“Who would dream that a couple of broken-down suits which I was to wear in my role as a poor girl in Internes Can’t Take Money would change my viewpoint? So uninspiring were those costumes requirements that Travis Banton sent his assistant Edith Head, to do my wardrobe,”
Barbara Stanwyck wrote of her first encounter with Edith in Movieland magazine.Up until that time, Stanwyck had played in a string of melodramas and westerns, usually with little or no opportunity for fashion.Internes would be no different really, but the relationship that formed between Edith and Barbara would be career-altering for both of them, creating a lasting bond
- Edith Head: The Fifty-Year Career of Hollywood’s Greatest Costume Designer