Gile Steele

Gile Steele (born September 24, 1908 in Ohio , † January 16, 1952 in Culver City , California ) was an American costume designer who won the Oscar for best costume design twice.

Life

Gile Steele began in the late 1930s as a costume designer in film productions and first worked in 1938 for The Toy Wife by Richard Thorpe and Yellow Jack by George B. Seitz in the creation of films. In the course of his career, he has worked as a costume designer in over 80 films.

At the Academy Awards in 1949 , he and the legendary Edith Head were nominated for the first time for an Oscar for best costume design in the color film I Kiss Your Hand, Madame (1948) by Billy Wilder . Together with Edith Head he received the Oscar in this category in 1950 for the costumes in the black and white film The Heiress (1949) by William Wyler . He won a second Oscar for best costume design at the Academy Awards in 1951 together with Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins , Eloise Jensson and Gwen Wakeling for the costumes they designed in the color film Samson and Delilah (1949) by Cecil B. DeMille . At the Academy Awards in 1952 he was nominated twice, firstly one with Walter Plunkett for the black and white film Kind Lady (1951) by John Sturges and secondly together with Helen Rose for the costumes in the color film The Big Caruso (1951) by Richard Thorpe. Gile Steele was finally nominated again posthumously in 1953 with Helen Rose for the Oscar in the category best costume design in the color film The Merry Widow (1952) by Curtis Bernhardt .

Other well-known films with costumes designed by him were Your First Husband (1940) by Mervyn LeRoy , Secret of the Mother (1948) by George Stevens, and Scaramouche, the gallant Marquis (1952) by George Sidney .

Filmography (selection)

• 1938: Marie-Antoinette ( Marie Antoinette )
• 1940: The young Edison ( Young Tom Edison )
• 1940: her first husband ( Waterloo Bridge )
• 1940: Comrade X
• 1941: The Last Bandit ( Billy the Kid )
• 1942: For Me and My Gal
• 1943 Hazardous honeymoon ( Above Suspicion )
• 1944: The White Cliffs of Dover
• 1948: I kiss your hand, Madame ( The Emperor Waltz )
• 1948: Mother's Secret ( I Remember Mama )
• 1949: The Heiress ( The Heiress )
• 1949: Samson and Delilah ( Samson and Delilah )
• 1951: Child Lady
• 1951: The Great Caruso ( The Great Caruso )
• 1951: The Rogue and the Lady ( The Law and the Lady )
• 1952: The fairest of New York ( The Belle of New York )
• 1952: Scaramouche, the gallant marquis ( Scaramouche )
• 1952: The Merry Widow (The Merry Widow)

Web links

• Gile Steele in the Internet Movie Database (English)