“It is no exaggeration to say that Mary Pickford had one of history’s most famous heads of hair. Dur

“It is no exaggeration to say that Mary Pickford had one of history’s most famous heads of hair. During the early twentieth century, the eighteen honey-golden ringlets that beautifully framed her face enraptured filmgoers and became a key element in her meteoric rise to stardom. Over time, her tresses — the most admired, coveted, and copied in America during the 1910s — came to symbolize the era. […] Seeing the Pickford curls was an important part of the program. The “public admired Mary’s versatility,” producer Adolph Zukor later recalled, but people wanted to see her with curls. In fact, the female audience did more than gaze at the star’s hair; they adopted her look for themselves. “All the women in the world are trying to make themselves over into Mary Pickford,” or so it appeared to Dame Fashion in 1915. Previously, Paris designers had been the arbiters of U.S. fashion. Now Pickford became one personification of a new fashion trend. […] One of the foremost trendsetters, Pickford was a harbinger of things to come as Hollywood, and America’s consumer culture, blossomed.” — Christel Schmidt, from Mary Pickford: Queen of the Movies.Mary Pickford in Fanchon, the Cricket (1915), The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917), The Hoodlum (1919), Little Annie Rooney (1925), Sparrows (1926).  -- source link
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