How old does Lucille Ball claim she was when she began dying her hair red?
She first dyed her hair red for the film “Du Barry was a Lady” in 1943, which would have made her 32 years old. Since the film would by Lucy’s first in Technicolor, MGM hairstylist Sidney Guilaroff decided she needed to make a splash. So he came up with the idea of dying her hair orange, explaining “The hair may be brown, but the soul’s on fire.” Lucy’s bright orange hair would be her trademark for the rest of her life.
