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Helen Hunt

Overview

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.

Known for

Costume & Make-Up
1967 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 69
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1961 A Raisin in the Sun Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 62
Fair
1961 Cry for Happy Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 58
Average
1961 Underworld U.S.A. Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 60
Fair
1960 The Wackiest Ship in the Army Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
Average
1960 Let No Man Write My Epitaph Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 58
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1960 Song Without End Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 58
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1960 13 Ghosts Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 58
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1960 Who Was That Lady? Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1959 The Gene Krupa Story Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1959 The Last Angry Man Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1959 The Crimson Kimono Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1959 They Came to Cordura Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1959 Gidget Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1958 The Last Hurrah Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 60
Fair
1958 Bell, Book and Candle Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 60
Fair
1958 Cowboy Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
Average
1958 Tales of Frankenstein Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1957 Pal Joey Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1957 3:10 to Yuma Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 64
Fair
1957 The Garment Jungle Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1956 Full of Life Costume & Make-Up Hair Designer 58
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1956 The Solid Gold Cadillac Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1956 Storm Center Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1956 The Harder They Fall Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 61
Fair
1956 Over-Exposed Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 58
Average
1956 Jubal Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1955 The Last Frontier Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1955 Picnic Costume & Make-Up Hair Designer 59
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1955 Queen Bee Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1955 My Sister Eileen Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1955 The Man from Laramie Costume & Make-Up Hair Designer 63
Fair
1955 Tight Spot Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
Average
1955 The Violent Men Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1955 The Long Gray Line Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1954 Phffft Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1954 Human Desire Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 60
Fair
1954 Pushover Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
Average
1954 The Caine Mutiny Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 64
Fair
1954 Jesse James vs. the Daltons Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 58
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1954 It Should Happen to You Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 60
Fair
1953 Bad for Each Other Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1953 Miss Sadie Thompson Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 58
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1953 The Big Heat Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 67
Fair
1953 From Here to Eternity Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 66
Fair
1953 The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
Average
1953 Let's Do It Again Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 58
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1952 Assignment: Paris Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1952 Captain Pirate Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 58
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1952 Affair in Trinidad Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1952 The Marrying Kind Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1952 Scandal Sheet Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 60
Fair
1951 Death of a Salesman Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1951 The Barefoot Mailman Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 58
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1951 The Son of Dr. Jekyll Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 58
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1951 Ten Tall Men Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1951 The Family Secret Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1951 The Lady and the Bandit Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1951 Sirocco Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 58
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1951 Lorna Doone Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 58
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1950 Born Yesterday Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 62
Fair
1950 The Blazing Sun Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist N/A
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1950 Harriet Craig Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
Average
1950 Last of the Buccaneers Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1950 Indian Territory Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 58
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1950 The Fuller Brush Girl Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 58
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1950 The Petty Girl Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 58
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1950 Streets of Ghost Town Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist N/A
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1950 Convicted Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
Average
1950 Fortunes of Captain Blood Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1950 In a Lonely Place Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 67
Fair
1950 No Sad Songs for Me Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
Average
1950 Beware of Blondie Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1950 The Palomino Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist N/A
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1950 A Woman of Distinction Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1950 Mark of the Gorilla Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 58
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1950 The Nevadan Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 58
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1949 And Baby Makes Three Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 58
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1949 Tell It to the Judge Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
Average
1949 All the King's Men Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 61
Fair
1949 Rusty's Birthday Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
Average
1949 Tokyo Joe Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
Average
1949 Miss Grant Takes Richmond Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
Average
1949 Mr. Soft Touch Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
Average
1949 Anna Lucasta Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 58
Average
1949 Knock on Any Door Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1949 Shockproof Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1948 Ladies of the Chorus Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1948 Blondie's Secret Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1948 The Return of October Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 58
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1948 Rusty Leads the Way Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1948 The Loves of Carmen Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1948 Lulu Belle Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 58
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1948 Blondie's Reward Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1948 Whirlwind Raiders Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1948 Best Man Wins Costume & Make-Up Hair Designer 59
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1948 Port Said Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1948 My Dog Rusty Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1948 The Mating of Millie Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1948 The Sign of the Ram Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1948 The Woman from Tangier Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 58
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1948 The Prince Of Thieves Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1947 It Had to Be You Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
Average
1947 Her Husband's Affairs Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1947 Blondie in the Dough Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
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1947 Down to Earth Costume & Make-Up Hair Designer 59
Average
1946 Dead Reckoning Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 60
Fair
1946 The Jolson Story Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
Average
1946 Renegades Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
Average
1946 Gilda Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 67
Fair
1944 Cover Girl Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
Average
1943 The Desperadoes Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 58
Average
1941 You'll Never Get Rich Costume & Make-Up Hairstylist 59
Average