“My first day at MGM dawned… First I was dispatched to makeup—only to find myself sitting at a long table, in front of an even longer mirror. Next to me sat Ava Gardner, Elizabeth Taylor, Lana Turner, and Grace Kelly. I soon found out that the modus operandi at the studio was for actresses to apply their own lipstick, on the premise that no one, not even the world’s leading makeup artist, is capable of applying a woman’s lipstick the […]

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