Talking pictures : how they are made and how to appreciate them (1937)

Record Details:

Title:
Talking pictures : how they are made and how to appreciate them
Date:
1937
Publisher:
London : E. & F. N. Spon, Ltd.
Volume:
Talking pictures : how they are made and how to appreciate them
Leaf #:
000182
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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1 MAKING FOLKS OVER The patience of Job is required in order to undergo the hours and hours of sitting needed to create a complicated make-up for a talking picture. Charles Laughton was not needed on one set until 9:00 a. m., but for weeks he breakfasted at 5:00 o'clock. The make-up artist took two hours to create the luxuriant beard needed for the playing of Mr. Barrett in The Barretts of Wimpole Street. He needed two and one-half hours to create scores of lines and wrinkles for the role of eightyyear-old Madelon Claudet, played by Helen Hayes. Preparing the deep, ugly scar on Lewis Stone's face in Grand Hotel required great skill and much time. Modern make-up technique has eliminated former discomforts. Mr. Stone has described the itching, the excessive heat caused by the surface of his Grand Hotel scar, as "the tortures of the damned." The thick skin of a rare fish, fine cotton, and collodion were the principal ingredients of this make-up. It was with fishskin and collodion that Stone's right ear was molded close to his head to give one side of his face an earless appearance. Collodion, likewise, was the basis of the scar worn by Johnny Weissmuller in Tarzan and His Mate. The skin of Weissmuller's right temple was pinched together [148]