A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.

Costume Designer                          

Among the actresses Edith Head designed for were:

Mae West in She Done Him Wrong - 1933 - and Myra Breckinridge - 1970
Frances Farmer in Rhythm on the Range - 1936 and Ebb Tide - 1937
Paulette Goddard in The Cat and the Canary - 1939
Veronica Lake in Sullivan's Travels - 1941 and I Married a Witch - 1942
Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Eve and Ball of Fire - 1941 and Double Indemnity - 1944
Ginger Rogers in Lady in the Dark - 1944
Ingrid Bergman in Notorious - 1946
Dorothy Lamour in The Hurricane - 1937 - and in most of "The Road" movies.
Betty Hutton in Incendiary Blonde - 1945 and The Perils of Pauline - 1947
Loretta Young in The Farmer's Daughter - 1947
Bette Davis in June Bride - 1948
Olivia de Havilland in The Heiress - 1949
Hedy Lamarr and Angela Lansbury in Samson and Delilah - 1949
Bette Davis and Anne Baxter in All About Eve - 1950
Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard - 1950
Elizabeth Taylor in A Place in the Sun - 1951 and Elephant Walk - 1954
Joan Fontaine in Something to Live For - 1952
Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday - 1953
Ann Robinson in The War of the Worlds - 1953
Grace Kelly in Rear Window - 1954 - and To Catch a Thief - 1955
Doris Day in The Man Who Knew Too Much - 1956
Anne Baxter in The Ten Commandments - 1956
Marlene Dietrich in Witness for the Prosecution - 1957
Rita Hayworth in Separate Tables - 1958
Kim Novak in Vertigo - 1958
Sophia Loren in That Kind of Woman - 1959
Patricia Neal in Breakfast at Tiffany's - 1961
Tippi Hedren in The Birds - 1963 and Marnie - 1964
Claude Jade in Topaz - 1969
Jill Clayburgh in Gable and Lombard - 1976
Valerie Perrine in W.C. Fields and Me - 1976

Oscar nominations

1949 – Color – The Emperor Waltz
1950 – Black and White – The Heiress – won
1951 – Color – Samson and Delilah – won
1951 – Black and White – All About Eve – won
1952 – Black and White – A Place in the Sun – won
1953 – Color – The Greatest Show on Earth
1953 – Black and White – Carrie
1954 – Black and White – Roman Holiday – won
1955 – Black and White – Sabrina – won

Although Edith Head won an Oscar for Best Costumes - most of Audrey Hepburn's outfits were in fact created by Hubert de Givenchy and chosen by the star herself. Edith Head refused to be shown alongside Givenchy in the credits - so she was given credit for the costumes - even though the Academy's votes were obviously for Hepburn's attire. Edith Head did not  - however -  refuse the Oscar.

1956 – Color – To Catch a Thief
1956 – Black and White – The Rose Tattoo
1957 – Color – The Ten Commandments
1957 – Black and White – The Proud and Profane
1958 – Best Costume Design – Funny Face
1959 – Best Costume Design - Black and White or Color – The Buccaneer
1960 – Color – The Five Pennies
1960 – Black and White – Career
1961 – Color – Pepe
1961 – Black and White – The Facts of Life – won
1962 – Color – Pocketful of Miracles
1963 – Color – My Geisha
1963 – Black and White – The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1964 – Color – A New Kind of Love
1964 – Black and White – Wives and Lovers
1964 – Black and White – Love with the Proper Stranger
1965 – Color – What a Way to Go!
1965 – Black and White – A House Is Not A Home
1966 – Color – Inside Daisy Clover
1966 – Black and White – The Slender Thread
1967 – Color – The Oscar

Oscars no longer awarded separately for Color or Black and White
1970 – Sweet Charity
1971 – Airport
1974 – The Sting – won
1976 – The Man Who Would Be King
1978 – Airport '77
                          

Mother Anna E. Levy
Father Max Posener
First husband Charles Head, divorced in 1936.
Second husband Wiard Ihnen, married 1940, until his death in 1968.                          

Whether her parents were married is unknown but, in 1901, her mother married Frank Spare and Edith was passed off as his child.