Three-time Oscar-winner and 12-time nominee Dorothy Jeakins ranked among Hollywood's most prestigious costume designers and during her long career, she worked on many important films for some of the industry's best directors including Cecil B. DeMille and John Huston. She won her awards for Joan of Arc (1948), Samson and Delilah(1949) -- which she shared with costumer Edith Head -- and Night of the Iguana (1964). Jeakins started out as an artist working for Walt Disney studios as a line drawer and cel painter following studies at Otis Art Institute. She turned to costume design in 1947 after Victor Fleming hired her as a sketch artist for his upcoming Joan of Arc. He liked her work, and she replaced the previously hired costume designer on the film. Around this time, Jeakins also designed costumes for Broadway productions. Excellent examples of her creative versatility can be found in such films as The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), The Ten Commandments (1956), South Pacific (1958), The Music Man (1962), Young Frankenstein (1974) and On Golden Pond (1981).
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The Dead
Costume Designer |
1987 | |||
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On Golden Pond
Costume Designer |
1981 | |||
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
Costume Designer |
1981 | |||
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Love and Bullets
Costume Designer |
1979 | |||
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North Dallas Forty
Costume Designer |
1979 | |||
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The Betsy
Costume Designer |
1978 | |||
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Audrey Rose
Costume Designer |
1977 | |||
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The Hindenburg
Costume Designer |
1975 | |||
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The Yakuza
Costume Designer |
1975 | |||
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Young Frankenstein
Costume Designer |
1974 | |||
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The Iceman Cometh
Costume Designer |
1973 | |||
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The Way We Were
Costume Designer |
1973 | |||
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Fat City
Costume Designer |
1972 | |||
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Fuzz
Costume Designer |
1972 | |||
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Little Big Man
Costume Designer |
1970 | |||
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The Molly Maguires
Costume Designer |
1970 | |||
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True Grit
Costume Designer |
1969 | |||
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Finian's Rainbow
Costume Designer |
1968 | |||
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The Stalking Moon
Costume Designer |
1968 | |||
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Reflections in a Golden Eye
Costume Designer |
1967 | |||
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The Flim-Flam Man
Costume Designer |
1967 | |||
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Any Wednesday
Costume Designer |
1966 | |||
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Hawaii
Actor, Costume Designer |
1966 | |||
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The Fool Killer
Costume Designer |
1965 | |||
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The Sound of Music
Costume Designer |
1965 | |||
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Ensign Pulver
Costume Designer |
1964 | |||
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The Best Man
Costume Designer |
1964 | |||
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The Night of the Iguana
Costume Designer |
1964 | |||
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All Fall Down
Costume Designer |
1962 | |||
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The Music Man
Costume Designer |
1962 | |||
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The Children's Hour
Costume Designer |
1961 | |||
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Elmer Gantry
Costume Designer |
1960 | |||
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Let's Make Love
Costume Designer |
1960 | |||
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Green Mansions
Costume Designer |
1959 | |||
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South Pacific
Costume Designer |
1958 | |||
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Friendly Persuasion
Costume Designer |
1956 | |||
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The Ten Commandments
Costume Designer |
1956 | |||
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Three Coins in the Fountain
Costume Designer |
1954 | |||
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Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
Costume Designer |
1953 | |||
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Inferno
Costume Designer |
1953 | |||
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Titanic
Costume Designer |
1953 | |||
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Treasure of the Golden Condor
Costume Designer |
1953 | |||
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White Witch Doctor
Costume Designer |
1953 | |||
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Les Miserables
Costume Designer |
1952 | |||
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My Cousin Rachel
Costume Designer |
1952 | |||
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Niagara
Costume Designer |
1952 | |||
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Stars and Stripes Forever
Costume Designer |
1952 | |||
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The Big Sky
Costume Designer |
1952 | |||
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The Greatest Show on Earth
Costume Designer |
1952 | |||
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Costume Designer |
1952 | |||
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Cyrano De Bergerac
Costume Designer |
1950 | |||
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Samson and Delilah
Costume Designer |
1949 | |||
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Joan of Arc
Costume Designer |
1948 |






