Or, for actors and actresses who have to cover themselves with thick layers of greasepaint every day, is it an occupational hazard?
Groucho appears without his usual greasepaint moustache and thick eyebrows.
Upset at this treatment he left and immediately cabled his sons to begin selling his own brand of greasepaint.
Groucho began to wear his trademark greasepaint mustache and to use a stooped walk.
Some wore ski masks and others had their faces blackened with greasepaint.
He was by then the biggest retailer of their theatrical stick greasepaint, yet he was snubbed and kept waiting at reception.
His tube greasepaint was not only more hygienic but also could be applied more thinly and evenly.
So when did he finally get a chance to don the greasepaint?