Lon Chaney Is Turned Into A Mummy

Make-up man Jack Pierce puts the finishing touches, a liquid solution of Fuller’s earth, on actor Lon Chaney, who is being made-up to play the part of the murderous monster- mummy Kharis. Chaney, incidentally is swathed in 400 yards of specially prepared gauze tape for the 1943 Universal production of “The Mummy’s Ghost”. Undated movie still. — Image by © Underwood & Underwood/CORBIS