Gile Steele
Costume Designer, Film costumer designer
1908 – 1952
Who was Gile Steele?
Gile Steele, was a Hollywood costume designer. His career began at MGM in 1938 with one of his first assignments being the Norma Shearer film Marie Antoinette. He also worked on many of the company's prestige pictures including Pride and Prejudice and Boom Town, Blossoms in the Dust and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Mrs. Miniver and Madame Curie. He was one of the first nominees when the category for Best Costume Design was introduced at the Academy Awards in 1948 for his work on The Emperor Waltz. He won the Oscar for The Heiress in 1949 and Samson and Delilah in 1950. He died abruptly in 1952 at the age of 43.
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- Born
- Sep 24, 1908
Ohio - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Jan 16, 1952
Culver City
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on July 23, 2013
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