---
name: "Leah Rhodes"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/leah-rhodes"
fi1m_id: "leah-rhodes"
imdb_id: "nm0722479"
tmdb_id: 1433182
wikidata_id: "Q516780"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "21 July 1902"
died: "17 October 1986"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T04:36:53.015750+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."
---

# Leah Rhodes

## Identity

Leah Rhodes

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/leah-rhodes
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** leah-rhodes
- **IMDb ID:** nm0722479
- **TMDB ID:** 1433182
- **Wikidata ID:** Q516780
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah_Rhodes, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q516780, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0722479/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1433182

Costume designer. Born 21 July 1902 in Port Arthur, Texas, USA. Died 17 October 1986.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 21 July 1902, Port Arthur, Texas, USA
- **Died:** 17 October 1986
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah_Rhodes, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q516780, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0722479/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1433182

## Biography

Leah Rhodes (1902–1986) was an American costume designer. Born Leah Margaret Montgomery in Port Arthur, Texas, she began her career as a window dresser before moving to California in 1926. She joined the Warner Bros. wardrobe department, where she worked as a buyer and shopper and later became chief assistant to Orry-Kelly.

When Orry-Kelly enlisted in the army during the Second World War, Rhodes took over design duties on several productions, including Bette Davis’s wardrobe for *Old Acquaintance*. She received solo or shared screen credit on Warner Bros. films such as *The Big Sleep* (1946), *Key Largo* (1948) and *White Heat* (1949). In 1950 she shared the Academy Award for Best Costume Design (Colour) for *Adventures of Don Juan* (1949) with Marjorie Best and Travilla.

Rhodes remained at Warners until the early 1950s, then worked at Universal and Paramount and designed for television and stage productions, including a Broadway collaboration with Edith Head. Her final film credit was *Rio Lobo* (1970).

*Sources: imdb.com, oscars.org, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *White Heat* (1949), Fi1m 86, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/white-heat.md)

## Complete filmography (55)

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

- *Rio Lobo* (1970), Costume Design
- *5 Card Stud* (1968), Costume Design
- *The Fox* (1967), Costume Design, Wardrobe Designer
- *Good Times* (1967), Costume Design
- *Tickle Me* (1965), Costume Design
- *Kings Go Forth* (1958), Costume Design
- *Forty Guns* (1957), Costume Design
- *The Lone Hand* (1953), Costume Design
- *Abbott and Costello Go to Mars* (1953), Costume Design
- *By the Light of the Silvery Moon* (1953), Wardrobe Designer
- *April in Paris* (1952), Costumer
- *The Winning Team* (1952), Wardrobe Designer, Costume Designer
- *About Face* (1952), Costume Design
- *Bugles in the Afternoon* (1952), Costume Design
- *Room for One More* (1952), Costume Design
- *I'll See You in My Dreams* (1951), Costume Design
- *Come Fill the Cup* (1951), Costume Design
- *The Golden Horde* (1951), Costume Design
- *The Mark of the Renegade* (1951), Costume Design
- *Only the Valiant* (1951), Costume Design
- *Lightning Strikes Twice* (1951), Costume Design
- *Three Secrets* (1950), Wardrobe Designer
- *The Breaking Point* (1950), Wardrobe Designer
- *Tea for Two* (1950), Costume Designer
- *Bright Leaf* (1950), Wardrobe Supervisor
- *Caged* (1950), Costume Design
- *Chain Lightning* (1950), Costume Design
- *Backfire* (1950), Costume Design
- *White Heat* (1949), Costume Design — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/white-heat.md)
- *Colorado Territory* (1949), as Wardrobe Master
- *Night Unto Night* (1949), Costume Design
- *Adventures of Don Juan* (1948), Costume Supervisor
- *Two Guys from Texas* (1948), Costume Design
- *Key Largo* (1948), Costume Design
- *Wallflower* (1948), Costume Design
- *My Girl Tisa* (1948), Costume Design
- *The Voice of the Turtle* (1947), Costume Design
- *Stallion Road* (1947), Costume Design
- *Never Say Goodbye* (1946), Wardrobe Designer
- *The Big Sleep* (1946), Wardrobe Designer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-sleep.md)
- *Two Guys from Milwaukee* (1946), Costume Design
- *Janie Gets Married* (1946), Costume Design
- *Too Young to Know* (1945), Costume Design
- *Hotel Berlin* (1945), Costume Design
- *Roughly Speaking* (1945), Costume Design
- *Experiment Perilous* (1944), Costume Design
- *The Conspirators* (1944), Costume Design
- *Crime by Night* (1944), Costume Design
- *Janie* (1944), Costume Design
- *Between Two Worlds* (1944), Costume Design
- *Passage to Marseille* (1944), Costume Design
- *Northern Pursuit* (1943), Costume Design
- *Find the Blackmailer* (1943), Costume Design
- *The Smiling Ghost* (1941), Costume Design
- *Old Hickory* (1939), Costume Design

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won

- 1950: Best Costume Design, Color (won), for *Adventures of Don Juan*

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

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