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THEARTISAN WINTER 2020 • 71 Clockwise from above left: Monty Westmore applying make-up to actor Leslie Howard. 706 members (from left) Eric Stacy (asst. director), Ben Nye (make- up), Martha Acker (hair stylist), unknown, Eddie Allen (make-up), unknown, Hazel Rogers (hair stylist) and Monty Westmore (make-up & hair supervisor); 706 guild list from 1939; Monty with actor Rand Brooks in consultation for his- torical character Jefferson Davis. If you have ever viewed any of these great movies, you will no- tice when the screen credits roll by that most of the make-up artists, hair stylists and body make-up artists involved with these monumental epics are UNCREDITED, Of all the 1939 fi lms, there is one in particular I have been at- tached to because my father Monty Westmore Sr. was the Depart- ment Head of Make-Up & Hair Styling for Gone with the Wind. My dad, along with the following artists, were credited not on the fi lm but in a 1939/40 original playbill that was distributed in theaters when the fi lm opened in the United Artists Theatre in downtown Los Angeles. Ben Nye Sr. and Paul Stanhope Sr. were listed as as- sociate make-up artists. Sydney Guilaroff and Hazel Rogers were listed as associate hair stylists. Most of the artisans mentioned here were already members of the newly formed 1937 guild. Syd- ney, throughout his successful career, never joined. When my father started to organize his department before fi lm- ing, producer David O. Selznick gave him a large black-covered book containing 80 pages of pertinent information. It was much like the one given to me by Gene Roddenberry before we started our 18-year Star Trek adventure in 1987. Selznick's special book contained descriptions on all the major characters as to their personalities and appearances, both facial and costumed. All of the typed notes were drawn and researched from author Margaret Mitchell's bestselling novel. Most surpris- ing was an old yellow piece of paper tucked into the back of the book. It was the 1939 Union Eligibility List.