Edith Head: costume designer and star of Google Doodle - in pictures
The Edith Head Google doodlePhotograph: GoogleMae West in She Done Him Wrong (1933)Photograph: Paramount/Allstar Picture LibraryVeronica Lake in This Gun For Hire (1942)Photograph: John Kobal Foundation/Getty Images
Ginger Rogers in Lady in the Dark (1944)Photograph: C.JTavin/Everett/Rex FeaturesGloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard (1950)Photograph: Bettman/CorbisElizabeth Taylor in A Place in the Sun (1951)Photograph: GTV Archive/Rex FeaturesAudrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday (1953)Photograph: Snap/Rex FeaturesGrace Kelly in To Catch a Thief (1955)Photograph: Bettman/CorbisJanet Leigh in the dress designed by Edith Head that she wore to the Oscars in 1960Photograph: Bettman/CorbisUniforms for the US Coastguard designed by Edith Head in the 1970sPhotograph: internetRachel Ward and Steve Martin in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, the final film Head worked onPhotograph: Universal/Allstar Picture LibraryEdith Head with the eight Oscars she wonPhotograph: CSU Archv/Everett/Rex Features
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