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- In the book It Came from Bob's Basement: Exploring the Science Fiction and Monster Movie Archive of Bob Burns, a book by horror and film collector Bob Burns, Burns has the last surviving piece of Jack Pierce's makeup which is the mask worn by Lon Chaney Jr. in this film.
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Dec 4, 2019 · The mummy wrappings developed for this picture consisted of linen that had been boiled until it literally fell apart in Pierce’s hands as he applied the strips of cloth. Karloff’s disguise required layers in three directions, (horizontal, vertical and diagonal) to cover his bare skin and Pierce had a tough time of it.
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Jul 23, 2018 · In May 2013, Cinema Makeup School in Los Angeles dedicated a memorial gallery in honor of Pierce. The mask work by Lon Chaney Jr. in “The Mummy’s Curse” (1944) and preserved by Bob Burns, is the only surviving example of his makeup.
In the book It Came from Bob's Basement: Exploring the Science Fiction and Monster Movie Archive of Bob Burns, a book by horror and film collector Bob Burns, Burns has the last surviving piece of Jack Pierce's makeup which is the mask worn by Lon Chaney Jr. in this film.
Oct 31, 2023 · For their next film, The Mummy, Pierce created several makeups, the crowning achievement of which is Pierce’s full top-to-bottom makeup on Karloff as Im-Ho-Tep. Though the actual creature is only seen on film for a few seconds, when Im-Ho-Tep comes alive and parades across an unearthed Egyptian tomb, the moment was another landmark in cinema ...
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Mummy Make-up: Jack Pierce. Pre-Commentary : "Chaney disliked The Mummy's Curse more than any other film in the series. I was completely covered from head to foot with a suit and rubber mask; the only thing that was exposed was my right [sic] eye!
Biography. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jack Pierce (born Janus Piccoula; May 5, 1889 – July 19, 1968) was a Hollywood make-up artist best remembered for creating the iconic makeup worn by Boris Karloff in Frankenstein (1931), along with various other classic monster make-ups for Universal Studios. In the 1920s, Pierce embarked on a ...
Jack Pierce Jack Pierce, 1889-1968, chief makeup artist for Universal Studios from 1926 to 1947. Pierce and Karloff worked together three hours a day for three weeks to create a prototype of the Monster's appearance. Although his creation, with its green skin, flat head, and electrodes in the neck, has entered popular consciousness as the ...
