How well do you guys think the make-up artist(s) predicted Don Ameche's aging to 70 years, compared to his actual aging in, say, Trading Places (he was Mortimer Duke)? He was 75 in that movie. I guess they could have added some wrinkles to his face in Heaven Can Wait.
shareHis old age make up was not bad considering I also saw him in Trading Places and Cocoon. His was a lot more smoother though in Heaven can wait.
Its that man again!!
A good job, too good.
I could tell it was him by his voice, it was just on, but I wanted to make sure so I checked here.
Made in or released in 1943, I knew he hadn't aged that bad.
Old movie, plus at the end there was an ad to buy stamps or something to support the war effort.
Not well done at all, you can see it is still a young man whose hair is artificially gray, etc. Worse is Gene Tierney, they made her up old better in The Ghost and Mrs Muir. Normally the body changes shape, the eyes hollow, the skin sags. But, hey it was 1942, these were two very attractive stars, they probably wouldn't have gone extreme in any event.
"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend!"
Some old people don't look anything like their young selves, but Don Ameche aged well--in his seventies he still looked like a weathered version of himself as a younger man. The makeup in "Heaven Can Wait" did the same thing, so it was a success.
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