Ern Westmore
Encyclopedia
Ern Westmore born Ernest Henry Westmore, was a Hollywood make-up artist and sometimes actor, the third child in Frank Westmore
's famed Westmore family
tree
. Perc Westmore
's twin, the two were born in 1904 in Canterbury
, England
, later moving to Canada
and then the United States
.
Considered the most talented of the Westmore brothers, Ern found work at Warner Bros.
studio, RKO Studios, and Eagle-Lion Studios. He was the director of make-up on over 50 films during his career, and was also featured as himself in a number of B-movie
-style features for Kroger Babb
, including One Too Many
, and Secrets of Beauty, also known as Why Men Leave Home, an instructional primer
for women regarding how to keep their husbands faithful.
Ern Westmore (October 39, 1904–February 1, 1967), born Ernest Henry WestmoreFrank Westmore and Muriel Davidson. The Westmores of Hollywood. J. B. Lippincott, New York City, 1976., was a Hollywood make-up artist and sometimes actor, the third child in Frank Westmore
's famed Westmore family
tree
. Perc Westmore
's twin, the two were born in 1904 in Canterbury
, England
, later moving to Canada
and then the United States
.
Considered the most talented of the Westmore brothers, Ern found work at Warner Bros.
studio, RKO Studios, and Eagle-Lion Studios. He was the director of make-up on over 50 films during his career, and was also featured as himself in a number of B-movie
-style features for Kroger Babb
, including One Too Many
, and Secrets of Beauty, also known as Why Men Leave Home, an instructional primer
for women regarding how to keep their husbands faithful.
Ern Westmore (October 39, 1904–February 1, 1967), born Ernest Henry WestmoreFrank Westmore and Muriel Davidson. The Westmores of Hollywood. J. B. Lippincott, New York City, 1976., was a Hollywood make-up artist and sometimes actor, the third child in Frank Westmore
's famed Westmore family
tree
. Perc Westmore
's twin, the two were born in 1904 in Canterbury
, England
, later moving to Canada
and then the United States
.
Considered the most talented of the Westmore brothers, Ern found work at Warner Bros.
studio, RKO Studios, and Eagle-Lion Studios. He was the director of make-up on over 50 films during his career, and was also featured as himself in a number of B-movie
-style features for Kroger Babb
, including One Too Many
, and Secrets of Beauty, also known as Why Men Leave Home, an instructional primer
for women regarding how to keep their husbands faithful.Internet Movie Database: Ern Westmore. URL accessed 13 January 2006.
Ern was given an Academy Award in an "extraordinary-accomplishment" category for his work on the film Cimarron
Encyclopedia Britannica: Ern Westmore, 2007. in 1931, even though makeup categories had yet to be established at the time. Although his father and all of his brothers were involved in numerous films, Ern would be the only family member to be recognized by the Academy until the makeup category was introduced in 1981.
Ern was also involved in the creation of the House of Westmore with three of his brothers. It was billed as a place of beauty, primarily for women, and Ern was forced to borrow $40,000 from John Barrymore
and Errol Flynn
to assist in the financing, never paying them back.
In 1955, Babb set Westmore up with his own television series. Originally called Hollywood Today, but also called Hollywood Backstage and The Ern Westmore Show, The Ern Westmore Hollywood Glamour Show
was a program featuring make-up tips and beauty suggestions.
Ern struggled with alcoholism throughout his life, drinking as early as 1921. Often involved with Barrymore, John Decker
, and W. C. Fields
, Ern would eventually be forced out of Warner Bros. because of his alcohol problem. It eventually led to work with One Too Many. Ern also struggled in his personal life due to his vices, having been married four times during his life, fathering two children.
Ern attempted suicide in 1937, and eventually died in New York City
in 1967 of an apparent heart attack
.
Grandson Robert B. Crawley, Jr., son of Muriel Westmore Crawley and Bob Crawley, Sr., was art director at Universal Studios.
Frank Westmore
Frank Courtney Westmore was a Hollywood make-up artist, part of the Westmore family who were credited with introducing the art of make-up to the Hollywood movie industry. He was born in Maywood, California, and died of a heart ailment in St...
's famed Westmore family
Westmore family
The Westmore Family is a prominent family in Hollywood make-up. Led by their patriarch, George Westmore, the family has had four generations serve Hollywood as make-up artists in various capacities since George's establishment of Hollywood's first make-up department in 1917.-Careers:The English...
tree
Family tree
A family tree, or pedigree chart, is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure. The more detailed family trees used in medicine, genealogy, and social work are known as genograms.-Family tree representations:...
. Perc Westmore
Perc Westmore
Percival Harry Westmore was a prominent member of the Westmore family of Hollywood make-up artists.-Partial filmography:*The Man Who Played God*The Roaring Twenties...
's twin, the two were born in 1904 in Canterbury
Canterbury
Canterbury is a historic English cathedral city, which lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury, a district of Kent in South East England. It lies on the River Stour....
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, later moving to Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
and then the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
.
Considered the most talented of the Westmore brothers, Ern found work at Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
studio, RKO Studios, and Eagle-Lion Studios. He was the director of make-up on over 50 films during his career, and was also featured as himself in a number of B-movie
B-movie
A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....
-style features for Kroger Babb
Kroger Babb
Howard W. "Kroger" Babb was an American film and television producer and showman. His marketing techniques were similar to a travelling salesman's, with roots in the medicine-show tradition...
, including One Too Many
One Too Many
One Too Many, also known as Killer With a Label, Mixed-Up Women, and The Important Story of Alcoholism, was an exploitation film produced by Kroger Babb in 1950...
, and Secrets of Beauty, also known as Why Men Leave Home, an instructional primer
Primer (textbook)
A primer is a first textbook for teaching of reading, such as an alphabet book or basal reader. The word also is used more broadly to refer to any book that presents the most basic elements of a subject....
for women regarding how to keep their husbands faithful.
Ern Westmore (October 39, 1904–February 1, 1967), born Ernest Henry WestmoreFrank Westmore and Muriel Davidson. The Westmores of Hollywood. J. B. Lippincott, New York City, 1976., was a Hollywood make-up artist and sometimes actor, the third child in Frank Westmore
Frank Westmore
Frank Courtney Westmore was a Hollywood make-up artist, part of the Westmore family who were credited with introducing the art of make-up to the Hollywood movie industry. He was born in Maywood, California, and died of a heart ailment in St...
's famed Westmore family
Westmore family
The Westmore Family is a prominent family in Hollywood make-up. Led by their patriarch, George Westmore, the family has had four generations serve Hollywood as make-up artists in various capacities since George's establishment of Hollywood's first make-up department in 1917.-Careers:The English...
tree
Family tree
A family tree, or pedigree chart, is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure. The more detailed family trees used in medicine, genealogy, and social work are known as genograms.-Family tree representations:...
. Perc Westmore
Perc Westmore
Percival Harry Westmore was a prominent member of the Westmore family of Hollywood make-up artists.-Partial filmography:*The Man Who Played God*The Roaring Twenties...
's twin, the two were born in 1904 in Canterbury
Canterbury
Canterbury is a historic English cathedral city, which lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury, a district of Kent in South East England. It lies on the River Stour....
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, later moving to Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
and then the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
.
Considered the most talented of the Westmore brothers, Ern found work at Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
studio, RKO Studios, and Eagle-Lion Studios. He was the director of make-up on over 50 films during his career, and was also featured as himself in a number of B-movie
B-movie
A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....
-style features for Kroger Babb
Kroger Babb
Howard W. "Kroger" Babb was an American film and television producer and showman. His marketing techniques were similar to a travelling salesman's, with roots in the medicine-show tradition...
, including One Too Many
One Too Many
One Too Many, also known as Killer With a Label, Mixed-Up Women, and The Important Story of Alcoholism, was an exploitation film produced by Kroger Babb in 1950...
, and Secrets of Beauty, also known as Why Men Leave Home, an instructional primer
Primer (textbook)
A primer is a first textbook for teaching of reading, such as an alphabet book or basal reader. The word also is used more broadly to refer to any book that presents the most basic elements of a subject....
for women regarding how to keep their husbands faithful.
Ern Westmore (October 39, 1904–February 1, 1967), born Ernest Henry WestmoreFrank Westmore and Muriel Davidson. The Westmores of Hollywood. J. B. Lippincott, New York City, 1976., was a Hollywood make-up artist and sometimes actor, the third child in Frank Westmore
Frank Westmore
Frank Courtney Westmore was a Hollywood make-up artist, part of the Westmore family who were credited with introducing the art of make-up to the Hollywood movie industry. He was born in Maywood, California, and died of a heart ailment in St...
's famed Westmore family
Westmore family
The Westmore Family is a prominent family in Hollywood make-up. Led by their patriarch, George Westmore, the family has had four generations serve Hollywood as make-up artists in various capacities since George's establishment of Hollywood's first make-up department in 1917.-Careers:The English...
tree
Family tree
A family tree, or pedigree chart, is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure. The more detailed family trees used in medicine, genealogy, and social work are known as genograms.-Family tree representations:...
. Perc Westmore
Perc Westmore
Percival Harry Westmore was a prominent member of the Westmore family of Hollywood make-up artists.-Partial filmography:*The Man Who Played God*The Roaring Twenties...
's twin, the two were born in 1904 in Canterbury
Canterbury
Canterbury is a historic English cathedral city, which lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury, a district of Kent in South East England. It lies on the River Stour....
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, later moving to Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
and then the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
.
Considered the most talented of the Westmore brothers, Ern found work at Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
studio, RKO Studios, and Eagle-Lion Studios. He was the director of make-up on over 50 films during his career, and was also featured as himself in a number of B-movie
B-movie
A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....
-style features for Kroger Babb
Kroger Babb
Howard W. "Kroger" Babb was an American film and television producer and showman. His marketing techniques were similar to a travelling salesman's, with roots in the medicine-show tradition...
, including One Too Many
One Too Many
One Too Many, also known as Killer With a Label, Mixed-Up Women, and The Important Story of Alcoholism, was an exploitation film produced by Kroger Babb in 1950...
, and Secrets of Beauty, also known as Why Men Leave Home, an instructional primer
Primer (textbook)
A primer is a first textbook for teaching of reading, such as an alphabet book or basal reader. The word also is used more broadly to refer to any book that presents the most basic elements of a subject....
for women regarding how to keep their husbands faithful.Internet Movie Database: Ern Westmore. URL accessed 13 January 2006.
Ern was given an Academy Award in an "extraordinary-accomplishment" category for his work on the film Cimarron
Cimarron
Cimarron is the title of a novel published by popular historical fiction author Edna Ferber in 1929. The book was adapted into a critically acclaimed film in 1931 through RKO Pictures. In 1960, the story was again adapted for the screen to meager success by MGM...
Encyclopedia Britannica: Ern Westmore, 2007. in 1931, even though makeup categories had yet to be established at the time. Although his father and all of his brothers were involved in numerous films, Ern would be the only family member to be recognized by the Academy until the makeup category was introduced in 1981.
Ern was also involved in the creation of the House of Westmore with three of his brothers. It was billed as a place of beauty, primarily for women, and Ern was forced to borrow $40,000 from John Barrymore
John Barrymore
John Sidney Blyth , better known as John Barrymore, was an acclaimed American actor. He first gained fame as a handsome stage actor in light comedy, then high drama and culminating in groundbreaking portrayals in Shakespearean plays Hamlet and Richard III...
and Errol Flynn
Errol Flynn
Errol Leslie Flynn was an Australian-born actor. He was known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films, being a legend and his flamboyant lifestyle.-Early life:...
to assist in the financing, never paying them back.
In 1955, Babb set Westmore up with his own television series. Originally called Hollywood Today, but also called Hollywood Backstage and The Ern Westmore Show, The Ern Westmore Hollywood Glamour Show
The Ern Westmore Hollywood Glamour Show
The Ern Westmore Hollywood Glamour Show was a short-lived 1953 television show. Produced by Kroger Babb, the show was hosted by Hollywood make-up artist Ern Westmore, who would explain various beauty tips to viewers as well as give makeovers to a member of the studio audience, who would then be...
was a program featuring make-up tips and beauty suggestions.
Ern struggled with alcoholism throughout his life, drinking as early as 1921. Often involved with Barrymore, John Decker
John Decker
John Decker was a painter, set designer and caricaturist in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s....
, and W. C. Fields
W. C. Fields
William Claude Dukenfield , better known as W. C. Fields, was an American comedian, actor, juggler and writer...
, Ern would eventually be forced out of Warner Bros. because of his alcohol problem. It eventually led to work with One Too Many. Ern also struggled in his personal life due to his vices, having been married four times during his life, fathering two children.
Ern attempted suicide in 1937, and eventually died in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
in 1967 of an apparent heart attack
Cardiac arrest
Cardiac arrest, is the cessation of normal circulation of the blood due to failure of the heart to contract effectively...
.
Grandson Robert B. Crawley, Jr., son of Muriel Westmore Crawley and Bob Crawley, Sr., was art director at Universal Studios.