Tag: smoking in fur

• Furs on Film – Hustlers (2019)

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  2022/02/05

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  Fur on Film

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  2010s, chinchilla, featured, fitch, fur coat, fur jacket, furs in film, golden isle fox, Jennifer Lopez in fur, lynx, smoking in fur

  Gotta fill in that decade gap somehow. What better way than with what is easily the best fur film of the new millennium? Granted, that is a puny bar to clear, but let’s be fair, Hustlers does a pretty good job of setting the standard. Even if the furs make no goddamn sense. I saw…

  

• Furs on Film – The Bitch (1979)

  5 minutes

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  2022/01/08

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  Fur on Film

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  1970s, coyote, featured, fur cape, fur coat, fur collar, fur hat, fur jacket, fur stole, fur wrap, furs in film, Joan Collins in fur, marble fox, mink, raccoon, red fox, silver fox, smoking in fur

  Guess I should put some more effort into this. Thus, as of the current status of my review of all fur media, I present the greatest fur film of the 1970s, The Bitch. It has a couple of things in common with the greatest fur film of the 1930s, The Mad Miss Manton: lots of…

  

• Furs on Film – Funny Lady (1975)

  5 minutes

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  2011/08/14

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  Fur on Film

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  1970s, black fox, cigarette holder, dyed fox, fur collar, fur jacket, fur muff, fur stole, fur trim, fur wrap, furs in film, mink, smoking in fur, white fox

  More color. ’70s color! ’70s color about the ’20s and ’30s! The ’70s don’t get enough credit for some lovely furs because it’s hard to see anything in the shadow of the blinding brilliance of the ’80s. Most period pieces are a product of their time, so lucky for us, there was no problem with…

  

• Deitrich’s Fox Fur Trim

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  2011/04/10

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  Fur Stars

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  fur collar, fur trim, Marlene Dietrich in Fur, smoking in fur

  Imagine my surprise when a commenter suggested that one of my favorite fur film moments was not, in fact, fur at all. I speak of Shanghai Express. The fringe on the garment she wears in the “hat” sequence, which I had presumed was sable, is feathers, or rather down pelts, similar to the ones that made up…

  

• Elizabeth Taylor in Fur

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  2011/03/27

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  Fur Stars

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  chinchilla, Elizabeth Taylor in fur, fur stole, fur trim, smoking in fur, white fox, white mink

  A brief detour into “current events” for this blog. Elizabeth Taylor’s recent passing gives us a reason to take a look back. Unfortunately, her most high profile roles occurred in the most low profile fur fashion years. The IMDb suggests she started in 1942 and was particularly big in the 50’s and 60’s. She did some things in…

  

• Furs on Film – Snapshot (1979)

  5 minutes

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  2011/03/20

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  Fur on Film

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  1970s, cigarette holder, coyote, fur coat, fur jacket, furs in film, mink, red fox, smoking in fur, white mink

  How bout an Ozploitation flick? This one is fun for a few reasons. It’s one of the first I’ve posted with a unique combination of multiple release titles and a severed pig’s head. TCM showed it as Snapshot, as that was the name it was released under in its country of origin, Australia. It can…

  

• Furs on Film – Shanghai Express (1932)

  5 minutes

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  2011/01/16

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  Fur on Film

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  1930s, fox, fur collar, fur cuffs, fur trim, furs in film, Marlene Dietrich in Fur, smoking in fur

  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…

  

• Furs on Television – Deceptions (1985)

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  2010/09/19

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  Fur on TV

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  1980s, black fox, cross fox, fur coat, fur jacket, Fur on TV, fur wrap, silver fox, smoking in fur, stephanie powers in fur, white fox

  When TCM gives you lemons, you find an alternate source of lemonade. Thanks to an associate of mine for providing the “raw material” for this one. In my defense, I have a copy of Deceptions from years back, when it was a bit of fluffy filler on the Encore network, and cap quality wasn’t quite…

  

• Furs on Film – Break of Hearts (1935)

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  2010/05/30

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  Fur on Film

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  1930s, chinchilla, fur cape, fur coat, fur collar, fur trim, furs in film, Katharine Hepburn in fur, mink, silver fox, smoking in fur, white fox

  This is another early Katharine Hepburn flick. While I’m not quite so big a fan of young Hepburn as I am of young Crawford, she doesn’t do much of the heavy fur lifting in this flick anyway.

  

• Furs on Film – Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)

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  2010/03/28

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  Fur on Film

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  1930s, cigarette holder, fur trim, fur wrap, furs in film, Galmor Smoking, red fox, silver fox, smoking in fur

  Broadway’s been around longer than the movies, and Hollywood really liked movies about Broadway. Not quite so much today, but in the ’30s, it was “sure-fire hit” material, it seems. Or it was a really easy way to make a musical, the same thing. Tune up the band for Broadway Melody of 1936. Broadway Melody…