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A top hairdresser, he made Marilyn Monroe's locks look good enough for a Time magazine cover. He grabbed a bit of celebrity of his own when he found the body of columnist and television personality Dorothy Kilgallen.
Those were heady days for Marc Sinclaire, an Orlando native who grew up in Palm Beach and St. Petersburg but spent most of the 1950s through the 1970s living in New York City as a hair designer for some of the stars of the day.
Mr. Sinclaire, listed in 1966 by Vogue magazine as one of the world's top 10 hair stylists, died Friday (May 19, 2006) at Palm Terrace of St. Petersburg under the care of the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast. He was 72.
In 1980, abandoning such New York salons as Lily Dache and Elizabeth Arden, he returned to St. Petersburg, the home of his widowed mother, and later settled in Tampa, where he worked for Jacobson's salon in Old Hyde Park.
"Tampa seems to be a mish-mash of things," he told a reporter who interviewed him. "I can't put my finger on it. But St. Petersburg has a style of its own and has had for a long time."
Women in St. Petersburg, he said, are very conscious of hair and makeup.
"They want wash-and-wear hair, but glamorous," he said.
After giving downtown St. Petersburg a good look, he said it had possibilities. He said he talked to several developers interested in revitalizing the town. Meanwhile, he joined Frances Chamberlain's Princess Martha Beauty Salon.
"I used to run the elevator in the Princess Martha Hotel," said Mr. Sinclaire, who attended St. Petersburg High School.
The visit was a sort of homecoming for the stylist whose clients once included Liza Minnelli, former Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown, Charlotte Ford and Kilgallen, the columnist, reporter and What's My Line panelist whose body was found by Mr. Sinclaire, her personal hairdresser, when he arrived at her apartment on Nov. 8, 1965.
Survivors include a sister, Patsy Ambrose of Melbourne, and several nieces and nephews.
tampabay.com
Those were heady days for Marc Sinclaire, an Orlando native who grew up in Palm Beach and St. Petersburg but spent most of the 1950s through the 1970s living in New York City as a hair designer for some of the stars of the day.
Mr. Sinclaire, listed in 1966 by Vogue magazine as one of the world's top 10 hair stylists, died Friday (May 19, 2006) at Palm Terrace of St. Petersburg under the care of the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast. He was 72.
In 1980, abandoning such New York salons as Lily Dache and Elizabeth Arden, he returned to St. Petersburg, the home of his widowed mother, and later settled in Tampa, where he worked for Jacobson's salon in Old Hyde Park.
"Tampa seems to be a mish-mash of things," he told a reporter who interviewed him. "I can't put my finger on it. But St. Petersburg has a style of its own and has had for a long time."
Women in St. Petersburg, he said, are very conscious of hair and makeup.
"They want wash-and-wear hair, but glamorous," he said.
After giving downtown St. Petersburg a good look, he said it had possibilities. He said he talked to several developers interested in revitalizing the town. Meanwhile, he joined Frances Chamberlain's Princess Martha Beauty Salon.
"I used to run the elevator in the Princess Martha Hotel," said Mr. Sinclaire, who attended St. Petersburg High School.
The visit was a sort of homecoming for the stylist whose clients once included Liza Minnelli, former Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown, Charlotte Ford and Kilgallen, the columnist, reporter and What's My Line panelist whose body was found by Mr. Sinclaire, her personal hairdresser, when he arrived at her apartment on Nov. 8, 1965.
Survivors include a sister, Patsy Ambrose of Melbourne, and several nieces and nephews.
tampabay.com
