Sally Hansen 1908 – December 16 1963 was an American businesswoman inventor dancer actress and writer. She was the eponymous founder of Sally Hansen Inc. a manufacturer of womens nail and beauty products. Sally Genevieve Hansen nee Finney was born in 1908 in Kansas City Kansas to Thomas M. and Jennie M. Finney the owners of a small cosmetics company La Finne. As a teenager she left home to become a dancer in Hollywood California landing roles on stage and screen including The Orpheus Four Friendly Enemies and Spring is Upon Us. Hansen became a frequenter of the Hollywood social scene during the Roaring Twenties. After her early career as a dancer Hansen took over her parents failing cosmetics company and reinvented it as House of Hollywood in partnership with her husband and her brother. By the early 1940s Hansen expanded House of Hollywood to include 26000 square feet 2400 m2 the largest private brand cosmetic house in Southern California. She was also made president of the California Cosmetics Association its first female chair.