“…Studio makeup artists attempted to alter Bacall, putting her in terror as the
“…Studio makeup artists attempted to alter Bacall, putting her in terror as they moved in to pluck her eyebrows, shave her hairline, and straighten her teeth. She thwarted their efforts: “Howard [Hawks] had chosen me for my thick eyebrows and crooked teeth, and that’s the way they would stay.” She insisted on doing her own hair, in the style that would become her trademark: “The wave … on the right side—starting to curve at the corner of my eyebrow and ending, sloping downward, at my cheekbone.” Lauren, "Betty,” Bacall, in an interview with Matt Tyrnauer of Vanity Fair, 2011. Actress Lauren Bacall (1924-2014), c. 1954. To read the full Vanity Fair interview, click here. -- source link
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