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name: "Gile Steele"
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roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "24 September 1908"
died: "16 January 1952"
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average_fi1m_score: 82
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-20T01:48:45.204016+00:00"
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# Gile Steele

Costume designer. Born 24 September 1908 in Ohio. Died 16 January 1952.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 24 September 1908, Ohio
- **Died:** 16 January 1952
- **Active:** 1942–1949
- **Frequently works with:** [William Wyler](https://film.one/person/william-wyler.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscars (2 won · 4 nominated)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gile_Steele, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q506155, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0824554/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14867

## Biography

Gile Steele was an American costume designer who worked primarily at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and later Paramount Pictures. His career began in 1938 at MGM, with early credits including *Marie Antoinette*.

He contributed to numerous prestige films, including *Pride and Prejudice* (1940), *Waterloo Bridge* (1940), *Mrs. Miniver* (1942), *The Heiress* (1949) and *Samson and Delilah* (1949). Steele received Academy Award nominations for *The Emperor Waltz* (1948) and posthumous nominations in 1951 and 1952; he won Oscars for Best Costume Design for *The Heiress* and *Samson and Delilah*.

He studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles around 1927.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Heiress* (1949), Fi1m 90, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-heiress.md)
- *Mrs. Miniver* (1942), Fi1m 73, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/mrs-miniver.md)

## Complete filmography (47)

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

- *Lone Star* (1952), Costume Design
- *The Merry Widow* (1952), Costume Design
- *Scaramouche* (1952), Costume Design
- *The Belle of New York* (1952), Costume Design
- *Callaway Went Thataway* (1951), Costume Designer, Costume Design
- *The Law and the Lady* (1951), Costume Design
- *Kind Lady* (1951), Wardrobe Designer
- *Copper Canyon* (1950), Costume Design
- *Fancy Pants* (1950), Costume Design
- *Samson and Delilah* (1949), Costume Design
- *The Heiress* (1949), Costume Design — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/the-heiress.md)
- *The Paleface* (1948), Costume Design
- *The Emperor Waltz* (1948), Costume Designer
- *I Remember Mama* (1948), Costume Design
- *Mourning Becomes Electra* (1947), Costume Design
- *California* (1947), Costume Design
- *Monsieur Beaucaire* (1946), Costume Design
- *The White Cliffs of Dover* (1944), Costume Design
- *Broadway Rhythm* (1944), Costume Design
- *Best Foot Forward* (1943), Costume Design
- *I Dood It* (1943), Costume Design
- *Du Barry Was a Lady* (1943), Costume Design
- *The Man from Down Under* (1943), Costume Design
- *Above Suspicion* (1943), Costume Design
- *For Me and My Gal* (1942), Costume Design
- *Mrs. Miniver* (1942), Costume Design — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/mrs-miniver.md)
- *Tortilla Flat* (1942), Costume Design
- *The Vanishing Virginian* (1942), Costume Design
- *Honky Tonk* (1941), Costume Design
- *Smilin' Through* (1941), Costume Design
- *Billy the Kid* (1941), Costume Design
- *The Bad Man* (1941), Costume Design
- *The Wild Man of Borneo* (1941), Costumer
- *Comrade X* (1940), Costume Design
- *Go West* (1940), Costume Design
- *Little Nellie Kelly* (1940), Costume Design
- *Bitter Sweet* (1940), Costume Design
- *Escape* (1940), Costume Design
- *Boom Town* (1940), Costumer
- *Pride and Prejudice* (1940), Costume Design
- *New Moon* (1940), Costume Design
- *The Mortal Storm* (1940), Costume Design
- *Florian* (1940), Costume Design
- *Waterloo Bridge* (1940), Costume Design
- *20 Mule Team* (1940), Costume Design
- *Marie Antoinette* (1938), Costume Design
- *The Toy Wife* (1938), Costume Design

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 2 won, 4 nominated

- 1953: Best Costume Design, Color (nominated), for *The Merry Widow*
- 1952: Best Costume Design, Color (nominated), for *The Great Caruso*
- 1952: Best Costume Design, Black-and-White (nominated), for *Kind Lady*
- 1951: Best Costume Design, Color (won), for *Samson and Delilah*
- 1950: Best Costume Design, Black-and-White (won), for *The Heiress*
- 1949: Best Costume Design, Color (nominated), for *The Emperor Waltz*

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

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