Movie makeup artist Scott dies at 76

Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005 | 9:51 a.m.

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.6