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Gile Steele (24 September 1908 in Ohio – 16 January 1952 in Culver City, California), was a Hollywood costume designer. His career began at MGM in 1938 with one of his first assignments being the Norma Shearer film Marie Antoinette. He also worked on many of the company's prestige pictures including Pride and Prejudice and Boom Town (both 1940), Blossoms in the Dust and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (both 1941), Mrs. Miniver (1942) and Madame Curie (1943). He was one of the first nominees when the category for Best Costume Design was introduced at the Academy Awards in 1948 for his work on The Emperor Waltz. He won the Oscar for The Heiress in 1949 and Samson and Delilah in 1950. He died abruptly in 1952 at the age of 43.
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31 May 1943
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
08 May 1952
In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.
19 January 1944
Broadway producer Johnny Demming is only interested in big-name talent and scoffs that his sister, father and other small-time talent could be used in a successful show.
11 May 1944
American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance.
21 December 1949
When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.
30 May 1941
Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating.
03 May 1940
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition.
30 August 1940
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman.
19 November 1947
Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin.
26 August 1938
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries.
19 July 1950
An American actor, impersonating an English butler, is hired by a rich woman from New Mexico to refine her husband and headstrong daughter.
05 September 1952
Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a Marshovian, can be convinced to part with her money and marry the king's nephew count Danilo.
15 November 1950
A group of copper miners, Southern veterans, are terrorized by local rebel-haters, led by deputy Lane Travis.
21 February 1947
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train.
21 October 1942
Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.
01 November 1940
An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.
02 July 1948
At the turn of the 20th century, travelling salesman Virgil Smith journeys to Vienna in the hope he can sell a gramophone to Emperor Franz Joseph, whose purchase of the recent American invention could spur its popularity in Austria.
01 September 1943
Constance Shaw, a Broadway dance star, and Joseph Rivington Reynolds, a keen fan of hers, marry after she breaks up with her fiancé.
21 May 1942
Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.
08 November 1940
A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.
06 December 1940
Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty but simple brothers Joseph and Rusty Panello in a train station, where they steal all his money.
28 June 1940
A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
28 March 1941
Lopez is a bandit who has stolen the herd at Gil's ranch, so Hardy is about to foreclose. But Lucia has come back from New York and Gil is happy until he meets her husband, Morgan.
15 November 1951
Two smart marketing people resurrect some old films starring cowboy Smoky Callaway and put them on television.
20 June 1951
Mary Herries has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even though she is getting on in years, she enjoys being around these priceless articles.
08 October 1943
Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance.
17 May 1940
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.
05 June 1940
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
01 October 1941
John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered.
20 July 1951
A former housemaid now works as a confidence trickster, but her plans for a big job in California go awry.
04 August 1943
An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII.
26 July 1940
Mrs. Bennet wishes to wed her five unmarried daughters and is overjoyed when a wealthy bachelor begins living nearby, but misunderstandings make happiness difficult.
13 August 1943
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money.
01 February 1942
The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does his best to adjust to change.
04 September 1946
A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princess of Spain.
03 July 1942
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon.
06 October 1949
In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who may or may not be after her inheritance.
13 December 1940
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
24 October 1952
Rip-roaring big star, big budget semi-historical story about cattle baron Devereaux Burke, who is enlisted by an aging Andrew Jackson to dissuade Sam Houston from establishing Texas as a republic.
20 June 1940
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil.
17 December 1948
Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless" Peter Potter, who finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity as she fights off outlaws and Indians.
22 February 1952
In squeaky-clean New York at the turn of the century, playboy Charlie Hill falls so much in love that he can walk on air.
10 June 1938
A Southern belle finds herself torn between two suitors.
22 November 1940
Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway.
