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.