Jean Burt Reilly
Jean Elizabeth Burt usually credited as Jean Burt Reilly was an American hair stylist whose career in Hollywood spanned nearly four decades.
Born in Vananda, Montana, and educated at San Diego High School, Burt began her career as a radio performer in the early 1930s. She later toured with the Marx Brothers performing scenes from A Night at the Opera (1935) and appeared uncredited in the film as the manicurist in the famous stateroom scene. She also appeared as a telephone operator in A Day at the Races (1937). A few months before the latter film's release, she passed the California State Board of Cosmetology examination in permanent waving. She subsequently worked for Max Factor as an advisory expert on makeup before becoming a Hollywood hair stylist.
Her first film as a hair stylist was Casablanca (1942), beginning a 39-year screen career. By the mid-1950s, Reilly had become head of hair styling at Warner Bros., frequently working in a supervisory capacity. Her credits included The Music Man, Days of Wine and Roses, Robin and the 7 Hoods, Ensign Pulver, My Fair Lady, The Great Race, Camelot, Cool Hand Luke, Rocky II, Ordinary People and Raging Bull. Her final film was True Confessions (1981).
Reilly also worked extensively in television, including The Alaskans, *77 Sunset Strip, No Time for Sergeants, Mister Roberts and F Troop. She and Billie Laughridge won an Emmy for Eleanor and Franklin in 1976, and Reilly received another nomination for Ike: The War Years in 1979. In 1967, she also helped create a new look for Petula Clark.
Her work on Raging Bull received an unusually prominent tribute when Robert De Niro thanked her during his Academy Award acceptance speech after winning Best Actor for the film.
Decades after A Night at the Opera, Burt's tiny uncredited appearance became the subject of a running fascination on The Marx Brothers Council Podcast. Co-host Bob Gassel in particular had repeatedly spoken about trying to discover the identity of the mysterious manicurist. Her identity was eventually uncovered by Robert “Bob” Stryker, who uploaded a clear screengrab of her to Ancestry.com. Stryker had used the same method to identify to try and identify her around half a dozen times over the years but never got a result. The discovery produced an unexpected result: rather than being simply an otherwise unknown featured extra, the manicurist turned out to be a woman who went on to have a substantial career of her own behind the scenes in Hollywood.
Reilly married Max Factor chemist Glenn B. Weible in 1940. Following his death in 1943, she married film editor Thomas Reilly in 1949. On June 24, 1962, she was recognised for 25 years of service by Hollywood Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Local 706.
She died in Los Angeles on February 15, 1981, aged 65.
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Films (78)
True Confessions
1981 · Hairstylist
Raging Bull
1980 · Hairstylist
Ordinary People
1980 · Hairstylist
Rocky II
1979 · Hairstylist
Paradise Alley
1978 · Hairstylist
F.I.S.T.
1978 · Hair Designer
Casey's Shadow
1978 · Hairstylist
Telefon
1977 · Hairstylist
The Towering Inferno
1974 · Hairstylist
The Klansman
1974 · Hairstylist
Mame
1974 · Hairstylist
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
1973 · Hairstylist
Dirty Harry
1971 · Hairstylist
The Omega Man
1971 · Hair Supervisor
Rabbit, Run
1970 · Hair Supervisor
There Was a Crooked Man...
1970 · Hairstylist
The Monsters of Babaloo
1970 · Hair Designer
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
1969 · Hair Supervisor
The Learning Tree
1969 · Hairstylist
The Big Bounce
1969 · Hairstylist
Finian's Rainbow
1968 · Hairstylist
Assignment to Kill
1968 · Hair Supervisor
Sweet November
1968 · Hairstylist, Hair Supervisor
Firecreek
1968 · Hairstylist
Cool Hand Luke
1967 · Hairstylist
Wait Until Dark
1967 · Hairstylist
Camelot
1967 · Hairstylist
Countdown
1967 · Hairstylist
First to Fight
1967 · Hairstylist
Hotel
1967 · Hair Supervisor
Not With My Wife, You Don't!
1966 · Hairstylist
Chamber of Horrors
1966 · Hairstylist
Any Wednesday
1966 · Hair Supervisor
An American Dream
1966 · Hairstylist
A Fine Madness
1966 · Hair Supervisor
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966 · Hairstylist
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
1966 · Hair Supervisor, Hairstylist
Harper
1966 · Hair Supervisor
Inside Daisy Clover
1966 · Hair Supervisor
Never Too Late
1965 · Hair Supervisor
Marriage on the Rocks
1965 · Hair Supervisor
The Great Race
1965 · Hair Supervisor
Brainstorm
1965 · Hair Supervisor
My Blood Runs Cold
1965 · Hairstylist
Dear Heart
1965 · Hairstylist
Two on a Guillotine
1965 · Hair Supervisor
Sex and the Single Girl
1964 · Hair Supervisor
My Fair Lady
1964 · Hair Supervisor
Youngblood Hawke
1964 · Hairstylist
Ensign Pulver
1964 · Hair Supervisor
Robin and the 7 Hoods
1964 · Hair Supervisor
A Distant Trumpet
1964 · Hair Designer
The Incredible Mr. Limpet
1964 · Hairstylist
Dead Ringer
1964 · Hair Supervisor
Palm Springs Weekend
1963 · Hair Supervisor
Mary, Mary
1963 · Hair Supervisor
Spencer's Mountain
1963 · Hairstylist
Critic's Choice
1963 · Hairstylist
Gypsy
1962 · Hairstylist
The Chapman Report
1962 · Hair Supervisor
The Music Man
1962 · Hair Supervisor
Rome Adventure
1962 · Hair Supervisor
House of Women
1962 · Hair Supervisor
Red Nightmare
1962 · Hairstylist
A Majority of One
1961 · Hair Supervisor, Makeup Artist
Susan Slade
1961 · Hair Supervisor
Claudelle Inglish
1961 · Hair Supervisor
Parrish
1961 · Hair Supervisor, Hairstylist
Portrait of a Mobster
1961 · Hairstylist
A Fever in the Blood
1961 · Hairstylist
Sunrise at Campobello
1960 · Hair Supervisor
Whiplash
1948 · Hairstylist
The Decision of Christopher Blake
1948 · Hairstylist
The Conspirators
1944 · Hairstylist
Casablanca
1943 · Hairstylist
A Day at the Races
1937 · Telephone Operator (uncredited)
The Unguarded Hour
1936 · Lady in Huge Hat (uncredited)
A Night at the Opera
1935 · The Manicurist (uncredited)
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