Mickey Scott, movie makeup artist, 76
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Movie makeup artist Scott dies at 76
By Ed Koch
LAS VEGAS SUN
Mickey Scott, a movie makeup artist who supervised cosmetologists
working on the 1985 family sci-fi film "D.A.R.Y.L." and applied makeup
to Shelly Long for two of her motion pictures, died Tuesday in Las
Vegas. She was 76.
Services for the Las Vegas resident of 16 years were scheduled for
earlier today at Lev Hashem Messianic Congregation in North Las Vegas.
Graveside services were to follow at Palm Memorial Park Northwest. Palm
Mortuary-Cheyenne handled the arrangements.
Scott worked on 17 films between 1972 and 1990, including the acclaimed
1985 comedy-drama "Prizzi's Honor," which starred Jack Nicholson and
Anjelica Huston, who won the Academy Award for best supporting actress.
According to the Internet movie database Web site IMDb, Scott did
makeup for scenes in "Prizzi's Honor" that were shot in New York.
That same year, Scott was makeup supervisor for the film "D.A.R.Y.L.,"
about a lost young boy who was sought by the government, which created
him and wanted to destroy him.
In 1986 Scott was a makeup artist on the comedy "The Money Pit,"
starring Long, who previously had gained stardom as the pretentious
cocktail waitress Diane Chambers in the long running television sitcom
"Cheers."
A year later, Scott was Long's personal makeup artist for her starring
role in the comedy "Hello Again," in which Long played a suburban
housewife who choked to death but was brought back to life by a spell
cast by her sister.
Scott was born April 25, 1929, in New York City.
Her first film credit was as a makeup artist for the 1972 erotic
musical comedy "Oh! Calcutta!" that featured several scenes in which
makeup was the only thing some of the actors wore.
Scott did makeup for a string of 1980s films, including "They All
Laughed" (1981), "The Big Chill" (1983), "Falling in Love" (1984), "The
Flamingo Kid" (1984), "Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins" (1985),
"Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs" (1986), "The Believers" (1987)
and "Big" (1988).
Scott retired from the motion picture industry after doing makeup work
on the 1990 films "Stanley & Iris," a romantic drama starring Robert
DeNiro and Jane Fonda, and "Mermaids," starring Cher and Winona Rider.
Scott is survived by a daughter, Arlette Greenfield Sieger of Port
Washington, N.Y.; two sons, Barry Greenfield and Michael Greenfield;
and a sister, Helene Gottlieb, all of Las Vegas; 10 grandchildren; and
10 great-grandchildren.