Edith Head’s Hollywood: 25th Anniversary Edition

Celebrating a quarter-century since its initial release Edith Heads Hollywood is reissued in trade paper complete with an expanded photo section featuring the best work of the worlds most famous costume designer. Through six decades of Hollywood fashion Edith Head dressed the screens bestDietrich Lombard the Hepburns Hope and Crosby Grace Kelly and Elvis Presley to name a few. She won eight Oscars. As Bette Davis says in her Foreword Youll read her story the way she would have told itand indeed did tell it . . . Edith Head worked as a costume designer in Hollywood for more than sixty years. She holds the distinguished record of winning eight Academy Awards a number which will never be matched by a single costume designer. Miss Head died in 1982. Paddy Calistro has co-authored several Angel City Press books and is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Angel City Press.