My journey ends here...
SNYDER Allan "Whitey"
Allan Brooks Snyder.
Date of birth : August 7, 1914, New Jersey.
Date of death : April 16, 1994, Hansville, State of Washington.
Profession make-up artist at the Fox (
),
personal make-up man of Marilyn and friend of hers.
Addresses
* 1930 : 1222 6th Street, Los Angeles (
)
* 1935 : 1050 Harvard Street, Santa Monica
* 1940 : 860 Radcliffe Avenue, Los Angeles (
)
* 1950 : 521 Radcliff Avenue, Los Angeles (
)
* 21 663 Pacific Coast Highway,
Malibu.
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Registration card, October 16, 1940 
He married Beverly Thelma Bray (March 16, 1919, Los Angeles-May 9, 1988, Orange County, California)
(
).
They divorced in February 1970. She attended Marilyn's funerals in August 1962.
They had 2 children :
* Ronald Allan Snyder-Britton (February 16, 1939, Los Angeles)(
). He would himself become
make-up man in the movie picture industry and married actress Kim Basinger in the 1980'(
).
* Sherrill Christine Snyder (March 9, 1946, Los Angeles).
On December 30, 1970 he married Marjorie Plecher in Santa Barbara, California (
,
).
Link with
Marilyn
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.
1953, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" 
On September 13, 1953,
in the "Jack Benny Show" 
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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, Los Angeles Examiner Christmas party at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium 
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1953, "Niagara"
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1953, "River of No Return"
publicity pictures 
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on the set 
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Marilyn's sprain
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off set 
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1954, "There's No Business Like Show Business" 
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1954, "The Seven Year Itch"
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1954, New York 
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1956, "Bus Stop"
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1956, shooting of "The Prince and the Showgirl" 
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On Tuesday, November 20, 1956, he left London and went back to the USA in the plane with the Millers, after
the production of "The Prince and the Showgirl" (
).
1958, "Some Like it Hot"
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1960, "Let's Make Love"
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April 4, 1960, with Simone Signoret, before the Oscars ceremony 
On October 29, 1960, picture session with Eve
Arnold 
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1960, "The Misfits"
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1962, "Something's Got to Give"
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June 1st, 1962, at the Dodger Stadium, party given to the beneft of Muscular Dytrophy
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 on August 8, 1962
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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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1978 
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