel Shavelson's suggestion that Hope try something different. The Seven Little Foys was the first of Hope's two "straight" biopics (the second was 1956's Beau James). Though not completely abandoning his patented Read More

1955
To Catch a Thief

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jesse Royce Landis, John Williams, Charles Vanel

Synopsis: A jewel thief is at large on the Riviera, and all evidence points to retired cat burglar Cary Grant. Escaping the law, Grant heads to the Cote D'Azur, where he is greeted with hostility by his old partners in crime. All of them had been pardoned due to their courageous activities in the wartime Read More

1955
The Girl Rush

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Fernando Lamas, Eddie Albert, Gloria de Haven, Marion Lorne

Synopsis: In this comedy sequel to Wonderful Town (a popular Broadway musical), Kim, a museum worker from Providence, Rhode Island, inherits half ownership of a Las Vegas hotel when her father dies. She and her Aunt Clara go there to learn more about it. Unfortunately, just before they arrive, the other Read More

1955
Hell's Island

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: John Payne, Mary Murphy, Francis L. Sullivan, Eduardo Noriega, Arnold Moss

Synopsis: Phil Karlson, well-regarded by film buffs for his tough, no-nonsense crime dramas, directed this adventure story shot partially on location in the Caribbean. Mike Cormack (John Payne) was once a District Attorney, until his fiancée, Janet Martin (Mary Murphy), left him to marry another man. Read More

1955
Casanova's Big Night

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Bob Hope, Joan Fontaine, Audrey Dalton, Basil Rathbone, Hugh Marlowe

Synopsis: Bob Hope tries to capture the comic magic of his 1946 costume farce Monsieur Beaucaire with the splashy Technicolor romp Casanova's Big Night (filmed in 1952, released in 1954). Set in 18th century Venice, the film casts Hope as Pippo, the humble tailor of notorious ladies' man Casanova (an Read More

1954
About Mrs. Leslie

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Shirley Booth, Robert Ryan, Marjie Millar, Alex Nicol, Sammy White

Synopsis: Shirley Booth followed up her Oscar-winning performance in Come Back Little Sheba with the high-gloss soap opera About Mrs. Leslie. Based on a novel by Vina Delmar, the film casts Booth as a philosophical boarding house keeper who recalls her life and loves in a long, long flashback. Born on the Read More

1954
Elephant Walk

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch, Abraham Sofaer, Abner Biberman

Synopsis: Elephant Walk was several weeks into production when the film's original leading lady, Vivien Leigh, was replaced by Elizabeth Taylor (you can still see Leigh in a few long shots). Based on a novel by Robert Standish, the film casts Taylor as Ruth Wiley, the new bride of solemn plantation owner Read More

1954
Sabrina

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Walter Hampden, John Williams

Synopsis: Billy Wilder directs the lighthearted romantic comedy Sabrina, based on the play by Samuel A. Taylor. Sabrina Fairchild (Audrey Hepburn) is the simple, naïve daughter of a chauffeur, Thomas Fairchild (John Williams). They live on an estate with the wealthy Oliver Larrabee (Walter Hampden) and his Read More

1954
The Naked Jungle

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Eleanor Parker, Charlton Heston, Abraham Sofaer, William Conrad, Romo Vincent

Synopsis: It doesn't take long for old-time-radio fans to figure out that The Naked Jungle is a film version of the classic Carl Stephenson nailbiter Leiningen Versus the Ants. Charlton Heston plays South American plantation owner Christopher Leiningen, who spends most of the film preparing for the Read More

1954
Knock on Wood

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Danny Kaye, Mai Zetterling, Torin Thatcher, David Burns, Leon Askin

Synopsis: With the exception of the brilliant The Court Jester, Knock on Wood must rank as the best of Danny Kaye's movie vehicles. Capitalizing on the star's recent successful engagement in London, the film casts Kaye as a neurotic American ventriloquist performing in England and Europe. In a parody of the Read More

1954
Rear Window

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr

Synopsis: Laid up with a broken leg, photojournalist L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart) is confined to his tiny, sweltering courtyard apartment. To pass the time between visits from his nurse (Thelma Ritter) and his fashion model girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly), the binocular-wielding Jeffries stares through the Read More

1954
The Country Girl

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, William Holden, Anthony Ross, Gene Reynolds

Synopsis: Bing Crosby does the Academy Award-bid bit in the atypical role of a self-pitying alcoholic, but it was his co-star, a deglamorized Grace Kelly, who won the Oscar for her performance in The Country Girl. This adaptation of Clifford Odets' play stars Crosby as Frank Elgin, a once-famous Broadway Read More

1954
White Christmas

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, Dean Jagger

Synopsis: White Christmas, Paramount's belated follow-up to the 1942 hit Holiday Inn, was the studio's first VistaVision production. A veritable warehouse full of oldie-but-goodie Irving Berlin tunes are woven into the film's simplistic plotline, along with a handful of new songs, of which "What Can You Do Read More

1954
Living It Up

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Edward Arnold, Fred Clark

Synopsis: The 1954 Martin-and-Lewis romp Living It Up is an amusing remake of the 1937 comedy classic Nothing Sacred. More specifically, it is the film version of the Broadway musical Hazel Flagg, which was based on Nothing Sacred. The heroine of the original undergoes a sex change to become feckless Homer Read More

1954
Three Ring Circus

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Joanne Dru, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Elsa Lanchester, Wallace Ford

Synopsis: According to some eyewitness reports, the feud between Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis was at its peak during the filming of Three Ring Circus. Other observers have noted that the boys behaved with thorough professionalism throughout the shoot. Whatever the case, the film offers a comparatively Read More

1954
Them!

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness, Onslow Stevens

Synopsis: A little girl is found wandering in the desert, in a state of complete shock. When she finally revives, she can scream out only one word: "Them!" Any aficionado of 1950s horror films can readily tell you that "Them" are giant ants, a byproduct of the radiation attending the atomic bomb tests of Read More

1954
The Bridges at Toko-Ri

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney, Robert Strauss, Earl Holliman

Synopsis: Based on the novel by James Michener, this film stars William Holden as Harry Brubaker, a former military pilot who served in World War II. When he's called back into duty during the Korean conflict, Brubaker is angry, believing he's already served his country and needs to devote himself to his Read More

1954
Little Boy Lost

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Bing Crosby, Claude Dauphin, Christian Fourcade, Gabrielle Dorziat, Nicole Maurey

Synopsis: Bing Crosby heads this heart-tugging post war drama of a grieving widower who is duped into forming an unbreakable bond with the French orphan he believes is his long-lost son. Crosby lost his beloved when the Nazis killed her for participating in the French resistance. Much later, Crosby is told Read More

1953
Sangaree

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Fernando Lamas, Arlene Dahl, Patricia Medina, Francis L. Sullivan, Charles Korvin

Synopsis: Filmed in 3-D, Sangaree is a satisfactory swashbuckler adapted from a novel by Frank G. Slaughter. Fernando Lamas portrays the son of an 18th century slave whose fortunes take a radical turn when he inherits a huge cotton plantation in the American colonies. Arlene Dahl (later Mrs. Fernando Lamas) Read More

1953
The Savage

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Charlton Heston, Susan Morrow, Peter Hanson, Joan Taylor, Richard Rober

Synopsis: The Paramount publicity department had a field day heralding the news that Charlton Heston portrays a Native American named "Warbonnet" in The Savage. Actually the ad campaign was a bit of a cheat, since Heston turns out to be a white man raised by the Sioux. The crisis comes when hostilities Read More

1953
Road to Bali

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Murvyn Vye, Peter Coe

Synopsis: This sixth entry in the Crosby-Hope-Lamour "Road" series was the first (and last) in Technicolor. This time, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope play George Cochran and Harold Gridley, American vaudevillians stranded in Australia. To avoid a dual shotgun wedding, George and Harold sign on as deep-sea divers Read More

1953
The Vanquished

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: John Payne, Coleen Gray, Jan Sterling, Lyle Bettger, Willard Parker

Synopsis: The Vanquished represented another winner from Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit. John Payne plays Rock Grayson, a Civil War POW who returns to his Southern home to find carpetbagger Roger Hale (Lyle Bettger) in charge of things. An old enemy of Grayson's, Hale has commandeered the Grayson Read More

1953
Tropic Zone

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming, Noah Beery, Jr., Grant Withers

Synopsis: It's always fun to watch Ronald Reagan play a slightly disreputable type, and Tropic Zone is no exception. Reagan stars as Dan McCloud, a self-styled "banana expert" who is hiding out in a mythical South American country for obscure political reasons. Motivated by greed, McCloud comes to the aid Read More

1953
The War of the Worlds

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Lewis Martin, Henry Brandon, Robert Cornthwaite, Sandro Giglio

Synopsis: H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds had been on Paramount Pictures' docket since the silent era, when it was optioned as a potential Cecil B. DeMille production. When Paramount finally got around to a filming the Wells novel, the property was firmly in the hands of special-effects maestro George Pal. Read More

1953
Houdini

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Torin Thatcher, Angela Clarke, Stefan Schnabel, Douglas Spencer

Synopsis: This highly fanciful but immensely entertaining biopic stars Tony Curtis as legendary magician/escape-artist Harry Houdini. Janet Leigh, Mrs. Tony Curtis at the time, co-stars as Houdini's wife Bess, while Angela Clarke is seen as Houdini's mother. The film follows Houdini's progress from sideshow Read More

1953
Scared Stiff

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Lizabeth Scott, Carmen Miranda, Dorothy Malone, George Dolenz

Synopsis: Scared Stiff is the 1953 remake of the 1940 Bob Hope-Paulette Goddard vehicle The Ghost Breakers, reupholstered for the talents of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. While Martin handles the straight plot scenes, just as Hope did in the earlier film, the Hope-like wisecracks are fairly evenly divided Read More

1953
Shane

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon de Wilde, Jack Palance

Synopsis: The simple story of a Wyoming range war is elevated to near-mythical status in producer/director George Stevens' Western classic Shane. Alan Ladd plays the title character, a mysterious drifter who rides into a tiny homesteading community and accepts the hospitality of a farming family. Patriarch Read More

1953
Roman Holiday

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Eddie Albert, Hartley Power, Harcourt Williams

Synopsis: Audrey Hepburn became a star with this film, in which she played Princess Anne, weary of protocol and anxious to have some fun before she is mummified by "affairs of state." On a diplomatic visit to Rome, Anne escapes her royal retainers and scampers incognito through the Eternal City. She happens Read More

1953
Arrowhead

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Charlton Heston, Jack Palance, Katy Jurado, Brian Keith, Mary Sinclair

Synopsis: Adapted from a novel by W.R. Burnett (which hadn't yet been published when the film was released), Arrowhead is a tough, uncompromising western dealing with the delicate issue of White-Indian relations. Charlton Heston is at his most truculent as Indian agent Ed Bannon, who though raised by Read More

1953
Du bist die Welt für mich

Crew: Costume Designer

Synopsis: This tuneful Austrian biopic chronicles the rise to stardom of opera composer-singer Richard Tauber. He becomes so obsessed with fame that he ignores his ballerina lover. In the end he becomes a star, but at the expense of love. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1953
The Pony Express

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Charlton Heston, Rhonda Fleming, Jan Sterling, Forrest Tucker, Michael Moore

Synopsis: The action in this loose adaptation of a popular 1925 silent tells the galloping (and largely untrue) tale if the formation of the U.S. rapid transcontinental mail system with a focus on the adventures of Buffalo Bill Cody (Charlton Heston) and Wild Bill Hickock (Forrest Tucker). ~ Sandra Brennan Read More

1953
Forever Female

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Ginger Rogers, William Holden, Paul Douglas, James Gleason, Jesse White

Synopsis: Sir James Barrie's whimsical play Rosalind was updated and urbanized as the 1953 film Forever Female. Ginger Rogers plays a veteran Broadway star who has optioned a play written by William Holden. Though on the less sunny side of 40, Rogers expects to play the leading role, that of a 19 year old Read More

1953
The Stars are Singing

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Rosemary Clooney, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Lauritz Melchior, Tom Morton

Synopsis: Not only are stars Anna Maria Alberghetti and Rosemary Clooney singing, but also a medium-sized roster of "special guest stars." Alberghetti plays an illegal Polish alien, while Clooney is a dewey-eyed showbiz aspirant who protects the refugee girl. The two ladies pin their hopes on a TV talent Read More

1953
The Turning Point

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: William Holden, Edmond O'Brien, Alexis Smith, Tom Tully, Ed Begley, Sr.

Synopsis: Edmond O'Brien stars as an idealistic state's attorney assigned to crack down on a crime syndicate. This proves more dangerous than first suspected, since the syndicate has a number of city officials in its pocket--including the father of one of the investigating committee's chairpersons. William Holden Read More

1952
Carrie

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Eddie Albert, Miriam Hopkins, Basil Ruysdael

Synopsis: Carrie is based on Sister Carrie, a novel by Theodore Dreiser. Dreiser's clumsy, unwieldy prose is streamlined into a neat and precise screenplay by Ruth and Augustus Goetz. Jennifer Jones stars as Carrie, who leaves her go-nowhere small town for the wicked metropolis of Chicago. Here she becomes Read More

1952
Something to Live For

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Joan Fontaine, Ray Milland, Teresa Wright, Richard Derr, Douglas Dick

Synopsis: Something to Live For is the last of director George Stevens' "small" films, before he concentrated full-time on such blockbusters as Shane and Giant. Joan Fontaine plays a popular actress who descends into alcoholism. Ray Milland, in an unofficial extension of his Lost Weekend role, plays a Read More

1952
My Son, John

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Helen Hayes, Van Heflin, Robert Walker, Dean Jagger, Minor Watson

Synopsis: Filled with the kind of Red Scare propaganda that must have delighted members of McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee, this drama chronicles the attempts of two All-American parents to save their son from the temptations of Communism. Unfortunately, they are too late. The arrogant and Read More

1952
Jumping Jacks

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Mona Freeman, Don DeFore, Robert Strauss

Synopsis: Although The Stooge had been filmed right after Martin and Lewis' Sailor Beware, the film was temporarily shelved so that the team could continue their winning streak of military comedies with Jumping Jacks. This time, Dean Martin plays Chick Allen, a paratrooper-in-training whose commanding Read More

1952
Red Snow

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Guy Madison, Ray Mala, Carole Mathews, Gloria Saunders, Robert Peyton

Synopsis: Red Snow utilizes several reels of documentary footage around which to construct a fictional Cold War plotline. Guy Madison stars as a US pilot, sent to the Bering Straits to investigate suspicious activities. Madison teams with Eskimo soldier Ray Mala to discover that the rascally Russians--only Read More

1952
The Greatest Show on Earth

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston, Dorothy Lamour, Gloria Grahame

Synopsis: Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth is a lavish tribute to circuses, featuring three intertwining plotlines concerning romance and rivalry beneath the big top. DeMille's film includes spectacular action sequences, including a show-stopping train wreck. The Greatest Show on Earth won Read More

1952
Just for You

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman, Ethel Barrymore, Robert Arthur, Natalie Wood

Synopsis: Just for You is based very loosely on Stephen Vincent Benet's Famous. Widowed Broadway producer Jordan Blake (Bing Crosby) is too busy with work to pay much attention to his teenaged kids Jerry (Robert Arthur) and Barbara (Natalie Wood). One thing he hasn't noticed is that Jerry isn't Read More

1952
Here Comes the Groom

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman, Alexis Smith, Franchot Tone, James Barton

Synopsis: Here Comes the Groom was the second collaboration between director Frank Capra and star Bing Crosby. Though not as "socially relevant" as previous Capra productions, the film is a thoroughly likeable yarn about a happy-go-lucky newspaperman named Pete (Bing Crosby). In order to legally adopt a Read More

1951
Rhubarb

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Ray Milland, Jan Sterling, Gene Lockhart, William Frawley, Elsie Holmes

Synopsis: Rhubarb is an amusing, if not entirely faithful, adaptation of the H. Allen Smith novel of the same name. When Thaddeus J. Banner (Gene Lockhart), multimillionaire owner of the Brooklyn baseball team, passes away, he wills the team -- and his $30 million estate -- to his pugnacious pet cat Read More

1951
When Worlds Collide

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hanson, John Hoyt, Larry Keating

Synopsis: First published in 1932, Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer's speculative novel When Worlds Collide was immediately purchased by Paramount as a possible project for director Cecil B. DeMille. But because none of Paramount's scriptwriters were able to come up with an adequate screen treatment, the Read More

1951
A Place in the Sun

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Keefe Brasselle, Anne Revere, Fred Clark

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was remade in 1951 by George Stevens as A Place in the Sun. Montgomery Clift stars as George Eastman, a handsome and charming but basically aimless young man who goes to work in a Read More

1951
Submarine Command

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: William Holden, Nancy Olson, William Bendix, Don Taylor, Arthur Franz

Synopsis: Submarine Command reunites the romantic leads from Sunset Boulevard, William Holden and Nancy Olsen. Holden is cast as Commander White, who during an enemy attack orders that his submarine dive to avoid destruction. Though his action saves his crew, it results in the death of the machine-gunner Read More

1951
My Favorite Spy

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Bob Hope, Hedy Lamarr, Francis L. Sullivan, Arnold Moss, John Archer

Synopsis: Bob Hope is up to his famous nose in danger in this espionage comedy. Second-rate burlesque comic Peanuts White (Hope) is approached by federal agents who think that he's international spy Eric Augustine, to whom Peanuts bears a striking resemblance. When they realize that Peanuts and Eric are two Read More

1951
Ace in the Hole

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall, Frank Cady

Synopsis: Billy Winder directed and co-wrote this bitterly satiric comedy-drama which turns a jaundiced eye towards both the news media and its consumers. Chuck Tatum (Kirk Douglas) is a talented but short-tempered reporter whose fondness for booze and unwillingness to bow to authority has cost him jobs at Read More

1951
Darling, How Could You!

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Joan Fontaine, John Lund, Mona Freeman, Peter Hanson, David Stollery

Synopsis: Darling, How Could You is an amiable adaptation of James M. Barrie's stage perennial Alice-Sit- By-the-Fire. Joan Fontaine and John Lund head the cast as Alice and Robert Grey, who return to London from a five-year sojourn at the Panama canal, where Robert, a doctor, has tended to the sick. Upon Read More

1951
Detective Story

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Lee Grant, Bert Freed, George Macready, Cathy O'Donnell

Synopsis: Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play Detective Story was praised for its realistic view of an event-filled day in a single police precinct station. The film, directed by meticulous taskmaster William Wyler, manages to retain this realism, even allowing for the star-turn performance of Kirk Douglas. A Read More

1951
That's My Boy

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Ruth Hussey, Eddie Mayehoff, Marion Marshall

Synopsis: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis' second starring vehicle was the odd mixture of slapstick and sentiment known as That's My Boy. Lewis is cast as Junior Jackson, the milquetoast son of former college football All-American "Jarrin' Jack" Jackson (Eddie Mayehoff). Regarding Junior as a disgrace, Jarrin' Read More

1951
Payment on Demand

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Bette Davis, Barry Sullivan, Jane Cowl, Kent Taylor, Betty Lynn, Frances Dee

Synopsis: Just before filming All About Eve, Bette Davis starred in the marital melodrama Payment on Demand. Davis plays the wife of Barry Sullivan, who one fine morning demands a divorce. Most of the film is in flashback, recounting the events leading up to the marital schism. After Sullivan takes up with Frances Dee Read More

1951
The Furies

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Walter Huston, Judith Anderson, Gilbert Roland

Synopsis: Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston give standout performances in this dark, psychological western, which Martin Scorsese has compared to the work of Dostoevsky. T.C. Jeffords (Huston) is a cunning and highly successful ranch owner who has announced his engagement to a wealthy socialite, Flo Read More

1950
Mr. Music

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Bing Crosby, Nancy Olson, Charles Coburn, Ruth Hussey, Robert Stack, Peggy Lee

Synopsis: Bing Crosby stars as Paul Merrick, an irresponsible songwriter in Mr. Music. Merrick's improvidence and prodigality has made him persona non grata in show business, so his secretary Katherine Holbrook (Nancy Olson) takes it upon herself to rehabilitate her boss. Meanwhile, producer Alex Conway (Charles Coburn Read More

1950
Dark City

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Viveca Lindfors, Dean Jagger, Don DeFore

Synopsis: Though he had previously appeared in David Bradley's film adaptation of Julius Caesar, Dark City marked Charlton Heston's first role in a major Hollywood production. Danny (Heston) and his pals Augie (Jack Webb), Soldier (Henry Morgan), and Barney (Ed Begley Sr.) set up a poker game to take Arthur Read More

1950
Copper Canyon

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Ray Milland, Hedy Lamarr, MacDonald Carey, Mona Freeman

Synopsis: Set just after the close of the Civil War, a former Confederate officer (Ray Milland) joins a vaudeville target-shooting show to avoid detection by the Union army. Working his way West, he falls in league with a group of Southern copper-miners being harassed as they try to make a living. ~ John Read More

1950
All About Eve

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill

Synopsis: Based on the story The Wisdom of Eve by Mary Orr, All About Eve is an elegantly bitchy backstage story revolving around aspiring actress Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter). Tattered and forlorn, Eve shows up in the dressing room of Broadway mega-star Margo Channing (Bette Davis), weaving a melancholy Read More

1950
Let's Dance

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Fred Astaire, Betty Hutton, Roland Young, Ruth Warrick, Lucile Watson, Gregory Moffett

Synopsis: Fred Astaire and Betty Hutton make a surprisingly copacetic screen team in Let's Dance. Hutton plays a more sedate role than usual as war widow Kitty McNeil. Not wishing to have her young son Richard (Gregory Moffatt) grow up in the stiff and stuffy environs of her Boston in-laws' mansion, Kitty Read More

1950
Sunset Boulevard

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark

Synopsis: Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom. The story begins at the end as the body of Joe Gillis (William Holden) is fished out of a Hollywood swimming pool. From The Great Beyond, Joe details the circumstances of Read More

1/1/50
No Man of Her Own

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Phyllis Thaxter, Lyle Bettger, Jane Cowl

Synopsis: A woman is torn between a comfortable lie and the painful truth in this drama. After she is abandoned by her unfaithful boyfriend Stephen Morely (Lyle Bettger), Helen Ferguson (Barbara Stanwyck) discovers that she's pregnant, and she has no choice but to go home to her family. Shortly after Read More

1950
Riding High

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Bing Crosby, Coleen Gray, Charles Bickford, Frances Gifford, Raymond Walburn

Synopsis: Anxious to remain active in the 1950s, director Frank Capra wanted to prove to Paramount Pictures that he could deliver an "A" picture on a modest budget. To that end, Capra bought the rights of his 1934 film Broadway Bill from Columbia, and remade it under the title Riding High. He then hired Read More

1950
Samson and Delilah

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Henry Wilcoxon

Synopsis: Samson and Delilah is Cecil B. DeMille's characteristically expansive retelling of the events found in the Old Testament passages of Judges 13-16. Victor Mature plays Samson, the superstrong young Danite. Samson aspires to marry Philistine noblewoman Semadar (Angela Lansbury), but she is killed Read More

1949
Manhandled

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Dorothy Lamour, Sterling Hayden, Dan Duryea, Irene Hervey, Phillip Reed

Synopsis: Produced by Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit, Manhandled is a no-nonsense film noir with a well-chosen cast. Small-time hoodlum Karl Benson (Dan Duryea) uses and abuses several innocent people in his efforts to get ahead. Among Benson's victims is Merl Kramer (Dorothy Lamour), who doesn't find out Read More

1949
My Friend Irma

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: John Lund, Diana Lynn, Don DeFore, Marie Wilson, Dean Martin

Synopsis: My Friend Irma was supposed to be a straightforward adaptation of the popular radio sitcom of the same name. The film's focus therefore was supposed to be on air-headed Irma Peterson (Marie Wilson), her levelheaded roommate, Jane Stacy (Diana Lynn, taking over from the radio series' Cathy Lewis) Read More

1949
Beyond the Forest

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Bette Davis, Joseph Cotten, David Brian, Ruth Roman, Regis Toomey, Minor Watson

Synopsis: "What a dump!" That's the classic line delivered by Bette Davis at the halfway point of Beyond the Forest, her final Warner Bros. effort of the 1940s. Some Davis devotees feel as though this vituperative utterance is the high point of an otherwise turgid melodrama; others consider the line a Read More

1949
The File on Thelma Jordon

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly, Joan Tetzel, Stanley Ridges

Synopsis: No one is as good as Barbara Stanwyck when she's bad. Here Stanwyck plays Thelma Jordon, a woman who late one night shows up in the office of happily married Assistant DA Cleve Marshall (Wendell Corey) to seek help in solving the string of robberies at her wealthy aunt's estate. Before Cleve can Read More

1949
Rope of Sand

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, Sam Jaffe

Synopsis: Producer Hal Wallis evidently hoped to recapture the magic of his earlier Casablanca with 1949's Rope of Sand. To that end, he hired three of Casablanca's supporting players: Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, and Peter Lorre. This time, Henreid is the villain, a sadistic police inspector named Paul Read More

1949
Red, Hot and Blue

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Betty Hutton, Victor Mature, William Demarest, June Havoc, Jane Nigh

Synopsis: Taken (as far as possible) from the Cole Porter musical comedy of the same name, Red, Hot and Blue stars Betty Hutton as an ambitious chorus girl. Hutton gets a job with a musical comedy bankrolled by gangsters, and is the wrong girl at the wrong place when one of the show's backers (William Talman Read More

1949
The Great Lover

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, Roland Young, Roland Culver, Richard Lyon

Synopsis: In The Great Lover, Bob Hope plays "Boy Rangers" scoutmaster Freddie Hunter, who accompanies his young charges on a European tour. During the ocean voyage to the continent, Freddie falls under the influence of erudite cardsharp O. J. Dabney (Roland Young), who promotes a romance between Freddie Read More

1949
The Heiress

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins, Vanessa Brown

Synopsis: Henry James based his 1881 novella Washington Square on a real-life incident, wherein a young actor of his acquaintance married an unattractive but very wealthy young woman for the express purpose of living the rest of his life in luxury. Washington Square was turned into a stage play in 1946 by Read More

1949
My Foolish Heart

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward, Kent Smith, Lois Wheeler, Jesse Royce Landis

Synopsis: Producer Samuel Goldwyn dishes up sentiment by the bowlful with My Foolish Heart. Susan Hayward is (somewhat unconvincingly) cast as a wide-eyed girl from Idaho who meets bon vivant Dana Andrews at a Manhattan party. Their brief affair results in a pregnancy, but since Andrews has been killed in Read More

1949
The Great Gatsby

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Alan Ladd, Betty Field, MacDonald Carey, Ruth Hussey, Barry Sullivan

Synopsis: This second film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's definitive jazz-age novel The Great Gatsby stars Alan Ladd in the title role. Jay Gatsby, formerly Jake Gatz, is a successful bootlegger with aspirations of being accepted in the highest social circles of Long Island. Once he's done this, Gatsby Read More

1949
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, Cedric Hardwicke, William Bendix, Murvyn Vye, Henry Wilcoxon

Synopsis: Though the Mark Twain original has been refashioned into a Bing Crosby vehicle, this 1949 musical adaptation of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a lot more faithful to the Twain original than either of the two previous film versions. Crosby plays Hank Martin, a turn-of-the-century Read More

1949
The Accused

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Loretta Young, Robert Cummings, Wendell Corey, Sam Jaffe, Douglas Dick

Synopsis: The Accused is a mystery melodrama with a predictable plot involving blackmail, attempted rape and murder. Loretta Young stars as Wilma Tuttle, a prim and proper college professor who unwittingly arouses the libido of student Bill Perry (Douglas Dick). When Perry tries to rape Wilma under cover of Read More

1948
So Evil My Love

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Ann Todd, Ray Milland, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Moira Lister, Martita Hunt

Synopsis: Taking advantage of Paramount's "frozen funds" in Britain, producer Hal Wallis was able to film much of So Evil My Love in London. Based on a novel by Joseph Shearing, whose previous Gothic romances included Moss Rose and Blanche Fury, the film stars Ray Milland in his first (but hardly his last) Read More

1948
Saigon

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Wally Cassell, Douglas Dick,