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Lifestyle
Sarah Gilbert

Edith Head: costume designer and star of Google Doodle - in pictures

Edith Head: The Edith Head Google doodle
The Edith Head Google doodle Photograph: Google
Edith Head: Mae West in She Done Him Wrong
Mae West in She Done Him Wrong (1933) Photograph: Paramount/Allstar Picture Library
Edith Head: Veronica Lake in This Gun For Hire
Veronica Lake in This Gun For Hire (1942) Photograph: John Kobal Foundation/Getty Images
Edith Head: VARIOUS FILMS - 1940S
Ginger Rogers in Lady in the Dark (1944) Photograph: C.JTavin/Everett/Rex Features
Edith Head: Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard
Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard (1950) Photograph: Bettman/Corbis
Edith Head: Elizabeth Taylor in A Place In The Sun
Elizabeth Taylor in A Place in the Sun (1951) Photograph: GTV Archive/Rex Features
Edith Head: VARIOUS
Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday (1953) Photograph: Snap/Rex Features
Edith Head: Grace Kelly Wearing Gown by Edith Head
Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief (1955) Photograph: Bettman/Corbis
Edith Head: Janet Leigh Wearing Exquisite Silver Dress
Janet Leigh in the dress designed by Edith Head that she wore to the Oscars in 1960 Photograph: Bettman/Corbis
Edith Head: US Coastguard
Uniforms for the US Coastguard designed by Edith Head in the 1970s Photograph: internet
Edith Head: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Rachel Ward and Steve Martin in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, the final film Head worked on Photograph: Universal/Allstar Picture Library
Edith Head: Edith Head
Edith Head with the eight Oscars she won Photograph: CSU Archv/Everett/Rex Features
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