Fur Films by Decade:

1930-1934

• Baby Face – Barbara Stanwyck sleeps her way up the corporate ladder and accumulates some fine fur coats in the process. Review – Gallery.
• The Crash – Set in the late ’20s with fashion so early ’30s, the fox furs anachronistically fly in this somber entry. Review – Gallery.
• The Eagle and the Hawk – Carole Lombard smoking in a coat with a huge white fox collar and cuffs from an obscure 1933 war film. Review – Gallery.
• Girls About Town – Kay Francis in a movie where she wears lots of fur. This happens a lot. That’s a good thing. Review – Gallery + Clip.
• I’m No Angel – Mae West is a well-dressed circus lion tamer in a big fox wraps and coats. Review – Gallery.
• Lady with a Past – Constance Bennett wears furs for over one-third of the entire film as a jilted heiress looking to get her man back. Review – Gallery.
• Manhattan Melodrama – Myrna Loy wears fox furs opposite William Powell in a film that’s not about a thin man. Review – Gallery.
• The Match King – A man makes a fortune in matches, and his would-be girlfriend dumps him wearing a fabulous fox-trimmed outfit. Review – Gallery.
• Morning Glory – Katharine Hepburn in a huge white fox trimmed wrap from the film that won her an Oscar. Review – Gallery.
• No More Orchids – Carole Lombard stars in this fine example of a spoiled heiress film, with her character appropriately well dressed in several furs. Review – Gallery.
• Rockabye – Constance Bennett brings home the early 30’s fox collar prize as she visits the courtroom in a stunning collar and matching barrel muff. Review – Gallery.
• Shanghai Express – An iconic role for Marlene Dietrich and one of the best single fur fashion sequences committed to film. Review – Gallery.
• Success at Any Price – Relative unknown Genevieve Tobin is the mistress and wife of some rich guys and wears the furs to prove it. Review – Gallery.
• The Thin Man Films – It starts in 1934 and goes to 1947, reviewing five of the six films that include notable furs. Review – Gallery.
• This is the Night – Thelma Todd and Lily Damita star in this ultra-complex 1932 romantic comedy, both in some nice furs. Review – Gallery.

1935-1939

• Angel – Dietrich is the Angel from the title, of course, and wears fox and mink to compliment her divine status. Review – Gallery.
• The Annabel Films – Two for one update with a young, beautiful Lucille Ball in her early film career. Review – Gallery.
• The Awful Truth – Irene Dunne returns in the most enormous white fox coat of all time. Review – Gallery.
• Blond Cheat – Joan Fontaine leads a less notable cast in exceptional fox furs in this 1938 entry. Review – Gallery.
• Born Reckless – A “B” movie from 1937 with a very “A” selection of furs worn by the owner of a struggling cab company. Review – Gallery.
• Break of Hearts – Katharine Hepburn movie where Katharine Hepburn doesn’t wear a lot of fur. Lucky for you, Jean Howard comes to the rescue with a huge white fox coat. Review – Gallery.
• Breakfast for Two – Barbara Stanwyck starts the day off right with huge fox fashions in this “screwball” comedy from 1937. Glenda Farrell pitches in with some extra furs, too. Review – Gallery.
• The Bride Wore Red – Joan Crawford in a beautiful and huge fox fur collar. Review – Gallery.
• Broadway Melody of 1936 – It’s about Broadway in 1936, so it has girls in huge fox coats and guys made up to look like girls in huge fox coats. Review – Gallery.
• Dracula’s Daughter – Marguerite Churchill’s secretarial stipend allows her to perform her duties in a huge white fox cape. Review – Gallery.
• Fight For Your Lady – ’30s RomCom action with Margot Grahame and Ida Lupino looking lovely as ever in some hefty fox furs. Review – Gallery.
• Fools for Scandal – Carole Lombard’s “worst” film has quite a few nice furs, both on Miss Lombard and gossipy Isabel Jeans. Review – Gallery.
• Ice Follies of 1939 – Joan Crawford doesn’t skate much in a movie about ice skating. She wears some great furs to make up for it, though. Review – Gallery.
• I’ll Take Romance – Grace Moore does her part to reinforce that Broadway diva in fur stereotype with this late ’30s romantic comedy. Review – Gallery.
• The Law in Her Hands – Mob lawyer Mary Wentworth dresses in style with a big white fox fur wrap. Review – Gallery.
• The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt – A gentleman detective entry featuring Ida Lupino in several fox furs, including a spectacular white fox coat. Review – Gallery.
• Love Is A Headache – A woman called Charlie wears a lot of big fox furs in this shocking expose of adoption in 1938 New York. Review – Gallery.
• Love Is News – A little-known 1937 film with Loretta Young as a ‘madcap heiress’ with an extensive fur wardrobe. Review – Gallery.
• Libeled Lady – Jean Harlow and Myrna Loy in a classic with many furs. Review – Gallery.
• The Mad Miss Manton – Quite simply, the most fantastic fur fashion film of all time. There is no equal. Review – Gallery.
• Mannequin – It’s the one with Joan Crawford, not Kim Cattrall. It has more and better furs than that one. You like big fur collars? Review – Gallery + Clip.
• Mr. Dodd Takes the Air – The story of Claude Dodd and the well-dressed women who surround him. Review – Gallery.
• Over the Moon (1939) – What do you do when you inherit 18 million? You buy lots of furs and take your fur-wearing besties around the world! Review – Gallery + Clip.
• Remember – Divorce and large fox coats mix once more in this romantic comedy that features an amnesia potion as a critical plot point. Review – Gallery.
• Rendezvous – Rosalind Russel anchors this spy flick that features Binnie Barnes as a Russian spy in better furs. Review – Gallery.
• Roberta – Updated gallery of stills from the film Roberta, much higher quality. Review – Gallery.
• Times Square Lady – 1935 crime drama/comedy with many furs, starring Virginia Bruce as the Lady in question. Review – Gallery.

1940s

• Dance, Girl, Dance – I greatly enjoy Lucy as burlesque queen Tiger Lilly in her oversized white fox fur coat, among a great selection of other furs. Review – Gallery.
• The Dolly Sisters – A ’40s musical with a happier ending than the one upon which it was based, gives Betty Grable the chance to show off a fabulous white fox-trimmed coat. Review – Gallery.
• Easy to Wed – A remake of Libeled Lady with a slightly pre “I Love” Lucille Ball taking up the fur-wearing mantle from Jean Harlow. Review – Gallery.
• The Falcon Films – Group update featuring the furs from a series of “gentleman detective” films starring “The Falcon.” Review – Gallery.
• Father Takes a Wife – Gloria Swanson, in her last role before the big comeback, stars in a film with many lovely furs not meant for the ’40s. Review – Gallery.
• Lady Be Good – Hollywood makes divorce fun again in this Oscar-winning musical that features a few lovely foxes. Review – Gallery.
• Lady of Burlesque – Barbara Stanwyck pushing big fox fur into the ’40s with 1943’s Lady of Burlesque, where Stephanie Bachelor steals the show as a smoking fur-clad faux Russian vamp. Review – Gallery.
• The Lone Wolf Strikes – Sequel to The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt loses Ida Lupino but keeps the big white fox furs. Review – Gallery.
• They All Kissed the Bride – Young, beautiful Joan Crawford in an enormous full-length silver fox fur coat, what more do you need? Review – Gallery.
• Tin Pan Alley – Alice Faye and Betty Grable are almost upstaged by lesser-known Esther Ralston’s big fox trimmed cape and muff. Review – Gallery.

1950s

• Death of a Scoundrel – George Sanders goes from Falcon to Scoundrel in this 1956 film, and the fox stoles go with him. Review – Gallery.
• Let’s Do It Again – Someone remakes The Awful Truth in 1953 with one of the biggest blush fox stoles of all time. Review – Gallery.
• Party Girl – Cyd Charisse is the titular character, a showgirl with a couple friendly furs she wears in this crime drama. Review – Gallery.
• Silk Stockings – The 1950’s musical version of Ninotchka features Cyd Charisse in no furs at all, but Janis Paige in a few brilliantly dyed fox furs. Review – Gallery.
• Singing in the Rain – Silent film star Lina Lamont doesn’t stay silent in a selection of thick fox furs in this critical darling. Review – Gallery.

1960s

• Billion Dollar Brain – Not-Bond saves the world from a really dumb plan to invade the USSR with help from a Soviet agent in fur. Review – Gallery + Clip.
• The Great Race – Comedy from 1965 about a race in 1908 that features the lovely Natalie Wood in 3 different fox furs one after another. Review – Gallery.
• Juliet of the Spirits – Bland hausfrau hallucinates while getting advice from a sexy neighbor. Sexy neighbor wears largest white fox fur-trimmed dress in history. Review – Gallery.
• The Millionairess – Sophia Loren wears some furs that certainly weren’t common for the ’60s in this comedy. Review – Gallery.
• On Her Majesty’s Secret Service – Rigg, Diana Rigg. The only thing that really matters in this Bond flick and lovely in red fox and chinchilla. Review – Gallery + Clip.
• What a Way to Go! – Shirley MacLaine meets and marries a bunch of guys who end up dying. She wears lovely furs in the process, at least. Review – Gallery.

1970s

• The Bitch – Joan Collins revives her career with this 1979 softcore drama about nothing particularly interesting except the great fox capes she wears. Review – Gallery.
• Darktown Strutters – Strange things happen late at night on Turner Classic Movies; this is one of the stranger ones, with big ’70s fox furs. Review – Gallery.
• Daughters of Darkness – Deconstructive gal pal vampire take wherein you get a Marlene Dietrich-inspired version of Countess Bathory in a big fox-trimmed coat. Review – Gallery + Clip.
• The Dr. Phibes Films – A double dose of ’70s horror about the 1920s, with a sinister, fur draped henchwoman named Vulnavia. Review – Gallery.
• Funny Lady – Barbara Streisand stars in a sequel biopic of Franny Brice, wearing some excellent 70’s inspired ’30s fox furs. Review – Gallery.
• The Great Bank Hoax – Obscure little comedy from the ’70s that worked in a sexy “fur coat seduction” sequence. Review – Gallery.
• Magnum Cop – Late ’70s Italian exploitation meets Joan Collins in white fox fur. I hope the lira was worth it. Review + Gallery + Clip.
• Ritual of Evil – A short appearance of a big white fox collar and matching hat in a made-for-tv movie from 1970. Review & Gallery.
• Snapshot – Australian “thriller” from 1979 with an excellent selection of late ’70s furs worn by Chantal Contouri while smoking like a champ. Review – Gallery.

1980s

• Asso (Ace) is an Italian comedy from 1981 with an unfortunate English-sounding name and a fortune Edwige Fenech in beautiful ’80s furs. Review – Gallery + Clip.
• City Heat – Formulaic action buddy cop comedy that redeems itself only by showing Madeline Kahn in a huge white fox coat. Review – Gallery.
• Covergirl – Irena Ferris sells some furs thanks to simp Jeff Conway. Review – Gallery + Clip.
• Forever Lulu – Obscure ’80s flick that’s basically Desperately Seeking Debbie Harry, where the seeker wears an oversized white fox coat over a third of the film. Review – Gallery.
• The Hotel New Hampshire – Long, complex, meandering, and other unflattering adjectives could be applied to the film, but it worked in Jodie Foster and Natassja Kinski in sumptuous furs too. Review – Gallery.
• National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation – Short, sweet, this possibly two-for-one ’80s mega fox was a rarity in 1989. Review – Gallery.
• Rent-a-Cop. Liza’s not-too-auspicious return to movies includes some great “80s hooker in furs” fox, including a red fox seen on-screen for extended periods. Review – Gallery + Clip.
• Night Shift – Shelly Long reinforces the 1980’s “hookers in fur” stereotype with a gorgeous and well filmed full-length fox fur coat. Review – Gallery.
• The Stuff – A satirical ’80s horror film with that tired “huge ’80s fur coat fashion show” you get in every satirical ’80s horror film. Review – Gallery + Clip.
• Too Scared to Scream – A lady in a coat with a huge fox collar shows up in a slasher movie in the first ten minutes. That’s not ending well for her. Review – Gallery + Clip.
• White of Eye – Stay warm in the desert and seduce handymen while wearing lynx in this oddly costumed horror/thriller. Review – Gallery + Clip.

1990s

• Mad Dog Time – Horrible as a film, but features Ellen Barkin two large, full fox fur stoles in the middle of the 1990s, so undoubtedly notable for the furs. Review – Gallery.

2000s

• Miss Pettigrew Lives for A Day – Amy Adams plays a typical late ’30s madcap comedy heroine and wears some almost period-authentic furs. Review – Gallery + Clip.
• Why Did I Get Married – Tyler Perry relationship film that features affluent couples on a ski resort vacation and all the furs they wear. Review – Gallery.

2010s

• Hustlers – The “only” fur film from the 2010s didn’t have to go this hard, but thanks, JLo, your service is appreciated. Review – Gallery + Clip.

2020s

• Cruella – Disney makes an origin story about a fur-obsessed villain and almost completely forgets the furs. Almost. Review & Gallery.
• House of Gucci – Lady Gaga stars in an ’80s period piece with many authentic ’80s furs. Pretty much the only way you’ll get them in this decade. Review – Gallery + Clip.
• Madame Claude – French remake of a 1977 film based on a true story. Period authentic real fur makes a number of appearances. Review – Gallery + Clip.