Worst wigs and hairstyles in movies

It’s hard to watch any Burt Reynolds’ movies post-Smokey and the Bandit

This bitch with her Mamie Eisenhower bangs that didn't happen 3000 years ago...

R2, there were similar styles in ancient Egypt.

I used to know an Egyptology grad student, and they loved that movie, and said that a lot of the design elements were incredibly authentic. At least, by the standards of Hollywood.

Adam Beach's wig near the end of Smoke Signals.

Patty Duke as a blond tomboy in "Billy"... Ugh

They're wearing furry animals on their head

Lucy thinking anything about her "looks" were believable in Mame

Melissa McCarthy has had some of the worst wigs in show business.

Hands down: Jamie Lee Curtis' wig in Halloween 2 (1981). Where the hell did they did that ratty thing up? The first movie made a ton of money and they couldn't buy a better wig than the terrible fright wig they threw on her head for the sequel?? That was always a real head-scratcher for me.

Sorry, meant to say "dig" instead of "did" in the previous post.

Link to Jamie Lee and the offending wig...

And this:

How about Tom Berenger’s beard in “Gettysburg”?

@r3, I didn't know that...

Our Egyptian Queen

Norma Shearer in "Idiot's Delight" (1939).

@r3, So, Claudette Colbert was really historically correct and not an Art Deco mess

Mickey Rooney, Breakfast at Tiffany's...

An historical film made in the 1960s! Where the men will all have carefully coifed 1960s slightly long hair, and the women will have extravagant bouffants requiring the invention of hair spray.

Ironically, R6 posted the one film where I'd forgive a little. The woman on the left is Ava Gardner as Empress Elizabath, or "Sissi" to the Datalounge. Empress Sissi had thick hair down to her ankles and was known for piling it into huge mounds of shaped hair, so maybe we can allow Ava to pile on the wiglets.

Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity - I know they wanted the character was supposed to look trashy, but come on.

^ Stanwyck wasn’t supposed to be rich, he was supposed to be middle-class trashy.

Melanie Griffith and this mess:

Julia Roberts, "Pretty Woman", but I guess she was suppose to look cheap

Every woman's beehive in Doctor Zhivago.

The Scream 3 Bang

Anne Baxter in the 10 Commandments

Ancient Egyptian long hair with bangs.

Note the absence of end curls.

Angelina Jolie in Girl Interrupted.

Again.

Jodie Foster, The Accused.

Sharon Stone, 2nd half of Casino.

Babs in "All Night Long"

anne hathaway brokeback mountain

R27/R27 - Girl, Interrupted did come out in 1999, when short bangs were a thing, and she’s also fucking nuts, so maybe the hair makes sense?

R22, she actually takes off that wig as a wig in the beginning of the movie.

[quote] anne hathaway brokeback mountain

Hairstyle? Hair nasty!

R33, it's a period film set in the 60s. She looks like a 90s riot grrrl

Jane Wyman in every movie and TV show she was in

Nicole Kidman topped her head with this mess in "Top of the Lake"

Streisand's stupid amalgam of teased wigs and falls to give her early 1960s hair for a late 1960s portrayal of someone in the 1910s.

I’m in shock that none of you have mentioned John Travolta and his many ridiculous wig looks going from Pulp Fiction, Swordfish and up until today.

All of the wigs in "The Doors" really sucked.

All of the wigs in "Mommie Dearest" really sucked.

All of the wigs in "Brokeback Mountain" REALLY sucked.

Jane Fonda in California Suite. plus the specs do her no favors.

thankfully, no one watched our last film!

--- from the desk of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon

@r40, you just did mention it. Good job, I gave you a WW Participation Award

R40 your forgot Battlefield Earth

[quote] [R27]/[R27] - Girl, Interrupted did come out in 1999, when short bangs were a thing, and she’s also fucking nuts, so maybe the hair makes sense?

R33, maybe it made sense, era-wise, but it still looked like a wig, IMO. A cheap wig. Also, A. Jolie is a beautiful woman, but blonde hair always looks off on her. So the cheap wig, in combination with the blonde color, screamed even louder: "WIG!"

The wigs on Jimmy Stewart and Gene Kelly in "That's Entertainment."

They looked as if they'd been bought at a drug store.

Jimmy had some awful rugs in his later days.

While on the subject of golden-agers and their ruglets, Fred Astaire's rug in Ghost Story.

Robert Redford in anything

This man has got a lousy wig.

J Law's wig in Don't Look Up

Ben Platt’s Jheri curls in DEH movie

Okay, r53 wins!

Cliff Robertson in Seven Days of the Condor - It's so obviously a toupee and the colors don't match.

Steve McQueen in the Cincinnati Kid - It's set during the Great Depression. His haircut and clothing threw me out of the time period the first time I watched. Peckinpah was fired as director and Norman Jewison got his big chance. Even if he had wanted to enforce period-appropriate attire, he couldn't've stood up to McQueen. But it gets on my nerves especially when we see Edward G. Robinson and Rip Torn looking and acting period apprpriate.

^ Ann-Marget's hair doesn't look period appropriate, either

Walter Matthau in Plaza Suite.

Mike Myers for the worst chest toupee...

That ridiculous white beard on that martial arts trainer in "Kill Bill." His name was Pi Mei or Pai Mei. Remember him? He's the guy who trained Uma Thurman's character and pulled an eye from Daryl Hannah's character.

"That ridiculous white beard on that martial arts trainer in "Kill Bill." "

That was a standard Chinese movie old man beard, R60, it was meant to be a homage to other movies rather than something realistic... like every fucking thing else in Tarantino movies.

Besides, Chinese men grow beards that are naturally lighter in texture than men of European descent.

I loved Angelina Jolie’s haircut in girl, interrupted. It’s kind of trashy and crazy looking- and that fit her persona.

The sideburns in Brokeback ruined the movie and its Oscar chances.

Jeanne Tripplehorn's wig in "The Gilded Age" makes her look like that richest woman in Manhattan who cuts her own bangs.

R56- Every time I watched an episode of Happy Days with Scott Baio and his DISCO hair even though the episode was set in 1960 it certainly took me out of the time period

^ " the episode was set in 1960"

Yet Chachi looked like every teenage goomba from 1974

Joanie's perm didn't exactly scream "Early 60s" either

R56- Some Like It Hot- The women did not have hairstyles from 1929 more like 1959.

[quote]Nicole Kidman topped her head with this mess in "Top of the Lake"

Please don't be so modest...

Nicole Kidman owns this thread

But in her defense, sometimes her rubberized face distracts from the Korean wig on her head

* In the unlikely event Nicole's bizarre humanoid-like appearance is due to a severe burn or some other circumstances beyond Miss Kidman's control...

I sincerely apologize.

Otherwise, enough with the cosmetic procedures and the bad wigs.

Didn't every actress in the '60s through early '70s have those big piled on wigs, regardless of the period setting of the movie?

Angelina JOlie's hair in "Girl Interrupted" was meant to be a Beatnik style, not mainstream fashion.

It was fairly authentic, although ugly and scraggly.