---
name: "Norma Koch"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/norma-koch"
fi1m_id: "norma-koch"
imdb_id: "nm0462382"
tmdb_id: 1467258
wikidata_id: "Q1999283"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "27 March 1898"
died: "29 July 1979"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T04:36:29.056402+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."
---

# Norma Koch

## Identity

Norma Koch

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/norma-koch
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** norma-koch
- **IMDb ID:** nm0462382
- **TMDB ID:** 1467258
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1999283
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Koch, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1999283, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0462382/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1467258

Costume designer. Born 27 March 1898 in Jamaica, New York, USA. Died 29 July 1979.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 27 March 1898, Jamaica, New York, USA
- **Died:** 29 July 1979
- **Active:** 1950–1957
- **Also known as:** Norma
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won · 2 nominated)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Koch, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1999283, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0462382/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1467258

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Gun Crazy*](https://film.one/film/gun-crazy.md) (86)

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## Biography

Norma Koch was an American costume designer, often credited simply as Norma. She worked in Hollywood from the mid-1940s until the early 1970s, with credits including *Gun Crazy* (1950), *Marty* (1955) and *Sayonara* (1957).

She won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design (Black and White) for *What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?* (1962). She received further Oscar nominations in the same category for *Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte* (1964) and for *Lady Sings the Blues* (1972).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Gun Crazy* (1950), Fi1m 86, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/gun-crazy.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

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

- *Lady Sings the Blues* (1972), Costume Design
- *The Grissom Gang* (1971), Costume Design
- *The Way West* (1967), Costume Design
- *The Flight of the Phoenix* (1965), Costume Design
- *Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte* (1964), Costume Design
- *4 for Texas* (1963), Costume Design
- *Kings of the Sun* (1963), Costume Design
- *Taras Bulba* (1962), Costume Design
- *What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?* (1962), Wardrobe Designer
- *The Last Sunset* (1961), Costume Design
- *Cry for Happy* (1961), Costume Design
- *Sayonara* (1957), Costume Design
- *The Restless Breed* (1957), Costume Design
- *While the City Sleeps* (1956), Costume Design
- *Slightly Scarlet* (1956), Costume Design
- *The Kentuckian* (1955), Costume Design
- *Marty* (1955), Costume Design
- *Vera Cruz* (1954), Costume Design
- *Vice Squad* (1953), Costume Designer
- *When I Grow Up* (1951), Costume Design
- *Dakota Lil* (1950), Wardrobe Coordinator
- *Gun Crazy* (1950), Costume Design — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/gun-crazy.md)
- *Love Happy* (1949), Costume Design
- *Tarzan and the Mermaids* (1948), Costume Design
- *The Gangster* (1947), Costume Design
- *The Private Affairs of Bel Ami* (1947), Costume Design
- *A Scandal in Paris* (1946), Costume Design

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won, 2 nominated

- 1973: Best Costume Design (nominated), for *Lady Sings the Blues*
- 1965: Best Costume Design, Black-and-White (nominated), for *Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte*
- 1963: Best Costume Design, Black-and-White (won), for *What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?*

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

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