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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.
Academy Awards
Best Costume Design, Color
Known For
Samson and Delilah
(1949)
Costume Design
The Grapes of Wrath
(1940)
Costume Design
How Green Was My Valley
(1941)
Costume Design
Drums Along the Mohawk
(1939)
Costume Designer
The Hound of the Baskervilles
(1939)
Costume Design
The Little Princess
(1939)
Costume Design
Cover Girl
(1944)
Costume Design
Frankie and Johnny
(1966)
Costume Design
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
(1939)
Costume Design
Blood Alley
(1955)
Costume Design
Full Filmography
Costume & Make-Up
Paris Bound
(1929)
Costume Design
The Racketeer
(1929)
Costume Design
Her Private Affair
(1929)
Costume Design
Sin Takes a Holiday
(1930)
Costume Design
Holiday
(1930)
Costume Design
Swing High
(1930)
Costume Design
Her Man
(1930)
Costume Designer
Devotion
(1931)
Costume Design
Beyond Victory
(1931)
Costume Design
The Painted Desert
(1931)
Costume Design
Suicide Fleet
(1931)
Costume Design
Freighters of Destiny
(1931)
Costume Supervisor
The Tip-Off
(1931)
Costume Design
The Big Gamble
(1931)
Costume Design
The Big Shot
(1931)
Costume Design
Born to Love
(1931)
Costume Design
A Woman Commands
(1932)
Costume Design
Panama Flo
(1932)
Costume Design
Lady with a Past
(1932)
Costume Design
Gallant Lady
(1933)
Costume Design
Advice to the Lovelorn
(1933)
Costume Design
The Affairs of Cellini
(1934)
Costume Design
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
(1934)
Costume Design
Looking for Trouble
(1934)
Costume Design
The Last Gentleman
(1934)
Costume Design
Born to Be Bad
(1934)
Costume Design
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
(1934)
Costume Design
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
(1935)
Costume Design
The Littlest Rebel
(1935)
Costume Design
Private Number
(1936)
Costume Design
Half Angel
(1936)
Costume Design
Poor Little Rich Girl
(1936)
Costume Design
It Had to Happen
(1936)
Costume Design
Under Two Flags
(1936)
Costume Design
The Road to Glory
(1936)
Costume Design
Pigskin Parade
(1936)
Costume Design
White Hunter
(1936)
Costume Design
Ramona
(1936)
Costume Design
Banjo on My Knee
(1936)
Costume Design
King of Burlesque
(1936)
Costume Design
The Prisoner of Shark Island
(1936)
Costume Designer
Ladies In Love
(1936)
Costume Designer
Seventh Heaven
(1937)
Costume Design
Nancy Steele Is Missing!
(1937)
Costume Design
Wake Up and Live
(1937)
Costume Design
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
(1937)
Costume Design
Wee Willie Winkie
(1937)
Costume Design
On the Avenue
(1937)
Costume Design
Just Around the Corner
(1938)
Costume Design
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
(1938)
Costume Design
I'll Give a Million
(1938)
Costume Design
Submarine Patrol
(1938)
Costume Design
Little Miss Broadway
(1938)
Costume Design
Three Blind Mice
(1938)
Costume Design
Sally, Irene and Mary
(1938)
Costume Design
Gateway
(1938)
Costume Design
Kentucky
(1938)
Costume Design
Alexander's Ragtime Band
(1938)
Costume Design
The Hound of the Baskervilles
(1939)
Costume Design
Hotel for Women
(1939)
Costume Design
Tail Spin
(1939)
Costume Design
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
(1939)
Costume Design
The Rains Came
(1939)
Costume Design
Susannah of the Mounties
(1939)
Costume Design
The Return of the Cisco Kid
(1939)
Costume Design
The Little Princess
(1939)
Costume Design
Drums Along the Mohawk
(1939)
Costume Designer
The Gorilla
(1939)
Costume Designer
The Grapes of Wrath
(1940)
Costume Design
Star Dust
(1940)
Costume Design
Brigham Young
(1940)
Costume Design
The Blue Bird
(1940)
Costume Design
Young People
(1940)
Costume Design
Johnny Apollo
(1940)
Costume Design
How Green Was My Valley
(1941)
Costume Design
Week-End in Havana
(1941)
Costume Design
Swamp Water
(1941)
Costume Design
Rise and Shine
(1941)
Costume Design
I Wake Up Screaming
(1941)
Costume Design
A Man Betrayed
(1941)
Costume Design
To the Shores of Tripoli
(1942)
Costume Design
Song of the Islands
(1942)
Costume Design
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
(1942)
Costume Design
This Above All
(1942)
Costume Design
Tales of Manhattan
(1942)
Costume Design
Roxie Hart
(1942)
Costume Designer
Moontide
(1942)
Costume Design
Cover Girl
(1944)
Costume Design
Unconquered
(1947)
Costume Designer
Samson and Delilah
(1949)
Costume Design
Track of the Cat
(1954)
Costume Design
Silver Lode
(1954)
Wardrobe Designer
Blood Alley
(1955)
Costume Design
Escape to Burma
(1955)
Costume Design
Johnny Concho
(1956)
Costume Design
Great Day in the Morning
(1956)
Costume Design
The River's Edge
(1957)
Costume Design
From the Earth to the Moon
(1958)
Costume Design
Most Dangerous Man Alive
(1961)
Wardrobe Designer
Frankie and Johnny
(1966)
Costume Design