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updated: Feb 20, 2002

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Death Becomes Her

Goldie Hawn
as Helen
fat Helen
fat Helen
the fatsuit
glamourous Helen
nice forearm
Lance Anderson working on Goldie

Plain Helen Sharp (Goldie Hawn) balloons in size after Ernest dumps her for Madeline Ashton: she then becomes very glamorous with a little help from a potion with some unfortunate side-effects.

Goldie Hawn wore the most amazing fat-suit and prosthetic makeup to appear at least twice her normal size. Unusually, for such a makeup she appeared in short-sleeves in some scenes requiring extensive prosthetic makeup to her arms. Dick Smith was credited with makeup design and Kevin Haney was prosthetics makeup supervisor for the movie but Lance Anderson (seen above working on Goldie) was credited for Goldie's prosthetics.