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    • Twentieth Century Studios

    What a Way to Go!

    1964

    Costume seen on Shirley MacLaine as Louisa May Foster

    • Herbert Dorfman
    • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

    Promotional Photo for Once a Thief

    1965

    Costume seen on Ann-Margret as Kristine Pedak

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Edith Head designed this incredible pink fur cloak for the Twentieth Century Fox (now Twentieth Century Studios) film What a Way to Go!

Although Head was primarily associated with Paramount Studios, the star of What a Way to Go!, Shirley MacLaine, was a big enough star to be able to request Head be borrowed to work on the film. Her request was granted, and Head created this memorable costume for MacLaine’s character, Louisa May Foster.

The budget for the film was one of the biggest that Head had ever been given, exceeding half a million dollars. “In case anyone has forgotten, that was a damn fortune in the early 1960s,” she says in Edith Head’s Hollywood.

This solves the mystery of why a Paramount designer worked on a Fox studio production, but what about the mystery of how this incredible piece wound up being worn by Ann-Margret for promotional photos for the 1965 MGM film Once a Theif?

It’s possible that after What a Way to Go! ended, that this costume made its way to a rental shop, such as Western Costume.

Do you have any ideas as to how this costume may have made its way from Fox to MGM? Let us know in the comments below!

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Edith Head designed this incredible pink fur cloak for the Twentieth Century Fox (now Twentieth Century Studios) film What a Way to Go!

Although Head was primarily associated with Paramount Studios, the star of What a Way to Go!, Shirley MacLaine, was a big enough star to be able to request Head be borrowed to work on the film. Her request was granted, and Head created this memorable costume for MacLaine’s character, Louisa May Foster.

The budget for the film was one of the biggest that Head had ever been given, exceeding half a million dollars. “In case anyone has forgotten, that was a damn fortune in the early 1960s,” she says in Edith Head’s Hollywood.

This solves the mystery of why a Paramount designer worked on a Fox studio production, but what about the mystery of how this incredible piece wound up being worn by Ann-Margret for promotional photos for the 1965 MGM film Once a Theif?

It’s possible that after What a Way to Go! ended, that this costume made its way to a rental shop, such as Western Costume.

Do you have any ideas as to how this costume may have made its way from Fox to MGM? Let us know in the comments below!

Edith Head designed this incredible pink fur cloak for the Twentieth Century Fox (now Twentieth Century Studios) film What a Way to Go!

Although Head was primarily associated with Paramount Studios, the star of What a Way to Go!, Shirley MacLaine, was a big enough star to be able to request Head be borrowed to work on the film. Her request was granted, and Head created this memorable costume for MacLaine’s character, Louisa May Foster.

The budget for the film was one of the biggest that Head had ever been given, exceeding half a million dollars. “In case anyone has forgotten, that was a damn fortune in the early 1960s,” she says in Edith Head’s Hollywood.

This solves the mystery of why a Paramount designer worked on a Fox studio production, but what about the mystery of how this incredible piece wound up being worn by Ann-Margret for promotional photos for the 1965 MGM film Once a Theif?

It’s possible that after What a Way to Go! ended, that this costume made its way to a rental shop, such as Western Costume.

Do you have any ideas as to how this costume may have made its way from Fox to MGM? Let us know in the comments below!

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