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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“The golden age is gone, and with it most of the people of great taste. It doesn’t seem to be any fun any more.”
— Joan Bennett in a 1984 interview

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“A movie should be like a dream. It washes over you; you don’t know what’s affecting you; you can’t do anything about it; you’re taken away.”
—Peter Bogdanovich

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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Jennifer Jones with her third husband, Norton Simon
“I met Jennifer Jones when I was twenty-six or twenty-seven I traveled everywhere with her. I spent more time with her than anyone, even Norton … It would take four hours to do her hair and makeup. And it was all for Norton: hair, makeup, beautiful dresses. The point was not to go out and show other people. Everything was for Norton.  ‘Norton deserves for me to be beautiful.’ And he was paying. I did her hair and makeup every day, an incredible cost. For the cost of a whole year, you could buy a house in the Valley.
And I did it for more than thirty years, every day, sometimes morning and night. And she didn’t take off her makeup at night. She’d leave it on until I arrived. When she went to bed, she was all made up. Do you know why? This was not for Norton, this was for herself. She said it was ‘in case I get sick at night and have to go to the hospital. Somebody’s going to take a picture of me, and I don’t want to be without makeup.’ She did this every night.”
—Tomoyuki “Yuki” Takei, West of Eden: An American Place by Jean Stein

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“I never really felt pretty, bright or socially adept.” —Grace Kelly
“I never really felt pretty, bright or socially adept.”
—Grace Kelly

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Friday Photos, True Hollywood Secrets: How to be Beautiful

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Audrey Hepburn’s doe-eyed look was her trademark. Along with a strong brow, and efforts to keep the rest of her makeup neutral, Hepburn focused on her lashes to draw attention to her eyes. To ensure separation of each lash, her makeup artist used to apply mascara — and then painstakingly separate each lash using a safety pin.
“Audrey Hepburn’s doe-eyed look was her trademark. Along with a strong brow, and efforts to keep the rest of her makeup neutral, Hepburn focused on her lashes to draw attention to her eyes. To ensure separation of each lash, her makeup artist used to apply mascara — and then painstakingly separate each lash using a safety pin. ”

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