Here's one of the first magazine articles to mention plastic surgery for Hollywood stars and near-stars. It was written in a Hollywood fan magazine back in 1930. The title is "Would you like a new nose? How Hollywood submits to the knife of the plastic surgeon in the name of Beauty."

They say the most popular operation was the nose correction. (No one called it a nose job back then.)

Below is an excerpt. See the full article here.

"Telling the actual names of all the stars who have been to the plastic surgeon is an impossible task. They won't admit it, except in a few isolated instances...It is only lately that a few of them are beginning, not only to to admit that they've had their faces bettered, but to even go so far as to publicly announce it."