Hey, there was fur in Hawkeye. One may even be real, but I’m willing to be convinced there’s a great way to fake lynx. Before you go getting too excited, we’re talking about one whole minute of run time. The maybe real lynx is the better of the two, and it shows up for… checks… Read More Furs on TV – Hawkeye (2021)
I’ve mentioned Ice Follies of 1939 before, and here’s the poster. Fortunately, there’s only a little artistic license, as the outfit in the poster is actually in the film. If anything, the artist may have been a little generous to those white fox cuffs, rendering them a bit larger and fuller than the actual on-screen… Read More Ice Follies of 1938 Poster with Joan Crawford
Back this week with an actual update, one I’ve been sitting on for a while now. Another entry from the early ’30s, this one pulls out the big gun right up front but doesn’t wholly fizzle later. It also boasts two prominent female roles. That’s a sad rarity for films from this period. Put your… Read More Furs on Film – This is the Night (1932)
This week we have an entry from 1932 that, considering the ratio it racks up, I’d have preferred it be shot in 1938. That’s a bit of a quibble, as it has some good furs, and the viewer can certainly take their time and enjoy them. Besides, it was either this or a ’70s Aussie… Read More Furs on Film – Lady with a Past (1932)
I’m cheating, because I linked to a different version of this via text a while back, but ondiraiduveau upped it to Flickr in an embeddable format, so, here it is. A beautiful shot, in subject, composition, and fashion. Ladies with gleaming obsidian locks can’t go wrong framing them with thick white fox fur. They have… Read More Lupe Velez In White Fox
I am a big fan of Sophia Loren, but the trajectory of her international stardom rests firmly in the late ’50s and ’60s. Those were the year’s fur fashion was merely phoning it in, a dreary wasteland of minks that were better suited to funerals than glamorous ladies on the big screen. Loren compounded this… Read More Furs on Film – The Millionairess (1960)
I wrote this review initially back in 2011, and I don’t think much of it will survive this 2022 update. The stuff about how it showed up on Turner Classic Movies, in particular. Tip of the hat to TCM, whose programming fueled many of my early updates, including the original Shanghai Express media. But the… Read More Furs on Film – Shanghai Express (1932)
Can’t pass this up, the reasons for which should be fairly obvious if you’ve been paying attention so far. Bonus gloves for those that fancy those. I’d say a matching fox hat of at least twelve inches in height was in order to provide an appropriate symmetry.
Pursuant to a previous comment, I decided I’d actually look for the lovely Miss Wong in fur instead of simply crossing my fingers and hoping something would show up on TCM. That’s not been working out well lately, after all. So via Flickr, here’s a minor selection of Miss Wong in some decent furs: From… Read More Anna May Wong in Fur
Not sure I’ve mentioned this… oh, yes, I have… but I’m a big fan of this scene from Shanghai Express and continue to wait patiently for TCM to show the film, which used to air almost every freaking month, again. Ironically this publicity shot provides a much clearer view of exactly how much fur “isn’t”… Read More Dietrich in Fur – Shanghai Express
