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Hairstyles/Costumes Not very accurate

posted 15 years ago by georgestrum
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This film was not consistent in its accuracy of hairstyle and costumes for 1927. There is a lot of mixing 1947 styles with 1927 styles.

[–] mojo2004 15 years ago

Yes that's mentioned in the trivia section for the film.

[–] jwkenne 15 years ago

But there's another odd anachronism. The forward pass was legalized in 1906, a lot more than "fifteen years" before 1927.

[–] beecee101 15 years ago

I recently watched the movie and I am a football fan. I thought there is definately one or two forward passes in the film. Im sure there was at least one.

Whether it was illegal or not I cant recall but it did happen.

[–] mike121945 14 years ago

Little research into clothing and hair styles was common in period films made in the 40's & 50's. The great musical numbers in Good News make up for the films' inaccuracies. June Allyson is one of my favorites. She really fit the "girl next door" image.

[–] OlLineRebel 12 years ago

The time period was only 20 years past. I'm sure many people knew exactly what things were like then, and many of the controlling people backstage were probably of perfect age to understand it (in their 40s or so). I'm absolutely positive what REAL typical '80s styles were, e.g. I don't need to research.

[–] juanmonge69 10 years ago

I grew up in the 1980's and there were a couple of people dressed like "Boy George" or "Mr .T"--But the rest of us could pass for the kids of today.

[–] kerrydragon 8 years ago

Very forties with everything,and I loved the clothes,makeup,hairsyles,locations and the incredible color,kids were so good and classy then.