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About Face
The Life and Times of Dottie Ponedel: Make-up Artist to the StarsBy Dorothy Ponedel, Meredith PonedelNarrated by Kathy GarverLength4h 34m
About this audiobook
Dottie Ponedel knows how to amuse with rouge. Her autobiography, the story of a pioneering woman make-up artist, whose career spanned the entire length of Hollywood’s Golden Era from silent movies to the great films of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, puts a new foundation on the stars.
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.
“No stranger is going to pat this puss,” Mae West once declared. 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 eye liner.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.7 (366)
Includes Goodreads, Amazon
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length4 hrs 34 mins
Narrated byKathy Garver
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateDec 11, 2018
LanguageEnglish
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