Makeup Man: From Rocky to Star Trek The Amazing Creations of Hollywood's Michael Westmore

Michael Westmore, a renowned makeup artist who has worked on Hollywood films and TV shows since 1917, has written a memoir. He transformed Sylvester Stallone into Rocky Balboa and Robert DiNiro into Jake LaMotta, among other makeup miracles. He also created hundreds of alien characters for Star Trek.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 01 September 2022
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

In Hollywood's golden age, almost every major studio had a Westmore heading up the makeup department. Since 1917, there has never been a time when Westmores were not shaping the visages of stardom. For their century-long dedication to the art of makeup, the Westmores were honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2008. In this lively memoir, Michael Westmore not only regales us with tales of Hollywood's golden age, but also from his own career, where he notably transformed Sylvester Stallone into Rocky Balboa and Robert DiNiro into Jake LaMotta, among many other makeup miracles.

Westmore's talent as a makeup artist first became apparent when he created impenetrable disguises for Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Robert Mitchum, and Frank Sinatra for the 1963 film The List of Adrian Messenger. He later went on to become the preferred makeup man for Bobby Darin and Elizabeth Taylor, and worked on such movies and TV shows as The Munsters, Rosemary's Baby, Eleanor and Franklin, New York, New York, 2010: A Space Odyssey, and Mask, for which he won an academy award.

The next phase of his career was to create hundreds of alien characters for over 600 episodes of Star Trek in all its iterations, from The Next Generation to Enterprise. Replete with anecdotes about Hollywood and its stars, from Bette Davis' preference for being made-up in the nude to Shelley Winters' habit of nipping from a "little bottle" while on the set, Makeup Man will satisfy any Hollywood's fans appetite for gossip or a behind-the-scenes look at how tinsel towns most iconic film characters were created.

Academy Award-winning Michael Westmore has been making up the stars for over fifty years. He frequently appears on the SyFy channel.

Weight: 814g
Dimension: 169 x 244 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781493049288