Mel Berns

Personal Info

Know For

Costume & Make-Up

Gender

Male

Birthday

1897-09-27 (80 years old)

Deathday

1977-05-07

Place of Birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Mel Berns

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mel Berns (September 27, 1897 - May 7, 1977) was an American make-up artist. He was the Head of Makeup at RKO Pictures for more than twenty years. Berns began his career in the entertainment industry while working as an agent at the William Morris Agency. Later he became the Head of Makeup at RKO Pictures for more than twenty years, creating the makeup for Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and Katharine Hepburn's screentest. He was a lifelong friend of Ginger Rogers, who makes ample reference to their friendship in her autobiography: Ginger: My Story. He worked extensively in television after leaving RKO,...

Production

1946

Notorious

as Makeup Artist

1938

Bringing Up Baby

as Makeup Artist

1946

Heartbeat

as Makeup Artist

1944

Tender Comrade

as Makeup Artist

1941

Ball of Fire

as Makeup Artist

1946

Bedlam

as Makeup Artist

1944

1944

Days of Glory

as Makeup Artist

1944

Gildersleeve's Ghost

as Makeup Artist

1944

A Night of Adventure

as Makeup Artist

1944

Seven Days Ashore

as Makeup Artist

1944

Music in Manhattan

as Makeup Artist

1955

Underwater!

as Makeup Supervisor

1949

The Window

as Key Makeup Artist

1955

A Bullet for Joey

as Makeup Artist

1952

At Sword's Point

as Makeup Artist

1953

Devil's Canyon

as Makeup Artist

1952

One Minute to Zero

as Makeup Artist

1951

The Racket

as Makeup Artist

1953

Split Second

as Makeup Artist

1932

What Price Hollywood?

as Makeup Artist

1935

Sylvia Scarlett

as Makeup Artist

1932

The Lost Squadron

as Makeup Artist

1939

Love Affair

as Makeup Artist

1943

The Outlaw

as Makeup Artist

1932

The Animal Kingdom

as Makeup Artist

1931

The Gay Diplomat

as Makeup Artist

1932

A Bill of Divorcement

as Makeup Artist

1933

Christopher Strong

as Makeup Artist

1950

Stromboli

as Makeup Artist

1933

King Kong

as Makeup Supervisor

1941

Suspicion

as Makeup Artist

1947

Out of the Past

as Makeup Department Head

1951

His Kind of Woman

as Makeup Artist

1952

The Las Vegas Story

as Makeup Artist

1937

Breakfast for Two

as Makeup Artist

1938

The Mad Miss Manton

as Makeup Artist

1935

Annie Oakley

as Makeup Artist

1955

Son of Sinbad

as Makeup Artist

1953

The Hitch-Hiker

as Makeup Artist

1952

Blackbeard, the Pirate

as Makeup Artist

1953

Angel Face

as Makeup Artist

1955

Tennessee's Partner

as Makeup Artist

1954

She Couldn't Say No

as Makeup Artist

1953

Second Chance

as Makeup Artist

1953

Affair with a Stranger

as Makeup Artist

1952

The Lusty Men

as Makeup Artist

1952

Clash by Night

as Makeup Artist

1952

Beware, My Lovely

as Makeup Artist

1952

The Half-Breed

as Makeup Artist

1958

The Girl Most Likely

as Makeup Artist

1954

Dangerous Mission

as Makeup Artist

1952

The Big Sky

as Makeup Artist

1951

Behave Yourself!

as Makeup Artist

1951

Sealed Cargo

as Makeup Artist

1950

Where Danger Lives

as Makeup Artist

1955

Underwater!

as Makeup Artist

1954

Susan Slept Here

as Makeup Artist

1952

Macao

as Makeup Artist

1950

Gambling House

as Makeup Artist

1956

The Conqueror

as Makeup Artist

1955

The Phenix City Story

as Makeup Artist

1951

The Company She Keeps

as Makeup Artist

1952

Androcles and the Lion

as Makeup Artist

1955

1951

My Forbidden Past

as Makeup Artist

1951

Best of the Badmen

as Makeup Artist

1954

The French Line

as Makeup Department Head

1952

A Girl in Every Port

as Makeup Artist

1950

Border Treasure

as Makeup Artist

1957

Jet Pilot

as Makeup Department Head

1951

On Dangerous Ground

as Makeup Artist

1951

Payment on Demand

as Makeup Artist

1950

Never a Dull Moment

as Makeup Artist

1956

Bundle of Joy

as Makeup Artist

1951

Flying Leathernecks

as Makeup Artist

1951

Two Tickets to Broadway

as Makeup Artist

1950

The Secret Fury

as Makeup Artist

1950

Rider from Tucson

as Makeup Artist

1948

The Babe Ruth Story

as Makeup Artist

1949

The Great Dan Patch

as Makeup Artist

1950

Quicksand

as Makeup Artist

1948

Jungle Patrol

as Makeup Artist

1950

The White Tower

as Makeup Artist

1948

An Innocent Affair

as Makeup Artist

1950

Dynamite Pass

as Makeup Artist

1949

The Big Wheel

as Makeup Artist

1947

Trail Street

as Makeup Artist

1950

Armored Car Robbery

as Makeup Artist

1950

Storm Over Wyoming

as Makeup Artist

1948

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

as Makeup Artist

1949

Mighty Joe Young

as Makeup Artist

1949

Outpost in Morocco

as Makeup Artist

1949

Cover Up

as Makeup Artist

1944

The Falcon Out West

as Makeup Artist

1944

Action in Arabia

as Makeup Artist

1945

Johnny Angel

as Makeup Artist

1944

Marine Raiders

as Makeup Artist

1943

Behind the Rising Sun

as Makeup Artist

1944

Step Lively

as Makeup Artist

1943

Above Suspicion

as Hairstylist

1941

Footlight Fever

as Makeup Artist

1941

1944

Mademoiselle Fifi

as Makeup Artist

1944

1946

From This Day Forward

as Makeup Artist

1945

The Spanish Main

as Makeup Department Head

1943

Higher and Higher

as Makeup Artist

1946

Breakfast in Hollywood

as Makeup Artist

1945

It's a Pleasure

as Makeup Artist

1946

Sunset Pass

as Makeup Artist

1943

Mr. Lucky

as Makeup Artist

1943

Above Suspicion

as Makeup Artist

1942

The Magnificent Ambersons

as Makeup Department Head

1944

Murder, My Sweet

as Makeup Artist

1944

Youth Runs Wild

as Makeup Artist

1940

Curtain Call

as Makeup Artist

1946

Badman's Territory

as Makeup Artist

1944

Bride by Mistake

as Makeup Artist

1947

Born to Kill

as Makeup Artist

1943

Ladies' Day

as Makeup Artist

1942

The Big Street

as Makeup Department Head

1945

The Body Snatcher

as Makeup Artist

1944

Show Business

as Makeup Artist

1940

1946

Undercurrent

as Makeup Department Head

1943

The Sky's the Limit

as Makeup Artist

1943

Stage Door Canteen

as Makeup Artist

1941

The Devil and Miss Jones

as Makeup Artist

1945

Cornered

as Makeup Artist

1941

Play Girl

as Makeup Artist

1946

The Locket

as Makeup Artist

1940

Anne of Windy Poplars

as Makeup Artist

1940

My Favorite Wife

as Makeup Artist

1941

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

as Makeup Artist

1943

Hitler's Children

as Makeup Artist

1942

The Pride of the Yankees

as Makeup Artist

1942

Joan of Paris

as Makeup Artist

1940

Dance, Girl, Dance

as Makeup Artist

1940

1939

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

as Makeup Department Head

1939

The Flying Deuces

as Makeup Artist

1940

The Saint Takes Over

as Makeup Artist

1937

The Life of the Party

as Makeup Artist

1936

A Woman Rebels

as Makeup Artist

1932

Little Orphan Annie

as Makeup Artist

1934

Down to Their Last Yacht

as Makeup Department Head

1933

Little Women

as Makeup Artist

1934

Spitfire

as Makeup Artist

1934

Two Alone

as Makeup Artist

1938

Room Service

as Makeup Artist

1934

Kentucky Kernels

as Makeup Department Head

1939

In Name Only

as Makeup Artist

1939

Gunga Din

as Makeup Department Head

1935

Break of Hearts

as Makeup Artist

1939

The Saint in London

as Makeup Artist

1935

Murder on a Honeymoon

as Makeup Artist

1935

Alice Adams

as Makeup Artist

1937

New Faces of 1937

as Makeup Department Head

1937

The Toast of New York

as Makeup Artist

1933

The Son of Kong

as Makeup Department Head

1939

The Great Man Votes

as Makeup Artist

1934

Anne of Green Gables

as Makeup Artist

1934

Of Human Bondage

as Makeup Department Head

1933

Morning Glory

as Makeup Artist

1933

Melody Cruise

as Makeup Artist

1935

The Nitwits

as Makeup Department Head

1938

Carefree

as Makeup Artist

1935

In Person

as Makeup Artist

1933

Ann Vickers

as Makeup Artist

1933

Sweepings

as Makeup Artist

1937

Quality Street

as Makeup Artist

1934

The Little Minister

as Makeup Artist

1934

Sing and Like It

as Makeup Artist

1932

Girl Crazy

as Makeup Artist

1931

Smart Woman

as Makeup Artist

1963

Gidget Goes to Rome

as Makeup Supervisor

1956

Slightly Scarlet

as Makeup Artist

1942

Cat People

as Makeup Artist

1950

Born to Be Bad

as Makeup Department Head

1948

The Boy with Green Hair

as Makeup Artist

1943

Government Girl

as Makeup Designer

1946

Nocturne

as Makeup Artist

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