An artist whose work played a major role in 'Return of the Jedi' still seeks recognition.
“There wasn’t any other work that showed her as a pretty woman,” she says.
“My first meeting, [Marquand] asked me to get him a cup of coffee,” Heyer says. “I was the only woman in the room.”Rodis-Jamero soon paired Heyer with Paul LeBlanc, thewhose stories-high wigs of 1750s Salzburg won him an Oscar for best makeup and hairstyling in 1984 for “Amadeus.
Marilee Heyer talks about some of the work she did for Lucasfilm in August of 1981 that later surfaced in the movie"Return of the Jedi" as well as in material that has lived beyond the film.Lucas reportedly loved Heyer’s renderings, and a new look for Leia was cemented. Towards the end of the gig, Heyer was asked to stay on, but at the time, it didn’t seem like she fit in with the culture at Lucasfilm.
By the time the movie was released in May 1983, Heyer had resumed her “normal life” working in San Francisco, producing ads for high-end department stores like Neiman Marcus and I. Magnin. She also went on to publish four children’s books with Viking Press , including “The Weaving of a Dream” in 1989, whichCut to the fall of 1983, just months after the film’s release, Heyer was dozing on her couch late one evening, watching a PBS membership drive.
“I picked up the phone and gave a pledge right there,” she says. “I told the operator, ‘Please, send me that book!’”
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