At the very, very beginning, as soon as we meet Millie/Julie. She has such beautiful curls which suits Julie's face so well (similarly in Mary Poppins) - and then she cuts them off so she can be all androgynous. DON'T DO IT! I cry each time as the film is rolling, but alas, she never listens.
Her loss, I suppose.
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Yes, Julie Andrews looks much better with longer hair (as do all girls in my opinion). It's too bad Julie stuck with that short-hair look the rest of her life.
shareIf you look at photos of her during the stage play My Fair Lady, you see that her hair is short in 1956. She never had anything but short hair in any adult roles. The curls in TMM are a wig. It looked nice on her, but it just wasn't JA.
shareThe short "bob" hair-do was what was becoming popular in 1922; and Millie wanted to be "modern"; this is why she changes her hair, her clothes, everything.
shareShe had her hair "smartly bobbed" as did most flappers of that era!!
Dorothy stop that, Mr. Ha Ha`s lookin at you!!
Millie didn't even have a '20s bob. She had a '60s pixie, one of the many anachronisms in this movie. In the early '20s women were sporting the "Castle bob," named after ballroom dancer Irene Castle who'd popularized it.
http://i.imgur.com/no3Z6.jpg
The sleek, classic bob made famous by the likes of Louise Brooks and Colleen Moore didn't come around until the mid-'20s.
http://lovemarcheson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/moore-brooks- annie.jpg
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I don't think anyone is questioning WHY she did it, cadillacman52. Only a moron wouldn't get that. Just commenting that it was very unflattering on her (and also not strictly correct to the time period anyhow).
shareAnd, of course, the end of the movie features Millie mentioning the fact that she will grow back her curls for Jimmy, by jingo. I know. Just check out my IMDB name.
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