disguise makeups: make-under disguises

Where Is Kyra?
Hot in Cleveland
‘Hot & Heavy’
The Decoy Bride
La nouvelle Blanche-Neige
Les aventures … d’Adèle Blanc-Sec
To Be Fat Like Me
Pretendiendo
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle
The Revengers’ Comedies
Suddenly Susan
Hearts Afire
‘Fat Like Me’
Just Ask For Diamond
Thriller ‘A Coffin for the Bride’
Witness for the Prosecution
Ever Since Eve
Dishonored
The Social Secretary
other movies

Disguise makeups: Make-under disguises

Where an actress plays an attractive character who then dons a distincly unglamorous disguise: for a bet; to be taken seriously; because she’s had enough of men; to deceive etc etc.

The movie trope of the woman who deliberately makes herself look dowdy to be taken seriously or to avoid unwanted attention has a long history, from Norma Talmadge in The Social Secretary (1916) through Marion Davies in Ever Since Eve (1937) right up to Bárbara Mori in Pretendiendo (2006) and its planned US remake – though that appears to be stuck in development hell.