| Verita Thompson, Hollywood Hairstylist, Dies at 89 |
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Posted: Friday 07 March, 2008
Verita Thompson—Humphrey Bogart’s longtime hairstylist, secretary and reputed mistress—died of natural causes Feb. 1 in New Orleans. She was 89.
Thompson, a runner-up in the 1935 Miss Arizona beauty contest, came to Hollywood in the 1940s as a contract actress. The studio released her from her contract after she fell from a horse and broke her arm; while she was recuperating in Mexico City, she met and formed a partnership with a wig and toupee maker. When she returned to Hollywood and found she couldn’t work in studio make-up departments because of the union’s cosmetology license requirement, she became licensed.
Thompson subsequently worked with such leading men as Charles Boyer and Gary Cooper. During a toupee fitting with Warner Bros. Make-up Supervisor Gordon Bau, Thompson met Bogart. She served as his personal hairstylist and secretary from 1950 to 1957; they worked on more than 16 films together, including Dead Reckoning, The Barefoot Contessa and Sabrina.
She married film producer Walter Thompson in 1955. In 1982, she wrote the memoir Bogie and Me: A Love Story, in which she described a 14-year love affair with Bogart. In her final years, Thompson owned a restaurant in New Orleans and was known for dressing in Chanel suits, hat and gloves. |
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| 2009 IMATS Los Angeles Now Accepting Student Entries - Friday 30 January, 2009 |
Make-Up Artist magazine is now accepting student competition
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to those who graduated 12 months prior to the competition. Make-Up Artist will only accept competition entries postmarked by May 22, 2009.
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| International Make-Up Show Hosts Top Talent - Wednesday 01 April, 2009 |
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| Estée Lauder Sacks Prescriptives - Wednesday 23 September, 2009 |
If you like Prescriptives products, you’d better stock up while you
can: On Sept. 17, Estée Lauder Companies announced it will stop
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| Make-Up Artist Magazine Features Michael Jackson Retrospective - Monday 06 July, 2009 |
| Following the recent death of Michael Jackson, Make-Up Artist magazine’s next issue (#79) will feature a retrospective of the King of Pop,
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| U.K. team collaborates for a different 'Alice in Wonderland' - Tuesday 04 August, 2009 |
| On a cold and cloudy Oxford afternoon, U.K. make-up artist Sarah Terry collaborated with photographer Rebecca Parkes, hairstylist Sean Butt and designer Bibian Blue to create this dark vision of Alice in Wonderland.
The Victorian and Edwardian eras inspired Terry to contrast creams and
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particular Alice (Samantha Wilkinson) and White Rabbit (Blossom Blois)
look innocent, but there’s a hint of mischief here, too. Let’s follow
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