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Post by snsurone on Jun 28, 2018 21:06:37 GMT
Some do come off as cheap "rugs", but others are so realistic-looking that I was surprised (and saddened) to learn that they were toupees.
Examples of the latter: Charlton Heston, Ricardo Montalban, Humphrey Bogart, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, and Dan Blocker, all of BONANZA (Michael Landon was the only Cartwright with a full head of hair).
I remember seeing a family photo of Bogie (with Betty and their kids), and he wasn't wearing his "hairy hat" (as his small daughter called it), and he didn't look bad at all.
Of course, some actors, like Yul Brynner and Telly Savalas looked great without any hair at all.
But others, like Fred Clark, just looked--bald!
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 28, 2018 21:34:17 GMT
One of the most famous in the Movie Star Rug department is Sean Connery's because he didn't seem to care whether he wore it or not. It would be on in one movie and off in the next. He always looked fine and healthy and confident with or without.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jun 28, 2018 22:30:18 GMT
Among those who spent significant portions of their film careers - in some cases, the entirety of them - wearing toupees were: Bing Crosby Fred Astaire Charles Boyer John Wayne James Stewart Frank Sinatra Gene Kelly Ray Milland Fred MacMurray Henry Fonda An odd addition to this list would have to be Boris Karloff. Although he had a full head of hair throughout his life, the majority of his film roles after achieving stardom found him wearing "character" wigs. Whether this was his idea or that of someone else, I have no idea. Some examples:                 Perhaps it was something that he felt was useful as an actor, affecting a different look for each character. Who knows? Once in a while, he got to adopt an eccentric coif using his very own crowning glory:  |
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Post by marshamae on Jun 28, 2018 23:22:53 GMT
I always thought Frank sinatra’s Rugs were surprisingly bad. In Manchuria Candidate the edge around his temples with his own hair trying to cover was especially noticeable.
I don’t recall being distracted by Astaire’s Toupee.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jun 29, 2018 14:46:32 GMT
I always thought Frank sinatra’s Rugs were surprisingly bad. In Manchuria Candidate the edge around his temples with his own hair trying to cover was especially noticeable. I don’t recall being distracted by Astaire’s Toupee. Fred's had the virtue of consistency, maintaining the same style for well over 30 years.   He modified it once in the late '60s, and kept that style to the end of his life.  George Burns was another career-long wearer who did the same thing.  ![]()  Sinatra's tended to vary more over the years. One of the worst was that glued-on pompadour in High Society.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 29, 2018 15:05:09 GMT
Bad fake hair is often used for a comic effect but that's another story. Gale Gordon's obvious toupee was a plot point in The "Burbs"  . Ray Peterson: It's Walter's Toupée. Art Wiengartner: Oh jeez, beautiful place to keep a toupée, on the stove. I'm starving. [walks off to the fridge] Mr. Rumsfield: One thing about these old guys - they don't ever leave the house without their hair. No sir. Walter left this house in a big hurry. |
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Post by teleadm on Jun 29, 2018 16:25:52 GMT
One of the most famous in the Movie Star Rug department is Sean Connery's because he didn't seem to care whether he wore it or not. It would be on in one movie and off in the next. He always looked fine and healthy and confident with or without. I think I remember that he actually made a joke out of the with or without a toupé in Richard Brooks uneven Wrong Is Right 1982 in one scene. |
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Post by teleadm on Jun 29, 2018 16:37:30 GMT
 The Duke without his toupé makes him look 20 years older and more like Buster Keaton. That John Wayne's toupé jumped of for a milli-second in North to Alaska 1960, and that it's still in the movie, well it was just a friendly reminder of something I think everyone knows by now. |
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Post by snsurone on Jun 30, 2018 22:23:00 GMT
One of the most famous in the Movie Star Rug department is Sean Connery's because he didn't seem to care whether he wore it or not. It would be on in one movie and off in the next. He always looked fine and healthy and confident with or without. Mike, I seriously doubt that the movie-going public would accept a bald James Bond. LOL However, in his character roles in movies such as THE UNTOUCHABLES or INDIANS JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, his lack of a piece was quite appropriate. |
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