Was it Booth in the Barn?

[BettyO]

Booth's hair was dark brown more or less as was Powell's.... the heavy pomade which gentlemen wore in the Victorian era made a man's hair appear darker - hence the probable "black" appearance of a brunette's hair.

My father was a red head and the Brillecream and other stuff he put on his hair in the late 1950s and early 1960s made his hair appear to be a dark brown rather than red....