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4 unusual facts about Westmore family


Kevin Westmore

Kevin Westmore is a Hollywood make-up artist and part of the fourth generation of the Westmore family.

Marvin Westmore

Marvin G. Westmore (1934) is a Hollywood make-up artist, and part of the famed Westmore family.

Westmore family

In 1923, Perc established a blazing career at First National-Warner Bros. and, over twenty-seven years, initiated beauty trends and disguises including, in 1939, the faces of Charles Laughton's grotesque Hunchback of Notre Dame (for RKO) and Bette Davis's eyebrowless, almost bald, whitefaced look in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex.

Later generations have continued the name, including brothers Michael and Marvin who have excelled in special makeup effects, such as in Blade Runner (1982), Mask (1985) and Raging Bull (1980).



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