T Jones
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Darn tootin'... Myrna Loy wasn't too shabby either
Darn tootin'... Myrna Loy wasn't too shabby either.
Definitely Robert Mitchum could wear one.
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Richard, mach1, thanks guys for the comments on my Resistol conversion.
Wearing bowlers as everyday business wear was dying out in the late 60's, but still fairly common in the mid 70's. Now seeing a bowler on anyone but an officer of the Guards is unusual.
Ha! Wearing a fedora puts a smile on my face every time!T Jones: You and Mitch sure know/knew how to wear a fedora - and none of you seem able to effectively hide the immense joy, a piece of soft felt imparts
hmmm...I dunno. Although, as you pointed out, aside from Westerns, I noticed a marked decline of hat wearing in the movies beginning in the late '40s and throughout the '50s. By the time the 1960s rolled around hat wearing in the movies had all but disappeared except for Westerns and a few occasional Gangster movies...I also wondered if the birth of "Rock and Roll" in the '50s and the "Rock and Roll" movies that followed had any influence on the decline of hat wearing. Hair styles were a big part of Rock, so wearing a hat wouldn't have been fashionable to the young Rock and Roll culture, except if you were a fan of Gene Vincent and the "Blue Caps".Mitchum was one of the 'pretty' boys that lead to the decline of hats in film.
Check his movies as his popularity went on.
I do know he wore hats in his later westerns. But it seemed a western was OK for actors to sport hats.
Kirk Douglas was another that came to wear a hat less and less.
But he did wear one... 1986s 'Tough Guys' for one.
Yeah, I'm still waiting for him to begin paying me royalties for using my name!Just watched Blackthorn... Loved Sam Shepards hat!
I have stated before that 'Last Man Standing' is one of the best modern day westerns ever.*
It is full of great hats also!
* a 'remake' of A Fistful of Dollars which was a remake of Yojimbo.
It's one of my favorites, too.That is probably my all time favorite movie, as I've stated on this site several times. I was obsessed with the movie for years. I'd be embarrassed to say how many times I've viewed it, but at this point I've honestly lost track.
It's one of my favorites, too.
No, I didn't know that, and I'm glad to know, thank you, Vintage68.You probably know, but Last Man Standing was a remake of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo with Toshiro Mifune and the parallels are interesting to watch. Clint Eastwood also did a remake of Yojimbo that became the The Dollars trilogy beginning with Fistful of Dollars. For some reason the story is very compelling and my favorite version is of course LMS.