About

Known credits:
102
Birthday:
1901-03-03
Place of birth:
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Website:
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Gwen Wakeling

Overview

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.

Known for

Costume & Make-Up
1966 Frankie and Johnny Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1961 Most Dangerous Man Alive Costume & Make-Up Wardrobe Designer 58
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1958 From the Earth to the Moon Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1957 The River's Edge Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1956 Johnny Concho Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1956 Great Day in the Morning Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1955 Blood Alley Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1955 Escape to Burma Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1954 Track of the Cat Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1954 Silver Lode Costume & Make-Up Wardrobe Designer 59
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1954 The High and the Mighty Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1949 Samson and Delilah Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 60
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1947 Unconquered Costume & Make-Up Costume Designer 59
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1944 Cover Girl Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1942 To the Shores of Tripoli Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1942 Tales of Manhattan Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1942 Moontide Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1942 Moontide Costume & Make-Up Costumer 59
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1942 This Above All Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1942 Song of the Islands Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1942 Roxie Hart Costume & Make-Up Costume Designer 59
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1942 Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1941 Rise and Shine Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1941 Swamp Water Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1941 I Wake Up Screaming Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1941 How Green Was My Valley Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 65
Fair
1941 Week-End in Havana Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1941 A Man Betrayed Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1940 Brigham Young Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1940 Young People Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1940 Johnny Apollo Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1940 Star Dust Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1940 The Grapes of Wrath Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 71
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1940 The Blue Bird Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1939 Drums Along the Mohawk Costume & Make-Up Costume Designer 59
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1939 The Rains Came Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1939 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 61
Fair
1939 Hotel for Women Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1939 Susannah of the Mounties Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1939 The Gorilla Costume & Make-Up Costume Designer 58
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1939 The Return of the Cisco Kid Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1939 The Hound of the Baskervilles Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 62
Fair
1939 The Little Princess Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 60
Fair
1939 Tail Spin Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1938 Kentucky Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1938 Submarine Patrol Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1938 Just Around the Corner Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1938 Gateway Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1938 Little Miss Broadway Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1938 I'll Give a Million Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1938 Three Blind Mice Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1938 Alexander's Ragtime Band Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1938 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1938 Sally, Irene and Mary Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1937 Wife, Doctor and Nurse Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1937 Wake Up and Live Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1937 Wee Willie Winkie Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1937 Seventh Heaven Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1937 Nancy Steele Is Missing! Costume & Make-Up Costume Design N/A
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1937 On the Avenue Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1936 Banjo on My Knee Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1936 White Hunter Costume & Make-Up Costume Design N/A
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1936 Pigskin Parade Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1936 Ladies In Love Costume & Make-Up Costume Designer 59
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1936 Ramona Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1936 The Road to Glory Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1936 Poor Little Rich Girl Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1936 Private Number Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1936 Half Angel Costume & Make-Up Costume Design N/A
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1936 Under Two Flags Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1936 The Prisoner of Shark Island Costume & Make-Up Costume Designer 59
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1936 It Had to Happen Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1936 King of Burlesque Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1935 The Littlest Rebel Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1935 The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1934 Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1934 The Affairs of Cellini Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1934 Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1934 Born to Be Bad Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1934 The Last Gentleman Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1934 Looking for Trouble Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1933 Gallant Lady Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1933 Advice to the Lovelorn Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1932 Lady with a Past Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1932 A Woman Commands Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1932 Panama Flo Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1931 The Big Shot Costume & Make-Up Costume Design N/A
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1931 Freighters of Destiny Costume & Make-Up Costume Supervisor N/A
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1931 The Tip-Off Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
Average
1931 Devotion Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1931 The Big Gamble Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1931 Born to Love Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1931 Beyond Victory Costume & Make-Up Costume Design N/A
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1931 The Painted Desert Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1930 Sin Takes a Holiday Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1930 Her Man Costume & Make-Up Costume Designer 59
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1930 Holiday Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1930 Swing High Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 59
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1929 Rich People Costume & Make-Up Costumer N/A
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1929 The Racketeer Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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1929 Her Private Affair Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
Average
1929 Paris Bound Costume & Make-Up Costume Design 58
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