40 Bizarre Rules That Old Hollywood Stars Were Forced To Obey

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35. Stars were sometimes given plastic surgery

Movie stars having plastic surgery is still fairly commonplace today, but in Old Hollywood the practice was arguably even more extreme. For example, Rita Hayworth was born Margarita Carmen Cansino, and her father had Spanish heritage. In order to make it in Hollywood, she had her skin lightened and endured a year of electrolysis treatment to alter her naturally low Latina hairline, making it an inch higher.

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