Who is Edith Head, and where does the song She Thinks Shes Edith Head come from?
Edith Head was the costume designer for nearly four hundred films between 1932 and 1982. She created the costumes for such classics as Saigon (1948), The War of the Worlds (1953), Sabrina (1954), The Ten Commandments (1956), and Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) as well as most of Alfred Hitchcock’s & Jerry Lewis’s films. For a complete list of Head’s work, check the Internet Movie Database. John Flansburgh has said that the song is based on a woman he knew in college, and that this woman actually thought she was Napoleon Bonaparte. However, since it’s very rare for a woman to think that she’s Napoleon, he changed it to Edith Head to make it more “universal”.
