Tag: furs in film
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Furs in Film – The Eagle and the Hawk (1933)
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When I’m zipping through the channel guide for TCM looking for stuff to drop on the DVR for later review, I follow specific rules. Certain “thematic factors” argue either for or against the likelihood there will be some good fur in the film in question. One of the “against” factors is “war movie,” even “war…
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Furs in Film – Rendezvous (1935)
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Hollywood is generally guilty of some excess when it comes to period pieces. People complain that anachronistic tools, dialog, and fashion mar the audience’s immersion in the supposed “period.” I’ve never really had a problem with this, and it’s gratifying when it works in our fashionable favor, as with the 1935 spy flick, Rendezvous. Rendezvous…
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Furs in Film – Tin Pan Alley (1940)
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The actual Tin Pan Alley is on its way to becoming some hi-rise. As a source of popular music from the late 19th and early 20th century, the alley’s history meant it eventually figured into the newborn film business. The one in the ’30s and ’40s, not the current one. Maybe it was the center…
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Furs in Film – Night Shift (1982)
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The ’80s: the decade of mega foxes and power furs. The decade that, at the moment, it’s not really easy to find a whole bunch of people broadcasting content from. There are a few gems that appear, for whatever reason, from time to time. Like our next pick, Night Shift, which is notable primarily for…
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Furs in Film – Lady of Burlesque (1943)
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As a follow-on to a decade of fantastic fur fashion, the 1940s stunk nearly as much as the ’90s. Their only redeeming grace, the fact fur didn’t simply vanish; it merely became far more conservative. Mink ruled the day in coats and jackets. Elegant and… boring. I refer to it as “church fur.” The ones…
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Furs in Film – Love is News (1937)
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Going from famous, Oscar-winning films to something a bit more out-of-the-way. Like today, there was no shortage of cinematically pedestrian movies produced in the ’30s. The studio system churned out film after film, and not all of them were destined for greatness, a fact the studios were well aware of. Fortunately, even these films were…
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Furs in Film – Morning Glory (1933)
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I did two color posts in a row; how did that happen? Let’s get back to the ’30s, where the financial analysts of today get all their Depression predictions from. One hopes it won’t take another one of those to usher in a new period of mega fox fashion in Hollywood. Fortunately, the 1933 Katharine…
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Furs In Film – Let’s Do It Again (1953)
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The fact that there was a 50-year gap between the ’30s and ’80s is troubling, to say the least, for those waiting for the next fashion cycle to look kindly upon the idea of colossal fur coats. Though, this is not to say that those 40 years were utterly devoid of “inspirational” furs. Let’s Do…
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Furs in Film – I’m No Angel (1933)
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These days it’s easier to find media from the ’30s with mega furs than it is to find similarly well-fashioned media from the ’80s. Despite what chronological order may suggest, even plumbing the depths of cable rarely turns up any 80’s gems. So we return to the by-gone days of power furs, and the women…
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Furs in Film – Libeled Lady (1936)
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From 1936, we have Jean Harlow and Myrna Loy draped in some beautiful furs for the film Libeled Lady. Not sure what it is about divorce, but man, toss that into the plot, and the designers seem to really break out the furs. This film had no roots in anything but the script that birthed…
