Dorothy Jeakins
Actor
January 11, 1914 — November 21, 1995 (81 years)
Dorothy Jeakins (January 11, 1914 – November 21, 1995) was an American costume designer.
Born in San Diego, California, she attended public school in Los Angeles from first grade through high school. As a senior at Fairfax High School, she was offered a scholarship to study at the Otis Art Institute (now known as Otis College of Art and Design). She also attended the Art Students League of Los Angeles, under Stanton Macdonald-Wright. She was later awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Otis College in 1987.
Jeakins worked on WPA projects and as a Disney artist in the 1930s. Her fashion career began as a designer at I. Magnin's, where she was spotted by director Victor Fleming. Hired as a sketch artist for Joan of Arc (1948), Jeakins worked on the costumes with Barbara Karinska and shared an Oscar with her in the color category. This was the first Oscar ever awarded for costumes outside the black and white category.
Jeakins was unusual in that she freelanced, never signing a long-term contract with any one studio. She worked steadily for the next thirty-nine years, winning another two Oscars, for Samson and Delilah (1949, shared with Edith Head and others), The Night of the Iguana (1964), and another 12 nominations. She designed period costumes for The Ten Commandments (1956), The Music Man (1962), The Sound of Music (1965), Little Big Man (1970), The Way We Were (1973), Young Frankenstein (1974) and The Dead (1987). Her modern dress excursions included Niagara (1953), Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), South Pacific (1958), and On Golden Pond (1981).
Jeakins also worked on stage productions, including South Pacific (in which Motley was the principal costume designer), King Lear, Winesburg, Ohio, and The World of Suzie Wong (for which she received her third Tony nomination), and such television productions as the 1957 production of Annie Get Your Gun, and Mayerling. For ten years beginning in 1953, she served as designer for the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera. In 1961 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study in Japan. She spent a year there, studying theater costume. From 1967 to 1970, Ms. Jeakins was Curator of Costumes and Textiles at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In 1987, she was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award for outstanding women who, through their endurance and excellence of their work, have helped to expand women's roles within the entertainment industry. Jeakins, who retired in 1990, once summed up her designing: "I can put my world down to two words: Make beauty. It's my cue and my private passion."
Born in San Diego, California, she attended public school in Los Angeles from first grade through high school. As a senior at Fairfax High School, she was offered a scholarship to study at the Otis Art Institute (now known as Otis College of Art and Design). She also attended the Art Students League of Los Angeles, under Stanton Macdonald-Wright. She was later awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Otis College in 1987.
Jeakins worked on WPA projects and as a Disney artist in the 1930s. Her fashion career began as a designer at I. Magnin's, where she was spotted by director Victor Fleming. Hired as a sketch artist for Joan of Arc (1948), Jeakins worked on the costumes with Barbara Karinska and shared an Oscar with her in the color category. This was the first Oscar ever awarded for costumes outside the black and white category.
Jeakins was unusual in that she freelanced, never signing a long-term contract with any one studio. She worked steadily for the next thirty-nine years, winning another two Oscars, for Samson and Delilah (1949, shared with Edith Head and others), The Night of the Iguana (1964), and another 12 nominations. She designed period costumes for The Ten Commandments (1956), The Music Man (1962), The Sound of Music (1965), Little Big Man (1970), The Way We Were (1973), Young Frankenstein (1974) and The Dead (1987). Her modern dress excursions included Niagara (1953), Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), South Pacific (1958), and On Golden Pond (1981).
Jeakins also worked on stage productions, including South Pacific (in which Motley was the principal costume designer), King Lear, Winesburg, Ohio, and The World of Suzie Wong (for which she received her third Tony nomination), and such television productions as the 1957 production of Annie Get Your Gun, and Mayerling. For ten years beginning in 1953, she served as designer for the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera. In 1961 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study in Japan. She spent a year there, studying theater costume. From 1967 to 1970, Ms. Jeakins was Curator of Costumes and Textiles at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In 1987, she was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award for outstanding women who, through their endurance and excellence of their work, have helped to expand women's roles within the entertainment industry. Jeakins, who retired in 1990, once summed up her designing: "I can put my world down to two words: Make beauty. It's my cue and my private passion."
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Filmography
| 1966 | Hawaii · as Hepzibah Hale |
| 1965 | The Sound of Music · as Sister Augusta |
| 1996 | The 68th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Memorial Tribute |
| 1965 | The 37th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 1987 | The Dead · as Costume DesignerOn Plex |
| 1981 | On Golden Pond · as Costume DesignOn Plex |
| 1981 | The Postman Always Rings Twice · as Costume Design |
| 1979 | North Dallas Forty · as Costume Design |
| 1979 | Love and Bullets · as Costume DesignOn Plex |
| 1978 | The Betsy · as Costume Design |
| 1977 | Audrey Rose · as Costume Design |
| 1976 | I Will... I Will... For Now · as Costume Design |
| 1975 | The Hindenburg · as Costume Design |
| 1974 | The Yakuza · as Costume Design |
| 1974 | Young Frankenstein · as Costume Design |
| 1974 | The Savage Is Loose · as Costume Design |
| 1973 | The Way We Were · as Costume Design |
| 1972 | Fuzz · as Costume Design |
| 1972 | Fat City · as Costume Design |
| 1970 | Little Big Man · as Costume Designer |
| 1970 | The Molly Maguires · as Costume Design |
| 1969 | True Grit · as Costume Design |
| 1968 | The Fixer · as Costume Design |
| 1968 | The Stalking Moon · as Costumer |
| 1968 | Finian's Rainbow · as Costume Design |
| 1967 | Reflections in a Golden Eye · as Costume Design |
| 1967 | The Flim-Flam Man · as Costume Design |
| 1966 | Hawaii · as Costume Designer |
| 1966 | Any Wednesday · as Costume Design |
| 1965 | The Fool Killer · as Costume Design |
| 1965 | The Sound of Music · as Costume Design |
| 1964 | The Night of the Iguana · as Costume Design |
| 1964 | Ensign Pulver · as Costume Design |
| 1964 | The Best Man · as Costume Supervisor |
| 1962 | The Music Man · as Costume DesignOn Plex |
| 1962 | All Fall Down · as Costume Design |
| 1961 | The Children's Hour · as Costume Design |
| 1960 | Let's Make Love · as Costume Design |
| 1960 | Elmer Gantry · as Costume Design |
| 1960 | The Unforgiven · as Costume Design |
| 1959 | Green Mansions · as Costume Design |
| 1958 | Desire Under the Elms · as Costume Design |
| 1958 | South Pacific · as Costume DesignOn Plex |
| 1957 | Annie Get Your Gun · as Costume Design |
| 1957 | Mayerling · as Costume Design |
| 1956 | Friendly Persuasion · as Costume Design |
| 1956 | The Ten Commandments · as Costume Design |
| 1956 | Playhouse 90 · as Costume Designer |
| 1954 | Producers' Showcase · as Costume Designer |
| 1954 | Three Coins in the Fountain · as Costume Design |
| 1953 | Beneath the 12-Mile Reef · as Costume DesignOn Plex |
| 1953 | City of Bad Men · as Costume Design |
| 1953 | White Witch Doctor · as Costume Design |
| 1953 | Inferno · as Costume Design |
| 1953 | Titanic · as Costume Designer |
| 1953 | The Kid from Left Field · as Costume Designer |
| 1953 | Treasure of the Golden Condor · as Costume Design |
| 1953 | Niagara · as Costume DesignOn Plex |
| 1952 | My Cousin Rachel · as Costume Design |
| 1952 | Stars and Stripes Forever · as Costume Design |
| 1952 | The Big Sky · as Costume Design |
| 1952 | Lure of the Wilderness · as Costume Designer |
| 1952 | Les Miserables · as Costume Design |
| 1952 | The Outcasts of Poker Flat · as Costume Design |
| 1952 | Belles on Their Toes · as Costume Design |
| 1952 | The Greatest Show on Earth · as Costume Design |
| 1950 | Cyrano de Bergerac · as Costume DesignOn Plex |
| 1949 | Samson and Delilah · as Costume Design |
| 1948 | Joan of Arc · as Costume DesignOn Plex |