Later today I’m posting information about a wonderful production, “A Conversation with Edith Head” that will be at the Pasadena Playhouse November 8th – December 1st…
But, first I’d like you to see some theatrical wardrobe design and construction from 1928 – just a few years after Edith Head started working in movies.
The sketches:
Working on the wardrobe out in the sun in the theater forecourt:
And then there were the masks for Eugene O’Neill’s “Lazarus Laughed”:
Working on the masks:
Back out in the sun, 1928:
It is like a dream version of the Hacienda that Ramona grew up in…. Now I DID go to Hemet to see the Ramona Pageant. Loretta Young and Don Amechi both played in it years ago before they did there film version.