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His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days in vaudeville, included quirks such as an exaggerated stooped posture, glasses, cigar, and a thick greasepaint mustache and eyebrows.
Marx developed a routine as a wise-cracking hustler with a distinctive chicken-walking lope, an exaggerated greasepaint mustache and eyebrows, and an ever-present cigar, improvising insults to stuffy dowagers ( often played by Margaret Dumont ) and anyone else who stood in his way.
After applying the greasepaint mustache, a quick glance in the mirror revealed his natural hair eyebrows were too undertoned and did not match the rest of his face, so Marx added the greasepaint to his eyebrows and headed for the stage.
The absurdity of the greasepaint was never discussed on-screen, but in a famous scene in Duck Soup, where both Chicolini ( Chico ) and Pinky ( Harpo ) disguise themselves as Groucho, they are briefly seen applying the greasepaint, implicitly answering any question a viewer might have had about where he got his mustache and eyebrows.
Marx was asked to apply the greasepaint mustache once more for You Bet Your Life when it came to television, but he refused, opting instead to grow a real one, which he wore for the rest of his life.
** Groucho, with his stooped walk, greasepaint mustache, lascivious eyebrow raising, and his cigar ;
Roth on many occasions ( when out of character and greasepaint mustache ) co-hosted the sydnicated " Big Time Wrestling " with fellow announcer Bob Finnegan until 1969 when the hosting chores went to Lord Athol Layton.

greasepaint and eyebrows
Groucho appears without his usual greasepaint moustache and thick eyebrows.

greasepaint and early
During the early years of movie-making, greasepaint in stick form, although the accepted make-up for use on the stage, could not be applied thinly enough, nor where did colors work satisfactorily on the screen.
In the early 1920s, he blended Stein Pink greasepaint with eye shadow, preceding Factor's Panchromatic.

greasepaint and time
He also endured four hours of make-up under Pierce's hand each day, during which time his head was built up with cotton, collodion and gum, and green greasepaint, ( designed to look pale on black and white film ) was applied to his face and hands.

greasepaint and had
He had deduced audiences wanted something that seemed exotic so he donned greasepaint, robes and a wig to perform as a " pseudo-Egyptian " character.
By 1914 he had perfected the first cosmetic specifically created for motion picture use — a thinner greasepaint in cream form, packaged in a jar, and created in 12 precisely-graduated shades.
Until then Factor had been making his own greasepaint for use on his clients, but had made no attempt to market it while he was representing other brands.

greasepaint and same
An AV Club critic noted that " Admiral General Aladeen and Rufus T. Firefly share the same bloodline, representing a more generalized contempt for world leaders of any stripe, whether they don a ' supreme beard ' or a greasepaint moustache.

greasepaint and skin
White blackface performers in the past used burnt cork and later greasepaint or shoe polish to blacken their skin and exaggerate their lips, often wearing woolly wigs, gloves, tailcoats, or ragged clothes to complete the transformation.

mustache and eyebrows
These exaggerated features resulted in the creation of one of the world's most ubiquitous and recognizable novelty disguises, known as " Groucho glasses ", a one-piece mask consisting of horn-rimmed glasses, large plastic nose, bushy eyebrows and mustache.
Groucho glassesIn public and off-camera, Harpo and Chico were difficult to recognize by their fans without their wigs and costumes, but it was almost impossible to recognize Groucho without his trademark eye-glasses, fake eyebrows and mustache.
The Pringles logo is a stylized cartoon caricature of the head of a male figure ( commonly known as " Julius Pringles ") designed by Louis R. Dixon, with a large mustache and parted bangs ( until 2001, the character had eyebrows and his bow tie framed the product name ).
They are characterized by a rectangular head with bushy beard, mustache and eyebrows ; teeth that meet in a " scissor bite "; oval and dark colored eyes ; and v-shaped, natural forward-folding ears ( when cropped, the ears point straight upward and come to a sharp point ).
Besides his face, he is an old man with a well-built body, black eyes, eyebrows, and mustache.

mustache and originated
The character of Jim Kurring originated in the summer of 1998 when actor John C. Reilly grew a mustache out of interest and started putting together an unintelligent cop character.

mustache and spontaneously
Upon Chase's character drinking Cola Turka in the second commercial, he spontaneously displays Turkish traits like saying Turkish idioms, singing a Turkish folk song, and in the final part of the second commercial, unexpectedly sporting a mustache.

mustache and early
This, combined with his short statue and large mustache, led to the derisive nickname ofthe rat minister ” in the diplomatic community in his early career.
In the early 1900s a disagreement arose over the practice of some European customs ( Namely, the wearing of a mustache ) and the church split into two bodies ( from 1901 to 1911 ).
Dastardly in this series wore old-fashioned racer's gear — a long blue duster overcoat often worn by early motorists, along with long red gloves, and a large striped hat with driving goggles attached, and sporting a handlebar mustache.
Harvey was easily recognizable due to his thick white hair, which had already gone completely gray when he was in his 30s, leading to the early nickname of " Silver ," and in 1971 he grew a handlebar mustache, at a time when no major league field personnel had worn facial hair since the 1940s ; he kept it trimmed to the edges of his mouth, and he wore it for one season.

mustache and when
For example, the old style of the King's head was more rectangular, had a crown with identifiable card suits on it ( club, diamond, heart ), his mustache and beard always hid his mouth, and his beard frequently extended to a curved point when the King was shown in profile ( see The Wondrous Wizard of Id, 1970, Fawcett Publications ).
During the 1944 election campaign, Dewey suffered an unexpected blow when a remark attributed to socialite Alice Roosevelt Longworth ( daughter of Theodore Roosevelt ) mocked Dewey as " the little man on the wedding cake " ( alluding to his neat mustache and dapper dress ).
" Who in Iraq is going to think it's funny to poke fun at Saddam's mustache ," the student notes, " when the vast majority of Iraqi men themselves have mustaches?
In an earlier scene, when the Nerdlucks hold all the toons hostage, Sam sneaks up on the Nerdlucks, pointing his pistols at them, and orders them to release all the toons, only to have the Nerdlucks fire a laser pistol back at him, which leaves Sam naked and beardless as the phasers burned off his mustache.
His voice — which suggests a straw boater hat, handlebar mustache, bow tie, seersucker suit and spats — is front and center, even when he's dueting with Costello or Jones.
* In an episode of Man Up !, Craig and Kenny draw a mustache on Will's face while he is asleep, commenting when he awakens that " Will is gone, but look, it's Snidely Whiplash!
) The theme of androgyny is also briefly alluded to when a woman who closely resembles Madonna's lover is seen in men's clothing with a drawn-on pencil mustache.
He attempted to take his job seriously by growing a mustache and calling himself " Mike ," and even going as far as flushing Hyde's marijuana stash down the toilet ( ironically in The Circle ), but he was quickly reverted when Hyde and Fez shaved his mustache and made him resemble the mustache Adolf Hitler owned.
His mustache tingles when there's danger lurking about and can also be used as a telephone to contact Number One.
A longer version of this beard is called an imperial, after Napoleon III of France, especially when worn with a handlebar mustache.

mustache and did
He did paint the old character mustache over his real one on a few rare performing occasions, including a TV sketch with Jackie Gleason on the latter's variety show in the 1960s ( in which they performed a variation on the song " Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean ," co-written by Marx's uncle Al Shean ) and the 1968 Otto Preminger film Skidoo.
Healy reportedly took one look at Jerry, who had long chestnut red locks and a handlebar mustache, and remarked that he did not look like he was funny.
At the time, Gilbert did not sport his famous mustache, and this made his features more uneven and a little less handsome, and Fox plainly did not realize what huge potential he had.
The King of Hearts did originally have a mustache but it was lost by poor copying of the original design.
At first, Schwimmer did not want to wear the afro wig and mustache because he thought he would look like Gabe Kaplan in Welcome Back, Kotter ( a similarity referenced in the episode ).
However, Healy felt that Curly, with his thick, chestnut-red hair and elegant waxed mustache, did not look like a funny character.
Agent L had blond hair, blue eyes and a different hairstyle, Agent J did not have a mustache, and Zed had white hair and no goatee.
They did so by placing an ad in music trade papers for " macho " singers who " could also dance " and " must have a mustache ".
It was seldom called Turn A Gundam in the plot, the characters did not know what it was called, and mainly used the name White doll, MS with a mustache or simply Turn A.

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