11 Facts About Monte Westmore

Montague "Monte" Westmore was a Hollywood make-up artist, the eldest of six sons of George Westmore.

Monte Westmore was the head of the makeup department at Selznick and worked on films including Gone with the Wind and Rebecca.

Monte Westmore had three sons, Marvin, Michael, and Monty, all of whom became make-up artists.

Monte Westmore's brothers were Perc, Ern, Wally, Bud and Frank, who all went on to work in makeup departments in Hollywood based studios.

Monte Westmore worked on The Sheik and convinced actor Rudolph Valentino to allow him to do his makeup creating the clean Latin look in the process.

Monte Westmore continued to be Valentino's makeup artist until the actor's death in 1926, and afterwards did freelance work with Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow and Sonia Henie.

Monte Westmore was responsible for making actor H B Warner control his drinking habit during the production of The King of Kings, as he kept feeding the actor cod liver oil until he vomited whenever he turned up for his makeup whilst drunk.

Monte Westmore worked at the Oddie Beauty Salon, where he coached Constance Nichols who went on to become the personal hairstylist for several Hollywood actors and actresses.

Mutiny on the Bounty resulted in Monte Westmore being the head of the makeup department for Gone with the Wind, Intermezzo and Rebecca.

Monte Westmore personally did the makeup for Scarlett O'Hara in the screentests for Gone with the Wind and oversaw the makeup on the extras seen in the film.

Monte Westmore did not receive any screen credit for his work on the film, as makeup artists were not regularly given such credit until the following decade.