HEDY LAMARR in H.M. Pulham ESQ flaunts makeup in public after WW l..

After World War 1, nice girls didn’t paint and powder themselves. However a new breed of women emerged in 1920 and that’s the target market Maybelline captured.

After the end of World War I, Harry (Robert Young,) gets a job in a New York City advertising company, where he falls in love with a vivacious,independent coworker, Marvin Miles (Hedy Lamarr)… However, she cannot bring herself to fit into his traditional idea of a wife’s role. 

When Tom Lyle Williams founded Maybell-Laboratories and produced Lash-Brow-Ine and Maybelline he published a book called The Woman Beautiful, suggesting the virtues of beautifying your eyebrows and eyelashes .

TCM was showing Hedy Lamarr and Robert Young in a classic 1941 film called, H.M.Pulham ESQ. Check out this one minute scene and you’ll see the point I’ve been trying to make. Hedy Lamarr’s character was a modern Maybelline girl in about 1918. 

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