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About Face

The Life and Times of Dottie Ponedel: Make-up Artist to the Stars

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About Face

By: Dorothy Ponedel, Meredith Ponedel, Danny Miller
Narrated by: Kathy Garver
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About this listen

Dottie Ponedel knows how to amuse with rouge. Her autobiography, the story of a pioneering woman makeup 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 makeup 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.

©2018 Dorothy Ponedel and Meredith Ponedel (P)2018 BearManor Media Entertainment & Celebrities Women Celebrity Funny Heartfelt Witty

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What a wonderful enchanting book to listen to on a snowy Sunday. Fantastic stories of old Hollywood.

Lovely

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I would have liked more background into Dorothys life however as a lifelong Judy Garland fan this is essential reading/listening.

Short but sweet

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Not much substance to be found here - but reasonably entertaining if you’re an old Hollywood fan, I guess

Makes a very little go a long way

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Better than expected. Would like to have heard more stories of some of stars she worked with.

Enjoyed this

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Once I listened to the tale of how Judy and Dottie visited Edinburgh Castle and saw the very spot where Mary Queen of Scots was killed I stopped listening, complete drivel

Of it's time

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