![]() Netflix does not earn a commission if you choose to purchase through these links. Products and links featured in this article are selected by our writers and editors. which is that he got a call from Marilyn Monroe at about 9:30 on the night that she would later be found dead.” And it contains a crucial piece of information. And finally, he found a way to let me know that he was writing his autobiography. I’d be in touch with him over the years after my book came out in the ’80s. and I got a lot of information about Marilyn’s character from him, but it was obvious to me that he was holding something back about her death. I spent months with him when I was writing my book. 'They took Marilyn under their wings,' Pulitzer Prize finalist Anthony Summers wrote in his book, Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe. And his lips were sealed when they used him as a confidant. Monroe left her physical properties and 75 of her intellectual property to her acting coach, Lee Strasberg, and his wife, Paula Strasberg, who had been like surrogate parents. ![]() ![]() and Ava Gardner had both gone on record as saying that they would, under stress, tell Guilaroff all sorts of things that they didn’t want to creep into print. “And he was known in Hollywood as a confidant, a real confidant. “When I was working on the book, I went to a man called Sydney Guilaroff, who had been a legendary Hollywood hairdresser, and he’d been hairdresser to Marilyn Monroe, I think, on eight of her movies,” Summers says. This autobiography by MGM’s head hairdresser during Hollywood’s golden age gives readers an inside look at what it was like to be a trusted ear for such stars as Greta Garbo - and Marilyn Monroe, of course. ![]() Crowning Glory: Reflections of Hollywood’s Favorite Confidant, by Sydney Guilaroff (1996) ![]()
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