0.3Costume & Make-Up

Mel Berns

Sep 27, 1897 - Chicago, Illinois, USA

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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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Movie1946NotoriousMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1938Bringing Up BabyMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1946HeartbeatMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1944Tender ComradeMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1941Ball of FireMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1946BedlamMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1944None But the Lonely HeartMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1944Days of GloryMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1944Gildersleeve's GhostMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1944A Night of AdventureMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1944Seven Days AshoreMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1944Music in ManhattanMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1955Underwater!Makeup SupervisorCostume & Make-Up
Movie1949The WindowKey Makeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1955A Bullet for JoeyMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1952At Sword's PointMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1953Devil's CanyonMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1952One Minute to ZeroMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1951The RacketMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1953Split SecondMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1932What Price Hollywood?Makeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1935Sylvia ScarlettMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1932The Lost SquadronMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1939Love AffairMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1943The OutlawMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1932The Animal KingdomMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1931The Gay DiplomatMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1932A Bill of DivorcementMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1933Christopher StrongMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1950StromboliMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1933King KongMakeup SupervisorCostume & Make-Up
Movie1941SuspicionMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1947Out of the PastMakeup Department HeadCostume & Make-Up
Movie1951His Kind of WomanMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1952The Las Vegas StoryMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1937Breakfast for TwoMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1938The Mad Miss MantonMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1935Annie OakleyMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1955Son of SinbadMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1953The Hitch-HikerMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1952Blackbeard, the PirateMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1953Angel FaceMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1955Tennessee's PartnerMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1954She Couldn't Say NoMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1953Second ChanceMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1953Affair with a StrangerMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1952The Lusty MenMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1952Clash by NightMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1952Beware, My LovelyMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1952The Half-BreedMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1958The Girl Most LikelyMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1954Dangerous MissionMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1952The Big SkyMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1951Behave Yourself!Makeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1951Sealed CargoMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1950Where Danger LivesMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1955Underwater!Makeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1954Susan Slept HereMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1952MacaoMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1950Gambling HouseMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1956The ConquerorMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1955The Phenix City StoryMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1951The Company She KeepsMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1952Androcles and the LionMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1955Pearl of the South PacificMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1951My Forbidden PastMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1951Best of the BadmenMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1954The French LineMakeup Department HeadCostume & Make-Up
Movie1952A Girl in Every PortMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1950Border TreasureMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1957Jet PilotMakeup Department HeadCostume & Make-Up
Movie1951On Dangerous GroundMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1951Payment on DemandMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1950Never a Dull MomentMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1956Bundle of JoyMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1951Flying LeathernecksMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1951Two Tickets to BroadwayMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1950The Secret FuryMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1950Rider from TucsonMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1948The Babe Ruth StoryMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1949The Great Dan PatchMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1947The Bachelor and the Bobby-SoxerMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1950QuicksandMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1948Jungle PatrolMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1950The White TowerMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1948An Innocent AffairMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1950Dynamite PassMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1949The Big WheelMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1947Trail StreetMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1950Armored Car RobberyMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1950Storm Over WyomingMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1948Texas, Brooklyn & HeavenMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1949Mighty Joe YoungMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1949Outpost in MoroccoMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1949Cover UpMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1944The Falcon Out WestMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1944Action in ArabiaMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1945Johnny AngelMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1944Marine RaidersMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1943Behind the Rising SunMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1944Step LivelyMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1943Above SuspicionHairstylistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1941Footlight FeverMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1941The Saint In Palm SpringsMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1944Mademoiselle FifiMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1944The Curse of the Cat PeopleMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1946From This Day ForwardMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1945The Spanish MainMakeup Department HeadCostume & Make-Up
Movie1943Higher and HigherMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1946Breakfast in HollywoodMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1945It's a PleasureMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1946Sunset PassMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1943Mr. LuckyMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1943Above SuspicionMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1942The Magnificent AmbersonsMakeup Department HeadCostume & Make-Up
Movie1944Murder, My SweetMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1944Youth Runs WildMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1940Curtain CallMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1946Badman's TerritoryMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1944Bride by MistakeMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1947Born to KillMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1943Ladies' DayMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1942The Big StreetMakeup Department HeadCostume & Make-Up
Movie1945The Body SnatcherMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1944Show BusinessMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1940Stranger on the Third FloorMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1946UndercurrentMakeup Department HeadCostume & Make-Up
Movie1943The Sky's the LimitMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1943Stage Door CanteenMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1941The Devil and Miss JonesMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1945CorneredMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1941Play GirlMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1946The LocketMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1940Anne of Windy PoplarsMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1940My Favorite WifeMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1941Mr. & Mrs. SmithMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1943Hitler's ChildrenMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1942The Pride of the YankeesMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1942Joan of ParisMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1940Dance, Girl, DanceMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1940They Knew What They WantedMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1939The Hunchback of Notre DameMakeup Department HeadCostume & Make-Up
Movie1939The Flying DeucesMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1940The Saint Takes OverMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1937The Life of the PartyMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1936A Woman RebelsMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1932Little Orphan AnnieMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1934Down to Their Last YachtMakeup Department HeadCostume & Make-Up
Movie1933Little WomenMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1934SpitfireMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1934Two AloneMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1938Room ServiceMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1934Kentucky KernelsMakeup Department HeadCostume & Make-Up
Movie1939In Name OnlyMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1939Gunga DinMakeup Department HeadCostume & Make-Up
Movie1935Break of HeartsMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1939The Saint in LondonMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1935Murder on a HoneymoonMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1935Alice AdamsMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1937New Faces of 1937Makeup Department HeadCostume & Make-Up
Movie1937The Toast of New YorkMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1933The Son of KongMakeup Department HeadCostume & Make-Up
Movie1939The Great Man VotesMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1934Anne of Green GablesMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1934Of Human BondageMakeup Department HeadCostume & Make-Up
Movie1933Morning GloryMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1933Melody CruiseMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1935The NitwitsMakeup Department HeadCostume & Make-Up
Movie1938CarefreeMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1935In PersonMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1933Ann VickersMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1933SweepingsMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1937Quality StreetMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1934The Little MinisterMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1934Sing and Like ItMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1933Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's PredicamentMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1932Girl CrazyMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1931Smart WomanMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1963Gidget Goes to RomeMakeup SupervisorCostume & Make-Up
Movie1956Slightly ScarletMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1942Cat PeopleMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1950Born to Be BadMakeup Department HeadCostume & Make-Up
Movie1948The Boy with Green HairMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
Movie1943Government GirlMakeup DesignerCostume & Make-Up
Movie1946NocturneMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
TV Show1956Broken ArrowMakeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up
TV Show1961Target: The Corruptors!Makeup ArtistCostume & Make-Up