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Ms. Tippi Hedren – The Godmother of the Vietnamese Nail Industry
Ms. Nathalie Kay “Tippi” Hedren, an American actress, animal rights activist and former fashion model, was born on January 19, 1930. Hedren was instrumental in helping Vietnamese immigrants in California get started in the nail industry.
Offscreen, Hedren was an international relief coordinator for a non-profit organization Food for the Hungry. After Saigon fell, she began working with Vietnamese women in Hope Village, the refugee camp in Northern California, where she began to receive attention from the Vietnamese women for her long, glossy nails.
Hedren asked Dusty, her manicurist at the time, if she would come to the camp and meet with the Vietnamese women. Dusty agreed, and Hedren flew her up to Camp Hope every weekend to teach nail technology to a group of twenty or so eager women. When they graduated, Hedren helped them get jobs all over Southern California.
The Vietnamese gave the nail salon business a radical makeover. In the 1970s, manicures and pedicures cost around $50, which was fine for Hollywo
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From working for the exacting Alfred Hitchcock to a film written by Edward D. Wood Jr., Tippi Hedren, the Minnesota girl of Scandinavian descent, has had a distinctive career. She was working as a New York fashion model when she married her first husband, four-years-younger Peter Griffith, in 1952 (they divorced in 1960). She gave birth to her only child, future star Melanie Griffith, on August 9, 1957. Alfred Hitchcock discovered Tippi, the pretty cover girl, while viewing a commercial on NBC's Today (1952) show. He put her under personal contract and cast her in The Birds (1963). In a cover article about the movie in Look magazine (Dec. 4, 1962), Hitchcock praised her; he also told the Associated Press: "Tippi Hedren is really remarkable. She's already reaching the lows and highs of terror". Her performance in the film earned her both the Golden Globe award and the Photoplay award as Most Promising Newcomer. Her next film was playing the title role in Hitchcock's Marnie (1964), where she played a challenging and difficult role of a frigid, habitual thief.
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Tippi Hedren
(1930-)
Who Is Tippi Hedren?
Tippi Hedren began a modeling career that took her to New York and Los Angeles. Her role in a television commercial caught the eye of famed director Alfred Hitchcock, who gave her the lead in his films The Birds and Marnie. While continuing her work in TV and film, Hedren founded the Shambala Preserve in Southern California in the early 1970s as a sanctuary for rescued exotic cats, before launching the Roar Foundation to continue her work with animals. Hedren has been married three times and is the mother of actress Melanie Griffith.
Early Life
Nathalie Kay Hedren was born on January 19, 1930, in New Ulm, Minnesota. Her father, who ran a general store in the nearby town of Lafayette, gave his daughter the nickname “Tippi” — Swedish for “little girl” — when she was a baby. While she was still a young girl, Hedren’s good looks helped launch her career as a model, and during high school she appeared in local advertisements and fashion shows. By her junior year, her father’s failing health prompted the family to leave Minnesota fo
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