movie hats that inspired you...

[Blackthorn]

BTW, I read somewhere that the director of LMS originally wanted the movie to be shot in black and white, but of course the studio was terrified of taking an artistic gamble. If you have the chance you should watch the movie with the color on your TV set turned down low so you can see it in B/W as originally intended.

I didn't know this either, thank you for posting this.

 

[vintage68]

Yojimbo is available on Amazon if you care to see the original. Pretty dated of course (it's an old b/w samurai movie), but all the original tropes are there, like the dog carrying a severed hand, etc:

http://www.amazon.com/Yojimbo-Remas...e=UTF8&qid=1391032485&sr=1-4&keywords=yojimbo

 

[Cornshucker77]

Joel McCrea wore a great Fedora in "Foreign Correspondent".

 

[RBH]

No, I didn't know that, and I'm glad to know, thank you, Vintage68.

You didnt see my asterisk in my post?

 

[Blackthorn]

:embarassed::embarassed:

You didnt see my asterisk in my post?

I missed that, Rusty. :embarrassed:

 

[RBH]

Bogart

THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE

 

[RBH]

Check out this one from 1941.
The first song Gene sings is great {Roll Out The Barrels} the films is full of both fedoras and western hats!

[video=youtube;YMTMnrj7SNs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMTMnrj7SNs#t=72[/video]

 

[Matt Crunk]

Need I say more?

 

[T Jones]

Nice collection of lids from this 1936 movie, "Fury".

Walter Brennan from the same movie. I like the hat he's wearing here...

 

[1mach1]

George Raft

 

[Renault]

Not a movie, but one of my all time favorite hats! My favorite old Stetson is creased
Montana Peak style like this. Back in the 60's Remington reintroduced a set of four ad posters. This 1907 ad was one of them. My fav poster and wifey located one of the 60's posters on eBay for me! Nice early Father's Day present! It will have a place of honor in new man cave!

 

[T Jones]

John Wayne

Stagecoach:

The Sheppard of the Hills:

The Searchers:

The Three Godfathers:

The Quiet Man:

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance:

 

[Joao Encarnado]

Now that is some field work!

 

[1mach1]

I love Stewart's outfit in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Classic!

 

[Daniele Tanto]

Italians movies of the 40-50-60:
Totò e Peppino a comedy duo among the most memorable of post WWII



Ossessione - Luchino Visconti 1943



Riso Amaro - Giuseppe De Santis 1949



Umberto D. - Vittorio De Sica 1952


There are others but I have not enough time to search them all.....

 

[bowlerman]

Wayne had some great creases.

The brim curl and flattish flange on this one floor me! Love it.

Ossessione - Luchino Visconti 1943
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[wyiauta]

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.

I've read that JFK going hatless at his 1960 inauguration had a big impact on the decline of hat wearing in this country.

 

[TheDane]

I've read that JFK going hatless at his 1960 inauguration had a big impact on the decline of hat wearing in this country.

That's a myth. He did indeed wear a topper at his inauguration - and he was known to own several Cavanagh fedoras.

The decline of hats started already around or just after the turn of the century. The reasons were probably many.

 

[Brad Bowers]

For more on JFK's Inauguration Top Hat, check out this: http://thehattedprofessor.bowershats.com/2013/11/jfks-hat-legacy.html

Brad

 

[itsbruce]

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.

Were they setting a trend or following it? Correlation does not automatically imply causation.