Gile Steele

Biography

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Gile Steele (24 September 1908 in Ohio – 16 January 1952 in Culver City, California), was a Hollywood costume designer. His career began at MGM in 1938 with one of his first assignments being the Norma Shearer film Marie Antoinette. He also worked on many of the company's prestige pictures including Pride and Prejudice and Boom Town (both 1940), Blossoms in the Dust and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (both 1941), Mrs. Miniver (1942) and Madame Curie (1943). He was one of the first nominees when the category for Best Costume Design was introduced at the Academy Awards in 1948 for his work on The Emperor Waltz. He won the Oscar for The Heiress in 1949 and Samson and Delilah in 1950. He died abruptly in 1952 at the age of 43.

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Costume & Make-Up

1952		Lone Star as Costume Design
1952		The Merry Widow as Costume Design
1952		Scaramouche as Costume Design
1952		The Belle of New York as Costume Design

1951		Callaway Went Thataway as Costume Designer
1951		Callaway Went Thataway as Costume Design
1951		The Law and the Lady as Costume Design
1951		Kind Lady as Wardrobe Designer

1950		Copper Canyon as Costume Design
1950		Fancy Pants as Costume Design

1949		Samson and Delilah as Costume Design
1949		The Heiress as Costume Design

1948		The Paleface as Costume Design
1948		The Emperor Waltz as Costume Designer

1947		Mourning Becomes Electra as Costume Design
1947		California as Costume Design

1946

Monsieur Beaucaire as Costume Design

1944		The White Cliffs of Dover as Costume Design
1944		Broadway Rhythm as Costume Design

1943		Best Foot Forward as Costume Design
1943		I Dood It as Costume Design
1943		Du Barry Was a Lady as Costume Design
1943		The Man from Down Under as Costume Design
1943		Above Suspicion as Costume Design

1942		For Me and My Gal as Costume Design
1942		Mrs. Miniver as Costume Design
1942		Tortilla Flat as Costume Design
1942		The Vanishing Virginian as Costume Design

1941		Smilin' Through as Costume Design
1941		Billy the Kid as Costume Design
1941		The Bad Man as Costume Design

1940		Comrade X as Costume Design
1940		Go West as Costume Design
1940		Little Nellie Kelly as Costume Design
1940		Bitter Sweet as Costume Design
1940		Escape as Costume Design
1940		Boom Town as Costumer
1940		Pride and Prejudice as Costume Design
1940		New Moon as Costume Design
1940		The Mortal Storm as Costume Design
1940		Florian as Costume Design
1940		Waterloo Bridge as Costume Design
1940		20 Mule Team as Costume Design

1938		Marie Antoinette as Costume Design
1938		The Toy Wife as Costume Design