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MAKEUP LEGEND JACK PIERCE PERSONAL CAREER SCRAPBOOK...
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MAKEUP LEGEND JACK PIERCE PERSONAL CAREER SCRAPBOOK MAKEUP LEGEND JACK PIERCE PERSONAL CAREER SCRAPBOOK - (p artist in Hollywood movie history. Pierce was a scrappy genius, an unassuming artist, and a creator of folklore synonymous with Golden Age Universal Pictures, where he was makeup chief from 1927 until 1947. Pierce designed and protected beauty secrets of the stars, applied believable old age makeups but most famously, created monsters - including Boris Karloff's Frankenstein Monster and The Mummy, Claude Rains' Invisible Man, Elsa Lanchester's Bride of Frankenstein, Lon Chaney Jr.'s Wolf Man and countless Universal creatures throughout the Depression and World War II. This 16 ½ in. x 18 in. brown leather scrapbook is a one-of-a-kind artifact, packed with original photos, press clippings and testimonials. Many photos are originals as are the abundant clippings. Among the subjects of the material, all personally attached to the book by Pierce with makeup tape, are: Pierce's simian makeup from 1927's The Monkey Talks; Conrad Veidt with Pierce on 1928's The Man Who Laughs; 1931's Frankenstein; 1932's The Old Dark House, with photos of Karloff as "Morgan" and "Elspeth", 1932's The Mummy, with stills of Karloff and Zita Johann, Karloff presenting Pierce the Hollywood Filmograph award for makeup, magazine feature, "Makeup Secrets of Movie Horror Pictures"; Claude Rains portraits from The Invisible Man; Karloff and Elsa Lanchester, Werewolf of London, stills of Henry Hull, newspaper sketch of Hull as the lycanthrope; Douglass Montgomery in old age makeup from The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Karloff in The Raven; photos of Karloff and Lugosi in The Invisible Ray; candid photo of Pierce with Karloff, Lugosi and director Rowland V. Lee clowning on Son of Frankenstein, a color newspaper sketch of Karloff's Monster, two-page spread sketch entitled "Monsters in the Making"; Karloff "attacking" Pierce candid from Tower of London, candids from Black Friday of Pierce with Karloff; Vincent Price, and many more. There are clippings of Abbott and Costello joining Jack in making an effigy of Hitler, "thank you" letters from charities and wartime organizations that Jack assisted, photos from 1948's Joan of Arc, candids of Jack from various phases of his career, and finally, a page with a horseshoe drawing, signed by the company of Mr. Ed -- Jack's professional swan song -- signed by stars Alan Young and Connie Hines, director Arthur Lubin, and the voice of the horse (of course), Allan "Rocky" Lane, who's signed his own name as well as Mr. Ed's. The book is inscribed on the lower right corner: "Jack Pierce from Harry Gladstone." There is some minor tattering on some pages and a few cracked edges on some pictures. Pierce himself has written names or dates on some photos. Still, the overall quality of the material is Very Good. Jack Pierce died in 1968, lamenting that Hollywood had virtually forgotten him. Fans of classic cinema have embraced him with a respect he never enjoyed in his lifetime, and this scrapbook is an intimately personal testimony to his genius. A wonderful relic from a bygone Hollywood, carrying the very essence of the talented man who once was this scrapbook's proud custodian.Auction Info
Profiles in History: Hollywood Auction 49 #997083 (go to Auction Home page)
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July, 2012
30th
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