Riccie Johnson, the venerated makeup artist who spent more than a half-century with 60 Minutes and put eyeliner on The Beatles for their first U.S. TV appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, has died. She was 101.
Johnson died Jan. 3, her family announced. CBS Sunday Morning paid tribute to her soon afterward, but otherwise her death had not been reported. For more than 20 years starting in the 1990s, she worked on the program, preparing host Charles Osgood and others.
A protégé of the late Dick Smith, known as “Godfather of Makeup,” Johnson also dealt with Milton Berle on Texaco Star Theatre — and just may have been responsible for his popular powder-puff gag — with Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows and on the CBS Morning News.
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