Title: Edith Head Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1934-1965

Creator:

• Head, Edith

Call Number: U.S. Mss 81AN

Quantity: 15.4 cubic feet (7 archives boxes and 21 flat boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society Archives / Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
Contact Information

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Edith Head, a well known motion picture costume designer. Watercolor, pen and ink, and pencil sketches, many bearing notes on fabric and costs, comprise the majority of the collection. In addition to designs for All About Eve (20th Century-Fox, 1950), The Five Pennies (Paramount, 1959), Love With a Proper Stranger (Paramount, 1963), Pepe (Columbia, 1960), Sabrina (Paramount, 1954), and To Catch a Thief (Paramount, 1955), all of which received Academy awards or nominations for costuming, there are examples of her work for Artists and Models (Paramount, 1955), Breakfast at Tiffany's (Paramount, 1961), Come Blow Your Horn (Paramount, 1963), The Pleasure of His Company (Paramount, 1956), and Wives and Lovers (Paramount, 1963). Also included in the collection are some miscellaneous special designs, portions of her book The Dress Doctor (1959), and related correspondence, biographical clippings, and articles.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-us0081an

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Edith Head was one of the most versatile and successful costume designers in motion picture history. She was born in Los Angeles, California, on October 28, 1899. Most of her early years were spent in mining towns or on Indian reservations, wherever her father worked as a mining engineer. Later she lived in Texas, Arizona, and Southern California. She graduated from Los Angeles High School and enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley, majoring in Romance languages. Upon obtaining her A.B. Degree from Berkeley, she entered graduate school at Stanford University, where she earned the degree of Master of Arts.

Head then took a position at the Bishop School for girls in La Jolla, California, where she taught French and Spanish. At the same time, she enrolled in evening classes at Otis Art Institute and Chouinard Art School. Among her students were the children of the famous movie director, Cecil B. DeMille. In the summer of 1924 when she tutored the DeMilles to supplement her income, she had opportunities to visit DeMille's movie sets. About these visits Miss Head said, “I was intrigued,” and by the end of that summer she had answered an ad calling for costume sketch artists. When Howard Greer, then head designer at Paramount, asked for samples of her work, she returned the following day with a portfolio of drawings borrowed from her fellow students at Chouinard. Head remembered, “Howard said he'd never seen so much talent in one portfolio. I got the job.”

She spent the first months of her work as a sketch artist for Greer and his assistant, Travis Banton, but then graduated into the “horse opera class” where she stayed four years doing “leather chaps and one- and two- pistol skirts for rip-roaring westerns.” The next move up the ladder took her to the “grandmother class,” which she explained as being the class “where somebody else does the leading lady and you do the grandmothers and the aunts and anybody that's left over.” She was in this class for another four years until Howard Greer retired to do free lance work, at which time she was made assistant designer under Travis Banton. When Banton resigned in 1938 to join Greer, Edith Head was named head designer at Paramount Studios, the only woman to hold such a position at that time. She worked for many years at Paramount Studios, but also worked at MGM, Warner Brothers Studios, Universal, Columbia, and 20th Century-Fox. Her last film was the comedy, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, starring Steve Martin in 1982.

Edith Head wrote two books, did radio work, made regular appearances on television, and wrote sketches for fashion magazines and periodicals all over the world. One of her books, The Dress Doctor, was a best-seller.

She had her own radio program, Edith Head's Fashionscope, on CBS radio. On television she appeared regularly once-a-month on Art Linkletter's House Party, and frequently on such television programs as the Mike Douglas Show, the Merv Griffin Show, Virginia Graham, and the Gypsy Rose-Lee Show. She expanded her career to work as a columnist for Newsday Specials and prepared two columns a week for leading newspapers all over the country.

Edith Head won the Costume Designers's Guild award as the leading and most outstanding designer in the motion picture industry. She was the Los Angeles Times' “Woman of the Year” and the President of the Costume Designers' Guild.

Over the course of her career, she won eight Academy Awards and thirty-five nominations for costume design. She received her first award in 1950. See the listing of Academy Awards and nominations.

Edith Head was married to Wiard Ihnen, noted architect and motion picture set designer, who won two Academy Awards himself, for the designs for the movies Wilson and Blood on the Sun. They lived in Beverly Hills, California. Ihnen died in 1979; Edith Head died on October 24, 1981.

Academy Awards (Awards presented following year):

1949:	The Heiress (black and white)
1950:	All About Eve (black and white)
1950:	Samson and Delilah (Technicolor)
1951:	A Place in the Sun (black and white)
1953:	Roman Holiday (black and white)
1954:	Sabrina (black and white)
1960:	The Facts of Life (black and white)
1973:	The Sting (Technicolor)

List of Nominations for Academy Awards (in addition to Academy Awards presented):

1948:	The Emperor Waltz (Technicolor)
1952:	Carrie (black and white)
1952:	The Greatest Show on Earth (Technicolor)
1955:	The Rose Tattoo (black and white)
1955:	To Catch a Thief (Technicolor)
1956:	The Ten Commandments (Technicolor)
1956:	The Proud and the Profane (black and white)
1957:	Funny Face (Technicolor)
1958:	The Buccaneer (Technicolor)
1959:	The Five Pennies (Technicolor)
1959:	Career (black and white)
1960:	Pepe (Technicolor)
1961:	Pocketful of Miracles (Technicolor)
1962:	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (black and white)
1962:	Geisha (Technicolor)
1963:	Love With the Proper Stranger (black and white)
1963:	A New Kind of Love (Technicolor)
1963:	Wives and Lovers (black and white)
1964:	A House Is Not a Home (black and white)
1964:	What a Way to Go (Technicolor)
1965:	The Slender Thread (black and white)
1965:	Daisy Clover (Technicolor)
1966:	The Oscar (Technicolor)
1969:	Sweet Charity (Technicolor)
1970:	Airport (Technicolor)
1975:	The Man Who Would Be King (Technicolor)
1977:	Airport'77 (Technicolor)

The Edith Head Collection consists of 28 boxes of materials relating to her work as one of the leading costume designers of the motion picture industry.

The first 20 boxes contain assorted watercolor, pen and ink, and pencil sketches done on sketch paper or tissue paper; many of these sketches are mounted on cardboard or tagboard. In addition, many of the sketches are annotated by character, scene, actress, fabric, cost, approvals, or rejections. Though most of the designs are for female characters, there are a few designs for male characters, e.g., Paul Newman, Brandon De Wilde, and Melvyn Douglas in Hud. For the most part, these sketches are for motion pictures. There are sketches for 55 different motion pictures from the period 1934 to 1965, including Academy Award winning designs for All About Eve (1950) and Sabrina (1954). The Pleasure of His Company (1958) is the only stage play for which there are designs (see Box 11, Folder 1). Also included in this part of the collection are designs for the “Lucille Ball Television Special” (1964) (see Box 19, Folder 2); designs especially for celebrities, including Lucille Ball, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Greer Garson, Grace Kelly, and Natalie Wood; and 81 unidentified watercolor and pencil sketches.

Boxes 21-25 contain records of her awards and appearances, serialized portions of her first book, The Dress Doctor, limited related correspondence, newspaper and magazine articles by Edith Head, and newspaper and magazine articles about Edith Head. The period covered primarily is from 1959 to 1963, although the earliest clippings date from 1936.

Boxes 26-27 contain dress patterns by Edith Head, patterns based on her designs, and patterns based on Hollywood costumes not done by Edith Head. The patterns were donated by Elizabeth Barranca in 2011.

Box 28 has two scrapbooks of publicity, primarily newspaper clippings, dating from 1936 to 1944.

Edith Head Papers at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Edith Head, Los Angeles, California, 1967 and 1968. Dress patterns donated by Elizabeth Barranca, 2011. Accession Number: MCHC67-024, MCHC68-063, M2013-128.

Processing Information

Processed by G. Talbot and L. Davis, 1974; reprocessed by N. Vandeweghe, 2012.

U.S. Mss 81AN	Series: Motion Pictures
	All About Eve (Fox, 1950)
Box   1 Folder   1	1 color sketch of evening gown
	All in a Night's Work (Paramount, 1961)
Box   1 Folder   2	1 color sketch for “Katie Robbins” / (Shirley MacLaine)
	Anything Goes (Paramount, 1956)
Box   1 Folder   3	2 color sketches for “Gaby Duval” / (Zizi Jeanmaire)
Box   1 Folder   3	1 black and white sketch, 'Edith Head Designs for Jeanmaire' - “Gaby Duval” / (Zizi Jeanmaire)
Box   1 Folder   3	2 color sketches for “Patsy Blair” / (Mitzi Gaynor)
Box   1 Folder   3	1 black and white photo plate, 'Designs for Mitzi Gaynor' as “Patsy Blair”
Box   1 Folder   3	4 additional color sketches
	Artists and Models (Paramount, 1955)
Box   1 Folder   4A	7 color thumbnail sketches for “Bessie Sparrowbrush” / (Shirley MacLaine)
Box   1 Folder   4B	3 color final sketches for “Bessie Sparrowbrush” / (Shirley MacLaine)
Box   1 Folder   5	1 color sketch for “Bessie Sparrowbrush” / (Shirley MacLaine)
Box   1 Folder   5	3 color final sketches for “Bessie Sparrowbrush” / (Shirley MacLaine)
Box   1 Folder   6A	6 color thumbnail sketches for “Abigail Parker” / (Dorothy Malone)
Box   1 Folder   6B	4 color final sketches for Abigail Parker” / (Dorothy Malone)
Box   2 Folder   1	6 color thumbnail sketches for “Sonia” / (Eva Gabor)
Box   2 Folder   1	3 color final sketches for “Sonia” / (Eva Gabor)
Box   2 Folder   2	2 additional color final sketches
Box   2 Folder   2	1 additional color sketch
Box   2 Folder   3	1 color final sketch for “Toulouse-Lautrec”
Box   2 Folder   3	1 color final sketch for “Mr. Murdock” / (Eddie Mayehoff)
Box   2 Folder   4A	2 color final sketches for “Anita” / (Anita Ekberg)
Box   2 Folder   4B	1 color final sketch for “Rick Todd” / (Dean Martin)
Box   2 Folder   5	1 color final sketch for “Bat Boys”
Box   2 Folder   5	1 color final sketch for “The Eating Blonde”
Box   2 Folder   6	1 color final sketch for “Fieldmouse”
Box   2 Folder   6	1 color final sketch for “Dancing Girls”
Box   2 Folder   7	1 color final sketch for “Zuba Queen”
Box   2 Folder   7	1 color final sketch for “Jack + Jill”
Box   2 Folder   7	1 color sketch for “Zuba Girls”
Box   2 Folder   7	1 unfinished pencil sketch for “Zuba Girls”
Box   2 Folder   7	1 color sketch for “Vulture Boys”
Box   2 Folder   7	1 color collection sketch of women's fashion evening gowns
Box   2 Folder   7	2 black and white collection sketches of men's fashion attire
	The Birds and the Bees (Paramount, 1956) Note: Remake of the movie Lady Eve.
Box   3 Folder   1	9 color thumbnail sketches for “Jean” / (Mitzi Gaynor)
	The Black Orchid (Paramount, 1958)
Box   3 Folder   2	10 color sketches for “Rose Bianco” / (Sophia Loren)
	Blue Hawaii (Paramount, 1961)
Box   3 Folder   3	19 color sketches for “Maile Duval” / (Joan Blackman)
	Breakfast at Tiffany's (Paramount, 1961)
Box   3 Folder   4A	19 color thumbnail sketches for (Audrey Hepburn)
Box   3 Folder   4A	1 color sketch for “Holly Golightly” / (Audrey Hepburn)
Box   3 Folder   4B	18 additional color sketches
Box   3 Folder   4C	16 additional color sketches
Box   3 Folder   4D	9 additional color sketches
Box   3 Folder   4D	1 additional black and white sketch
	But Not for Me (Paramount, 1959)
Box   3 Folder   5A	4 color sketches for “Ellie Brown” / (Carroll Baker)
Box   3 Folder   5B	6 additional color sketches
Box   3 Folder   5B	1 additional black and white sketch
	Career (Paramount, 1959)
Box   3 Folder   6A	4 color sketches for “Sharon Kensington” / (Shirley MacLaine)
Box   3 Folder   6A	2 additional unfinished pencil sketches
Box   3 Folder   6B	6 color sketches for “Barbara Helmsley” / (Joan Blackman)
Box   3 Folder   6B	2 color sketches for “Marjorie Burke” / (Donna Douglas)
	Come Blow Your Horn (Paramount, 1963)
Box   3 Folder   7A	7 color sketches for “Connie” / (Barbara Rush)
Box   3 Folder   7A	7 additional color sketches
Box   3 Folder   7B	6 color thumbnail sketches for “Peggy John” / (Jill St. John)
Box   3 Folder   7B	9 color sketches for “Peggy John” / (Jill St. John)
Box   3 Folder   7B	9 additional color sketches
Box   3 Folder   7C	3 color thumbnail sketches for “Mrs. Eckman” / (Phyllis McGuire)
Box   3 Folder   7C	7 color sketches for “Mrs. Eckman” / (Phyllis McGuire)
	The Counterfeit Traitor (Paramount, 1962)
Box   4 Folder   1A	23 color thumbnail sketches for “Melanie”
Box   4 Folder   1B	3 color sketches for “Ingrid Erickson” / (Eva Dahlbeck)
Box   4 Folder   1B	15 additional color sketches
Box   4 Folder   1C	16 additional color sketches
Box   4 Folder   1C	4 additional black and white sketches
	The Country Girl (Paramount, 1954)
Box   4 Folder   2	2 color sketches for “Georgie Elgin” / (Grace Kelly)
	Donovan's Reef (Paramount, 1963)
Box   4 Folder   3A	2 color final sketches for “Amelia Dedham” / (Elizabeth Allen)
Box   4 Folder   3B	2 color final sketches for “Amelia Dedham” / (Elizabeth Allen)
Box   4 Folder   4	3 color final sketches
Box   4 Folder   5A	2 color sketches for “Amelia Dedham” / (Elizabeth Allen)
Box   4 Folder   5A	1 black and white sketch for “Amelia Dedham” / (Elizabeth Allen)
Box   4 Folder   5A	2 color sketches for “Lelani Dedham” / (Jacqueline Malouf)
Box   4 Folder   5A	1 color sketch for “The Angel Children”
Box   4 Folder   5B	22 additional color sketches
Box   5 Folder   1A	1 color final sketch for “Miss Lafleur” / (Dorothy Lamour)
Box   5 Folder   1A	7 additional black and white sketches
Box   5 Folder   1B	9 additional black and white sketches
	Don't Give Up the Ship (Paramount, 1959)
Box   5 Folder   2A	8 color sketches for “Prudence” / (Diana Spencer)
Box   5 Folder   2B	23 additional color sketches
	The Far Horizons (Paramount, 1955)
Box   5 Folder   3	1 color final sketch for “Sacajawea” / (Donna Reed)
Box   5 Folder   3	1 black and white final sketch for “Sacajawea” / (Donna Reed)
Box   5 Folder   3	2 color final sketches for “Julia Hancock” / (Barbara Hale)
	The Five Pennies (Paramount, 1959)
Box   5 Folder   4A	1 color sketch for “Tommye Eden” / (Valerie Allen)
Box   5 Folder   4A	3 color sketches for “Dorothy Nichols” / (Tuesday Weld)
Box   5 Folder   4A	8 additional color sketches
Box   5 Folder   4B	15 color sketches for “Bobbie/Willa Stutsman” / (Barbara Bel-Geddes)
Box   5 Folder   4B	2 black and white sketches for “Bobbie/Willa Stutsman” / (Barbara Bel-Geddes)
	The Girl Rush (Paramount, 1955)
Box   5 Folder   5A	15 color thumbnail sketches for “Kim Halliday” / (Rosalind Russell)
Box   5 Folder   5B	5 color sketches for “Kim Halliday” / (Rosalind Russell)
Box   5 Folder   5B	2 additional color sketches
Box   5 Folder   5B	1 color sketch for “Taffy Tremaine” / (Gloria DeHaven)
Box   5 Folder   5C	9 additional color sketches
	Girls, Girls, Girls (Paramount, 1962)
Box   6 Folder   1A	3 color thumbnail sketches
Box   6 Folder   1A	20 color sketches for “Robin Gantner” / (Stella Stevens)
Box   6 Folder   1B	20 color sketches for “Laurel Dodge” / (Laurel Goodwin)
Box   6 Folder   1C	19 color sketches for “Laurel Dodge” / (Laurel Goodwin)
Box   6 Folder   1C	2 additional color sketches
Box   6 Folder   1C	1 additional black and white sketch
	A Girl Named Tamiko (Paramount, 1962)
Box   6 Folder   2A	6 color sketches for “Tamiko” / (France Nuyen)
Box   6 Folder   2A	4 additional color sketches
Box   6 Folder   2B	11 color sketches for “Fay Wilson” / (Martha Hyer)
Box   6 Folder   2C	15 color sketches for “Fay Wilson” / (Martha Hyer)
	The Hallelujah Trail (United Artists, 1965)
Box   6 Folder   3A	Written scene breakdown list for “Cora Templeton Massingale” / (Lee Remick) and “Louise Gearhart” / (Pamela Tiffin)
Box   6 Folder   3B	16 color sketches for “Cora Templeton Massingale” / (Lee Remick)
Box   6 Folder   3B	2 additional black and white sketches for “Cora Templeton Massingale” / (Lee Remick)
Box   6 Folder   3C	9 additional color sketches
Box   6 Folder   3D	1 color sketch for “Louise Gearhart” / (Pamela Tiffin)
Box   6 Folder   3D	1 black and white sketch for “Louise Gearhart” / (Pamela Tiffin)
Box   6 Folder   3D	10 additional color sketches
Box   6 Folder   3D	1 additional black and white sketch
	Heller in Pink Tights (Paramount, 1960)
Box   6 Folder   4A	7 black and white sketches for “Angela Rossini” / (Sophia Loren)
Box   6 Folder   4B	17 additional black and white sketches
Box   6 Folder   4B	1 additional color sketch
	Here Comes the Groom (Paramount, 1951)
Box   6 Folder   5	1 color sketch for “Emmadel Jones” / (Jane Wyman)
	A Hole in the Head (United Artists, 1959)
Box   7 Folder   1	11 color sketches
	Hud (Paramount, 1963)
Box   7 Folder   2A	1 final pencil sketch for “Hud Bannon” (Paul Newman) / by John Lauris Jensen
Box   7 Folder   2B	1 final pencil sketch for “Hud Bannon” (Paul Newman) / by John Lauris Jensen
Box   7 Folder   2C	1 final pencil sketch for “Hud Bannon” (Paul Newman) / by John Lauris Jensen
Box   7 Folder   2D	1 final pencil sketch for “Hud Bannon” (Paul Newman) / by John Lauris Jensen
Box   7 Folder   3A	1 final pencil sketch for “Homer Bannon” (Melvyn Douglas) / by John Lauris Jensen
Box   7 Folder   3B	1 final pencil sketch for “Homer Bannon” (Melvyn Douglas) / by John Lauris Jensen
Box   7 Folder   3C	1 final pencil sketch for “Homer Bannon” (Melvyn Douglas) / by John Lauris Jensen
Box   8 Folder   1A	1 final black and white sketch for “Lon Bannon” (Brandon De Wilde) / by John Lauris Jensen
Box   8 Folder   1B	1 final black and white sketch for “Lon Bannon” (Brandon De Wilde) / by John Lauris Jensen
Box   8 Folder   1C	1 final black and white sketch for “Lon Bannon” (Brandon De Wilde) / by John Lauris Jensen
Box   8 Folder   2A	2 pencil sketches for “Alma Brown” (Patricia Neal)
Box   8 Folder   2B	1 final black and white sketch for “Alma Brown” (Patricia Neal) / by John Lauris Jensen
Box   8 Folder   2C	1 final black and white sketch for “Alma Brown” (Patricia Neal) / by John Lauris Jensen
	I Could Go on Singing (United Artists, 1963)
Box   8 Folder   3A	42 color thumbnail sketches for (Judy Garland)
Box   8 Folder   3A	36 black and white thumbnail sketches (Judy Garland)
Box   8 Folder   3B	17 color sketches for (Judy Garland)
Box   8 Folder   3C	11 color sketches for (Judy Garland)
Box   8 Folder   3C	1 black and white sketch for (Judy Garland)
Box   8 Folder   3D	4 color garment collection sketches / signed by Edith Head
	Living it Up (Paramount, 1954)
Box   8 Folder   4A	8 color sketches for “Wally Cook” / (Janet Leigh)
Box   8 Folder   4B	1 color final sketch for “The Majorettes”
Box   8 Folder   4B	1 additional color final sketch
	Love With a Proper Stranger (Paramount, 1963)
Box   9 Folder   1A	7 black and white sketches for “Angie Rossini” / (Natalie Wood)
Box   9 Folder   1B	19 additional black and white sketches
	Lucy Gallant (Paramount, 1955)
Box   9 Folder   2	8 color sketches
	My Six Loves (Paramount, 1963)
Box   9 Folder   3A	15 color sketches for “Janice Courtney” / (Debbie Reynolds)
Box   9 Folder   3B	14 additional color sketches
Box   9 Folder   3C	17 additional color sketches
Box   9 Folder   3D	14 additional color sketches
Box   9 Folder   3D	2 additional unfinished pencil sketches
	It's Only Money (Paramount, 1962)
Box   9 Folder   4	1 color sketch of bridal gown for “Wanda Paxton” (Joan O'Brien)
	A New Kind of Love (Paramount, 1963)
Box   9 Folder   5A	4 pencil sketches of Christian Dior designs
Box   9 Folder   5B	12 color sketches for “Samantha 'Sam' Blake” / (Joan Woodward)
Box   9 Folder   5B	1 color sketch for “Leena” / (Thelma Ritter)
Box   9 Folder   5C	7 additional color sketches
Box   9 Folder   5C	2 additional color final sketches / signed by Edith Head
	The Nutty Professor (Paramount, 1963)
Box   10 Folder   1A	5 color sketches for “Stella Purdy” / (Stella Stevens)
Box   10 Folder   1A	2 color final sketches for “Stella Purdy” / (Stella Stevens)
Box   10 Folder   1B	3 color final sketches for “Stella Purdy” / (Stella Stevens)
Box   10 Folder   1B	1 color sketch for “Stella Purdy” / (Stella Stevens)
Box   10 Folder   1C	6 additional color sketches
Box   10 Folder   1C	2 additional color final sketches
	On the Double (Paramount, 1961)
Box   10 Folder   2A	7 color thumbnail sketches
Box   10 Folder   2A	1 color sketch for “Corporal Joseph Praeger” / (Jesse White)
Box   10 Folder   2A	13 color sketches for “Lady Margaret MacKenzie” / (Dana Wynter)
Box   10 Folder   2B	10 color sketches for “Lady Margaret MacKenzie” / (Dana Wynter)
Box   10 Folder   2C	22 additional color sketches
Box   10 Folder   2C	1 additional black and white sketch
	Papa's Delicate Condition (Paramount, 1963)
Box   10 Folder   3	1 color sketch for “Augusta Griffith” / (Laurel Goodwin)
Box   10 Folder   3	1 additional color sketch
Box   10 Folder   3	8 color sketches for “Corinne” / (Linda Bruhl)
	The Patsy (Paramount, 1964)
Box   10 Folder   4A	14 color sketches
Box   10 Folder   4A	1 additional black and white sketch
Box   10 Folder   4B	14 color sketches
Box   10 Folder   4B	1 additional black and white sketch
Box   10 Folder   4C	2 color sketches for “Ellen Betz” / (Ina Balin)
Box   10 Folder   4C	1 additional pencil sketch
	Pepe (Columbia, 1960)
Box   10 Folder   5	3 color sketches for “Suzie Murphy” / (Shirley Jones)
Box   10 Folder   5	9 additional color sketches
	The Pleasure of His Company Note: Broadway play opened at Longacre Theater, 1958 October 22.
Box   11 Folder   1	Costume breakdown list for “Katharine 'Kate' Dougherty” / (Cornelia Otis Skinner)
Box   11 Folder   1	5 black and white sketches for “Katharine 'Kate' Dougherty” / (Cornelia Otis Skinner)
	The Pleasure of His Company (Paramount, 1961)
Box   11 Folder   2A	13 color sketches for “Katharine 'Kate' Dougherty” / (Lilli Palmer)
Box   11 Folder   2B	16 color sketches for “Katharine 'Kate' Dougherty” / (Lilli Palmer)
Box   11 Folder   3A	10 color sketches for “Jessica Anne Poole” / (Debbie Reynolds)
Box   11 Folder   3B	17 additional color sketches
Box   11 Folder   3B	1 additional black and white sketch
Box   11 Folder   3C	17 additional color sketches
Box   11 Folder   4	9 color final sketches / signed by [Grace] Sprague and Edith Head
	Pocketful of Miracles (United Artists, 1961)
Box   12 Folder   1A	12 color sketches for “Queenie Martin” / (Hope Lange)
Box   12 Folder   1B	11 additional color sketches
Box   12 Folder   1B	2 additional black and white sketches
	The Rat Race (Paramount, 1960)
Box   12 Folder   2A	12 color thumbnail sketches for “Peggy Brown” / (Debbie Reynolds)
Box   12 Folder   2A	9 additional color sketches for “Peggy Brown” / (Debbie Reynolds)
Box   12 Folder   2B	7 additional color sketches
	Roustabout (Paramount, 1964)
Box   12 Folder   3	6 color sketches for “Cathy Lean” / (Joan Freeman)
Box   12 Folder   3	4 additional color sketches
	Sabrina (Paramount, 1954)
Box   12 Folder   4	5 color and black and white thumbnail sketches for “Sabrina Fairchild” / (Audrey Hepburn)
Box   12 Folder   4	2 color sketches for “Sabrina Fairchild” / (Audrey Hepburn)
Box   12 Folder   4	2 color sketches for “Elizabeth Tyson” / (Martha Hyer)
Box   12 Folder   4	1 additional color sketch
	Separate Tables (United Artists, 1958)
Box   12 Folder   5	5 color sketches for “Ann Shankland” / (Rita Hayworth)
Box   12 Folder   5	6 additional color sketches
	Sex and the Single Girl (Warner Brothers, 1964)
Box   12 Folder   6A	20 pencil thumbnail sketches for “Helen Swann” / (Natalie Wood)
Box   12 Folder   6A	1 pencil collection sketch of blouse collar options
Box   12 Folder   6A	2 additional color sketches for “Helen Brown” / (Natalie Wood)
Box   12 Folder   6A	5 additional color sketches
Box   12 Folder   6B	22 additional color sketches
Box   12 Folder   6C	15 additional color sketches
Box   12 Folder   6C	1 additional pencil sketch
Box   12 Folder   6D	22 additional color sketches
	Summer and Smoke (Paramount, 1961)
Box   13 Folder   1	4 color final sketches for “Nellie Ewell” / (Pamela Tiffin)
Box   13 Folder   2	3 color final sketches for Nellie Ewell” / (Pamela Tiffin)
Box   13 Folder   3A	2 color final sketches for “Alma Winemiller” / (Geraldine Page)
Box   13 Folder   3B	3 color final sketches for “Alma Winemiller” / (Geraldine Page)
Box   13 Folder   4	4 color final sketches for “Alma Winemiller” / (Geraldine Page)
Box   14 Folder   1	4 color final sketches for “Alma Winemiller” / (Geraldine Page)
Box   14 Folder   2A	3 color final sketches for “Rosa Zacharias” / (Rita Moreno)
Box   14 Folder   2B	3 color final sketches
	Sylvia (Paramount, 1965)
Box   14 Folder   3A	3, 4x6-inch pencil sketches on Edith Head memo paper
Box   14 Folder   3A	5 costume/scene breakdown lists
Box   14 Folder   3A	6 unfinished pencil thumbnail sketches for “Sylvia” / (Carroll Baker)
Box   14 Folder   3A	8 additional pencil thumbnail sketches
Box   14 Folder   3B	16 color sketches for “Sylvia” / (Carroll Baker)
Box   14 Folder   3C	27 additional color sketches
Box   14 Folder   4A	22 additional color sketches
Box   14 Folder   4B	13 additional color sketches
Box   14 Folder   4C	16 additional color sketches
	The Ten Commandments (Paramount, 1956)
Box   15 Folder   1	25 black and white continuity photos with accompanying costume breakdown lists
Box   15 Folder   2A	13 color thumbnail sketches/costume plot for “Moses” / (Charlton Heston)
Box   15 Folder   2A	14 color thumbnail sketches/costume plot for “Nefretiri” / (Anne Baxter)
Box   15 Folder   2A	8 color thumbnail sketches/costume plot for “Rameses II” / (Yul Brynner)
Box   15 Folder   2B	7 color thumbnail sketches/costume plot for “Bithiah” / (Nina Foch)
Box   15 Folder   2B	2 color thumbnail sketches/costume plot for “Nefretiri” / (Anne Baxter)
Box   15 Folder   2B	6 color thumbnail sketches/costume plot for “Lilia” / (Debra Paget)
Box   15 Folder   2B	1 color thumbnail sketch (Exodus scene) for “Moses” / (Charlton Heston)
Box   15 Folder   2B	1 color thumbnail sketch (Exodus scene) for “Joshua” / (John Derek)
Box   15 Folder   2B	1 color thumbnail sketch (Exodus scene) for “Miriam” / (Olive Deering)
Box   15 Folder   3A	1 color final sketch for “Nefretiri” / (Anne Baxter) Note: Bottom of sketch reads “The Mode in Costume, R. Turner Wilcox, p. 4.”
Box   15 Folder   3B	1 color final sketch for “Nefretiri” / (Anne Baxter)
Box   15 Folder   3C	1 color final sketch for “Nefretiri” / (Anne Baxter)
Box   15 Folder   4A	1 color final sketch for “Nefretiri” / (Anne Baxter)
Box   15 Folder   4B	1 color final sketch for “Nefretiri” / (Anne Baxter)
Box   15 Folder   4C	1 color final sketch for “Nefretiri” / (Anne Baxter)
Box   15 Folder   5A	1 color final sketch for “Sephora” / (Yvonne De Carlo)
Box   15 Folder   5B	1 color final sketch for “Sephora” / (Yvonne De Carlo)
Box   15 Folder   5C	1 color final sketch for “Sephora” / (Yvonne De Carlo)
Box   16 Folder   1A	1 color final sketch for “Lilia” / (Debra Paget)
Box   16 Folder   1B	1 color final sketch for “Lilia” / (Debra Paget)
Box   16 Folder   1C	1 color final sketch for “Lilia” / (Debra Paget)
Box   16 Folder   2A	1 color final sketch for “Bithiah” / (Nina Foch)
Box   16 Folder   2B	1 color final sketch for “Priestess”
Box   16 Folder   3A	1 color final sketch
Box   16 Folder   3B	1 additional color final sketch
Box   16 Folder   3C	1 additional color final sketch
Box   16 Folder   4A	1 color final sketch for Official Guard
Box   16 Folder   4B	1 color final sketch for Guard
Box   16 Folder   4C	1 color collection sketch of 4 headdress options
Box   16 Folder   4C	1 additional color 'collection' sketch of headdress options
Box   16 Folder   5A	1 color collection sketch for slave look (skin, garments, etc) / signed by J.L. Jensen
Box   16 Folder   5B	1 additional color sketch for slaves / signed by J.L. Jensen
Box   16 Folder   5C	1 additional color sketch for slaves / signed by J.L. Jensen
Box   16 Folder   5D	1 additional color sketch for slaves / signed by J.L. Jensen
Box   16 Folder   6A	1 color sketch of Dancing Girl / signed by J.L. Jensen
Box   16 Folder   6B	1 additional color final sketch of Dancing Girl
Box   16 Folder   6C	1 additional color final sketch of Dancing Girl
Box   16 Folder   7A	1 color sketch of headdress options
Box   16 Folder   7B	1 additional color final sketch of headdress options
	36 Hours (MGM, 1965)
Box   17 Folder   1	12 color sketches
	To Catch a Thief (Paramount, 1955)
Box   17 Folder   2A	1 color sketch for “John Robie” / (Cary Grant)
Box   17 Folder   2A	5 color sketches for “Frances Stevens” / (Grace Kelly)
Box   17 Folder   2A	5 color sketches for “Jessie Stevens” / (Jessie Royce Landis)
Box   17 Folder   2B	1 color sketch for “Queen”
Box   17 Folder   2B	1 color sketch for “Venetian Couple”
Box   17 Folder   2B	1 color sketch for “Serving Girl”
Box   17 Folder   2B	1 color sketch for “Shepherdess”
Box   17 Folder   2B	16 additional color sketches
	Too Late Blues (Paramount, 1961)
Box   17 Folder   3	7 color sketches for “Jess Polanski” / (Stella Stevens)
Box   17 Folder   3	1 additional color sketch
	Vertigo (Paramount, 1958)
Box   17 Folder   4	7 color sketches for “Madeleine Elster/Judy Barton” / (Kim Novak)
Box   17 Folder   4	2 color sketches for Vera Miles (actress initially cast as “Madeleine”)
Box   17 Folder   4	6 additional color sketches
	Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (Paramount, 1963)
Box   17 Folder   5	3 color sketches for “Melissa Morris” / (Elizabeth Montgomery)
Box   17 Folder   5	2 color sketches for “Toby Tobler” / (Jill St. John)
Box   17 Folder   5	1 color sketch for “Stella Irving” / (Carol Burnett)
Box   17 Folder   5	7 additional color sketches
	Who's Got the Action? (Paramount, 1962)
Box   17 Folder   6A	7 color thumbnail sketches
Box   17 Folder   6B	5 color sketches for “Melanie Flood” / (Lana Turner)
Box   17 Folder   6B	1 color sketch for “Saturday Knight” / (Nita Talbot)
Box   17 Folder   6B	14 additional color sketches
Box   17 Folder   6B	2 unfinished pencil sketches
	Who's Minding the Store? (Paramount, 1963)
Box   17 Folder   7A	2 pencil sketches for “Mrs. Phoebe Tuttle” / (Agnes Moorhead)
Box   17 Folder   7A	4 additional pencil sketches
Box   17 Folder   7B	7 color sketches for “Shirley Lott” / (Francesa Bellini)
Box   17 Folder   7B	11 additional color sketches
Box   17 Folder   7C	14 color sketches for “Barbara Tuttle” / (Jill St. John)
Box   17 Folder   7C	3 additional color sketches
Box   17 Folder   8A	2 color final sketches for “Maxie” / by Pat Barto
Box   17 Folder   8A	1 color final sketch for “Rupert” / by Pat Barto
Box   17 Folder   8B	2 color final sketches / by Pat Barto
Box   18 Folder   1	3 color final sketches for “Mr. Quimby” / (Ray Walston)
Box   18 Folder   2	3 color final sketches for “Mr. Quimby” / (Ray Walston)
	Wives and Lovers (Paramount, 1963)
Box   18 Folder   3A	26 color sketches for “Fran Cabrell” / (Shelley Winters)
Box   18 Folder   3B	8 additional color sketches
Box   18 Folder   4A	16 color sketches for “Bertie Austin” / (Janet Leigh)
Box   18 Folder   4B	15 color sketches for “Bertie Austin” / (Janet Leigh)
Box   18 Folder   4C	8 additional color sketches
Box   18 Folder   5A	21 color sketches for “Lucinda Ford” / (Martha Hyer)
Box   18 Folder   5B	6 additional color sketches
Box   19 Folder   1	1 pen/ink 'collection' sketch of 5 bracelet options
	Series: Television	⇧
	“Lucille Ball Television Special” (1964)
Box   19 Folder   2A	17 color sketches for (Lucille Ball)
Box   19 Folder   2B	15 color sketches for (Lucille Ball)
Box   19 Folder   2B	3 pencil/ink sketches for (Lucille Ball)
	Series: Special Designs for Known Actresses	⇧
Box   19 Folder   3	1 color final sketch of gown for Bette Davis / by [Grace] Sprague
Box   19 Folder   3	1 color final sketch of gown for Grace Kelly / by [Grace] Sprague
Box   19 Folder   3	1 color final sketch of gown for Natalie Wood / by [Grace] Sprague
Box   19 Folder   4A	2 color final sketches of gowns for Joan Crawford / by [Grace] Sprague
Box   19 Folder   4B	1 color sketch of gowns for Janet Leigh and Mai Zetterling
Box   19 Folder   4B	1 color sketch of gown for Greer Garson
Box   19 Folder   4B	1 color final sketch of gown for Lucille Ball Note: Label on reverse: “Pat Stanley in Jerry Lewis' The Ladies Man” (Paramount 1961).
Box   19 Folder   5	1 black and white collection sketch of medieval hoods for Corinne Calvet, Mona Freeman, Barbara Rush, Arleen Whalen
Box   19 Folder   5	1 black and white collection sketch of suspender options for Polly Bergen, Corinne Calvet, Betty Hutton
Box   19 Folder   5	1 black and white collection sketch of alternative necklines for the 'Deborah Kerr Jersey Dress'
Box   19 Folder   5	1 black and white collection sketch of various wardrobe looks for Joan Fontaine, Ruth Hussey, Diana Lynn, Marilyn Maxwell
Box   19 Folder   5	1 black and white sketch of gowns for Lucille Ball and Hedy Lamarr
Box   19 Folder   5	1 black and white sketch of gowns for Rhonda Fleming, Betty Hutton, and Lizabeth Scott
	Series: Unidentified Motion Picture/Advertisement Sketches	⇧
Box   19 Folder   6	1 color sketch of gown for “Makeup Ball”
Box   19 Folder   6	1 pencil sketch of various sash options for ball gowns
Box   19 Folder   6	1 color sketch of cocktail dress
Box   19 Folder   6	1 black and white sketch of cocktail dress
Box   19 Folder   6	4 color sketches of ladies' suits
Box   19 Folder   6	5 color sketches of robes
Box   19 Folder   6	3 pencil sketches of nightgowns
Box   19 Folder   7	1 pencil sketch of woman's suit
Box   19 Folder   7	1 pencil sketch of dress sash options
Box   19 Folder   7	5 color sketches of cocktail dresses
Box   19 Folder   7	1 color final sketch of cocktail dress with strap/shoulder options (1952)
Box   19 Folder   7	1 black and white final sketch of cocktail dress
Box   19 Folder   8	8 pencil sketches of tiaras
Box   20 Folder   1A	1 color final sketch of Edith Head
Box   20 Folder   1B	9 color thumbnail sketches for female 'matador' striptease
Box   20 Folder   2A	7 black and white sketches - sash variations
Box   20 Folder   2B	5 black and white sketches - bodice 'looks' (capes, jackets, wraps, etc.)
Box   20 Folder   2B	1 black and white collection sketch - cocktail dresses
Box   20 Folder   2B	1 pencil sketch of cocktail dress
Box   20 Folder   3	1 black and white collection sketch - “Short Sleeve Suits for Spring”
Box   20 Folder   3	1 color collection sketch - ways to 'accessorize' a suit/skirt
Box   20 Folder   3	1 black and white collection sketch - flannel “Pieces for Fall”
Box   20 Folder   3	1 black and white collection sketch - “The Jersey Look” dresses
Box   20 Folder   4	1 black and white collection sketch - hats (back reads 'Rose Goldstein')
Box   20 Folder   4	1 black and white collection sketch - scarf options
Box   20 Folder   4	1 black and white collection sketch - “Signs of Spring” accessories
Box   20 Folder   4	1 black and white collection sketch - “On the Cuff”
Box   20 Folder   4	1 color collection sketch - bodice flower accents
Box   20 Folder   5	3 color sketches of Edith Head patterns for Advance Printed Patterns , (March 1960 edition) Note #9296 Pleat-skirted dress #9291 Career suit #9292 3-piece suit as worn by Shirley MacLaine in Career (1959)
Box   20 Folder   5	1 black and white collection sketch - flared skirt variations
Box   20 Folder   5	1 black and white collection sketch - arm garters
Box   20 Folder   5	1 black and white sketch for “Ribbon Belts” - (for TV Guide National Section)
Box   20 Folder   5	1 black and white collection sketch - “Pin it On” accessories
Box   20 Folder   5	1 black and white collection sketch - hatpin accessories
Box   20 Folder   5	1 black and white collection sketch - “Clothespin Clips”
Box   20 Folder   5	1 black and white collection sketch - “Fancy Bibs” (back reads “Rose Goldstein”)
Box   20 Folder   5	1 black and white collection sketch - aprons
Box   20 Folder   5	1 black and white collection sketch - “The Corselet”
Box   20 Folder   6	1 black and white thumbnail collection sketch - ladies' wardrobe accessories
Box   20 Folder   6	1 color advertisement - “Fans”
Box   20 Folder   6	1 color advertisement - “Holiday Aprons”
	Series: Writings	⇧
	The Dress Doctor (published 1959)
Box   21 Folder   1	Correspondence
Box   21 Folder   2	Ads and promotions
Box   21 Folder   3	Appearances
Box   21 Folder   4	Serial clippings
Box   21 Folder   5	Reviews
Box   21 Folder   6	Library news and best seller lists
Box   21 Folder   7	Magazine articles
Box   21 Folder   8	Column comments
Box   21 Folder   9	Additional magazine articles by Edith Head
Box   21 Folder   10	Signed copy of The Dress Doctor by Edith Head (“To Mildred Rulstad”)
	Series: Awards and Publicity	⇧
	Awards and Press Clippings, up to 1959 Note: Includes Academy Awards, 1960.
Box   22 Folder   1	Awards
Box   22 Folder   2	Appearances
Box   22 Folder   3	Foreign press and magazine articles
Box   22 Folder   4	Additional magazine articles about Edith Head
Box   22 Folder   5	Press clippings, before 1959
Box   22 Folder   6	32nd Annual Academy Awards, 1960 April 4
Box   22 Folder   6	Preparation and correspondence
Box   22 Folder   7	32nd Annual Academy Awards, 1960 April 4
Box   22 Folder   7	Clippings
	Newspaper Clippings, 1960 February-1961 March
Box   23 Folder   1	1960 February-April
Box   23 Folder   2	1960 May-August
Box   23 Folder   3	1960 September-December
Box   23 Folder   4	1961 January-March
	Press Clippings, 1961 April-1963 October
Box   24 Folder   1	1961 April-May
Box   24 Folder   2	1961 June-December
Box   24 Folder   3	1962 January-March
Box   24 Folder   4	1962 April Note: Includes the 34rd Annual Academy Awards.
Box   24 Folder   5	1962 May-September
Box   25 Folder   1	1962 October-December
Box   25 Folder   2	1963 January-April Note: Includes the 35th Annual Academy Awards.
Box   25 Folder   3	1963 May-October
Box   28	Publicity scrapbooks, 1936-1944
Box   25 Folder   4	Miscellaneous press and additional articles Note: Including: The Pleasure of His Company (1961); and Pepe (1960).
Box   25 Folder   5	Miscellaneous costume continuity sheets Note “Dr. Ilse Nordstrom” / (Mai Zetterling) in Knock on Wood (1954), with photo “Nancy Darby” / (Arlene Dahl) in Sangaree (1953), with photo “Betty Compton” / (Vera Miles) in Beau James (1957)
	Series: Edith Head Patterns	⇧
	“Very Easy Vogue” / patterns by Edith Head
Box   26 Folder   1	#1560 Size 14
Box   26 Folder   1	#1802 Size 10
Box   26 Folder   1	#1803 Size 12
Box   26 Folder   1	#1895 Size 8
Box   26 Folder   2	#2040 Size 8
Box   26 Folder   2	#2040 Size 10
Box   26 Folder   2	#2832 Size 12
Box   26 Folder   2	#2832 Size 12
	Vogue: American Designers Patterns / by Edith Head
Box   26 Folder   3	#1896 Size 8
Box   26 Folder   3	#2041 Size 14
Box   26 Folder   3	#2220 Size 14
Box   26 Folder   3	#2336 Size 12
Box   27 Folder   1	#2561 Size 18
Box   27 Folder   1	#2617 Size 14
Box   27 Folder   1	#2646 Size 12
Box   27 Folder   2	#2691 Size 10
Box   27 Folder   2	#2691 Size 18
Box   27 Folder   2	#2923 Size 10
	Spadea Designer / patterns by Edith Head
Box   27 Folder   2	#MG0-801 Size 12
	Advance Printed Patterns / original designs by Edith Head
Box   27 Folder   3	#4791 Size 14 / design by Edith Head for Betty Hutton in Dream Girl
Box   27 Folder   3	#5469 Size 18 / design by Edith Head for Barbara Stanwyck in Thelma Jordan
Box   27 Folder   3	#8048 Size 12 / original design by Edith Head
Box   27 Folder   3	#8049 Size 14 / original design by Edith Head
Box   27 Folder   3	#9292 Size 18 / original design by Edith Head
Box   27 Folder   3	#9356 Size 11 / original design by Edith Head
Box   27 Folder   3	#9398 Size 12 / original design by Edith Head
Box   27 Folder   3	#9691 Size 14 / created by Edith Head for Shirley Jones in Pepe
	Series: Patterns Not by Edith Head Note: The following patterns are not by Edith Head, but are grouped with her Costume Collection.	⇧
	“Hollywood Patterns”
Box   27 Folder   4	#401 Size 14 as worn by Priscilla Lane in Three Cheers for the Irish
Box   27 Folder   4	#1132 Size 16 as worn by June Havoc of RKO-Radio
Box   27 Folder   4	#1152 Size 18 as worn by Ginny Simms of RKO-Radio
Box   27 Folder   4	#1199 Size 16 as worn by Bonita Granville of RKO-Radio
Box   27 Folder   4	#1200 Unknown size as worn by Merle Oberon, 'An Alexander Korda Star'
Box   27 Folder   4	#1272 Size 16 as worn by Renee Haal of RKO-Radio
Box   27 Folder   4	#1575 Size 18 as worn by Madeleine Carroll / Walter Wanger
Box   27 Folder   4	#1582 Size 18 as worn by Joan Bennett / Walter Wanger
Box   27 Folder   4	#1948 Size 18 as worn by Anne Shirley of RKO-Radio
Box   27 Folder   4	#1982 Size 14 as worn by Olympe Bradna of Paramount
	“Star Patterns”
Box   27 Folder   5	#12 Size 12 design by Travilla as worn by Loretta Young in Half Angel
Box   27 Folder   5	#28 Size 12 design by Mary K. Dodson, as worn by January Sterling in Appointment with Danger