 In Sheila MacRaes autobiographical book "Hollywood Mother of the  Year" in her chapter titled, "Curly, Billy, and Me", she revealed  that Gordon MacRae had very few waves in his hair. This posed a  problem since he would be playing a man who got his nickname from  his curly locks. Movie hairdressers tried to fix it but Oscar  Hammerstein was unhappy with the results and suggested that Gordon  get a permanent. Gordon refused but instead agreed to allow his wife  Sheila to finger