Big Dental Handicaps No Of Supernatural Suspense Longer Stop Careers; Art asian, and a happy one for Of Making Wigs ie Hall where it ran for five Almost unballyhooed, the art of movie make-up has galloped forward with greater strides in the past ten years than any other behind-the-Scene force in Hollywood. Make-up has attained today that fine-edged polish where almost anyone equipped with a fairly presentable set of facial features (plus some little talent, of course) can hope to become a successful screen hero or heroine.
Lack of teeth, hair or limbs (even a deficiency in brain power) needn't necessarily stand in the way of that prospective career before the cameras—as a quite sizable array of well-rewarded seron performers, originally so afflicted, have discovered in recent years.
It wasn't so long ago that the slightest dental handicap immediately blasted the career hopes of any youngster. As late as 1932, talent scouts were turning away by the hundreds promising boy and girl candidates whose teeth were either missing or crooked, too short or too Jong, protruding or otherwise impaired.
Today all that has changed. Each studio now carries a dental expert who collaborates with the talent department and more than earns his keep each year by the large number of talented hopefuls he salvages through advice on mouth repairs.
False dentures have been so highly perfected in recent years that their non-detectability has been accepted as an everyday fact. Probably a score of the screen's highest-salaried leading men wear complete sets, upper and lower, and none but themselves and their dentists knows.
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