Gwen Wakeling

About Gwen Wakeling

Who is it?: Costume Designer, Costume and Wardrobe Department
Birth Day: March 3, 1901
Birth Place: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m)
Birth Name: Gwen Sewell

Gwen Wakeling

Gwen Wakeling was born in Detroit. Her father was a mining engineer whose work resulted in the family moving every few...
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As per our current Database, Gwen Wakeling has been died on 16 June, 1982 at Los Angeles County, California, USA.

🎂 Gwen Wakeling - Age, Bio, Faces and Birthday

When Gwen Wakeling die, Gwen Wakeling was 81 years old.

Popular As Gwen Wakeling
Occupation Costume Designer
Age 81 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born March 3, 1901 (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Birthday March 3
Town/City Detroit, Michigan, USA
Nationality USA

🌙 Zodiac

Gwen Wakeling’s zodiac sign is Pisces. According to astrologers, Pisces are very friendly, so they often find themselves in a company of very different people. Pisces are selfless, they are always willing to help others, without hoping to get anything back. Pisces is a Water sign and as such this zodiac sign is characterized by empathy and expressed emotional capacity.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Gwen Wakeling was born in the Year of the Ox. Another of the powerful Chinese Zodiac signs, the Ox is steadfast, solid, a goal-oriented leader, detail-oriented, hard-working, stubborn, serious and introverted but can feel lonely and insecure. Takes comfort in friends and family and is a reliable, protective and strong companion. Compatible with Snake or Rooster.

Gwen Wakeling was born in Detroit. Her father was a mining engineer whose work resulted in the family moving every few years, and she wound up living everywhere from Seattle to Los Angeles to Prescott, Arizona.

Upon graduating high school she got a job as a fashion artist in a department store. She soon was hired by director Cecil B. DeMille when he was working for Pathe Studios, and he took her with him when he moved over to Paramount Pictures.

In 1933 she went to work for Fox Films as the studio's head costume designer. In 1941 she suffered the traumas of a death in her family and a serious illness because of a ruptured appendix, and quit Fox the next year and became a freelancer.

She later married writer/director Henry J. Staudigl. She won an Oscar for costume design for Samson and Delilah (1949).

Gwen Wakeling Net Worth and Salary

  • Henry J. Staudigl (1942 - ?)

Gwen Wakeling Movies

  • The Grapes of Wrath (1940) as Costume Designer
  • Samson and Delilah (1949) as Costume Designer
  • International Lady (1941) as Costume Designer
  • The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) as Costume Designer

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