Helen Hunt

Helen Hunt

Biography

Helen Hunt was a hair stylist in Hollywood movies from the 1930s up to 1967, when she worked on Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. She was the chief hair stylist for Columbia Pictures. Hunt fell into her career by accident. She was working as a stenographer for a costume company in Omaha, Nebraska. She began washing and arranging the company's wigs on her own time because they were being neglected. When she went into a shop to look over a display of wigs, she was offered a job by the owner, George Westmore of Hollywood. This eventually led to a position with Columbia Pictures. She worked with Rita Hayworth before the latter became a star. According to some sources, it was Hunt who came up with the idea to dye Hayworth's black hair auburn. She also arranged for the painful, lengthy electrolysis that raised Hayworth's hairline. During the course of her career, she also styled such stars as Irene Dunne, Rosalind Russell, Loretta Young and Evelyn Keyes. Cult movie actress Pamela Duncan credited Hunt with bringing her to the attention of the casting department of Columbia.

Production

Tales of Frankenstein

1958

As Hairstylist

Blondie in the Dough

1947

As Hairstylist

Blondie's Reward

1948

As Hairstylist

Blondie's Secret

1948

As Hairstylist

Beware of Blondie

1950

As Hairstylist

The Petty Girl

1950

As Hairstylist

The Loves of Carmen

1948

As Hairstylist

Renegades

1946

As Hairstylist

The Marrying Kind

1952

As Hairstylist

Cry for Happy

1961

As Hairstylist

Anna Lucasta

1949

As Hairstylist

Whirlwind Raiders

1948

As Hairstylist

The Garment Jungle

1957

As Hairstylist

Song Without End

1960

As Hairstylist

The Last Angry Man

1959

As Hairstylist

A Raisin in the Sun

1961

As Hairstylist

It Should Happen to You

1954

As Hairstylist

The Big Heat

1953

As Hairstylist

3:10 to Yuma

1957

As Hairstylist

In a Lonely Place

1950

As Hairstylist

The Caine Mutiny

1954

As Hairstylist

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

1967

As Hairstylist

All the King's Men

1949

As Hairstylist

Shockproof

1949

As Hairstylist

Cover Girl

1944

As Hairstylist

13 Ghosts

1960

As Hairstylist

From Here to Eternity

1953

As Hairstylist

The Harder They Fall

1956

As Hairstylist

Death of a Salesman

1951

As Hairstylist

Miss Grant Takes Richmond

1949

As Hairstylist

Queen Bee

1955

As Hairstylist

Pal Joey

1957

As Hairstylist

The Lady and the Bandit

1951

As Hairstylist

It Had to Be You

1947

As Hairstylist

Miss Sadie Thompson

1953

As Hairstylist

Assignment: Paris

1952

As Hairstylist

Tell It to the Judge

1949

As Hairstylist

Down to Earth

1947

As Hair Designer

Mr. Soft Touch

1949

As Hairstylist

Harriet Craig

1950

As Hairstylist

Affair in Trinidad

1952

As Hairstylist

Bad for Each Other

1953

As Hairstylist

Ladies of the Chorus

1948

As Hairstylist

Let's Do It Again

1953

As Hairstylist

Convicted

1950

As Hairstylist

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

1960

As Hairstylist

Who Was That Lady?

1960

As Hairstylist

No Sad Songs for Me

1950

As Hairstylist

Born Yesterday

1950

As Hairstylist

The Crimson Kimono

1959

As Hairstylist

The Man from Laramie

1955

As Hair Designer

Picnic

1955

As Hair Designer

The Gene Krupa Story

1959

As Hairstylist

Full of Life

1956

As Hair Designer

The Desperadoes

1943

As Hairstylist

The Son of Dr. Jekyll

1951

As Hairstylist

Best Man Wins

1948

As Hair Designer

The Last Hurrah

1958

As Hairstylist

The Prince Of Thieves

1948

As Hairstylist

Rusty Leads the Way

1948

As Hairstylist

My Dog Rusty

1948

As Hairstylist

The Woman from Tangier

1948

As Hairstylist

Lulu Belle

1948

As Hairstylist

The Mating of Millie

1948

As Hairstylist

Rusty's Birthday

1949

As Hairstylist

Fortunes of Captain Blood

1950

As Hairstylist

The Fuller Brush Girl

1950

As Hairstylist

They Came to Cordura

1959

As Hairstylist

The Nevadan

1950

As Hairstylist

The Solid Gold Cadillac

1956

As Hairstylist

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

1953

As Hairstylist

Streets of Ghost Town

1950

As Hairstylist

The Blazing Sun

1950

As Hairstylist

Indian Territory

1950

As Hairstylist

The Palomino

1950

As Hairstylist

Port Said

1948

As Hairstylist

Dead Reckoning

1947

As Hairstylist

Knock on Any Door

1949

As Hairstylist

Let No Man Write My Epitaph

1960

As Hairstylist

Mark of the Gorilla

1950

As Hairstylist

Last of the Buccaneers

1950

As Hairstylist

Cowboy

1958

As Hairstylist

The Family Secret

1951

As Hairstylist

The Violent Men

1955

As Hairstylist

Sirocco

1951

As Hairstylist

Gilda

1946

As Hairstylist

Tokyo Joe

1949

As Hairstylist

My Sister Eileen

1955

As Hairstylist

The Jolson Story

1946

As Hairstylist

Tight Spot

1955

As Hairstylist

Human Desire

1954

As Hairstylist

Underworld U.S.A.

1961

As Hairstylist

Jesse James vs. the Daltons

1954

As Hairstylist

Gidget

1959

As Hairstylist

Pushover

1954

As Hairstylist

Ten Tall Men

1951

As Hairstylist

The Barefoot Mailman

1951

As Hairstylist

Phffft

1954

As Hairstylist

Storm Center

1956

As Hairstylist

Bell, Book and Candle

1958

As Hairstylist

You'll Never Get Rich

1941

As Hairstylist

The Lady from Shanghai

1947

As Hairstylist

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