Gilding The Lily (1945)

Item title reads Gilding the lily. London. An actress goes for an audition, she enters the casting director s office looking hopeful, then hears they need a blonde and her face falls. She leaves and goes to see West End hairdresser Steiner, he tries out samples of hair to suit her colouring and decides she would look good at strawberry blonde. Various good back shots of the dyeing and bleaching process which transforms her hair. M, S as she has a new hairstyle to go with her new colour. Back view of her hair, she turns her head from side to side. FILM A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136, 000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (19101932), Empire News Bulletin (19261930), British Para