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Post by lonesomepolecat on Apr 4, 2024 18:40:48 GMT
Bunny and team, I recently watched the 1955 movie "Lucy Gallant," and, I kid you not, an Edith Head fashion show broke out toward the end, with Edith in an extended cameo hosting the show. How crazy "inside Hollywood" is that. Some of the fashions she showed - all designed by her - were, not surprisingly, beautiful.
Wow— I’ll have to watch that now! That reminds me of a Film Noir I watched recently called NIGHTFALL — all of a sudden a Fashion Show broke out with Anne Bancroft! It was pretty cool!
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Apr 4, 2024 18:46:57 GMT
Nightfall is one of the better late-in-the-cycle noir films (1956). Note that Bancroft's character is a model thus the reason for the fashion show, but I like how the director used the show to break-up the tension and help integrate the model into the noir universe (since the model just happens to be in the wrong-place at the wrong-time and not part of the crime-based plot).
AND, Bancroft looks great!
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Post by Fading Fast on Apr 4, 2024 19:03:29 GMT
Bunny and team, I recently watched the 1955 movie "Lucy Gallant," and, I kid you not, an Edith Head fashion show broke out toward the end, with Edith in an extended cameo hosting the show. How crazy "inside Hollywood" is that. Some of the fashions she showed - all designed by her - were, not surprisingly, beautiful.
Wow— I’ll have to watch that now! That reminds me of a Film Noir I watched recently called NIGHTFALL — all of a sudden a Fashion Show broke out with Anne Bancroft! It was pretty cool! I know exactly the scene you are talking about because you're in noirland in the movie and all of a sudden a fashion show breaks out. As JamesJazzGuitar points out, it's properly integrated into the story, but still, it's funny that it happens. And, yes, JJG, I agree, Ms. Bancroft looks fantastic in it.
I'm watching a silly baseball movie (half way through, will finish it tonight or tomorrow night) called "The Kid from Left Field" from 1953 with a twenty-two-year-old Ms. Bancroft in it. She looks great and lifts every scene she is in. For baseball fans who like the movie "Angels in the Outfield" this is another "fantasy" baseball story. It's definitely a B movie, but it's fun for what it is.
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Post by I Love Melvin on Apr 5, 2024 13:23:52 GMT
I love Lucy Gallant too. There's another Edith Head fashion show in the Paul Newman/Joanne Woodward comedy A New Kind of Love (1963), in which Joanne is an industrial spy for a knock-off dress manufacturer. There's a scene which juxtaposes an Edith Head fashion show Joanne is attending with a strip show Paul is attending, using some of the same costuming elements. It's silly but kind of clever, though I couldn't find it excerpted on YouTube. Here's the title sequence with Joanne scoping out Bonwit's windows. I'm assuming these aren't Edith's designs, because other designers are in the credits.
My favorite pop-up fashion show is in How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), in which the three stars model at a fashion house, with outfits described as "Rainbow Over the Everglades" and "Double Frozen Daquiri" with the "bizarre raffia hat". And, of course, Marilyn tripping because she's not wearing her glasses. Lauren Bacall actually began her career as a model and it shows.
Lovely to Look At (1952) was a remake of the musical Roberta, about a French fashion house inherited by some Americans. There's an extended fashion sequence blended with some over-the-top theatrical staging, seen here in a short clip featuring MGM's in-house designer Adrian.
The Women (1939) actually stopped the show for a Technicolor Adrian fashion show inserted into the middle of the story. I wasn't even aware of it for years because it was routinely cut out of the TV prints I saw until it was finally restored, probably during the home video boom which encouraged restorations.
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Post by sagebrush on Apr 5, 2024 14:28:59 GMT
Lovely to Look At (1952) was a remake of the musical Roberta, about a French fashion house inherited by some Americans. There's an extended fashion sequence blended with some over-the-top theatrical staging, seen here in a short clip featuring MGM's in-house designer Adrian. Too bad that fashion show clip from LOVELY TO LOOK AT didn't include the stunning dance number with Marge and Gower Champion which came directly after the video cuts off!
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Post by BunnyWhit on Apr 5, 2024 15:15:49 GMT
Bunny and team, I recently watched the 1955 movie "Lucy Gallant," and, I kid you not, an Edith Head fashion show broke out toward the end, with Edith in an extended cameo hosting the show. How crazy "inside Hollywood" is that. Some of the fashions she showed - all designed by her - were, not surprisingly, beautiful.
I had never seen Lucy Gallant -- until last night -- so I thank you, FadingFast, for mentioning it. I found myself thinking this might have been Jane Wyman at her absolute loveliest.
Claire Trevor and Thelma Ritter got the before-and-after treatment in the film. Trevor dressed a bit flashy like a small town "operator", shall we say, and Ritter was frumped down as a wife who ran a boarding house. Their transformations were made possible by the money that came into their hands during the course of the film, but it seems really that Lucy Gallant was the driving force that took them from plain to posh.
It was fun to see Gloria Talbott in the film, who played Wyman's daughter in All That Heaven Allows (1955).
Yes, the Edith Head fashions are beautiful, but I'd give them all to have that gorgeous yellow raincoat that opened the show!
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Post by BunnyWhit on Apr 5, 2024 15:21:02 GMT
That reminds me of a Film Noir I watched recently called NIGHTFALL — all of a sudden a Fashion Show broke out with Anne Bancroft! It was pretty cool! Glad you liked the Anne Bancroft fashion show, LonesomePolecat. She looked beautiful in the film....and I LOVE her hair!
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Post by BunnyWhit on Apr 5, 2024 15:50:29 GMT
Lauren Bacall went from being in a fashion show in How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) to mounting one in Designing Woman (1957). If you think the interceding four years rendered Bacall "unworthy" of fashion show stardom....think again. She was a knockout in the film. It was Helen Rose who really came through with the costumes for this film.
Bacall's green dress: business in the front.....
.....party in the back!
Looking sleek in black.
Wearing a sweet white suit in the lion's den...
Perhaps even better than the green dress
This beautiful and unspeakably impractical thing
Her glamorous and gorgeous suit, set against his lived-in bachelor pad and photo of Lori "Legs" Shannon.
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Post by NoShear on Apr 6, 2024 1:28:54 GMT
BunnyWhit, I don't recall if anyone's dropped MURDOCH MYSTERIES for you yet, so: The choice of 'your' Geddy Lee here is thanks to galacticgirrrl who prompted a "Tom Sawyer" search of late.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Apr 7, 2024 1:36:43 GMT
BunnyWhit, I don't recall if anyone's dropped MURDOCH MYSTERIES for you yet, so: The choice of 'your' Geddy Lee here is thanks to galacticgirrrl who prompted a "Tom Sawyer" search of late. YEEEEESSS! Now THAT's casting, folks!
The series is on my list, NoShear, just haven't made it there yet. But now I might have to move it up!
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Post by NoShear on Apr 7, 2024 15:50:45 GMT
Fading Fast's ESCAPE FROM EAST BERLIN reminded me of TANNBACH - LINE OF SEPARATION in the United States (read: PBS)... If the clothes seem drab, BunnyWhit and Fading Fast, consider that the German television show is a drama about families divided along the Iron Curtain during the early post-WWII period:
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Post by BunnyWhit on Apr 7, 2024 18:59:39 GMT
⬆️ That's a nice photo, NoShear. I suppose some would find their attire drab, and people who were actually there most assuredly got tired of their plain styles and colors, but from where I'm sitting these look like well-made garments from sturdy fabrics.....and that FIT! Even in their time of strife, they looked so well put together. I just love that. No doubt those garments took a beating, but they were built to do just that. People who think the fast fashion of today is a good thing have no idea who wonderful it is to wear a garment a million times that just keeps getting better. Those are the garments that actually form themselves to your personal shape, so that skirt or jacket or whatever is uniquely yours. It is a thing of beauty.
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Post by Fading Fast on Apr 7, 2024 22:19:59 GMT
⬆️ That's a nice photo, NoShear. I suppose some would find their attire drab, and people who were actually there most assuredly got tired of their plain styles and colors, but from where I'm sitting these look like well-made garments from sturdy fabrics.....and that FIT! Even in their time of strife, they looked so well put together. I just love that. No doubt those garments took a beating, but they were built to do just that. People who think the fast fashion of today is a good thing have no idea who wonderful it is to wear a garment a million times that just keeps getting better. Those are the garments that actually form themselves to your personal shape, so that skirt or jacket or whatever is uniquely yours. It is a thing of beauty. You are so right. I have a couple of tweed sport coats that are (I kid you not) thirty and twenty years old respectively. I would keep those over anything else I own. I also have a few Oxford cloth button down shirts that are easily (guessing) fifteen or so years old, but what is wonderful is the soft worn out way they look and feel. I worry that they'll get too threadbare to wear, so I, sadly, only wear them occasionally now. Maybe that's nuts, but I want to get some of my newer ones more worn out before the old ones truly die. I have a few sweaters and shoes that fall into these categories too.
Those are the best clothes. It's why the older I've gotten, the fewer clothes I buy, but almost always they are of better quality. And by that I don't mean necessarily very expensive, but just well made and not inexpensive. You need to find the companies that make those type of clothes and they will never be inexpensive, but they also aren't fashion-priced expensive.
When I put any of my older, well-worn clothes on, I get a slight lift in spirit. New clothes can be fun, but they aren't the same.
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Post by Fading Fast on Apr 8, 2024 12:29:03 GMT
Just to keep our beret collage in one thread, I'm posting the below pics of the adorable Priscilla Lane that came up in our Sunday Live! screening yesterday of 1939's "Four Daughters."
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Post by BunnyWhit on Apr 8, 2024 15:22:16 GMT
⬆️ That's a nice photo, NoShear. I suppose some would find their attire drab, and people who were actually there most assuredly got tired of their plain styles and colors, but from where I'm sitting these look like well-made garments from sturdy fabrics.....and that FIT! Even in their time of strife, they looked so well put together. I just love that. No doubt those garments took a beating, but they were built to do just that. People who think the fast fashion of today is a good thing have no idea who wonderful it is to wear a garment a million times that just keeps getting better. Those are the garments that actually form themselves to your personal shape, so that skirt or jacket or whatever is uniquely yours. It is a thing of beauty. You are so right. I have a couple of tweed sport coats that are (I kid you not) thirty and twenty years old respectively. I would keep those over anything else I own. I also have a few Oxford cloth button down shirts that are easily (guessing) fifteen or so years old, but what is wonderful is the soft worn out way they look and feel. I worry that they'll get too threadbare to wear, so I, sadly, only wear them occasionally now. Maybe that's nuts, but I want to get some of my newer ones more worn out before the old ones truly die. I have a few sweaters and shoes that fall into these categories too.
Those are the best clothes. It's why the older I've gotten, the fewer clothes I buy, but almost always they are of better quality. And by that I don't mean necessarily very expensive, but just well made and not inexpensive. You need to find the companies that make those type of clothes and they will never be inexpensive, but they also aren't fashion-priced expensive.
When I put any of my older, well-worn clothes on, I get a slight lift in spirit. New clothes can be fun, but they aren't the same.
You're a lucky dog, FadingFast -- those sport coats are just getting good!
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