“Notorious was my first opportunity to dress Ingrid the way she should be. For such a big woman, she was a joy to dress. I was able to do evening clothes, sports clothes, street clothes – the whole gamut. I just had to be sure what I did pleased Hitch. He was very specific about costumes for his leading ladies. He spoke a designer’s language, even though he didn’t know the first thing about clothes. He specified colors in the script if they were important. If he wanted a skirt that brushed a desk as a woman walked by, he spelled that out too. For Notorious, he repeated many times that the clothes must not be a focal point, that Bergman was to be a believable secret agent.”
Edith Head quoted in Paddy Calistro’s biography: Edith Head’s Hollywood
The famed photojournalist, Robert Capa, took a few shots on set:
