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Also Known As Edith Claire Posener
Born October 28, 1897 • San Bernardino • California
Died October 24, 1981 (aged 83) • Los Angeles • California
Awards And Honors Academy Award (1974) • Academy Award (1961) • Academy Award (1955) • Academy Award (1954) • Academy Award (1952) • Academy Award (1951) • Academy Award (1950)
Beaton, Sir Cecil
Sir Cecil Beaton
British photographer and costume and production designer
Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor
American director, playwright, and costume designer
The one and only
Bob Mackie
American costume designer
Audrey Hepburn poses with her head resting on her hand, wearing a red coat with white buttons and a white poodle applique, against a textured gray background.
Audrey Hepburn
Belgian-born British actress
All About Eve
George Sanders
Russian-born British actor
Montgomery Clift, 1950.
Montgomery Clift
American actor
William Wyler
William Wyler
German-born American director
Paul Newman
Paul Newman
American actor and philanthropist
Robert Redford as Bill McKay stands at a microphone in a suit and striped tie, with a large campaign poster of himself in the background, in the film The Candidate.
Robert Redford
American actor and director
Bob Hope in a 1957 portrait, wearing a light plaid suit, white shirt, and patterned red tie, looking directly at the camera with a neutral expression.
Bob Hope
British-born American entertainer and actor
Bette Davis in Jezebel
Bette Davis
American actress
Portrait of American actress Elizabeth Taylor in the late 1950s, wearing a coral off-the-shoulder dress, pearl earrings, and bright lipstick, with short dark hair styled back.
Elizabeth Taylor
American actress
Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch stands in a crowded courtroom in a scene from the film To Kill a Mockingbird, with spectators watching from benches and a balcony.
Gregory Peck
American actor
William Holden in Stalag 17 (1953), directed by Billy Wilder.
William Holden
American actor
Darryl F. Zanuck
Darryl F. Zanuck
American executive
Olivia de Havilland in profile wearing an ornate medieval costume and headpiece for her role in the 1938 film The Adventures of Robin Hood.
Olivia de Havilland
American actress
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Saul Bass
American director
Shelley Winters smiling in a glamorous off-the-shoulder dress, posing in front of a sparkling dark backdrop in a publicity still for the 1954 film Tennessee Champ.
Shelley Winters
American actress
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Inigo Jones
English architect and artist
Bakst, Léon
Léon Bakst
Russian artist

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