The Westmore's are a extremely famous/well know family into its generations within the MUA field. The first making his way into the successful lime light was George Westmore who originally was a hairdresser emigrated to the US from England and found wig making as a forte and eventually makeup. He in fact created the first ever eveerrr Make up department within the movies of Hollywood. The studio was infact a tiny space in a department within Selig-polyscope studios in 1917. times were changing, big things were happening within the field of film. The evolution of make up and hair design was beginning to be where it is today.
Researching into the Westmore's I've noticed a lot of them didn't have the longest lives with George passing away at 52 (sadly from suicide) and his son Frank dying at 62 his only daughter from his first wife Ada, Dorothy died at 24 from complications from an operation. The Westmore's have been lucky enough to produce a number of extremely talented generations working in the field of Make up & Hair design. 3 long generations of the family and even more to be working within Hollywood is amazing, the hairdresser from the Isle of Wright came to a developing and completely different world to the big lights of Hollywood and movies.
Credible works are all around with this family from Blade Runner (Marvin G. Westmore) and Gone with the Wind (Monte Westmore) both of this family members are in 2nd and 3rd generations of George Westmore. George himself became extremely well known within Hollywood working on films up until his death in 1931.
Just think George Westmore was a poneer in the field of Makeup and hair design. He helped bring it into the lime light and popularity of Hollywood. He though with a tragic end helped developed the way our career's as MUA will develop and be known.
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