At forty-six, Bobbie Weiner found herself divorced and penniless, and something that was even worse-identity-less. On a whim, she enrolled in makeup school and soon found herself applying gory special effects makeup to the actors on Hollywood sets. Her work on the horror film Pumpkinhead II earned her the nickname "Bloody Mary," which would become her new identity. After she helped create the dead, frozen corpses in the Oscar-winning film Titanic, her life would never be the same. With just an idea and a hunch-and no financial help from a single bank in the world, since none of...

At forty-six, Bobbie Weiner found herself divorced and penniless, and something that was even worse-identity-less. On a whim, she enrolled in makeup school and soon found herself applying gory special effects makeup to the actors on Hollywood sets. Her work on the horror film Pumpkinhead II earned her the nickname "Bloody Mary," which would become her new identity. After she helped create the dead, frozen corpses in the Oscar-winning film Titanic, her life would never be the same. With just an idea and a hunch-and no financial help from a single bank in the world, since none of...