Editing Contact lens (section)

===Films===
[[File:Dracula 1958 c.jpg|thumb|alt=Film still of Christopher Lee wearing red contact lenses|[[Christopher Lee]] as the title character in ''[[Dracula (1958 film)|Dracula]]'' (1958) in one of the first uses of contact lens with makeup in films]]

One of the earliest known [[motion pictures]] to introduce the use of contact lenses as a [[make-up artist]]'s device for enhancing the eyes was by the innovative actor [[Lon Chaney]] in the 1926 film ''[[The Road to Mandalay (1926 film)|The Road to Mandalay]]'' to create the effect of a character who had a blind eye.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Klepper |first=Robert K. |title=Silent Films, 1877–1996: A Critical Guide to 646 Movies |publisher=McFarland |year=2005 |pages=373}}</ref> Dr. [[Rueben Greenspoon]] applied them to Orson Welles for the film ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' in 1940. In the 1950s, contact lenses were starting to be used in British color horror films. An early example of this is the British actor [[Christopher Lee]] as the [[Dracula]] character in the 1958 color horror film ''[[Dracula (1958 film)|Dracula]]'', which helped to emphasize his horrific looking black [[pupils]] and red [[red eye (medicine)|bloodshot eyes]]. [[Tony Curtis]] wore them in the 1968 film ''[[The Boston Strangler (film)|The Boston Strangler]]''. Contact lenses were also used to better emphasize the sinister gaze of the demonic characters in 1968's ''[[Rosemary's Baby (film)|Rosemary's Baby]]'' and 1973's ''[[The Exorcist (film)|The Exorcist]]''. Colored custom-made contact lenses are now standard makeup for a number of special effects-based movies.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Yazigi |first=Monique P. |date=July 17, 1994 |title=On Film, Them There Eyes Are Often Contact Lenses. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/17/movies/film-on-film-them-there-eyes-are-often-contact-lenses.html |work=New York Times}}</ref>