Ginger looks great in this movie, but........

I've got to agree. I don't know what they were thinking when that hairstyle was chosen.

For me this movie is so much better than review on page. Check this one out. I don't think you'll be disappointed.

Ginger Rogers is about 44 in this movie and could have been photographed a lot more pleasingly. The lighting sucks, from a high angle and quite harsh. That makes a lot of scenes that look old-fashioned and amateurish.

She does play it way too cute, she needs more claire trevor and a lot less audrey hepburn.

Well she was married to Jacques Bergerac at this time. She probably got her hair cut this way from France. In her autobiography, she said she visited there a lot and this haircut looks like a european haircut.

I agree tho... I don't like the cut at all.

I agree that the hairstyle was abhorrent but remember that Ginger was playing the role of a woman who was just released from prison after 4 years. She certainly didn't go to a hairdresser during her stint and she may have been required to get a prison hair cut. I guess that was the director's idea of what a female inmate would look like under the circumstances.

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. - Proverbs 23:7

Oh, I don't know. I think it looks kind of good on her - certainly different with the "DA" in the back.

Ginger completed "Monkey Business" with Cary Grant four years earlier. I think she looks a LOT younger in THIS movie than in that. The hairdo is part of it.

I agree...not an attractive hairstyle for Ginger. Too "prison-like" I think,
I liked seeing Edward G. as a good guy. Also, I so adore Brian Keith and the irony of seeing Lorne Greene playing a man named "Benjamin" in this film....

Ginger kept a great figure, it became fuller,but she was rock solid. (Aside from dancing, I believe she was athletic in other ways.) This is NOt a great look for her, but it is her performance that is the real problem. I adored young, tough Ginger, and I liked slightly older tough/cutesy Ginger. And I even admired a few Dramatic Gingers--tho, like Miss Crawford, she tended to veer into some schoolgirl interpetation of how a high class lady behaves.

But as she got older, Ginger fell more and more into playing her roles in a very broad manner--she was TOO tough, TOO cutsey, TOO Great Lady-ish. Sometimes this was amusing, but she would have been better off trying for more subtle reactions. That said, late in life, Ginger made a great appearance on some star-studded 1980's mystery show--Cyd Charrise was in it, too, and a lot of other vintage MGM stars. Ginger played soap opera star who was being phased of her her series. It was hilarious. Ginger pulled out her entire bag of tricks. By then she was sporting the super-blonde shoulder length hair and the heavy make-up job. Very Mae West (or "Baby Jane") But it worked in this particular performance.

Ginger's appearance changed a great deal between the best of her Fred Astaire years and, say 1950. Still very attractive indeed--what a body!-- but an entirely different look, one she maintained and just kept adding to, as the years rolled on. (Again, much like Miss Crawford, whose looks hardened dramatically in the late 1940's.