| Was This the First |
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| Face Transplant?! |
| Just One Logo of Many from |
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| Universal Studios |
Seeing Elsa Lanchester in this still
from The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) makes Universal's Jack Pierce and his confreres look
downright ahead of their time!
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| Charles Gemora |
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| Hollywood Gorilla Man |
| Charles Gemora Brings Another Gorilla Suit in |
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| "The Phantom of the Rue Morgue" with Bela Lugosi (1932) |
Maven can - and will!
- argue that playing an animal in movies is at least a sub-division of make up artists. All those funky-looking gorillas
in our beloved old movies were - Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! - played by men in . . . shall we say "hirsute
drag"?! One such actor/stunt double was Charles Gemora (at left). You can find more about him and going ape at
http://gammillustrations.bizland.com/monsterkid1/id2.html.
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Michael F Blake's Top 10 Horror Makeups
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| Mary Astor and Douglas Fairbanks |
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| In "Don Q, Son of Zorro" (1925) |
Check out what Mary Astor
had to say about makingup in the Hollywood of the 1920s!
Mary Astor on Makeup in the Silent Era
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Harry Thomas Making up to Superman?!
| Superman and the Mole Men |
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| With George Reeves and Phyllis Coates |
| The Mole Men |
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| From Superman and the Mole Men (1951) |
This is an interview* with Harry Thomas who work on the George Reeves television episode
of Superman and the Mole Men (1951) plus Michael Shayne in The Neanderthal Man.
One
of the "Mole Men," Billy Curtis, was inthe scene in The Thing when James Arness got cut down to size!
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| This Picture is in the David O Selznick Collection |
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| That Includes Make-Up and Costumes at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin |
The Harry Ransome Center at the University of Texas at Austin houses the David O. Selznick Collection. It includes lots
of information about makeup and costumes up to and including Gone with the Wind (1939):
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| Jack Pierce Gets the Academy Award in 1932 |
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| For "The Mummy" with Boris Karloff |
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| Lon Chaney, Jr. |
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| In a Publicity Shot |
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| Lon Chaney, Jr., with Jack Pierce |
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| As They Get "Wolfie" Ready |
Here is a wee bit more about the makeup master who brought Lon
Chaney to the level of Hollywood Legend along with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi:
Lon Chaney, Jr., and Jack Pierce
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| Henry Hull as |
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| "The Werewolf of London" (1935) |
| Warner Oland as the OTHER Werewolf in |
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| "The Werewolf of London" (1935) |
Jack Pierce and His Werewolf Makeup
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