Factor, Max, Jr.

Factor, Max, Jr.
▪ 1997

      (FRANCIS FACTOR), U.S. cosmetician who, with his father, developed Pan-Cake makeup so actors would not appear green in colour motion pictures and, when it began to be worn offscreen as well, mass-produced it and built their company into an international cosmetics empire (b. Aug. 18, 1904—d. June 7, 1996).

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