Tag: silver fox
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Furs in Film – They All Kissed The Bride (1942)
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Another film in the costumed-like-it’s-1939 category, we have 1942’s They All Kissed the Bride, with a 37-year-old Joan Crawford. If your mental image of Miss Crawford snaps to the ’50s and beyond, that’s unfortunate, as vintage 30’s and early 40’s, Crawford is a genuinely spectacular beauty. Sadly most b-roll of Crawford always defaults to this…
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Furs in Film – Lady Be Good (1941)
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An Oscar-winning film you’ve probably never heard of, mainly because there are a bunch of Oscars most people don’t consider all that memorable. The winner for Best Original Song in 1942 isn’t really what earns a feature on the Oscar B-reel. That would be Lady Be Good, by the way, for the song “The Last…
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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 – 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 – 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 on TV – Another World (1987-89)
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Like ships passing in the night, SoapNet’s programming schedule and my best days of capping were not destined to meet up at the appropriate time. Those early days permeated with 80’s nighttime soaps did help hone my skills. Unfortunately, they weren’t what they are today. This doesn’t mean I don’t have an extensive back catalog…
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Furs in Film – Roberta (1935)
This series of posts will focus on a single film, one in which fur fashion is notably well represented. This set is based on a recent update of one of the first galleries, and I’m leaving both galleries up just to see how much better I am at this than I used to be. First…
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Fur on TV – Paper Dolls (1984)
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“For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these: ‘It might have been.’” Now that John Greenleaf Whittier is spinning in his grave over the use of that rather brilliant turn of phrase on a blog, we can move on to talk about Paper Dolls. Paper Dolls – The Show From September…
