But nothing struck fear into the hearts of makeup artists like the color green. So here's a scene from DeMille's 1919 film Male And Female: Paramount PicturesĪs recently as the middle of the 20th century, film makeup was made from a variety of toxic substances that could badly mess you up if you kept it slathered on your body for too long, because it occasionally takes humans an incredibly long time to start knowing things (such as 'Don't smoke in hospitals' and 'Don't drink radium'). The problem was they also weren't big on fancy camera tricks that would keep the actors separated from an animal that presumably spent all of its time calculating the most effective way to eat its co-stars.

And clearly only a real lion would do - even audiences back then wouldn't fall for a cat chewing on a GI Joe doll. Well, when you're making Bible movies, it's understood that they're going to involve lions, as they were the animals responsible for devouring the most Christians. We mentioned DeMille, one of Hollywood's early famous producer/directors, was responsible for a number of sweeping epics, including the Charlton Heston classic The Ten Commandments and a handful of other Biblical movies. 5 For Bible Epics, Actors Would Fight Actual Lions A few years later, Cagney was nearly shot on the set of the movie Taxi! and declared he wouldn't work with live ammo ever again (he later helped found the Screen Actors Guild, which among other things cemented actors' rights to not be literally fucking shot at during productions).

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