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Post by Fading Fast on Sept 20, 2023 18:52:21 GMT
If Lana Turner taught us nothing else, at least she taught us this: when knocking off The Hubbs, only a beret will do.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Sept 20, 2023 19:23:03 GMT
If Lana Turner taught us nothing else, at least she taught us this: when knocking off The Hubbs, only a beret will do.
It will be followed by my hard-hitting exposé of JV team members wearing varsity sweaters. |
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Sept 20, 2023 20:35:53 GMT
If Lana Turner taught us nothing else, at least she taught us this: when knocking off The Hubbs, only a beret will do.
Lara's character is thinking: please don't hit him so hard something gets on my white clothing. |
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Post by NoShear on Sept 21, 2023 18:47:09 GMT
Is that from your upcoming book, "Film Noir: How to Dress for Success."
It will be followed by my hard-hitting exposé of JV team members wearing varsity sweaters.  |
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Post by Andrea Doria on Sept 22, 2023 14:20:17 GMT
Of course Lana looks great in her beret, but the headgear I think of first with Lana is the turban.
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Post by Andrea Doria on Sept 22, 2023 14:32:25 GMT
Carmen Miranda probably thought Lana's turbans were a little too plain.
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Post by NoShear on Sept 22, 2023 17:18:06 GMT
Beret-watcher: Thought of you last night, Fading Fast, with Mrs. Bundy's style -  |
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Post by Fading Fast on Sept 22, 2023 17:35:37 GMT
Beret-watcher: Thought of you last night, Fading Fast, with Mrs. Bundy's style - |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Sept 22, 2023 23:25:35 GMT
Sabu and Maria Montez held a head-to-head "turban-off" in Arabian Nights (1942), which begs the question: Who wore it better?  |
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Post by BunnyWhit on Sept 23, 2023 5:38:36 GMT
Sabu and Maria Montez held a head-to-head "turban-off" in Arabian Nights (1942), which begs the question: Who wore it better?
Coco Chanel should have given Maria Montez her famous advise: "Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off." Or twelve. |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Sept 23, 2023 12:03:36 GMT
Sabu and Maria Montez held a head-to-head "turban-off" in Arabian Nights (1942), which begs the question: Who wore it better?
Coco Chanel should have given Maria Montez her famous advise: "Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off." Or twelve.To quote a character from Boys in the Band; "What have you got against Maria? She was a good woman."  She did love those jewels in the hair. (from Cobra Woman)  My all-time favorite "Arabian"/"medieval" getups were Ann Blyth's in The Golden Horde (1951). They just kept coming, each one nuttier than the last.   |
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Post by Andrea Doria on Sept 23, 2023 12:30:29 GMT
I can't look at Ann Blyth without thinking she's asking, "Who are your people?"
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Post by BunnyWhit on Sept 23, 2023 14:49:33 GMT
No contest, I Love Melvin -- Sabu, for sure!
Coco Chanel should have given Maria Montez her famous advise: "Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off." Or twelve. My all-time favorite "Arabian"/"medieval" getups were Ann Blyth's in The Golden Horde (1951). They just kept coming, each one nuttier than the last.
Perhaps no one was willing to take "credit" for the wardrobe in the film. It's a pretty good example of how to get it Hollywood, not get it right.
* EDIT: I take it all back....I found it. Leah Rhodes designed the costumes for the film. Now, how could Ms. Rhodes put Lauren Bacall in that crisp, beautiful white blouse in Key Largo (1948), and in such smart outfits in The Big Sleep (1946) -- especially the glorious robe she wears in that film! -- then find herself tasked with costuming The Golden Horde in such a manner. I get a mental image of a little devil standing on her shoulder shouting, "More! More! More!" in her ear as she sketched Ann Blyth's décolletage-baring Medieval garb. |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Sept 24, 2023 12:45:36 GMT
Leah Rhodes designed the costumes for the film. Now, how could Ms. Rhodes put Lauren Bacall in that crisp, beautiful white blouse in Key Largo (1948), and in such smart outfits in The Big Sleep (1946) -- especially the glorious robe she wears in that film! -- then find herself tasked with costuming The Golden Horde in such a manner. I get a mental image of a little devil standing on her shoulder shouting, "More! More! More!" in her ear as she sketched Ann Blyth's décolletage-baring Medieval garb. Bunny, you're probably the person to ask about this. Universal sort of specialized in the genre, with a lot of those "Arabian" adventures in the forties, and The Golden Horde was followed by The Golden Blade (1952) with Rock Hudson and Piper Laurie and Douglas Sirk's Sign of the Pagan (1954). So would a lot of this stuff just have been lying around the wardrobe department waiting for a costumer to play mix-and-match with what they already had, using, say, Ann Blyth as a sort of Mrs. Potato Head? Or did leading ladies always get new stuff? I'm sure the budgets were paltry, so probably supporting players got hand-me-downs. And do you know the role of Western Costume, which we hear about a lot but I'm not sure what part it played in Hollywood? Did most studios routinely use it or just the low-budget studios? And how did Western acquire its stock? Did studios sell them stuff they'd made for their own films in order to recoup some of the cost and to avoid having a lot of costuming on hand which they may or may not ever use again? A lot of questions, I know, but I don't believe I've ever heard anyone talk about it and you're our Costume Whisperer. |
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Post by kims on Sept 24, 2023 16:49:17 GMT
You are probably right about a bunch of costumes laying around-"let's make a movie about..." When I see some of these movies, I always think of Mitchum on Dick Cavett asking why did they make so many bad films in this era and stating that studios were pulling out old rejected scripts and making films of them. Don't know if the latter statement is true. But in the rapidly changing entertainment business, I've wondered if sometimes studios tried even outrageous gimmicks to see what "sticked" to get a clue about how to get audiences in the theaters.
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She did love those jewels in the hair. (from Cobra Woman)