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In the movie "L.A. Confidential" there's a subplot about a mogul who recruits prostitutes and has them "cut to look like movie stars", meaning he pays for them to get plastic surgery. Was this even possible in 1950's Los Angeles?

by /u/xevioso in /r/AskHistorians

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