Tag: smoking in fur
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Furs on Film – Baby Face (1933)
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Today we look at one of the more famous films I’ve profiled while mostly ignoring everything that made it famous. We will look at (the furs in) the 1933 film Baby Face, starring Barbara Stanwyck. Yes, Miss Stanwyck’s career highlight may not be until 1938, but she was no slouch in the fur-wearing department in…
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Furs in Film – The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939)
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While the Thin Man series of films are ripe for inclusion on this site, the “gentleman detective” genre was certainly not the lone province of William Powell and crew. The Lone Wolf was another. The Lone Wolf is a jewel thief named Mike Lanyard, featured in upwards of 20 pictures, a lot more than Nick…
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Furs in Film – The Dr. Phibes Films (1971-72)
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City Heat is a movie from the ’80s about the ’30s, two great fur fashion decades that film that go great together. Here we have a couple of movies from the ’70s about the ’20s. The films in question would be a couple of low-budget camp horror films featuring Vincent Price as a guy who…
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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 – 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 – 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…
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Fur Super Star – Marlene Dietrich
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I’d say I’m starting this series out on an easy one, but that’s the point. Marlene Dietrich is one of those figures who is quite clearly associated with furs. Her on screen fur wardrobe is stocked with classics. This list is not meant to be exhaustive. I’m concentrating on films I have clips from, and…
