Trivia

Served as chief hairstylist at MGM from 1934 to the late 1970s. Such was his impeccable reputation that Grace Kelly summoned him to style her hair for her marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956. He designed Judy Garland's ponytails for her Dorothy inLe Magicien d'Oz (1939). A frantic Marilyn Monroe called him on the night she died--August 4, 1962. He made legal history in 1938 by becoming the first bachelor in the United States to adopt a child.

Claimed in his memoirs, entitled 'Crowning Glory', to have had affairs with both Greta Garbo and Ava Gardner.

Started work as an apprentice stylist at the McAlpin Hotel in New York. Subsequently landed a job at Antoine's, a prestigious salon in Manhattan, where he was 'discovered' by Claudette Colbert in 1928.

For what he termed his 'greatest challenge', the 1938 Norma Shearer film 'Marie Antoinette', he used 2000 court wigs and an additional 3000 wigs for the extras.

First hair stylist to be listed in the credits of a film. Credited with making Lucille Ball a redhead and giving Claudette Colbert her signature bangs.

Elizabeth Taylor insisted on him when she began work on "Cleopatra", at a time when the studio work on the film was due to be filmed in England. Although Guilaroff was actually born in England, he was objected to by British film unions, who insisted that a British hairdresser be used. Guilaroff had made himself unpopular in England on an earlier occasion and was also disliked by the producer of "Cleopatra", Walter Wanger. Nonetheless, he began work on the film in London, drawing a salary of $1100 per week, with $600 per week extra for "expenses". British hairdressers threatened strike action, but the near-fatal illness of Elizabeth Taylor, together with the resignation of director Rouben Mamoulian, led to the abandonment of all plans to film in England. The resumption of filming - this time in Rome - did not begin for many weeks, and by then Guilaroff was off the picture.