Jack found yet another use for cotton, collodion and greasepaint when he applied the broken neck scar to Bela Lugosi in his role as Ygor in Son of Frankenstein (1939).
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Showing posts with label BELA LUGOSI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BELA LUGOSI. Show all posts
Saturday, September 5, 2026
Thursday, July 18, 2024
A TOAST TO WHITE ZOMBIE
Jack did a one-off stint with the Halperin brothers for the makeup chores on WHITE ZOMBIE (1932). After the disastrous (and now presumed lost) test reel of his makeup on Lugosi for Universal's FRANKENSTEIN (1931), Bela was once more at the mercy of Pierce and his makeup chair. This time he came out looking like the devilishly handsome lead character of the film, Murder Legendre.
Monday, July 3, 2023
YGOR!
Shown above and below are two shots of the Jack Pierce makeup for Bela Lugosi as Ygor in SON OF FRANKENSTEIN (Universal, 1939). Besides Pierce's masterful makeup, Ygor is arguably one of the best roles that Lugosi ever played after Dracula.
Friday, February 25, 2022
MONSTERS IN THE MAKING
This image shows Jack applying makeup to both Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in an unidentified movie magazine. The clipping is dated 1932, but Lugosi's images clearly show his makeup for Ygor, which didn't appear on screen until the release of SON OF FRANKENSTEIN, in 1939.
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