Tippi Hedren, American actress and activist whose Hollywood career was defined by her star-making turn in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds and the severe professional and personal fallout that followed... In the mid-1970s, actress Tippi Hedren, best known for starring in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, played an unexpected but pivotal role in shaping the Vietnamese nail salon industry. While volunteering at a refugee camp in California after the fall of Saigon, Hedren noticed that a group of Vietnamese women admired her manicured nails. Wanting to help them build new lives, she arranged for her personal manicurist to visit the camp and teach them professional nail care techniques. With Hedren’s support, about twenty women became licensed manicurists and began working in salons across Southern California. Their success inspired others in the Vietnamese community to follow, laying the foundation for what would become a multi-billion-dollar industry. #drthehistories#