The Maybelline Story

1940’s Maybelline Model, Lenore Aubert, Known for having “The most beautiful eyes in Hollywood,”

By Sharrie Williams · Written July 2015 · 1 min read

1940’s Maybelline Model,  Lenore Aubert, Known for having “The most beautiful eyes in Hollywood,”

Lenore Aubert, appeared in this beautiful color, glossy, autographed Maybelline ad, in 1948, as well as popular Vampire movies.


1940’s Maybelline Model,  Lenore Aubert, Known for having “The most beautiful eyes in Hollywood,”

 Lenore Aubert, played many a mysterious foreigner or femme fatale: she was at her slinky best in the 1948 horror comedy, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948).

1940’s Maybelline Model,  Lenore Aubert, Known for having “The most beautiful eyes in Hollywood,”

Poster for, Vampires, werewolves and monsters movie,
 featuring Lenore Aubert.

1940’s Maybelline Model,  Lenore Aubert, Known for having “The most beautiful eyes in Hollywood,”

Frankenstein, Lenore Aubert and Count Dracula.

1940’s Maybelline Model,  Lenore Aubert, Known for having “The most beautiful eyes in Hollywood,”

Abbott and Costello with The Wolf-Man, Count Dracula and Frankenstein.




Lenore Aubert, was born in present-day Slovenia, at the time still connected to the Austro-Hungarian Empire (her French name was
 pure Hollywood hokum, designed to make her background more
 exotic – though she did live for some time in Paris).
 Eleanore Maria Leisner was the daughter of an Austrian 
general and spent her formative years in Vienna.


Coming soon · Next from Sharrie Williams

Maybe She’s Born With It

The next chapter of the Maybelline family story. Get a text the day it’s out.

Where it began: The Maybelline Story — Amazon · Ebook · Signed copy