Carrie White, Hair Stylist to the Stars, Is Dead at 78
When she graduated from Hollywood High School in California in 1961, Carrie White did her hair up in a bubblegum-pink beehive. She had learned, she wrote in her memoir, that “if I could get my hair right, my life would work better.”
But the party didn’t last. White’s life spiraled downward from drug and alcohol addiction, a horrific descent she described in her memoir, “Upper Cut: Highlights of My Hollywood Life” , which is being made into a movie starring Julia Fox. “Doing hair gave me validation,” she told The New York Times in 2011. “It was applause on the hour, and I needed it on the hour.”
She grew up in Pacoima, a predominantly Black and Hispanic section of Los Angeles, then moved to Beverly Hills. At Hollywood High, many of her classmates were wealthy and polished. She concluded that a key to success, apart from buying a whole new wardrobe, would be to change what she called her “stacked pachuca hairdo adorned with spit curls on each side,” a remnant of her adolescence in Pacoima.
She opened her own salon in the mid-1960s. One of her early clients was fashion designer James Galanos. He recommended White to well-connected actor Jennifer Jones, whose former husbands included David O. Selznick, producer of “Gone With the Wind” and other big pictures. Celebrities were soon swarming her salon, making it a place to see and be seen. “Some of the actresses would get their hair done before they got to the salon; it was such a scene,” White told Los Angeles magazine.
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