•          HOME PAGE
• BIOGRAPHY
• FILES
• BOOKS
• LINKS
• COMMENTS
• S

GUILAROFF Sidney

 

Date of birth : November 2, 1907, London.

Date of death : May 28, 1997, Beverly Hills, California.

 

Portrait :

,,,

Practise : hairstylist of the Hollywood stars.

 

Story

For nearly 50 years, he was the chief hairstylist at the MGM and worked on more than 1 000 movies.

He began his career in New York City, and Claudette Colbert was his first famous client. Then it was Louise Brooks turn, for who he created the famous shingled haircut.

In 1935Louis B.Mayer made him come to Hollywood, after the head of the studios had discovered that Joan Crawford demanded to go to New York before the shooting of every of her movies, in the only purpose to be hairdressed by Guilaroff.

Since, he cut hair and combed generations of stars, including Greta Garbo in "Camille" and Vivien Leigh in "Gone With the Wind".

Letter from Marilyn dated August 12,1957 :.

He combed Marilyn in "Let’s Make Love", in 1960 :

,,

Letter from the Marilyn Monroe Productions to the Fox about Guilaroff's service, dated February 11, 1960 :

. 

He designed Marilyn's hairstyle in "The Misfits" (1961) (). He also frequently did her hair for official occasions, as for the party in the honor of Nikita Khrouchtchev, on September 19, 1959 : 

,,

 

According to some reports, he was one of the people that Marilyn, very depressed, called the night she died.

According to his autobiography, "Crowning Glory" published in 1996, he wrote that Marilyn planned to publicly reveal her love affair with Robert Kennedy. He also claimed that he had himself an affair with several of his clients, among them Greta Garbo and Ava Gardner.

He belonged to the pallbearers of Marilyn's casket the day of her funeral :

,

 

Bibliography

"Crowning Glory", Sydney Guilaroff and Cathy Griffin, Los Angeles, General Publishing Group, 1996.

 

                                                                                                                                              BACK TO ALPHABETICAL INDEX                                                                                                                                                                  NEXT FILE