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Susan
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Date Posted: 05:42:26 08/28/07 Tue
In reply to:
Elizabeth
's message, "Favorite Feature" on 22:10:01 08/20/07 Mon
I agree, RN looked very pasty in JI; that's probably why I didn't recognize him the first time I saw it. He was so tan in Treasure Island (once again, make-up), and then kinda dirty/grungy looking in Oliver Twist, the only movies I had seen him in up to that point.
Yes, I think pretty much everyone in the movies wears make-up, even if it's not obvious. (A good-make-up artist's job is to make it look natural.) Of course, on the stage it's done (more blatantly) so that you can see the actors' faces from the back of the house since they tend to get washed out by the footligts. But on film, it's probably more for vanity--you know, in those close-ups, every imperfection is going to show ... and be recorded for all time to be watched over and over! (Not to get off topic again, but that reminds me of a funny quote from David Warner about the film "Tom Jones" that I think illustrates the fact that everybody wears make-up in the movies. In a 1966 New York Times interview, he said, '[Director] Tony [Richardson] told me, 'Now Albert Finney's long and brown, he gets all the women and what we want is somebody who doesn't look as though he couldn't get *any*.' Having heard that description, I went over to make-up, they took one look at me and said, 'Just as you are. No make-up.' And I was the only one in the picture like that.'") I suspect that in the older movies as they were still getting used to film, they were still following stage conventions. That's why in the old silents you see guys like Rudolf Valentino with the pasty skin and dark eyeliner!
Oh, and BTW, Wales is part of the UK. (That's how Charles gets to be its Prince!) So are Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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