TCM Schedule for Friday, February 9, 2024: 31 Days of Oscar (Day 1) -- Costume Design

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Costume design? Think Edith Head, featured in two films today: The Sting at 8:00 pm EDT and Roman Holiday at 10:15.

Edith Claire Head (October 28, 1897 – October 24, 1981) was an American costume designer who won a record eight Academy Awards for Best Costume Design between 1949 and 1973, making her the most awarded woman in the Academy's history. Head is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential costume designers in film history.

Born and raised in California, Head started her career as a Spanish teacher, but was interested in design. After studying at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, Head was hired as a costume sketch artist at Paramount Pictures in 1923. She won acclaim for her design of Dorothy Lamour’s trademark sarong in the 1936 film The Jungle Princess, and became a household name after the Academy Award for Best Costume Design was created in 1948. Head was considered exceptional for her close working relationships with her subjects, with whom she consulted extensively; these included virtually every top female star in Hollywood.

Head worked at Paramount for 44 years. In 1967, the company declined to renew her contract, and she was invited by Alfred Hitchcock to join Universal Pictures. There she earned her eighth and final Academy Award for her work on The Sting in 1973.

Full bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Head


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6:00 AM | Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
The legendary lover saves his queen from treason.
Dir: Vincent Sherman | Cast: Errol Flynn, Viveca Lindfors, Robert Douglas
Oscar, Costume Design—Leah Rhodes, Travilla and Marjorie Best

8:00 AM | Raintree County (1957)
In this sumptuous Civil War story, a willful southern belle goes mad out of fear that she may be part black.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk | Cast: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint
Oscal nominee, Best Costume Design

11:15 AM | The Band Wagon (1953)
A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli | Cast: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant
Oscar nominee, Best Costume Design, Color

1:15 PM | Flower Drum Song (1961)
A refugee travels to Chinatown as a mail-order bride.
Dir: Henry Koster | Cast: Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, Juanita Hall
Oscar nominee, Best Costume Design, Color

3:30 PM | The Night of the Iguana (1964)
An ex-minister works as a tour guide in a Mexican coastal town, falls into some romantic interludes with a group of schoolteachers, and then meets a beautiful artist at a run-down hotel where the proprietress is in love with him.
Dir: John Huston | Cast: Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr
Oscar, Costume Design—Dorothy Jeakins. Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Jeakins

5:30 PM | Gypsy (1962)
During New York's vaudeville days a tough stage mother tries to get her daughters to become stars. After a long, seedy struggle, the shy "Gypsy" becomes a hit and then tries to turn her back on the mother who got her there.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy | Cast: Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden
Oscar nominee, Best Costume Design, Color


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8:00 PM | The Sting (1973)
Two con artists arrange an elaborate sting against a powerful crime lord who murdered their friend.
Dir: George Roy Hill | Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw
Oscar, Costume Design—Edith Head (see bio above)

10:15 PM | Roman Holiday (1953)
A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.
Dir: William Wyle | Cast: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert
Oscar, Costume Design—Edith Head

12:30 AM | All That Jazz (1979)
Semi-autobiographical fantasy based on aspects of Bob Fosse's life and career as a dancer, choreographer and director.
Dir: Bob Fosse | Cast: Gary Bayer, Leonard Drum, Jan Flato
Oscar, Costume Design—Albert Wolsky (Wolsky also won an Oscar for Bugsy and was nominated seven other times). Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Wolsky

2:45 AM | Camelot (1967)
This lavish film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical celebrates a fleeting, mythical time of love and chivalry--the reign of King Arthur and the Knights of The Round Table.
Dir: Joshua Logan | Cast: Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero
Oscar, Costume Design—John Truscott (Truscott also won the Oscar for Best Art Direction on this film). Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Truscott

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1. Edith Head had a cameo

On Columbo in the 70s. Requiem For A Falling star