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Post by manfromplanetx on Dec 17, 2018 6:55:24 GMT
Brunette Claudette Colbert having fun being blonde.... Secrets of a Secretary (1931)  |
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Dec 17, 2018 12:34:49 GMT
Brigitte Lin in blonde wig for Wong Kar Wai's Chungking Express |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Dec 17, 2018 16:16:56 GMT
Depends on one's idea of fun...  Suddenly-blonde Rita Hayworth suffers through a shattering climax in The Lady From Shanghai. |
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Post by bravomailer on Dec 17, 2018 17:12:13 GMT
Ann Sothern  |
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Post by petrolino on Dec 17, 2018 17:33:03 GMT
Ann Sothern Gloria Stuart
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Post by bravomailer on Dec 17, 2018 19:16:53 GMT
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Post by manfromplanetx on Dec 17, 2018 19:17:22 GMT
Dark haired Buster Crabbe did not like having his hair dyed blonde for the Flash Gordon Film Series which began in 1936. In public he did not enjoy all the attention and would wear a hat to cover his blonde locks. Pictured below with blonde beauty co-star Jean Rogers... _04.jpg) |
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Post by teleadm on Dec 17, 2018 19:18:15 GMT
Jane Russell in a blond wig:  |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Dec 17, 2018 19:32:14 GMT
Robert Stack hair dyed plays the brash white blonde gringo Johnny Regan in Budd Boetticher's outstanding Bullfighter and the Lady (1951)124 min version best. pictured with Joy Page 
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Post by petrolino on Dec 17, 2018 19:33:10 GMT
Pictured below with blonde beauty co-star Jean Rogers... Ginger Rogers
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Post by petrolino on Dec 17, 2018 19:36:19 GMT
124 min version best. pictured with Joy Page Claire Trevor with her bundle of joy Shirley Temple
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Post by bravomailer on Dec 17, 2018 19:39:00 GMT
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Post by telegonus on Dec 18, 2018 5:01:20 GMT
Thanks, all. Great pictures. I read somewhere that Robert Stack was a blondie in real life, was told by his studio to darken his hair because blonde leading men seldom made it. He did, and he did. Warners guys Wayne Morris and William Lundigan didn't and did just so-so.
Of the actresses, it seems that a fair number of the blondes shown here were reds. Ginger Rogers is one such. Also, Claire Trevor. Deborah Kerr, too; and Judy Garland. The coloring is otherwise similar as to complexion and eye color, making it less of a stretch than would be the case for, say, a "hardcore" brunette like Elizabeth Taylor.
Interesting case: Joan Bennett, who started out as a blonde, then went dark, and did much better; also, looked better.
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Post by mcavanaugh on Dec 18, 2018 13:43:33 GMT
Grace Kelly  Whoo-hoo!!!!!!
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Post by bravomailer on Dec 18, 2018 13:56:49 GMT
Julie Christie  |
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Post by telegonus on Dec 18, 2018 18:38:21 GMT
That's Julie Christie in her prime. She was an unconventional knockout; for some of us, that is. Her rugged (rather than regal) English beauty wasn't for all tastes. Yet she was a template for so many that followed. Susannah York is an early instance of one. But Julie had the charisma, embodying the Sixties karma like no one else. Susannah had that lovely bow mouth; Julie had the "pout",  (like nothing could fully satisfy her). |
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Post by koskiewicz on Dec 18, 2018 18:50:44 GMT
The little mentioned blonde Barbara Nichols was also an honorary member of the "rat pack"
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Post by Rufus-T on Dec 19, 2018 15:21:32 GMT
Fay Wray  |
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Post by petrolino on Dec 19, 2018 18:32:55 GMT
Fay Wray Leila Hyams
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Post by petrolino on Dec 19, 2018 18:37:11 GMT
Adding Stella Stevens (who was sometimes a redhead)
Jean Seberg
and Sandra Dee
Plus Tuesday Weld
Carol Lynley
and Sue Lyon
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(like nothing could fully satisfy her). 
