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- Title
"Actor Denied Straight Nose": Louis Wolheim and the Gendered Practice of Plastic Surgery in Silent-Era Hollywood.
- Authors
Addison, Heather
- Abstract
Hollywood's embrace of plastic surgery as a means of sculpting performers' bodies to meet standards of youth and beauty is a long-standing phenomenon. Using archival materials available in the Howard Hughes Motion Picture Records at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, this article offers a case study of Louis Wolheim (1881–1931), a motion-picture star under contract to Caddo, Howard Hughes's production company, from the late 1920s until the time of his death. Wolheim caused a national sensation in 1927 when he told reporters about his plan to have his iconic "hard-boiled" facial features surgically altered.
- Subjects
PLASTIC surgery; WOLHEIM, Louis; PERSONAL beauty; MAXILLOFACIAL surgery; ENTERTAINERS
- Publication
JCMS: Journal of Cinema & Media Studies, 2019, Vol 58, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
2578-4900
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cj.2019.0055