Sydney Guilaroff
Sydney Guilaroff (November 2, 1907 – May 25, 1997) was a hair stylist during Hollywood’s Golden Age who was the first to receive on-screen credit in films. He worked for more than forty years at the Metro Goldwyn Mayer studios on more than a thousand films. He was instrumental in crafting many of the hairstyles which became the signature looks for numerous film stars. Over his long and distinguished career, Guilaroff's other clients included Elizabeth Taylor, Lana Turner, Greta Garbo, Lena Horne, Greer Garson, Debbie Reynolds, Ann-Margret, Marilyn Monroe, Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Hedy Lamarr, Kathryn Grayson, Liza Minnelli, Clare Booth Luce, Ginger Rogers, Geraldine Page, Libby Holman, and Nancy Reagan. He was the stylist of choice for such male stars as Cary Grant, Clark Gable, Fred Astaire, James Stewart, Spencer Tracy and Frank Sinatra Guilaroff won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Hairstyling for a Miniseries or Special for The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (1987) starring Ann-Margret and Claudette Colbert.
Filmography (62)
...All the Marbles
New York, New York
Carnal Knowledge
Sweet Charity
Marlowe
Rosemary's Baby
The Graduate
Divorce American Style
Point Blank
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Gambit
The Great Race
Girl Happy
Seven Days in May
Viva Las Vegas
Sex and the Single Girl
The Night of the Iguana
How the West Was Won
The Misfits
The Time Machine
Home from the Hill
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
North by Northwest
Gigi
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Raintree County
Silk Stockings
Forbidden Planet
High Society
Lust for Life
It's Always Fair Weather
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Kiss Me Kate
Julius Caesar
The Band Wagon
Singin' in the Rain
Pat and Mike
Scaramouche
The Painted Hills
An American in Paris
Royal Wedding
Quo Vadis
Father of the Bride
The Asphalt Jungle
Challenge to Lassie
Adam's Rib
On the Town
Hills of Home
The Three Musketeers
The Pirate
Easter Parade
The Sea of Grass
Song of the Thin Man
Ziegfeld Follies
Mrs. Miniver
Panama Hattie
Lady Be Good
The Philadelphia Story
Pride and Prejudice
The Shop Around the Corner
The Women
