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Mel Berns (September 27, 1897 - May 7, 1977) was an American make-up artist. He was the Head of Makeup at RKO Pictures for more than twenty years.
Berns began his career in the entertainment industry while working as an agent at the William Morris Agency. Later he became the Head of Makeup at RKO Pictures for more than twenty years, creating the makeup for Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and Katharine Hepburn's screentest. He was a lifelong friend of Ginger Rogers, who makes ample reference to their friendship in her autobiography: Ginger: My Story.
He worked extensively in television after leaving RKO, notably the Perry Mason series. "The crew is giving it the best of Hollywood's techniques," Burr told columnist Erskine Johnson. The crew included veteran make-up artist Berns.
The baseball player Babe Ruth had severe scarring from acne on his face. Mel Berns developed makeup for Ruth so that Ruth could feel more comfortable in public. A picture of Ruth and Berns shows Ruth in a smock and Berns applying makeup to his face. The picture is autographed to Berns by Babe Ruth.
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02 June 1944
A lawyer tries to clear his wife's lover of murder charges.
14 November 1941
A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts.
26 January 1934
Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they way Slag has been looking at her lately.
21 August 1946
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy.
25 October 1951
The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon.
30 May 1952
An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.
10 May 1944
Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.
01 November 1948
Eight fighter pilots hold off constant Japanese attacks during the construction of an airstrip in New Guinea.
26 July 1944
The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men.
23 March 1950
A cowhand becomes involved in a war between a road construction crew and the greedy toll-owner hoping to thwart the new project.
18 February 1938
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.
21 March 1941
Alan Mowbray and Donald MacBride reprise their roles in "Curtain Call" as theatrical producers Donald Avery and Geoffrey 'Jeff' Crandall.
25 December 1935
When her father decides to flee to England, young Sylvia Scarlett must become Sylvester Scarlett and protect her father every step of the way, with the questionable help of plenty others.
05 December 1942
A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.
31 August 1939
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl.
25 November 1947
The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.
05 August 1950
Two cowboys aim to reclaim stolen jewels and money in this 1950 Western.
29 February 1956
Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" politician Frank Jansen.
08 July 1946
A young outlaw gets involved with a gang of crooks. When he tells them he is breaking away, they threaten to pin a false murder charge on him.
18 April 1940
Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find.
07 June 1940
The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.
22 December 1933
Beleaguered adventurer Carl Denham returns to the island where he found King Kong.
20 November 1951
A young woman (Janet Leigh) leaves her small hometown in Vermont and travels to New York City with hopes of becoming a Broadway star.
01 July 1943
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
16 July 1948
Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to New York to become a playwright.
15 August 1951
Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself entangled with fellow guests at a luxurious resort and suspecting that the man who hired him may be the deported crime boss Nick Ferraro aiming to re-enter to the USA.
06 January 1951
A lady con artist sets out to steal her parole officer's fiance.
24 November 1933
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
29 October 1946
In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.
14 December 1944
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.
10 July 1942
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
02 January 1953
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.
26 September 1933
After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
15 February 1950
After the end of WWII, a young Lithuanian woman and a young Italian man from Stromboli impulsively marry, but married life on the island is more demanding than she can accept.
22 February 1935
An amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane suddenly dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector Oscar Piper busy solving crimes.
02 May 1953
Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town targeted for a nuclear bomb test.
13 December 1951
A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman.
26 January 1939
British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din.
06 April 1933
A slapstick burlesque of 19th Century Victorian melodrama featuring a parody of Holmes and Watson who rescue a heroine held by a mustache-twirling villain in a den of caricatured Chinese gangsters.
30 January 1952
When newlyweds visit Las Vegas, the wife's shady past comes to the surface.
17 May 1940
Years after her ship disappeared, a presumably dead woman returns home. To her shock, she finds her husband has remarried.
22 June 1933
A bachelor millionaire on a cruise is protected by a friend from the avid attentions of a crowd of husband (and fortune) seeking girls.
24 October 1952
Retired rodeo champion Jeff McCloud agrees to mentor novice rodeo contestant Wes Merritt against the wishes of Merritt's wife who fears the dangers of this rough sport.
03 November 1939
Ollie falls in love with a woman. When he discovers she's already married, he unsuccessfully attempts suicide but he and Stan then decide to join the Foreign Legion to get away from their troubles.
26 March 1937
In the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson.
26 November 1948
Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work.
16 August 1940
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
02 December 1941
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language.
06 November 1936
A defiant young woman struggles against the norms and morals established by Victorian society and enforced by her autocratic father.
14 July 1942
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
20 December 1946
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
05 February 1943
Newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in Lincoln, New Mexico on the stage.
19 August 1952
Two tough Kentucky mountaineers join a trading expedition from St. Louis up the Missouri River to trade whisky for furs with the Blackfoot Indians.
11 April 1952
Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord.
16 June 1944
A heroic guerilla group fights back against impossible odds during the 1941 Nazi invasion of Russia.
31 January 1941
Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her? To her shock, he answers, "No".
30 April 1947
A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.
02 March 1944
Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.
30 August 1940
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque.
02 February 1956
Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai. Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis Khan.
