All hail the beauty spot—a well-placed mole worked wonders for the fame of Marilyn Monroe, Cindy Crawford, and Eva Mendes. But Peppy's beauty mark blows all of these others out of the water.

The only issue? Her mole has to be drawn on.

It's George who first tells Peppy:

"If you want to be an actress, you need to have something the others don't."

Penciling in a beauty mark just above her lip, he doesn't realize that she won't only have something the others don't, she'll have something he doesn't—the ability to star in a talkie.

Peppy's first talking film—aptly named Beauty Spot—opens on the same day as George's Tears of Love.

Peppy's infamous beauty spot becomes her signature look. But because it was George who first convinced Peppy to use that pencil for more than just upping her brow game, Peppy's forced to remember her roots every time she looks in the mirror to apply her mole.

Through the constant application of her beauty mark, she recalls the debt she owes to George…but the falsity of her beauty mark also serves as a daily reminder that her fame is something that's applied and isn't an inherent part of her. We think that this is probably one of the things that keeps her grounded—unlike George, Peppy never thinks of fame as something she is entitled to. Fame is as fleeting, The Artist tells us, as a pencil-drawn beauty spot.