Gwen Wakeling

Gwendolyn Sewell Wakeling was an American costume designer and the daughter of film editor/press agent Edith Wakeling.
Gwen Wakeling's first film was Cecil B. DeMille's 1927 epic The [King of Kings (1927 film)|The King of Kings]. A generation later, she won an Academy Award for her work on DeMille's 1949 version of Samson and Delilah.
In a career spanning over 140 films, she worked for director John Ford on such films as The Prisoner of Shark Island, Drums Along the Mohawk, The [Grapes of Wrath (film)|The Grapes of Wrath] and How Green Was [My Valley (film)|How Green Was My Valley], and provided the costumes for such Shirley Temple films as Little Miss Broadway in the 1930s. One of her last assignments was creating Barbara Eden's "Jeannie" costumes for I Dream Of Jeannie in 1965.
Wakeling was a member of the Baháʼí Faith, and her husband, Henry J. Staudigl, set up an arts endowment in her memory at Bosch [Baháʼí School] in Santa Cruz to promote artistic endeavors and included a research and resource library.