---
name: "Dorothy Jeakins"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dorothy-jeakins"
fi1m_id: "dorothy-jeakins"
imdb_id: "nm0419820"
tmdb_id: 29800
wikidata_id: "Q436530"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "11 January 1914"
died: "21 November 1995"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 11
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_over: 11
updated: "2026-09-26T17:49:21.939260+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Dorothy Jeakins

## Identity

Dorothy Jeakins

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dorothy-jeakins
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dorothy-jeakins
- **IMDb ID:** nm0419820
- **TMDB ID:** 29800
- **Wikidata ID:** Q436530
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Jeakins, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436530, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0419820/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/29800

Costume designer. Born 11 January 1914 in San Diego, California, USA. Died 21 November 1995.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 11 January 1914, San Diego, California, USA
- **Died:** 21 November 1995
- **Active:** 1952–1987
- **Frequently works with:** [Cecil B. DeMille](https://film.one/person/cecil-b-demille.md), [Charlton Heston](https://film.one/person/charlton-heston.md), [Dorothy McGuire](https://film.one/person/dorothy-mcguire.md), [Edith Head](https://film.one/person/edith-head.md), [Fredric M. Frank](https://film.one/person/fredric-m-frank.md), [Shirley Jones](https://film.one/person/shirley-jones.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 3 Oscars (3 won · 9 nominated)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1950s 66 (5), 1960s 81 (3), 1970s 73 (1), 1980s 79 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 72 to 72 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 8 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 9, Romance 6, Family 2, Music 2, Adventure 1, Comedy 1
- **Screen time:** 25 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $602m across 8 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Jeakins, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436530, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0419820/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/29800

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Sound of Music*](https://film.one/film/the-sound-of-music.md) (86)
- **Tubi:** [*The Music Man*](https://film.one/film/the-music-man.md) (78)
- **Pluto TV:** [*Elmer Gantry*](https://film.one/film/elmer-gantry.md) (78)
- **The Roku Channel:** [*Fat City*](https://film.one/film/fat-city.md) (73)
- **Peacock:** [*On Golden Pond*](https://film.one/film/on-golden-pond.md) (72)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Ten Commandments*](https://film.one/film/the-ten-commandments.md) (67)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Dorothy Jeakins (1914–1995) was an American costume designer who worked in film, theatre and television. Born in San Diego, California, she studied at the Otis Art Institute after receiving a scholarship while at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles, and also attended the Art Students League of Los Angeles.

She began her film career as a sketch artist on Joan of Arc (1948), sharing an Academy Award for costume design. Jeakins freelanced throughout her career and received two further Oscars, for Samson and Delilah (1949, shared) and The Night of the Iguana (1964), along with twelve further nominations. Her credits include The Ten Commandments (1956), The Sound of Music (1965), The Way We Were (1973), Young Frankenstein (1974) and On Golden Pond (1981).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (11)

- *The Dead* (1987), Fi1m 86, Costume Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-dead.md)
- *On Golden Pond* (1981), Fi1m 72, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/on-golden-pond.md)
- *Fat City* (1972), Fi1m 73, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/fat-city.md)
- *The Sound of Music* (1965), Fi1m 86, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-sound-of-music.md)
- *The Music Man* (1962), Fi1m 78, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-music-man.md)
- *Elmer Gantry* (1960), Fi1m 78, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/elmer-gantry.md)
- *Friendly Persuasion* (1956), Fi1m 72, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/friendly-persuasion.md)
- *The Ten Commandments* (1956), Fi1m 67, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-ten-commandments.md)
- *Three Coins in the Fountain* (1954), Fi1m 60, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/three-coins-in-the-fountain.md)
- *The Big Sky* (1952), Fi1m 73, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-sky.md)
- *The Greatest Show on Earth* (1952), Fi1m 56, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-greatest-show-on-earth.md)

## Complete filmography (59)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Dead* (1987), Costume Designer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/the-dead.md)
- *On Golden Pond* (1981), Costume Design — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/on-golden-pond.md)
- *The Postman Always Rings Twice* (1981), Costume Design
- *North Dallas Forty* (1979), Costume Design
- *Love and Bullets* (1979), Costume Design
- *The Betsy* (1978), Costume Design
- *Audrey Rose* (1977), Costume Design
- *I Will, I Will...For Now* (1976), Costume Design
- *The Hindenburg* (1975), Costume Design
- *The Yakuza* (1974), Costume Design
- *Young Frankenstein* (1974), Costume Design
- *The Savage Is Loose* (1974), Costume Design
- *The Way We Were* (1973), Costume Design
- *Fat City* (1972), Costume Design — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/fat-city.md)
- *Fuzz* (1972), Costume Design
- *The Molly Maguires* (1970), Costume Design
- *True Grit* (1969), Costume Design
- *The Stalking Moon* (1968), Costumer
- *The Fixer* (1968), Costume Design
- *Finian's Rainbow* (1968), Costume Design
- *Reflections in a Golden Eye* (1967), Costume Design
- *The Flim-Flam Man* (1967), Costume Design
- *Any Wednesday* (1966), Costume Design
- *Hawaii* (1966), as Hepzibah Hale · Costume Designer
- *The Fool Killer* (1965), Costume Design
- *The Sound of Music* (1965), Costume Design — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/the-sound-of-music.md)
- *The Night of the Iguana* (1964), Costume Design
- *Ensign Pulver* (1964), Costume Design
- *The Best Man* (1964), Costume Supervisor
- *The Music Man* (1962), Costume Design — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-music-man.md)
- *All Fall Down* (1962), Costume Design
- *The Children's Hour* (1961), Costume Design
- *Let's Make Love* (1960), Costume Design
- *Elmer Gantry* (1960), Costume Design — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/elmer-gantry.md)
- *The Unforgiven* (1960), Costume Design
- *Green Mansions* (1959), Costume Design
- *South Pacific* (1958), Costume Design
- *Desire Under the Elms* (1958), Costume Design
- *Annie Get Your Gun* (1957), Costume Design
- *Mayerling* (1957), Costume Design
- *Friendly Persuasion* (1956), Costume Design — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/friendly-persuasion.md)
- *The Ten Commandments* (1956), Costume Design — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/film/the-ten-commandments.md)
- *Three Coins in the Fountain* (1954), Costume Design — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/three-coins-in-the-fountain.md)
- *Beneath the 12-Mile Reef* (1953), Costume Design
- *City of Bad Men* (1953), Costume Design
- *Inferno* (1953), Costume Design
- *White Witch Doctor* (1953), Costume Design
- *Treasure of the Golden Condor* (1953), Costume Design
- *Niagara* (1953), Costume Design
- *My Cousin Rachel* (1952), Costume Design
- *Stars and Stripes Forever* (1952), Costume Design
- *The Outcasts of Poker Flat* (1952), Costume Design
- *The Big Sky* (1952), Costume Design — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-sky.md)
- *Les Miserables* (1952), Costume Design
- *Belles on Their Toes* (1952), Costume Design
- *The Greatest Show on Earth* (1952), Costume Design — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/the-greatest-show-on-earth.md)
- *Cyrano de Bergerac* (1950), Costume Design
- *Samson and Delilah* (1949), Costume Design
- *Joan of Arc* (1948), Costume Design

## Gallery

- ![Dorothy Jeakins](https://film.one/media/person/105583/gallery-f57af0152d09.jpg) Dorothy Jeakins — Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Dorothy_Jeakins.jpg/1280px-Dorothy_Jeakins.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dorothy Jeakins](https://film.one/media/person/105583/gallery-a1f610c14bc9.jpg) Dorothy Jeakins — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 3 won, 9 nominated

- 1988: Best Costume Design (nominated), for *The Dead*
- 1974: Best Costume Design (nominated), for *The Way We Were*
- 1967: Best Costume Design, Color (nominated), for *Hawaii*
- 1966: Best Costume Design, Color (nominated), for *The Sound of Music*
- 1965: Best Costume Design, Black-and-White (won), for *The Night of the Iguana*
- 1963: Best Costume Design, Color (nominated), for *The Music Man*
- 1962: Best Costume Design, Black-and-White (nominated), for *The Children's Hour*
- 1957: Best Costume Design, Color (nominated), for *The Ten Commandments*
- 1953: Best Costume Design, Color (nominated), for *The Greatest Show on Earth*
- 1953: Best Costume Design, Black-and-White (nominated), for *My Cousin Rachel*
- 1951: Best Costume Design, Color (won), for *Samson and Delilah*
- 1949: Best Costume Design, Color (won), for *Joan of Arc*

### Other awards — 1 won, 2 nominated

- Crystal Award 1987: Crystal Award (won)
- Tony Award for Best Costume Design 1959: Tony Award for Best Costume Design (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Costume Design 1957: Tony Award for Best Costume Design (nominated)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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