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Albany, GA: BearManor Media, 2018. xiv, 177 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. "About Face: The Life and Times of Dottie Ponedel: Make-up Artist to the Stars by Dorothy Ponedel, Meredith Ponedel, and Danny Miller Dottie Ponedel knows how to amuse with rouge. Her autobiography, the story of a pioneering make-up woman in silent movies and early talkies, puts a new foundation on the stars from the Golden Age of movies. Sinners and saints without greasepaint make for memorable close-ups. Enjoy Dottie's confidential revelations about Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, Mae West, Carole Lombard, Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, Joan Blondell, Paulette Goddard, Barbara Stanwyck, and others. "No stranger is going to pat this puss," Mae West once declared. Mae, and Dottie's other clients, often demanded her services, but tomcats and contracts seldom blended. Dottie constantly fought all-male make-up departments at the studios to get the recognition she deserved. Amazing challenges…
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About Face: The Life and Times of Dorothy Ponedel: Make-up Artist to the Stars
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Albany GA, BearManor Media, 2018, trade paperback, xiv-177 pp, Edition not stated, No previous printings noted, New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright, pictorial card covers. The author's own story of her career in Hollywood as make-up artist to some of the brightest stars of the time and her long battle to be accepted as a woman working in a male-dominated field. Profusely illustrated throughout with candid black-&-white photos of Dottie at work and relaxing including a 22 page section of full-page photos of her with her favorite stars including: Judy Garland, Joan Blondell, Ginger Rogers, Paulette Goddard, Martha Raye, and Gracie Allen. Index appended.
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