Dean Jagger
Dean Jagger looked a lot more natural in this film than he did wearing that silly wig in "Irving Berlin's White Christmas" the previous year.
What did Hollywood have against bald actors in the 1950s?
What did Hollywood have against bald actors in the 1950s?
How well does Yul Brynner's '57 oscar win support that theory?
"...if that was off, I'd be whoopin' your ass up and down this street." ~ an irate Tarantino share
Yul Brynner was an exception, one of the very few, or perhaps the only leading man in the 1950s who was bald. A single exception certainly does not destroy the theory that bald men were not leading-man material in the 1950s.
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