Research Catalog

Title

Makeup man : from Rocky to Star Trek : the amazing creations of Hollywood's Michael Westmore / Michael Westmore with Jake Page.

Author

Westmore, Michael G.

Publication

Essex, Connecticut : Lyons Press, 2022.

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Details

Additional Authors

Page, Jake

Description

xii, 304 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm

Summary

In Hollywood's heyday, almost every major studio had a Westmore heading up the makeup department. Since 1917, there has never been a time when Westmores weren't shaping the visages of stardom. For their century-long dedication to the art of makeup, the Westmores were honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2008. In this lively memoir, Michael Westmore not only regales us with tales of Hollywood's golden age, but also from his own career where he notably transformed Sylvester Stallone into Rocky Balboa and Robert DiNiro into Jake LaMotta, among many other makeup miracles. Westmore's talent as a makeup artist first became apparent when he created impenetrable disguises for Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Robert Mitchum, and Frank Sinatra for the 1963 film The List of Adrian Messenger. He later went on to become the preferred makeup man for Bobby Darin and Elizabeth Taylor, and worked on such movies and TV shows as The Munsters, Rosemary's Baby, Eleanor and Franklin, New York, New York, 2010: A Space Odyssey, and Mask, for which he won an academy award. The next phase of his career was to create hundreds of alien characters for over 600 episodes of Star Trek in all its iterations, from The Next Generation to Enterprise. Replete with anecdotes about Hollywood and its stars, from Bette Davis's preference for being made-up in the nude to Shelley Winters's habit of nipping from a "little bottle" while on the set, Makeup Man will satisfy any Hollywood's fan's appetite for gossip or a behind-the-scenes look at how tinsel town's most iconic film characters were created. Academy Award-winning Michael Westmore has been making up the stars for over fifty years. He frequently appears on the SyFy channel show Face Off with his daughter McKenzie Westmore. -­

Subject

• Westmore, Michael G
• Makeup artists > United States
• Film makeup
• Motion pictures > History

Note

• Originally published: 2017.
• Includes index.

Contents

Foreword / Patrick Stewart -- Preface -- Tributes -- Acknowledgements -- Walk of fame -- The family -- The sixties -- The seventies -- The eighties -- Stark Trek: The Next Generation and the nineties -- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine -- Star Trek: Voyager -- Star Trek: Enterprise -- Snippets -- Awards, honors, and nominations -- Photo credits: Studios, photographers, and artists -- Index

Call Number

MWES (Westmore, M.) 22-4071

ISBN

• 9781493049288
• 1493049283

OCLC

1338672626

Author

Westmore, Michael G., author.

Title

Makeup man : from Rocky to Star Trek : the amazing creations of Hollywood's Michael Westmore / Michael Westmore with Jake Page.

Publisher

Essex, Connecticut : Lyons Press, 2022.

Edition

First Lyons Press paperback edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Page, Jake, author.

Research Call Number

MWES (Westmore, M.) 22-4071