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shareJust watched this last night...a ton of fun watching Geraldine Page and Ruth Gordon go at it!
Geraldine sure loved her wigs, didn't she? The one she wore here in "Alice" looked just like Elizabeth Taylor's "Martha" wig in Virginia Woolf! And I had to laugh out loud when Page sneaks into Gordon's room to find her combing out HER wig, while wearing a grey wig!
And oh, those late '60s styles!
A lot of fun and a good print...
Cheers, Rick
___Yea, those wigs. Initially I didn't get it she was in a wig. And, I still think it could have been her hair. Now, 'Sweet Bird of Youth', maybe that's a wig too. Far to glamorous for Page, and I have heard she wasn't much for self maintenance. That style was in the early 60's cutting edge, Marilyn Monroe wore a similar style her last year, and she wasn't a middle age woman, as well as Stella Stevens and others in Hollywood. But that style seemed to be the one of choice for woman 50 and over later in 60's and beyond, even today.It is a fun flic, but I agree with some posters. In the end, I think it would have been better story wise if Ruth Gordon were standing with the others after they dug up the pine tree's. And, it might have made more sense then that Page would have a psychological break when she said she would make a handsome pine tree.
shareOh, Geraldine was the queen of wigs in many of her films, probably for the reason you mentioned... there's a YouTube clip of her with Carol Burnett, in 72's "Pete n Tillie," getting her wig ripped off!
You know what really blew my mind? That Page was only 45 when she made "Alice." Actresses aged differently then...and they certainly "age" differently now ; )
Cheers, Rick
___The aging part is so true, and a very great deal has to do with hair style, and length. Just think, Jennifer Aniston is Alice's age, or older. Quite a difference. Probably if men were not unfortunate to thinning and lost hair, the same could be said of them.
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