About Face: Dottie Ponedel, Make-up Artist to the Stars (12/24/2021)
For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/LQSgMRLHhKc Dottie Ponedel knows how to amuse with rouge. Her autobiography, the story of a pioneering make-up woman in silent movies and early talkies, puts a new foundation on the stars from the Golden Age of movies. Sinners and saints without greasepaint make for memorable close-ups. Enjoy Dottie’s confidential revelations about Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, Mae West, Carole Lombard, Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, Joan Blondell, Paulette Goddard, Barbara Stanwyck, and others. Mae, and Dottie’s other clients, often demanded her services, but tomcats and contracts seldom blended. Dottie constantly fought all-male make-up departments at the studios to get the recognition she deserved. Amazing challenges facing a woman at the top of her craft play poignantly against her straight-talking, heartwarming, hilarious encounters with famous faces. Dottie Ponedel. The designer with eyeliner. Danny Miller is a freelance writer, book editor, and co-author of About Face: The Life and Times of Dottie Ponedel, Make-up Artist to the Stars. You can find his articles at Cinephiled and Classic Movie Hub. Born within sight of the famed Hollywood sign, Meredith Ponedel grew up not only in its shadow but imbued by her family with a love of old Hollywood, the Hollywood of the Golden Era. Having been mentored by his formidable older sister, Dottie Ponedel, who had started as an actress and dancer in silent film. Dot quickly went from silent actress to not-so-silent makeup artist by virtue of offering her opinion on Nancy Carroll's makeup in a scene from "Follow Thru". https://www.amazon.com/About-Face-Dottie-Ponedel-Make-up/dp/1629332852