--- title: Celebrate Redhead Day With Photos of Red-Haired Celebrities description: In honor of the annual Redhead Days celebration in the Netherlands, LIFE Presents a selection of vintage photos of red-haired celebrities. canonical: https://time.com/4011863/redhead-days-celebrities/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-04T11:30:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:47:05.465Z og:title: Celebrate Redhead Day With These Vintage Photos of Red-Haired Celebrities og:description: In honor of the annual Redhead Days celebration in the Netherlands, LIFE Presents a selection of vintage photos of red-haired celebrities. og:url: https://time.com/4011863/redhead-days-celebrities/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7653bb3fe40a41a4/6988610435ba6f591ec0eded/150826-famous-redheads-03.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1457 og:image:height: 820 og:image:alt: Lucille Ball, 1943. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Celebrate Redhead Day With These Vintage Photos of Red-Haired Celebrities twitter:description: In honor of the annual Redhead Days celebration in the Netherlands, LIFE Presents a selection of vintage photos of red-haired celebrities. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7653bb3fe40a41a4/6988610435ba6f591ec0eded/150826-famous-redheads-03.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Celebrate Redhead Day With These Vintage Photos of Red-Haired Celebrities > Sponsored content. 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Walter Sanders—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Sep 4, 2015 11:30 AM UTC “You’d find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair,” Anne of Green Gables famously remarked. “People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is.” From Lucy Maud Montgomery’s fictional orphan to [Mark Twain](https://books.google.com/books?id=l68-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA152&lpg=PA152&dq=mark+twain+redheads+a+connecticut+yankee&source=bl&ots=4b5r92Dbzq&sig=XbUOi1kB%5FAPARLweuNwLGyHzARE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDIQ6AEwA2oVChMItNSuoYzFxwIVyxs-Ch0NVAQs#v=onepage&q=mark%20twain%20redheads%20a%20connecticut%20yankee&f=false), much has been said about the personality traits allegedly linked to a fiery mane. The only people who truly know what it’s like to have red hair, of course, are those who have it, and this weekend, throngs of them will descend on Breda in the Netherlands for [Redhead Days](http://www.roodharigen.nl/) (Roodharigen in Dutch). Here, in celebration of this annual convention, is a collection of portraits of famous redheads from the LIFE Magazine archives. For some of them, their card-carrying membership in the redhead club is sometimes questioned—is Robert Redford’s hair red or sandy blonde?—while others, like [Lucille Ball](http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/beauty/a32894/lucille-ball-young/), would be excluded from Redhead Days for being converts, rather than natural-born entrants, into the cult of red. Still, hair dye or not, their legacies will forever burn red. _Liz Ronk, who edited this gallery, is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter_ [_@lizabethronk_](https://twitter.com/LizabethRonk)_._  Ginger Rogers, 1941. Bob Landry—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Ann Sheridan, 1942. Gjon Mili—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Lucille Ball, 1943. Walter Sanders—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Maureen O'Hara, 1946. Peter Stackpole—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Danny Kaye, 1947. George Lacks—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Debbie Reynolds, 1950. Loomis Dean—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Shirley Maclaine. 1959. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Gina Lollobrigida, 1960. Peter Stackpole—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Sophia Loren, 1964. Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Woody Allen, 1966. Bill Ray—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Ginger Baker, 1969. John Olson—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Robert Redford, 1970. John Dominis—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Maggie Smith, 1971. 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