Sheila O'Brien explained

Sheila O'Brien
Birth Date:9 October 1902
Birth Place:Texas, United States
Death Place:Los Angeles, California
Occupation:costume designer
Yearsactive:1939 - 1965

Sheila O’Brien (October 9, 1902 in Texas – January 26, 1983) was an American costume designer.

O'Brien began her career as a seamstress for Paramount Pictures but transferred to the costume department of MGM, where she worked as a costume department dresser on The Wizard of Oz in 1939, coming into her own as a Hollywood costume designer in the 1950s. She was a favourite of Joan Crawford’s, dressing her in Sudden Fear (1952, for which O’Brien received an Oscar nomination),[1] Johnny Guitar (1954) and Female on the Beach (1955). O’Brien died of cancer in 1983.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 1953 Oscars. February 21, 2015.