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updated: 16/06/2009
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disguise makeups: mistresses of disguise

Hustle
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle
Alias
Now You See Her
Charlie’s Angels
Eye of the Beholder
The Revengers’ Comedies
Die Diebin
Mr Magoo
F/X – The Series
Color of Night
The Assassin
Prey of the Chameleon
Black Widow
Mortelle randonnée
Bergerac
Family Plot
La hermana Trinquete
Arabella
Penelope
Mission: Impossible
Marnie
others

Conwomen, hitwomen, spies and private eyes are sometimes mistresses of disguise: characters who adopt multiple disguises in the course of a movie. The disguises themselves may involve complex prosthetics (eg Mr Magoo), mask tricks (eg Die Diebin) or simply repeated changes of wigs (eg Arabella).

As with all disguises in the movies, we have to play along for them to work: eg in Marnie the changes are only sufficient to tell us that the character is supposed to be disguised and who would have been fooled face-to-face by the discarded mask in Penelope.