Julie Andrews' hairdo in Torn Curtain

Yes.

I don't remember her ever having a good hairdo.

Face it - her hair looked its best in Victor/Victoria.

[quote] I don't remember her ever having a good hairdo.

True. Julie Andrews and Doris Day were two movie songbirds that always went from one bad hair to another. That helmet hairdo (similar to the one she had in The Sound of Music) was her best look in my opinion. It made her look a bit dyke-y, but then again she is a dyke.

I think her hair looked good in S.O.B.

Back in the 60s and 70s EVERY home reeked of home perm kits. Some of the gals in my hometown kept the beehive well into the 70s.

OP, you clearly have no idea what a bouffant hairdo is.

This is a bouffant hairdo, op.

She didn't know it at the time, but she was auditioning for Falcon Crest.

OP, that is not a beehive. It isn't tall enough to be one. It is teased, though. That was a very common style in the mid-60s. I was just a kid, but I had an older sister in high school during the mid-60s. Several of her friends had their hair in a similar style. She kept hers shorter in what was sort of like a '60s version of a bob.

Anything's better than her current and longstanding balding-man-with-combover style:

I always hated Julie's hairstyles. All of them awful. But TORN CURTAIN was dismal and signalled the end of Hitchcock. Paul Newman and Julie had no chemistry and they apparently hated each other on the set.

Ms. Andrews has a rather conservative/classy hair style for the time. These beauties from Montana were typical of 1964.

You thought that hairdo was worse than her dyke do from Sound of Music, OP?

Did Julie get a nosejob? She looks to have a bit of a honker in OP's pic.

Hmmm, you might just be onto something, R14.

R12 thank you, and please continue to post that at every opportunity. It's so wonderfully terrible. They look like teenage boys someone drew makeup and hair on.

R11 I don't think Torn Curtain was THAT awful. I thought Newman was quite good in his role and there are some good nail-biting scenes (the oven scene, the bus scene, the theatre scene, the blackboard scene...). But Andrews was totally miscast and it's obvious Hitchcock was forced by the studio to hire her and didn't really know how to use her in the movie. The first 30 minutes of Torn Curtain seems to consist of nothing but annoying close-up soft focus shots of worried looking Andrews. Edith Head's costume also look kind of drab.

[quote]The first 30 minutes of Torn Curtain seems to consist of nothing but annoying close-up soft focus shots of worried looking Andrews.

Yes, it was that awful

First- isn't that the same hairdo she had in "The Americanization of Emily"? Second she looks terrified in that picture from "S.O.B." And finally can we all admit that no matter how much we adore her - that Julie Andrews is not a great actress? I mean she charming, perky, understanding- my God that is all she does in " Torn Curtain"-and well spoken but she can't really act. She is by far a great singer- a tad nasally - but excellent all around. But as a complex character she is flat. The one reason she and Newman lack chemistry is because he is acting. She is being. Moss Hart and Rex Harrison but took note of this. Also " Torn Curtain" is the end for Hitchcock. He lost the beat of the film- probably due to a poor story, a method actor, and a lack of a boner for Andrews.

I don't think it's generally claimed on DL that Andrews is a great actress. She's no more than a charming presence.

First time I've seen it R12 - so, thanks (thank you too Jesus) for making me smile.

You are so right R16! That's exactly what they look like. All the best beef comes from Montana.

This is definitely one of those "only on Datalounge" topics.

Lots of yearbook pictures from the sixties have girls the similar hair to OPs picture.

My husbands aunt continued to wear a beehive until 2008. Her hairdresser died or retired and she couldn't find anyone else who knew how to do it. It's just a poofy French. Twist now.

I love your picture R12. I also love the album title. It almost sounds dirty, use me Jesus, harder Jesus, give it to me Jesus. I'm not 100% convinced those are bio females. I think their mothers wanted girls and raised thier boys as girls.

Julie's not a great actor, but she is an absolutely decent one. Her trouble is that she's always sort of prissy and wholesome no matter what she does. But I can't think of anyone who would have been better as Maria in the film version of "The Sound of Music," or as Thoroughly Modern Millie.

I love it when she swears in Our Sons. eg "He's gonna die, you stupid bitch! "

The Faith Tones were real, believe it or don't. The flip side of "Jesus Use Me" was "Where is My Boy Tonight?".............

Lezbot, right?

I agree with R2. Andrews was never known for her hair. I don't think she has good hair which is likely why she's always worn it short, simple.

R12 here - that story is the bullshit version. It's all 'satire'. The person that bought the album on e-bay did his own research, and two of the women are sisters, and they are from Montana. None are known lesbians, or have ever been to Burma. And all were alive as of a couple of years ago. The authour states at the end of the article that it's an exercise in fictional creative writing. I know, it's on the Internet, so it must be true ( ; And, don't bother listening to the song on YouTube - it's terrible.

The women of the Western world in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s did inestimable damage to the ozone layer with their helmet hairdos shellacked into place with hair sprays containing CFCs.

R26 - Updated information about the Faith Tones - a later blog entry by the same guy reveals the truth.

As a kid lesbian, this was the first Hitchcock heroine I clicked with. It's the last decent Hitchcock, and it's not really good, apart from the oven scene, and the chalkboard scene, as stated above.

Paul Newman was a very good-looking man.

I always assumed her bob was a signal to lesbians.

Same with Sandy, just look at the world she inhabits in flicks like Congeniality 2.

R17 R32 Yeah, the oven scene is the best and had Carolyn Conwell (RIP) who went on to play Mary Williams on The Young & the Restless.

When Hitchcock asked Julie if she would dye her hair blonde for the part, she replied "Sod off."

Hitchcock had already done that oven scene in one of his early British films, hadn't he? Or a scene similar in which the struggle to kill a villain goes on for an inordinate amount of time to show realistically how hard it is to kill someone?

Julie's non-1940s bob in The Americanization of Emily ruined the movie for me. And yet her perfect period men's hair cut in V/V is the ONLY authentic men's hairdo in the film.

This thread is why I still come to DL. Don't disappoint me, bitches.

I don't think Andrew's screen (and stage) presence and charisma can be downplayed. It's extremely rare, much rarer than acting talent. Stars with charisma have often been paired with "actors" and it's worked. There's an argument to be made that Newman (and other method actors of his ilk) sometimes acted too much. That being said, both were miscast, and Hitchcock was tired, bored, and over the hill.

Maybe she has the type of hair that you just can't do anything with...I have the same, it just grows in weird directions and no matter what i do it's blah. Anne Murray has the same problem.

My mother graduated high school in 1963. Looking through her yearbooks is a hoot, because all of those 17/18 year old girls look like they're 35. They all had hair like that.

It's hysterical, but then again I find it less embarrassing than the big bangs and crimped hair of the late 80s/early 90s when I was in high school.

Sometimes, DL is such a tonic. Hilarious thread.

FWIW, I saw a digital restoration of Torn Curtain at the Film Forum within the past year, and not only does it look a zillion times better than ever, but the film itself is much better than I remembered when I saw it on TV. Anyway, two films later Hitchcock made the excellent Frenzy (and then the underrated Family Plot).

one of the worst movies I've ever watched, ever.

The killing of Gromek is the greatest threesome scene ever!

I loved it

I'm pretty enough to wear any hairstyle.

Where does Julie Andrews stand in terms of all time greatest actresses ? I am not talking only about acting chops. She would be in top 5 for sure. I would put only Monroe, Liz Taylor, Audrey, Kate Hepburn above her.

Cover your hair with a cap, Cillian. I'm ready for season 3.

Julie Andrews never looked young, it's true. But like a lot of people who never looked young, she never looked old.

People like her can spend forty or fifty yeats looking middle-aged.

I don't think Julie would be on anyone's TOP 5 all time greatest screen actresses over Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Barbara Stanwyck, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Vivien Leigh or even Judy Garland....to toss out just a few of the truly greats.

I mean I love Julie, but still.....

well she is on mine. :)

There was a time in 60's when she was the biggest movie star world has ever seen.

r50 I will definitely put her above Marlene Dietrich , Joan Crawford and Barbara Stanwyck

That hairstyle was revived in a Golden Girls episode, in which it was equally flattering on all four of the show's stars. Estelle Getty made it her signature in every season after the first one.

When Hitchcock proposed the idea that Julie go blonde for the role, she said that was bollocks.

Julie was a top screen star for about 3 years. 1964-1967. If that. All of the ladies in r50's list were top screen stars for more than 10 years. Some even longer.

Victor/Victoria got her an Oscar nomination so didn't that bring her back for 1982/1983?

Which was worse? Maude's haircut, that semi-mullet worn by Mrs Brady or this?

[quote]This is a bouffant hairdo, op.

I'll give you a real bouffant...Paris style!

I recall how "scandalous" it was that our beloved Mary Poppins had a scene with Paul Newman where they were depicted naked under a sheet.

R58) I digress, but that cover reminds me that Catherine Deneuve used to be a huge lesbian icon in the early eighties. I believe many replayed the scene in "The Hunger" over and over with her and Susan Sarandon.

[quote] but that cover reminds me that Catherine Deneuve used to be a huge lesbian icon in the early eighties.

Oh, yes...I'd forgotten about that.

Really, R59? People know that movies are fake, right?

Remember the infamous Alice Crimmins, the bored housewife turned hot-to-trot swinger who was accused of murdering her two kids? She was considered to be quite a babe. But photos of her show that her hair was ridiculous, teased within an inch of its life into a huge bouffant. It was the style back then. It was actually considered attractive.

Too bad Hitchcock was fighting with 'Tipsy' It would have been a great follow up after The Birds. She would have been perfect.

So did Julie sleep with Al to get the role?

She did

she didn't have her curtains, torn or not, match those drapes.

Indeed, R-62. Moviegoers also found the scene depicting Julie giving birth in the movie "Hawaii" disturbing.

Julie did have a nose job at some point. It was thicker circa MFL and Cinderella ..

Is she half black?

Black Lives Matter!

Would a singer of her caliber really risk having a nose job?

Dental surgery is more dangerous than nose work.

Every mom on my block had OP's style.

Scary, but my very own mother has had all of Julie Andrews' hair styles. She's now dead and farts dust.

Thanks for opening old wounds, OP.

I remember the colour on the box of hair dye my mother used---ash blonde. For some reason, it was big back then.

So the gays don't like my hair.

Better?

I've never even heard of Torn Curtain until this very day.

The long hair worn up that she had in Mary Poppins gives us a glimpse of what she might have looked like in the film version of My Fair Lady.

Better?

Better?

In R76's link she looks like the girl on the box of Sun Maid Raisins.

[quote]The long hair worn up that she had in Mary Poppins gives us a glimpse of what she might have looked like in the film version of My Fair Lady.

Thank you. I've so often wondered about this.

Red?

[quote] In [R76]'s link she looks like the girl on the box of Sun Maid Raisins.

And by that you mean sexy?

Green?

Dark

[quote]And by that you mean sexy?

Do you mean to say that you don't find raisins sexy?

Better?

Ummm . . . .

Ok . . .

"Julie Andrews' hairdo'....& we're at 90 posts.

This thread is the gayest thing on DL at the time and I love it.

I think the Faith Tones were real in the sense they recorded that awful album of music but that photo is fake, fake, fake.

I could believe ONE man faced woman but THREE?

No.

Some queens came up with that photo as a joke.

It has DL prank written all over their blandly masculine faces.

As for Julie Andrews.

50 + years of bad lesbian hair.

Usually similar to Carol Burnett's.

[quote] I love it when she swears in Our Sons. eg "He's gonna die, you stupid bitch! "

I want to do a Julie Andrews profanity montage. What other movies does she curse in besides that and [italic]S.O.B.[/italic]?

I wonder why Julie was photographed in several movies when she was young like an older star trying to look much younger

her hair was better in Victor/VIctoria

I don't think Julie looked like a dyke. She had more of a gamine/tomboy look, which isn't quite the same thing. And I think her facial features are very feminine. If you wanna see how a bad haircut can make a woman look like a butch dyke check some of Doris Day's 1950's movies . In some of them she sports a hideous ducktail hairstyle that makes her look like Mrs. Voorhees (minus the axe).

r91, must you always be so cheerful? You empty-headed Mary Poppins knockoff.

Was hubby Blake Edwards gay?

Torn Curtain is definitely bottom-drawer Hitchcock - an irreversible slide that may have started with Marnie.

Isn't she a bit risqué in that ghastly film '10', as well?

Edelweiss

Cradle mice

Every morning they greet me

With a squeak, thus I shreek

I'm afraid they'll defeat me

I think she looks great at R79 but then again it might just the angle

Her short hairdo made her look more severe than need be

Now here are real hairdoooooos.

I loved Hitchcock's last two, Frenzy and The Family Plot. Torn Curtain and Topaz were his worst but at least he bounced back at the very end.

It is rumored that Mark Hamill's haircut in Star Wars was based on Dame Julie's iconic haircut from The Sound of Music.

That is clearly Hamill post car accident.

That had been one very pretty face. Best thing about whatever that movie was.

Worst casting ever: Julie as Gertrude Lawrence.

Noel must have been thinking 'As always Hollywood has its' head up its' ass.'

Plenty in my 1967 yearbook.

I have a feeling Julie also said fuck in Our Sons but I don't have a copy to watch so I could check.

Those are three of the UGLIEST women I have ever seen. Seriously. They look like men in drag.

I need to vomit

That's Diana's haircut, R90

[quote] Did Julie get a nosejob? She looks to have a bit of a honker in OP's pic.

Yes, she had one right after "10" I believe. She may have had another after that.

Why would she have one that late?

She looks great in her 60s films.

Unless as she was getting older she thought it was looking bigger.

R79 that photo and hairdo make Andrews look almost Garboesque. I like it.

Cunt

2015? Really dear?