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In 1971, Oprah Winfrey competed in the Miss Black America pageant.
The stocking-clad legs you see in the foreground on the movie poster
for The Graduate don't belong to Anne Bancroft. They're actually those
of a 26-year-old Linda Gray, who a decade later portrayed Sue Ellen
Ewing in the popular TV series Dallas.
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Buddy Ebsen was replaced as the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz after
his makeup, which contained pure aluminum dust, coated his lungs and
left him hospitalized. Jack Haley took over the role and wore a safer,
paste-based makeup. 
Marlene Dietrich demanded that Max Factor sprinkle real gold dust
into her wigs to add glitter to her tresses during filming. The glamour
trick was expensive. In powdered form, gold cost about $60 an ounce,
and approximately half an ounce was required to add shimmer to a wig.
Marlene Dietrich also hated small handbags: she thought them a sign
of affectation. 
In the
year Cher was up for an Oscar for best supporting actress for Silkwood,
she had to go to the ceremony with braces on her teeth. Cher
also won't wear anything orange. 
Elizabeth Taylor sunbathed so much during the making of 1963's
Cleopatra that the film required extensive color-correction to even
out her changes in skin tone. 
Rita Hayworth MGM would go to any length to make its stars more beautiful.
When they got Rita, they actually made her hair line by her forehead
recede by electrolysis. 
Sophia Loren Was told her hips were too big, her nose too long
ad her mouth too big when she attended her first screen test.
Lana Turner Once owned 698 pairs of shoes. 
It is
interesting to note that the famous beauty queen, Mae West,
was a great believer in the benefits of the enema. She started every
day with a morning enema. www.bibkit.com/benefits.html 
Angelina Jolie has a tattoo on her stomach that spells out the
Latin words meaning 'What Nourishes Me Also Destroys Me.' 
Marilyn Monroe had minor plastic surgery to narrow tip of her
nose and correct jaw line. Had teeth whitened and slight overbite
fixed. 
How
did pancake makeup get its name? Evidently Max Factor had developed
a line of makeup for film stars that photographed well with the new
panchromatic films. The makeup was in the form of a cake. To name
his new product he took the "pan" from panchromatic, added the word
"cake" and coined the word pancake.
The original pug from Men in Black (1997) was used to play Frank again,
but since the pug was now seven years old, they used makeup to hide
the gray fur around its nose. 
Jennifer Garner wore green contact lenses over her brown eyes for
her role as Elektra. 
While
filming Marathon Man Dustin didn't sleep for days in order to create
the weary look. 
Psycho (1960) The blood in the infamous shower scene is actually chocolate
syrup. 
To obtain the musculature to convincingly play
Superman, Christopher Reeve underwent a bodybuilding regime supervised
by David Prowse, the man who played the body of Darth Vader in the
original Star Wars (1977) trilogy. 
Doris Day, the wholesome actress whose movie career was on
a down slide by the late Sixties, was approached to play the role
of Mrs. Robinson. She turned the part down because she thought that,
according to one close associate, the movie was "trashy."