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• All Movie Guide
Biography and filmography provided for the designer.
http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=EEdith|Head

• British Film Institute: Sunset Boulevard
Notes offered on the costume and makeup for the Billy Wilder film.
http://www.bfi.org.uk/collections/release/sunsetboulevard/head.html

• Costume Designers Guild: Hall of Fame
Biography offered for the designer, "arguably the most famous costume designer in Hollywood history".
http://www.costumedesignersguild.com/hoffhead.htm

• France Fashion: The Fashion Career That Began As a Dare
Edith Head got her first Hollywood gig by submitting someone else's drawings with her application. Fifteen years later in 1938, Paramount made her the first woman to head a major studio's Costume Design department.
http://www.boutiquescanada.com/Boutiques/francefashion/c156583.2.html

• Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
Filmography and biography presented for the designer.
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0372128/

• Sketches - Edith Head's Hollywood
Official site for the play based on the costume designer's professional life.
http://www.edithhead.biz/

• Suite101: The Magic of Edith Head
Biography by Anne Paxton who calls Head "the first American fashion designer for the normal American woman."
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/womens_fashion/96452