A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Born:
March 3, 1901
Died:
June 16, 1982
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Costume designer Gwen Wakeling (birth name Gwen Sewell, March 3, 1901, Detroit, Michigan – June 16, 1982, Los Angeles, California) was a personal favourite of Cecil B. DeMille. Indeed her first film was his 1927 epic "The King of Kings", and she earned an Academy Award for her work on his version of "Samson and Delilah" in 1950. In a career spanning over 140 films, she also worked for director John Ford on such films as "The Prisoner of Shark Island" (1936), "Drums Along the Mohawk" (1939), "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940) and "How Green Was My Valley" (1941), and provided the costumes for most of the Shirley Temple films, such as Little Miss Broadway, in the 1930s. One of her last assignments was creating Barbara Eden's "Jeannie" costumes for I Dream Of Jeannie in 1965. Wakeling was a member of the Bahá'í Faith, and her husband, Henry J. Staudigl, set up an arts endowment in her memory at Bosch Bahá'í School in Santa Cruz to promote artistic endeavors and included a research and resource library.
Costume Design:
1929 Her Private Affair
1929 Paris Bound
1929 The Racketeer
1930 Holiday
1930 Sin Takes a Holiday
1930 Swing High
1931 Beyond Victory
1931 Born to Love
1931 Devotion
1931 The Big Gamble
1931 The Big Shot
1931 The Painted Desert
1931 The Tip-Off
1932 A Woman Commands
1932 Lady with a Past
1932 Panama Flo
1933 Advice to the Lovelorn
1933 Gallant Lady
1934 Born to Be Bad
1934 Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1934 Looking for Trouble
1934 The Affairs of Cellini
1934 The Last Gentleman
1934 Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
1935 The Littlest Rebel
1935 The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
1936 Banjo on My Knee
1936 Everybody's Old Man
1936 Half Angel
1936 It Had to Happen
1936 King of Burlesque
1936 Pigskin Parade
1936 Poor Little Rich Girl
1936 Private Number
1936 Ramona
1936 The Road to Glory
1936 Under Two Flags
1936 White Hunter
1937 Nancy Steele Is Missing!
1937 On the Avenue
1937 Seventh Heaven
1937 Wake Up and Live
1937 Wee Willie Winkie
1937 Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1938 Alexander's Ragtime Band
1938 Gateway
1938 I'll Give a Million
1938 Just Around the Corner
1938 Kentucky
1938 Little Miss Broadway
1938 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1938 Sally, Irene and Mary
1938 Submarine Patrol
1938 Three Blind Mice
1939 Hotel for Women
1939 Susannah of the Mounties
1939 Tail Spin
1939 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939 The Hound of the Baskervilles
1939 The Little Princess
1939 The Rains Came
1939 The Return of the Cisco Kid
1940 Brigham Young
1940 Johnny Apollo
1940 Star Dust
1940 The Blue Bird
1940 The Grapes of Wrath
1940 Young People
1941 A Man Betrayed
1941 How Green Was My Valley
1941 I Wake Up Screaming
1941 Rise and Shine
1941 Swamp Water
1941 Week-End in Havana
1942 Moontide
1942 Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942 Song of the Islands
1942 Tales of Manhattan
1942 This Above All
1942 To the Shores of Tripoli
1944 Cover Girl
1949 Samson and Delilah
1954 The High and the Mighty
1954 Track of the Cat
1955 Blood Alley
1955 Escape to Burma
1956 Great Day in the Morning
1956 Johnny Concho
1957 The River's Edge
1958 From the Earth to the Moon
1966 Frankie and Johnny
Costume Designer:
1929 Her Private Affair
1929 Paris Bound
1929 The Racketeer
1930 Her Man
1930 Holiday
1930 Sin Takes a Holiday
1930 Swing High
1931 Beyond Victory
1931 Born to Love
1931 Devotion
1931 The Big Gamble
1931 The Big Shot
1931 The Painted Desert
1931 The Tip-Off
1932 A Woman Commands
1932 Lady with a Past
1932 Panama Flo
1933 Advice to the Lovelorn
1933 Gallant Lady
1934 Born to Be Bad
1934 Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1934 Looking for Trouble
1934 The Affairs of Cellini
1934 The Last Gentleman
1934 Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
1935 The Littlest Rebel
1935 The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
1936 Banjo on My Knee
1936 Everybody's Old Man
1936 Half Angel
1936 It Had to Happen
1936 King of Burlesque
1936 Ladies In Love
1936 Pigskin Parade
1936 Poor Little Rich Girl
1936 Private Number
1936 Ramona
1936 The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936 The Road to Glory
1936 Under Two Flags
1936 White Hunter
1937 Nancy Steele Is Missing!
1937 On the Avenue
1937 Seventh Heaven
1937 Wake Up and Live
1937 Wee Willie Winkie
1937 Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1938 Alexander's Ragtime Band
1938 Gateway
1938 I'll Give a Million
1938 Just Around the Corner
1938 Kentucky
1938 Little Miss Broadway
1938 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1938 Sally, Irene and Mary
1938 Submarine Patrol
1938 Three Blind Mice
1939 Drums Along the Mohawk
1939 Hotel for Women
1939 Susannah of the Mounties
1939 Tail Spin
1939 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939 The Gorilla
1939 The Hound of the Baskervilles
1939 The Little Princess
1939 The Rains Came
1939 The Return of the Cisco Kid
1940 Brigham Young
1940 Johnny Apollo
1940 Star Dust
1940 The Blue Bird
1940 The Grapes of Wrath
1940 Young People
1941 A Man Betrayed
1941 How Green Was My Valley
1941 I Wake Up Screaming
1941 Rise and Shine
1941 Swamp Water
1941 Week-End in Havana
1942 Moontide
1942 Roxie Hart
1942 Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942 Song of the Islands
1942 Tales of Manhattan
1942 This Above All
1942 To the Shores of Tripoli
1944 Cover Girl
1947 Unconquered
1949 Samson and Delilah
1954 The High and the Mighty
1954 Track of the Cat
1955 Blood Alley
1955 Escape to Burma
1956 Great Day in the Morning
1956 Johnny Concho
1957 The River's Edge
1958 From the Earth to the Moon
1966 Frankie and Johnny
Costume Supervisor:
1929 Her Private Affair
1929 Paris Bound
1929 The Racketeer
1930 Her Man
1930 Holiday
1930 Sin Takes a Holiday
1930 Swing High
1931 Beyond Victory
1931 Born to Love
1931 Devotion
1931 Freighters of Destiny
1931 The Big Gamble
1931 The Big Shot
1931 The Painted Desert
1931 The Tip-Off
1932 A Woman Commands
1932 Lady with a Past
1932 Panama Flo
1933 Advice to the Lovelorn
1933 Gallant Lady
1934 Born to Be Bad
1934 Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1934 Looking for Trouble
1934 The Affairs of Cellini
1934 The Last Gentleman
1934 Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
1935 The Littlest Rebel
1935 The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
1936 Banjo on My Knee
1936 Everybody's Old Man
1936 Half Angel
1936 It Had to Happen
1936 King of Burlesque
1936 Ladies In Love
1936 Pigskin Parade
1936 Poor Little Rich Girl
1936 Private Number
1936 Ramona
1936 The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936 The Road to Glory
1936 Under Two Flags
1936 White Hunter
1937 Nancy Steele Is Missing!
1937 On the Avenue
1937 Seventh Heaven
1937 Wake Up and Live
1937 Wee Willie Winkie
1937 Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1938 Alexander's Ragtime Band
1938 Gateway
1938 I'll Give a Million
1938 Just Around the Corner
1938 Kentucky
1938 Little Miss Broadway
1938 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1938 Sally, Irene and Mary
1938 Submarine Patrol
1938 Three Blind Mice
1939 Drums Along the Mohawk
1939 Hotel for Women
1939 Susannah of the Mounties
1939 Tail Spin
1939 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939 The Gorilla
1939 The Hound of the Baskervilles
1939 The Little Princess
1939 The Rains Came
1939 The Return of the Cisco Kid
1940 Brigham Young
1940 Johnny Apollo
1940 Star Dust
1940 The Blue Bird
1940 The Grapes of Wrath
1940 Young People
1941 A Man Betrayed
1941 How Green Was My Valley
1941 I Wake Up Screaming
1941 Rise and Shine
1941 Swamp Water
1941 Week-End in Havana
1942 Moontide
1942 Roxie Hart
1942 Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942 Song of the Islands
1942 Tales of Manhattan
1942 This Above All
1942 To the Shores of Tripoli
1944 Cover Girl
1947 Unconquered
1949 Samson and Delilah
1954 The High and the Mighty
1954 Track of the Cat
1955 Blood Alley
1955 Escape to Burma
1956 Great Day in the Morning
1956 Johnny Concho
1957 The River's Edge
1958 From the Earth to the Moon
1966 Frankie and Johnny
Costumer:
1929 Her Private Affair
1929 Paris Bound
1929 Rich People
1929 The Racketeer
1930 Her Man
1930 Holiday
1930 Sin Takes a Holiday
1930 Swing High
1931 Beyond Victory
1931 Born to Love
1931 Devotion
1931 Freighters of Destiny
1931 The Big Gamble
1931 The Big Shot
1931 The Painted Desert
1931 The Tip-Off
1932 A Woman Commands
1932 Lady with a Past
1932 Panama Flo
1933 Advice to the Lovelorn
1933 Gallant Lady
1934 Born to Be Bad
1934 Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1934 Looking for Trouble
1934 The Affairs of Cellini
1934 The Last Gentleman
1934 Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
1935 The Littlest Rebel
1935 The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
1936 Banjo on My Knee
1936 Everybody's Old Man
1936 Half Angel
1936 It Had to Happen
1936 King of Burlesque
1936 Ladies In Love
1936 Pigskin Parade
1936 Poor Little Rich Girl
1936 Private Number
1936 Ramona
1936 The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936 The Road to Glory
1936 Under Two Flags
1936 White Hunter
1937 Nancy Steele Is Missing!
1937 On the Avenue
1937 Seventh Heaven
1937 Wake Up and Live
1937 Wee Willie Winkie
1937 Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1938 Alexander's Ragtime Band
1938 Gateway
1938 I'll Give a Million
1938 Just Around the Corner
1938 Kentucky
1938 Little Miss Broadway
1938 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1938 Sally, Irene and Mary
1938 Submarine Patrol
1938 Three Blind Mice
1939 Drums Along the Mohawk
1939 Hotel for Women
1939 Susannah of the Mounties
1939 Tail Spin
1939 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939 The Gorilla
1939 The Hound of the Baskervilles
1939 The Little Princess
1939 The Rains Came
1939 The Return of the Cisco Kid
1940 Brigham Young
1940 Johnny Apollo
1940 Star Dust
1940 The Blue Bird
1940 The Grapes of Wrath
1940 Young People
1941 A Man Betrayed
1941 How Green Was My Valley
1941 I Wake Up Screaming
1941 Rise and Shine
1941 Swamp Water
1941 Week-End in Havana
1942 Moontide
1942 Roxie Hart
1942 Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942 Song of the Islands
1942 Tales of Manhattan
1942 This Above All
1942 To the Shores of Tripoli
1944 Cover Girl
1947 Unconquered
1949 Samson and Delilah
1954 The High and the Mighty
1954 Track of the Cat
1955 Blood Alley
1955 Escape to Burma
1956 Great Day in the Morning
1956 Johnny Concho
1957 The River's Edge
1958 From the Earth to the Moon
1966 Frankie and Johnny
Wardrobe Designer:
1929 Her Private Affair
1929 Paris Bound
1929 Rich People
1929 The Racketeer
1930 Her Man
1930 Holiday
1930 Sin Takes a Holiday
1930 Swing High
1931 Beyond Victory
1931 Born to Love
1931 Devotion
1931 Freighters of Destiny
1931 The Big Gamble
1931 The Big Shot
1931 The Painted Desert
1931 The Tip-Off
1932 A Woman Commands
1932 Lady with a Past
1932 Panama Flo
1933 Advice to the Lovelorn
1933 Gallant Lady
1934 Born to Be Bad
1934 Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1934 Looking for Trouble
1934 The Affairs of Cellini
1934 The Last Gentleman
1934 Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
1935 The Littlest Rebel
1935 The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
1936 Banjo on My Knee
1936 Everybody's Old Man
1936 Half Angel
1936 It Had to Happen
1936 King of Burlesque
1936 Ladies In Love
1936 Pigskin Parade
1936 Poor Little Rich Girl
1936 Private Number
1936 Ramona
1936 The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936 The Road to Glory
1936 Under Two Flags
1936 White Hunter
1937 Nancy Steele Is Missing!
1937 On the Avenue
1937 Seventh Heaven
1937 Wake Up and Live
1937 Wee Willie Winkie
1937 Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1938 Alexander's Ragtime Band
1938 Gateway
1938 I'll Give a Million
1938 Just Around the Corner
1938 Kentucky
1938 Little Miss Broadway
1938 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1938 Sally, Irene and Mary
1938 Submarine Patrol
1938 Three Blind Mice
1939 Drums Along the Mohawk
1939 Hotel for Women
1939 Susannah of the Mounties
1939 Tail Spin
1939 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939 The Gorilla
1939 The Hound of the Baskervilles
1939 The Little Princess
1939 The Rains Came
1939 The Return of the Cisco Kid
1940 Brigham Young
1940 Johnny Apollo
1940 Star Dust
1940 The Blue Bird
1940 The Grapes of Wrath
1940 Young People
1941 A Man Betrayed
1941 How Green Was My Valley
1941 I Wake Up Screaming
1941 Rise and Shine
1941 Swamp Water
1941 Week-End in Havana
1942 Moontide
1942 Roxie Hart
1942 Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942 Song of the Islands
1942 Tales of Manhattan
1942 This Above All
1942 To the Shores of Tripoli
1944 Cover Girl
1947 Unconquered
1949 Samson and Delilah
1954 Silver Lode
1954 The High and the Mighty
1954 Track of the Cat
1955 Blood Alley
1955 Escape to Burma
1956 Great Day in the Morning
1956 Johnny Concho
1957 The River's Edge
1958 From the Earth to the Moon
1961 Most Dangerous Man Alive
1966 Frankie and Johnny
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