Edith Head

wait Wait, who do you think is costuming these Chicken McNuggets? Like, do you think that

Edith Head is costuming them? And then Bob Mackie did it for a while.

Yeah, and

then Rick Baker is doing their makeup.

Then came the makeover.

Hitchcock's longtime costume designer, Edith Head, was brought in to design Hedren's wardrobe, not for a film, but for everyday life.

Hitchcock advised Hedren on food and wine, and insisted that her name always appear with single quotation marks around it, tippy.

Still, nobody had told her what any of this was for.

And ultimately, I went with my heart.

And that is the two piece number that was designed by Edith Head.

that she wears in the lady eve it's um it's a cropped um like a beaded um bolero jacket and with a bare midriff and a black skirt and then there's a sash that wraps around and it's the outfit that she wears when she decides to reel in um henry fonda's character and she trips him um in the on the ship on the you know, breaks her shoe and has to, you know, has him go back to her room to help her change her shoes out.

And she's just like, you know, pawing all over him on that chaise lounge.

And I love...

Edith Head was... um the great

yeah the goat right the ultimate yeah

um and this she um did several of these midriff bearing gowns um which do not show the belly button okay because that would be way too risque but um so this one and then she did another one that if if this were an ingrid bergman uh question i would say the dress from notorious that uh alicia huberman wears the beginning the striped uh bodice top and the bottom when she meets uh carrie grant's character it's a similar style dress it is on someone like stanny or someone like bergman and they're They're both so I mean, Sandy, I think was quite a bit shorter than Bergman, but they both are so their presence is so towering.

But she, you know, talks about, like, how...

Or points out how, like, Edith Head, who was one of the great costume designers in Hollywood history, talked about how working with Swanson on that movie is such...

Was such a unique and different experience amongst anyone she ever worked with because... she was so in tune with that world while also being in tune with what it's like to be a semi-reclusive, faded actress.

Swanson was with it, whereas Desmond was not.

So that was from the 1970, it was from 1975.

I know the exact date because I did the research and it was designed for Pan Am from Edith Head, which was a famous designer.

Yes, absolutely.

But it was well-loved and well-used.

He and Hitchcock had spent months adapting Woolrich's story, Hayes spending time with Grace Kelly at the director's suggestion, drawing partly on her personality as he wrote Lisa Fremont.

Hitchcock also reunited with costume designer Edith Head, who'd worked with him on Notorious, while assistant director Herbert Coleman helped manage the production and became an important link between Hitchcock and his new studio.

Finally, in the editing room was George Tomasini, a Paramount editor whose recent work included Billy Wilder's Stalag 17, helping build the film's suspense by cutting between what Jeff saw through his window and his reactions to it.

In short, Hitchcock had assembled a remarkable group of collaborators.

He brought in several other writers, but none managed to produce a script he was happy with.

Filming had originally been scheduled to begin in October 1956, but with the screenplay still unfinished and James Stewart requesting some time off, the start was pushed back to January of the following year.

In November, Miles began undergoing extensive screen tests, with Hitchcock supervising her makeup and hairstyles, while Edith Head designed her costumes.

By the time January 1957 arrived, however, filming still couldn't begin.

I was an aspiring writer that in the, in the film, Betty Schaefer, so that you had to believe somewhere that I was interested in writing.

And when I went to the, to the, to show, I went to Edith Head, who was the head of the wardrobe, and she picked out things for me for the various scenes, and I would go to Billy, and he would look at me in the clothes, and he said, "No.

I want to, her to wear what she wore the other day when she visited us."

[laughs]

It's so cleverly done.

Uh, so it's Edith Head, isn't it? And we already have this idea of, we have this retrospective idea I think of Veronica Lake as the femme fatale.

And she did-

Yes

And then because she was presenting costume design, she talked about, like, all, like, the films, like, she worked on and, like, how, like, they, like, pick clothes.

Like, she talked about working with, like, Edith Head and everything.

Yeah.

And