Is it just me or does her hair in this movie look awful? I kept wanting her to get that big puff of frizzed curl off of her pretty face. Even when it was down it looked like a combination of way too much going on...curled, frizzed, crimped...way overdone! Maybe the hair trends of the 80's took over the stylist's judgement. :) Great movie, though! Loved it - so romantic.
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It kept bothering me through the whole movie!
And you're right about the movie ....So beautiful and romantic!
I thought it was part of the character. She even complains about it towards the end, when her daughter visits.
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It really annoyed me, I just wanted to step into Mrs Soffel armed with hair straightners and a brush!
I think it was simply meant to be a historically accurate hair style.
shareIt is unflattering, but it works for her character. She looks older in this than she does in "Something's Gotta Give" twenty years later--which is appropriate, since she's playing a character in an era when people matured/aged drastically faster than now, and also is playing someone who gets more youthful as her hitherto repressed behavior grows more reckless.
Her appearance here is certainly appropriate than in "The Little Drummer Girl," where she's really horribly dressed and coiffed in a contemporary role. The costume designer for that movie--yeesh, enough with the garish jackets with shoulder pads!--really did a lot of damage to both performance and film as a whole, which is sad because both had a lot of strengths.
I think her hairstyle was true to the fashion trend circa the era. It is a very popular hairstyle that I see so very often in the oil paintings from that period of time. And it suits her character and her background. She was a homemaker, devoted religious person who does charitable volunteer work who didn't even mind doing cleaning/washing work outdoor. She was NOT a glamorous person.
What I don't understand was the complaints about the hair.
I agree with you and the other poster here. I think you covered it very well. I think the look of that day was more natural and there certainly weren't a lot of hair products that came later which allowed women to have more shiny, perfect hair styles. Silent films show even shorter hair styles that are helter skelter.
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There were curling irons back then.
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