SHIRLEY MACLAINE WAS DRESSED BY EDITH HEAD FOR THE OSCARS IN 1959
Photo via: Hollywood Reporter
This is how a movie star got ready for the Oscars in 1959. This great photo is of Shirley MacLaine when she was 24 and nominated for Best Actress in “Some Came Running” with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. Edith Head designed a brown satin gown for Shirley to wear on the red carpet that was fitted within an inch of her life. Shirley liked Edith – she said the legendary designer “could intimidate all the producers when she walked into an office.” She’s been nominated six times but this year Shirley will be watching the awards on TV – she’s busy filming “Downton Abbey.”