- Her 35 Oscar nominations and eight awards make her both the most honored costume designer and woman in Academy Award history to date.
- The character "Edna Mode" in Disney/Pixar's The Incredibles (2004) was modeled on her.
- Her trademark "sunglasses" were not "sunglasses" but rather blue lensed glasses. Looking through a blue glass was a common trick of costumers in the days of Black and White film to get a sense of how a color would photograph. Edith had a pair of glasses made out of the proper shade of blue glass to save herself from looking through a single lens. Her friends commonly would see her in regular "clear" glasses.
- The project she was most proud of was in the late 1970s when she designed a woman's uniform for the United States Coast Guard, in response to growing number of women in the service. She received the Meritorious Public Service Award for her efforts.
- Extremely diplomatic, she went out of her way to get along with co-workers and rarely gossiped. In later interviews, however, she mentioned that she did not enjoy working with Mary Martin, Claudette Colbert or Hedy Lamarr. In Paulette Goddard's case, she thought it was insensitive for the glamorous star to bring her bulging jewelry boxes to the studio workroom and tell her seamstresses (who were working for minimum wage) that they could "look, but not touch".
- Was close friends with actress Anne Baxter. She was godmother to one of Baxter's children.
- Her first job was as a teacher of French, Spanish and Art at the Bishop School for Girls at La Jolla, California. She got into films by answering a wanted ad as a sketch artist for Paramount. Edith worked there in that capacity under Howard Greer from 1924 to 1927. In 1928, she was promoted assistant to Travis Banton. From 1938 to 1966, she held the top job as Head of Design at Paramount, contributing in one way or another to over 1,000 motion pictures (supervising costumes for 47 films in 1940 alone).
- In 1973, her real Academy Awards were shown during an episode of "Columbo". Seven awards as she has yet to win her last one the following year for The Sting (1973).
- Rarely did her own sketching because of her time schedule. Almost all sketches of "hers" one sees today were actually done by a devoted staff of sketch artists.
- On October 28, 2013 - which would have been her 116th birthday - Google's homepage was a tribute to her.
- She is tied with composer Alan Menken for third most Academy Awards won. Each of them have eight.
- Received her Bachelor of Arts degree in letters and science with honors in French from the University of California, Berkeley (1919), and her Master of Arts degree in romantic languages from Stanford University (1920). Alumnae Initiate of Delta Zeta sorority, Mu chapter.
- The Costume Department building on the Paramount Pictures lot is named after her.
- A photograph of Miss Head working on a dress design appears on one stamp of a sheet of 10 USA 37¢ commemorative postage stamps, issued 25 February 2003, celebrating American Filmmaking: Behind the Scenes. The stamp honors costume design.
- She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6504 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on April 24, 1974.
- During the 1920s, she taught French and art at the Hollywood School for Girls.
- She is credited with putting Dorothy Lamour in her first sarong for The Jungle Princess (1936).
- Was the costume designer in 19 Oscar Best Picture nominees: Wings (1927), She Done Him Wrong (1933), Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), Hold Back the Dawn (1941), Going My Way (1944), Double Indemnity (1944), The Lost Weekend (1945), The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), The Heiress (1949), Sunset Boulevard (1950), A Place in the Sun (1951), The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), Shane (1953), Roman Holiday (1953), The Country Girl (1954), The Rose Tattoo (1955), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Airport (1970) and The Sting (1973), and designed some costumes in four others: All About Eve (1950), The Ten Commandments (1956), Witness for the Prosecution (1957), Separate Tables (1958). Wings, Going My Way, The Lost Weekend, All About Eve, The Greatest Show on Earth and The Sting all won Best Picture.
- Raised in the mining town of Searchlight, Nevada. Attended the Otis Art Institute and the Chouinard Art School (now known as CalArts) in Los Angeles, California.
- Amassed 500 costume credits over her long career.
- In 2014, an Edith Head costume exhibition was displayed at the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio.
- The only time she appeared on the big screen was as herself in the film 'Oscar' (1966). She also appeared as herself in the 'Columbo' episode, 'Requiem for a Falling Star's (1973), alongside actress Ann Baxter.
- On the album "Mink Car" (2001) by They Might Be Giants, there is a song called "She Thinks She's Edith Head".
- Following her death, she was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, in the Cathedral Slope section. She passed away only four days before her 84th birthday.
- Was in shock when she did not win the Oscar for The Emperor Waltz (1948) (Joan of Arc (1948) was the winner); sat through the remainder of the ceremonies 'in a state of stupor'.
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 376-378. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (1998).
- A university graduate, she taught Spanish in California until she joined Paramount.
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