Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1951)

100 Star Secrets of Hollywood Glamour ( Continued from page 40) brushes in the studios, so it was only natural for me to use one at home. A brush keeps your lip line cleaner and less messy. I put on a lot of lipstick at first. Then I blot it off with tissues; bite on the tissue, too, to prevent any lipstick getting on my teeth. Finally, I wipe the corners of my mouth so the little crevices won’t be filled with lipstick. I blot and blot and blot! The finished result is a clean outline — but not very much lipstick. 3. June Haver: I have a fair skin on which color contrasts show up very sharply. So I’ve learned to mix a little lipstick with a bit of cream and rub it into my cheeks instead of using rouge. This way I get a perfect match. 4. June says too: The most important beauty weapon a woman has is her modesty. That’s something she should guard and cultivate more than trying to become a personality kid and an effervescent career-girl type. One of the most beautiful things about a woman is the mystery that surrounds her. The more of a real woman she is — the more real allure she possesses. 5. Linda Darnell: I use a discreet amount of dark brown eye-shadow on my eyelids and a little mascara on my eyelashes. But I have a trick for applying the eye-shadow. Using an eyebrow pencil I make a slight slanting line from the outer corner of my eye. Then with my fingers I blend this “upswing” with the eye-shadow itself. It is provocative. 6. Betty Lynn: I have lots of freckles so I use a light coating of Technicolor makeup to hide them. This make-up which has a pink-tan cast can be duplicated in most of the pancakes. I use a lot of water and put on just the very lightest film. 7. Jeanne Crain: Instead of eye-shadow, I use skin oil on my eyelids — a glamour trick that gives them a gleam. I also touch my eyebrows and lashes with this oil — to make them shine. Then I just barely touch the ends of my lashes with mascara. 8. Another from Jeanne: Having just had my fourth child, I know you don’t have to look like a frump when carrying a baby. Maternity clothes are surprisingly inexpensive. And plain colored smocks can be glamorized by sewing sequins on the collars, or choosing lovely colors. I made most of my own maternity clothes this last time, and I found that smocks in my very best colors made my figure less noticeable. A smock can be glamorized in many ways. You can do a Chinese-style version of it, with a high plain collar. You can wear black velvet smocks over adjustable pajamas— for those evenings at home. Most movie stars look lovely even during those last few weeks just before their babies are born. This is due to their flair for making the most of maternity fashions. 9. Miriam Hopkins: Since I’m a blonde with very light eyebrows and eyelashes I wear a light brown mascara. I use this mascara however only on my upper lashes. It gives one’s face a sort of a bal de masque look — about the closest a blonde can come to the new doe eyes. 10. Ruth Hussey: Pancake is drying for some skins. But I have a special trick to combat this. I cream my face first with a light cream, wipe it off with tissue, then pour some witch hazel into the palm of my hand, dash this over my face and wipe it off with a towel. Then, putting on the pancake with a damp sponge, I use a lot of water and very little pancake and immediately blot it dry with tissue. In this way pancake never gives my face that aboutto-crack feeling nor does it dry my skin. 11. Gordon Bau. head of make-up for Warner Brothers: If you have small eyes, make them seem larger by drawing a line with white grease paint directly under the eyes and outward, in sort of a doe-eyed effect. Use mascara the usual way. 12. Peggie Castle: The most frequent mistake girls make is in selecting a foundation or powder to match the skin. Your foundation and your powder should add warmth and color to your appearance. Make your pancake, for instance, give your skin a slightly ruddy glow, or a darker coloring. The difference in shade shouldn’t be so noticeable as to make a line where it leaves off, but do give yourself the break of a better skin tone. 13. Claudette Colbert: Sex alone won’t make you attractive. Nor beauty. It’s gaiety. Gaiety is a habit. You can persistently think life is awful, problems are insurmountable; tragedy is stalking your every footstep. Or you can find laughter in living. You can look on the happy side of things. This doesn’t mean of course that if real trouble enters your life, you should hilariously brush it aside. Remember, a beautiful face is a happy face. 14. Judy Canova: We can’t all be Lana Turners, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a place for us. Instead of complaining because you weren’t born with a figure like Venus de Milo, learn to make people laugh or, just as good, give them sympathy and understanding. Forget about yourself. Concentrate on making the other person feel gifted, clever, important, intelligent. 15. Joan Fontaine: I was always a very shy girl, always worrying about what other people thought of me. I’d been ill a lot as a child and hadn’t had much of a chance to mix with people. When I came to Hollywood, I found it so difficult to answer questions about my personal life that the Hollywood Women’s Press Club gave me the lemon one year for being the most uncooperative actress. This really started me making myself over. Not everyone is bom with an extrovert personality, or even a personality that attracts. I knew I had to cultivate confidence in the people with whom I came into contact. I discovered that the secret of making people like you is to like people. When a girl is popular, it only means she does not go around feeling mistrustful of people. 16. Bette Davis: An attractive woman has to be interesting, and she’ll be more interesting if she doesn’t have an allfemale mind. The woman with the allfemale mind does things in a devious way. I can never understand, and I’m sure men can’t, the woman who is all -female. It is very hard to justify the things she does, for she operates by emotion, instinct, whims — instead of logic. Drive and courage and iron strength are not exclusively masculine traits. The woman who possesses them can be feminine as well as direct. Essential womanliness is not helplessness, or our pioneer grandmothers would never have survived the hardships of their lives. 17. Audrey Totter: When I first arrived in Hollywood, I made a picture called, “The Sailor Takes a Wife.” Shortly afterward, I was invited to a party at Mr. Mayer’s home. When I got there, I was petrified. Clark Gable was there and Greer Garson, just the biggest stars. I was sitting in a corner when a woman came up to me and said, “I am Joan Crawford. I wanted to tell you that I saw ‘The Sailor Takes a Wife’ and you are going to be a star.” I haven’t seen Joan Crawford since but I think she is divine. She has a generous heart. I learned right then — with all those stars present — that it isn’t beauty or fame that make you admired. It’s being a big enough person to be thoughtful and kind. 18. Ginger Rogers: To be an interesting woman, you have to be well-rounded — but, then, the American girl usually is. She has more spunk than any other girl from any other country. She can look chic, she can cook a good meal, she can fix the car, she can open a locked door, she can sing a song, she can dance a dance, she can drive a car, she can drive a truck, she can plow a field, she can have a baby, she can fly a plane. There isn’t anything that the American girl cannot do or will not try to do. I think it’s this capability coupled with femininity that makes a woman interesting, and a lot more fascinating than dangling earrings and seductive perfumes. 19. Dinah Shore: Anyone can have a glamorous pleasing speaking voice. You just have to be analytical about it. If your voice is naturally pitched too high, lower it. All you have to do to lower it is to think about it, remind yourself not to raise it or to shriek. If it is harsh and strident, cultivate a softer tone and study enunciation. If you can, listen to your voice on a wire recorder. You can’t correct a fault unless you first realize you have it. 20. Diana Lynn: To be attractive, you must feel as if you are attractive. If you feel attractive or glamorous, you’ll take constructive steps to look that way. The first rule about a correct mental attitude is to refrain from saying anything you don’t want others to think. Don’t say, “I’m too fat.” Or, “My complexion is awful.” Never call attention to your defects by mentioning them. Do something to correct them, but don’t make everyone aware of them. 21. Ruth Roman: There are so many Hollywood parties and they are so big that you often find yourself in a roomful of people you never saw before. Sometimes, the hostess has disappeared, and you are left high and dry. At really large parties, it’s not mandatory of course for the hostess to take you around and introduce you. But it is mandatory for you to make yourself part of a group. You can turn to the person next to you and just start conversation — anything that is socially acceptable. You can even mention the weather! You can remark on how well the party seems to be going. The thing you shouldn’t do is to sit and wait for others to notice you. 22. Jane Wyman: Knowing how to enter a room can be a great social asset. I have learned that if you quickly size up a room as you walk into it, you can seem poised and assured, even if you don’t know a soul. For instance, you can spot your hostess somewhere in the throng. Pause at the doorway, scan the crowd briefly to locate her, and then walk to her directly without wandering around aimlessly. Or if you happen to know some of the guests, locate them, and join them. 23. Arlene Dahl: I keep my skin in good condition by using fresh cucumbers and lemon juice. I grind up the cucumbers in a meat grinder. To the pulp of one cucumber, I add two tablespoons of lemon juice. I use this mixture as a mask. It’s a cleanser as well as a bleach. Sometimes, I put this pulp into a cheesecloth bag and add an ice cube and rub it over my face. The ice acts as an astringent. When you wash off your cucumber mask, your skin feels very clean and refreshed — and it has a slight glow. 24. Ava Gardner: You always read advice on how to apply make-up or how to do your hair according to the shape of your face. But few of us really know what shapes our faces are. You might think you have a round face when you really have a square one. Stand in front of the bathroom mirror, pin your hair back and confine it under a towel. Take a piece of soap and draw the outline of your face on the mirror. When you are through, transfer the outline to a piece of paper. Then you have something to really work with. You have