Gile Steele

Gile Steele (September 24, 1908 — January 16, 1952) 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 Best Costume design for The Heiress in 1949 and Samson and Delilah in 1950.

Steele was also an amateur painter of some note.

He went to Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, circa 1927.

Death Steele died around midnight on the evening of January 15-16, 1952. He was driving on Sepulveda Blvd. in Santa Monica in a stormwater drainage area. He drowned before rescuers could get to him.

Steele was divorced. and his three young children.