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...business. Apton cites case after case (but without mentioning names), e.g., actresses who were able to go on playing youthful roles after face lifting, while others of the same age, with unlifted faces, got only middle-aged parts or none at all; a pediatrician who had a port-wine birthmark removed from his face because it scared the kiddies; a rabbit-eared radio announcer who had to have an operation to get a job on television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nasal Breakdowns | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

Ladd plays a tough badman who, when asked if he has any friends, replies through his teeth: "My guns." In a scheme to pose as the long-lost son of a wealthy rancher (Charles Bickford), he takes off his shirt twice: first to let a tattoo artist fake a birthmark on his shoulder, later to dupe Bickford with the false credentials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 15, 1951 | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

...crew is wonderful. It has to be the backbone of the play, and this one, although physically unlike the original cast, is of the same high quality. There is also one pretty girl in the cast, and she has a birthmark. But you don't get to see it, and neither does Pulver...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 3/8/1950 | See Source »

...sister and aged mother came to see the beggar who claimed to be their relative. They gave him a good bath and looked him over in the sunlight. Yes, there were the old scars. There was the Kumar's broken tooth, his birthmark and the familiar scales of the family skin disease on his feet. Reluctantly they claimed the beggar as their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Appointment in Calcutta | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...Canterville birthmark was discovered on the neck of a U.S. soldier (Robert Young) billeted at Canterville Castle. When the ghost and little Lady Jessica (Margaret O'Brien) told him that his heroism must lay the Canterville ghost, G.I. Young was scared to death. But in the long run he proved himself a red-blooded American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 14, 1944 | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

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