My journey ends here...
SNYDER Allan "Whitey"
Date of birth : August 7, 1914, California.
Date of death : April 16, 1994, Hansville, State of Washington.
Practise:
make-up artist at the Fox,
personal make-up man of Marilyn and friend of hers.
Address :
1050 Harvard Street, Santa Monica, Californie
21 663 Pacific Coast Highway,
Malibu, California.
Story
He took care of the Fox movie stars like Betty Grable, Gene Tierney, Linda Darnell and Alice Faye.
He put make-up on Marilyn for the first time on July 19, 1946, for her first screen-test in front of a camera;
he immediately took her under his wing, introducing her to the studio
make-up techniques and secrets, while giving her his beauty tricks.
On September 13, 1953, in the "Jack Benny Show" :
1953, "How to Marry a Millionaire?" :
On November 4, 1953, at the premiere of "How to Marry a Millionaire?":
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On December 4, 1953, charity :
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1953, "Niagara" :
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1953, "River of No Return" :
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Marilyn's sprain
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1954, "There's No Business Like Showbusiness" :
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1954, "The Seven Year Itch" :
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1956, "Bus Stop" :
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1958, "Some Like it Hot" :
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1960, "Let's Make Love" :
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On October 29, 1960 : picture session with Eve Arnold :
1960, "The Misfits":
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1962, "Something's Got to Give" :
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Summer 1962, picture session with George Barris :
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At the beginning of their long friendship on and off the set, she had asked him (end of April 1952, he came to put some makeup on her when she left the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles, where she had had an appendix surgery), jokingly, she had offered him a gold money clip from Tiffany, with the inscription "Whitey Dear; While I'm still warm, Marilyn" :
He worked as his personal make-up man on the majority of her movies, even if his name is often uncredited.
During the last years of he life, after her moving in Los Angele, he came personally to put make-up on her for all her public appearances.
As she had asked him, he took care of her make-up after her death; he had to find some courage and was helped with a bottle of gin. He attended her funeral and was one of her casket's pallbearers :
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Document about Marilyn's make-up, several weeks before her death, which hadn't been paid :
August 9, 1962, on the set of "Three on a March" : 
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Attention! Some of the pictures taken by a professional photographer on the set of "Something's Got to Give " belong from now on to the Estate of Robert Slatzer.
Even if my website is a non lucrative one, the Estate of Robert Slatzer doesn't allow me to use those pictures even if citing their copyright.
Unfortunately, we don't share the same interest for Miss Monroe.
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