My journey ends here...
GUILAROFF Sydney
Date of birth : November 2, 1907, London.
Date of death : May 28, 1997, Beverly Hills, California.
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Addresses
* 1929 : 133 West 71th Street, New York
* 1937 : 310 East 55th rue, New York
* 1940 : 1041 Lindbrook Drive, Los Angeles (
)* 1957 : 1118 Calle Vista Drive, Beverly Hills
* 242 Copa De Ora, West Los Angeles 24, Tel CR 55 783.
Profession hairstylist for the Hollywood studios. Chief hairstylist at the MGM.
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His parents Eugene Abraham (born in February 1868, Orenburg, Russia) and Annie Smitkin (1874, Russia-November 20, 1968, Montréal) married in Johannesburg, South Africa on December 10, 1906
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They emigrated in England at the end of the 19th Century, and settled in Canada en 1909, and first lived in Winnipeg then in Montreal.
They had 8 children
* Olga (September 1894, London-1989). She was a piano teacher in Montreal.
* Hyam Myer (September 1897-1900)
* Dorothy (March 1899, London-February 13, 1936, Montreal)
* Theodore Matthias (Born on June 26, 1901, London)
* Vera (October 26, 1902, London-October 23, 1976, Montreal). She was a pianist (
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* Eva (June 1906, south Africa-May 18, 2006, Montreal).
* Sydney
* Rita (January 13, 1913-July 9, 2009, Canada)(
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December 29, 1921, immigration to the USA 
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In 1924, he started as an apprentice stylist at the McAlpin Hotel in New York. He then worked at Antoine de
Paris' prestigious salon in Manhattan
where he was discovered by Claudette Colbert in 1928 (
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Then it was Louise Brooks turn, for who he created the famous
shingled haircut.
He then had his own salon at Bonwit Teller.
Declaration of intention, January 28, 1932 
Crawford (
) demanded to go to New York before the
shooting of every of her movies, in the only purpose to be hairdressed
by Guilaroff.
Petition for Naturalization, February 17, 1937 
Naturalization granted on June 14, 1937 
Since, he cut hair and combed generations of stars, including Greta Garbo in "Camille" and Vivien Leigh in "Gone With the Wind".
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In 1938 he was the first single man to adopt a child. He adopted a baby boy aged 6 days. He named him Jon Donald (born on April 16, 1938, New York), in the honor of actress Joan Crawford who was one of his first clients
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Link with Marilyn
Letter from Marilyn dated August 12,1957 
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He also frequently did her hair for official occasions, as for the party in the honor of Nikita Khrouchtchev, on
September 19, 1959 
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Letter from the Marilyn Monroe Productions to the Fox about Guilaroff's service, dated February 11, 1960
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He was Marilyn's hairdresser in "Let’s Make Love", in 1960 
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At the same time, Yves Montand was on the production of "Let's Make Love" with Marilyn; his wife, Simone
Signoret got hairdressed by Sidney Guilaroff 
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He designed Marilyn's hairstyle in "The Misfits"
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Telegram sent to Marilyn 
He belonged to the pallbearers of Marilyn's casket the day of her funeral 
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on August 8, 1962.
Bibliography
"Crowning Glory", Sydney Guilaroff and Cathy Griffin, Los Angeles, General Publishing Group, 1996.
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