terrible hats

Why do people persist in typing comments while they are watching the movie? If you are writing, you are not payiing attention! If you are not paying attention I have little interest in your comment!

It's nice to run into someone else who loves Auntie Mame as much as I do! I think it is my favorite movie of all time. Of course I am referring to the 1958 version with the fabulous Rosalind Russell, not the 1974 one with Lucille Ball.

Life's a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!

I worked with Doris a few times and understand about the "vaseline" lens.
She was always disturbed by her freckles and demanded that they be obscured by whatever means by Russ Metty, (Her camerman), makeup and whatever could accomplish.
As a magazine writer, I featured her on the cover of a health magazine and an inside story about her work with animals. Even though I knew her well enough to ask for and receive permission for the story, she insisted that her photo for that month's cover be supplied by her publicist rather than allow me to do it.
I had done a similar story and cover for the same magazine of Rock. I still have all of the outake cover efforts in my files. Of small consequence, I was featured as the "Fur Truck Driver" in the scenes with Rock after Doris had refused his efforts to swim nude at the beach in "Lover Come Back." I still think the film had merits after all these years. Be gentle on this poor soul, she has suffered from these freckles for too long!

Fletcher

Yes, my grandmother (who is long gone) said Doris was always self concious about her freckles. But I said before they gave this soft focus treatment to lots of women in this era. Joan Crawford in particular always got soft focus in closeups. These days the lighting makes EVERYONE LOOK BAD, male and female. I hate the way TV Shows and movies are lit today. I prefer the fantasy of everyone looking great. The hats were funny but in 1961 they were in style. I have a pic of my grandmother (who I used to live with) taken around 1964 or so and she is wearing a really funny outrageous hate with white pom pom like feathers sprouting all over. That was the style then folks. Doris always looked tasteful although I think she looked her best in Move Over Darling, esp at the beginning when they gave her a Marilyn Monroe hairstyle.

That was so funny. I just saw this movie as well on AMC very late for the first time and that scene at the beach when she put the hat on I just laughed. I had seen her earlier in another hat and noticed thinking yeah they wore those weird hats back then but that beach one did crack me up. Looks like a lampshade.

Ok, Ok, the hats were silly, but the clothes were beautiful and Miss Day was beautiful in them. Everything fit exquisitely. Very lovely lady.

Ok, so I laughed out loud when the multicoloured funnel shaped hat at the beach was so earnestly placed on her perfectly coiffed hair.... but I can honestly say that i just LOVED the outfits in this movie and the hats..well they matched them! I thought they looked great. :) I would so wear those outfits if I had them.