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False eyelashes were invented by a movie director.

In 1916, director D.W. Griffith was working on his silent film Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages. He wanted his leading lady to have eyelashes long enough to brush her cheeks when she blinked, so he invented some! These original false lashes were made of human hair woven through a small strip of gauze.

Griffith also is credited with coining the famous directorial phrase “Lights, camera, action!”