Shelley Duvall is such a haunting, delicate beauty in any haircut!!! And this is one of my favorite Fitzgerald short stories. It's so great that this is on UA-cam for anyone to access
Only in this adaptation, she portrays the title character in a situation of laughing on the outside and crying on the inside, after the hair bobbing that is.
My dear uncle, Mark Newkirk, was in this movie. He's the one telling Roberta to just play the same song again. He died in 2010 at 57. It's cool to see him dancing and full of life. He was an amazing man. Thank you for posting this 💯💕
I agree completely with Bernice getting revenge on her cousin Marjorie by cutting off her waistlength auburn braids for spite, and then putting them into Warren’s vehicle on the front seat of all places.
I remember seeing this as part of a series of American short stories - Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Paul’s Case, I’m a Fool and Under the Biltmore Clock - that were debuted on public television in my area. Back when PBS really strove to offer artistic renderings to challenge and expand the mind. Since it’s gone corporate, PBS is virtually no different than any streaming or cable service.
At 16:07 the young minister student, perceiving Bernice a kindred soul, confides to her that "a noisy, crowded dance floor is my pet abomination" ... well, we all have one.
What happened to the American Indian mixed heritage of Bernice? This was an interesting film, but inaccurately depicts Fitzgerald’s characters. The pain of growing up was Not Fitzgerald’s main theme here. There was a lot more going on in the real work. I did appreciate the reaction of reality settling into the faces of the young men and women when Bernice cuts her hair. Faced with the reality of change and loss, they looked as though they’d had the stuffings kicked out of them ... looking forward to it ‘til it was in their faces. Interesting how Bernice ducks out at the end. Leaves a lot to imagine about when she gets back to Eu Clair ... People think they’re ready for change, but change often meets stiff resistance. She’s made the dive. Now it’s sink or swim!
They cut out the part where Aunt Josephine told Bernice that if she was going to bob her hair that she should've waited until after the party at the Deyos. Why? Because she knew that Mrs. Deyo would be very upset if she saw Bernice with bobbed hair. To Mrs. Deyo bobbed hair on a woman is an abomination.
Obviously it looks like the Deyo family is of the Apostolic-Pentacostal faith, which holds firmly to the philosophy of 1 CORINTHIANS 11:15 from The New Testament.
Although, Fitzgerald says that she’s a farmer’s daughter from Eu Clair, Wisconsin, in the original story, what if maybe the reason that her folks sent her to New York to spend the summer with Cousin Marjorie and Aunt Josephine was try to get her to forget about marrying Horace the Montana cowboy who she desperately loves. Yet, somehow it was unknown to them that Marjorie would become jealous of Bernice’s beautiful long pretty hair, and then trick her into bobbing it. This probably would have been avoided if only Aunt Josephine’s late husband Uncle Simon hadn’t died in the 1918 flu epidemic. Anyway, Bernice probably paid extra for a one way train ticket to Montana to be near Horace, and to also elope with him. Once in Montana, Bernice spends a good deal of time in the guest room of Horace’s ranch. Somehow, she manages to regrow her tresses to about what we know today as brastraplength, by which time Horace has just finished helping in the district cattle roundup. Naturally, he’s quite surprised to see Bernice who has spent the last few weeks of summer hiding in the house on his ranch. No sooner is the district roundup completed, and the buyers for the steers begin coming to select which steers from which herds go to the different meat packing plants across the nation, one train with cattle buyers also brings Roberta, Genevieve, and Annie to Montana. Because when they got their train fare from Bernice, she also advised them not to tell either Marjorie or Aunt Josephine who are none the wiser for the present. Mrs. Deyo eventually broke off her friendship with Aunt Josephine after seeing that Marjorie was bobbed while she slept, and that Marjorie also had flim-flammed Bernice into having her hair bobbed prior to her finding out. Marjorie feeling so embarrassed, boards a boat for Glasgow, Scotland 🏴, never to show her face in New York again. Horace’s three partners are also his brothers; Bartholomew, Mark, and Luke. No sooner is Bernice married to Horace, Bartholomew eventually marries Roberta, leaving Mark to marry Genevieve, and Luke then marries Annie. The ranch keeps thriving until the 1929 stock market crash. So, while trying to dig an additional well for watering the cattle, Horace accidentally hits a potential well for crude oil, which saves the ranch from ruin, and by the time that President Truman signed the peace treaty with Japan, only then does the oil play out, and the ranch returns to its purpose of raising prime beef cattle.
It was just retribution against Marjorie for talking Bernice into having her hair bobbed in the first place. However, in the original story, the barber allows Bernice to face the mirror 🪞 the whole time he cuts off her beautiful long pretty hair. Whereas, in this adaptation, no sooner has she removed all of her hairpins and decorative combs that held her hair up, the barber turns the chair around so her back is towards the mirror 🪞 during the process of the haircut 💇♀️, and yet at least the producers stayed true to the story by having the barber cutting off Bernice’s beautiful long pretty hair from left to right. So later on that night as Bernice prepares to leave for home, she uses a pair of 16”Inch scissors (for normally cutting wallpaper) to cut off both of Marjorie’s braids. Thus, Bernice now has satisfaction, and Marjorie is facing both humiliation and embarrassment alike for what she did.
I actually think that the following morning, Marjorie awakens to find both of her braids missing, and lets out a blood curdling scream that arouses Aunt Josephine. After which, they find Bernice’s note explaining everything. This is followed up by Aunt Josephine punishing Marjorie for tricking Bernice into having her hair bobbed.
I remember seeing this the first time it was on TV. I don't know why, but I thought I remembered her hair sticking out more and being frizzy after it was cut. It looks good really. I remember in the original movie "Cheaper by the Dozen" that was set in the same era, the oldest daughter bobbing her own hair. Cute movie.
Interesting cinematic and literary historical note. An earlier antecedent was the heroine Jo in Louisa May Alcott's book Little Women, who in late 1860s New England America cuts short her long hair, to sell it for money for her family, as likely had young girls centuries before her--as in Victor Hugo's 1845 written, 1862 published Les Miserables--to sell for wigs to affluent, especially older, women and men.
Wasn't the original Cheaper by the Dozen in the 40s or 50s, when short hair was in and quite normal? This is original from 1920. As for Little Women and Les Miserables, cutting your hair to sell it or because of sickness (this often happens in old stories as well, they have to shave their heads because you have "the fever" and the hair is leeching their strength) was seen differently than cutting it for no reason (essentially because you want short hair). Though selling it was often also portrayed as somewhat "shameful".
That’s an unfair comparison. Downton Abbey depicts the British titled aristocracy in a castle in the Yorkshire countryside. “Bernice” is set in middle-America featuring rich young girls and boys. There’s more than one reality that depicts the 1920s, worldwide.
@@jonwiley2592 I said about the clothing. Like At Lady Edith's wedding set in 1920, the ladies clothing were like 1923-1924: Loose tubular shape, skirt length at the ankle. 1920 look was more like depicted on this film.
Don’t forget about the character that Louise Lombard portrayed in the British tv series “HOUSE OF ELLIOTT”, her raven tresses were bobbed in the third episode of the first season of the series.
I remember being 12 years-old and watching this after it was written up in the NY Times, Arts & Liesure section. Now, Shelly Duvall has departed us and I've unsubscribed from the NY Times...
Bernice is the bad person not Marjorie. Marjorie helped Bernice even tho she didnt like her. She even tried to talk Bernice out of cutting her hair. i also think the bob looked good and Marjories friends were being nit heartless but snobish. its not like anyone tricked her.
My oldest son and I first watched this on the Sunday Night Showcase on the Disney Channel in 1988. It was sad when the cutting started, and yet all you could see were the facial reactions of the observers. Also, I think that the barber purposely turned the chair around because he assumed that maybe Bernice would cry 😭 if she was facing the mirror 🪞. Although, the only part of that scene in the barbershop that the producers got right was the fact that the barber did cut off Bernice’s beautiful long pretty hair, handful upon handful upon handful, from left to right, while Fitzgerald’s story actually has Bernice facing the mirror 🪞 during the haircut 💇♀️. Eventually, Bernice got her retribution against Marjorie after cutting off both of her middle-of-the-back-length auburn braids, and placing them on the seat of Warren’s Rolls-Royce. Anyway, let’s just say that instead of returning to Eu Clair, Wisconsin, she buys a one way ticket to some town in Montana to join her fiancée Horace Addams who has a 50,000 acre cattle ranch. Horace is busy with the district roundup that summer of 1920, and he doesn’t know Bernice has arrived at the ranch, making herself at home in his house in one of the guest rooms. By roundup’s end, Horace is informed by the household servants of Bernice’s presence. Ofcourse, by now her hair has at least grown to about what we label in modern terms as brastraplength. Before too long, Bernice has Horace sending away for Roberta, Genevieve, and Annie to come to the wedding, even though Bernice and Horace are eloping without anyone noticing. Marjorie on the other hand has fled America 🇺🇸 for Scotland 🏴, especially after she woke up to find her braids missing, and her blood curdling scream woke up Aunt Josephine who’s in shock seeing Marjorie’s hair shorn as retribution for having tricked Bernice into bobbing her hair in the first place. Basically, Bernice was sent to spend the summer with Marjorie and Aunt Josephine because her parents didn’t exactly approve of Horace and his family’s eccentricity. They just didn’t count on Marjorie becoming jealous of Bernice’s beautiful long pretty hair, and that she film-flammed her into a haircut 💇♀️. Now, Marjorie wouldn’t have done it if her late father, Uncle Felix hadn’t died in the 1918 flu epidemic. Anyway, with new found friends Roberta, Genevieve, and Annie taking a liking to the Montana atmosphere, Roberta serves as Maid-Of-Honor while both Genevieve and Annie are the bridesmaids. In less than a week, Bernice and Horace are married. Before too long, Horace’s partners who are also his brothers; Bartholomew, Mark, and Luke, have taken a liking to the city girls, and in no time flat, Roberta is married to Bartholomew while Genevieve has married Mark, leaving Annie to marry Luke. By 1923, all the wives, including Bernice have given birth to a son each. In fact, even Bernice’s hair is twice the length it was before being bobbed. By this point in time, Bernice’s parents have a grandson that compensates for the elopement. Aunt Josephine is now a grandmother of triplet girls that Marjorie has bore for her husband Laird Edmond Tannen. The ranch of Horace and Bernice thrives until the 1929 stock market crash. So, one day while digging a new well for watering the cattle, Horace accidentally discovers a potential crude oil deposit, and the ranch is saved, especially since Horace only permits one oil well for every 10 square acres, which allows for undisturbed grazing of the cattle. After the incident at Pearl Harbor, the sons go out and enlist to defend the red, white, and blue. By war’s end, the sons return home with brides in tow. Horace Jr. has a bride from India 🇮🇳, which delights Horace and Bernice. Whereas the sons of Roberta, Genevieve, and Annie, each has a bride with a Scottish accent and each one is a carbon copy of Marjorie. Ofcourse, even the three daughters of Marjorie agree with Bernice about the unfair thing that their mother did to her years earlier, and apologize. On the G.I. Bill, the sons work together on the ranch as the oil is slowly playing out, and the herd of cattle is enlarging.
You were an original in the crowd, a maverick Shelley Duvall. Thank you for the performances and your unique presence, may your journey be delightful and all the hurts, healed.
My grandmother bobbed her hair in the early 1920s and was the first one in her school to do so. Her teacher called her up front to the class and shamed her in front of everyone. I saw this film in 1978 in my American Lit class and haven't seen it since. Thanks for posting...fun to see again.
Obviously it looks like the family were firm believers in 1 CORINTHIANS 11:15 under the circumstances, and they felt embarrassed when they saw her tresses bobbed.
I can easily see an adult Charlie Brown (now married to the little redhead 👩🦰 girl) if she was persuaded into bobbing her hair by Charlie’s old enemy Lucy who always pulled away the football in time for poor Charlie to wind up flat on his back. Well, Charlie would be filling out every coupon he could scare up for mail order hair growth and restoration formulas to get his wife to looking again like Lady Godiva or Rapunzel.
Too bad that Fitzgerald didn’t think of writing a sequel in which Marjorie wakes up, goes to the mirror, and then lets out a blood curdling scream as she notices that her braids are gone. Eventually, it would come as a shock to Aunt Josephine as she finds out that the bed in the guest room wasn’t slept in at all, and then she finds the note from Bernice on the pillow. After reading the note, Aunt Josephine realizes that it was Marjorie who tricked Bernice into getting her hair bobbed. As to how Aunt Josephine would punish Marjorie is anyone’s guess. I feel that maybe when Bernice got home, naturally her folks would be in for a shock themselves. However, although Wikipedia lists her hometown as being in Wisconsin, I suspect that most likely that she was actually from Montana instead, and also the fiancée of a young well-to-do cattle rancher to boot. So, eventually unbeknownst to either Marjorie or Aunt Josephine, Bernice wires train fare to Roberta, Genevieve, and Annie (Marjorie’s friends) to come to Montana for the wedding ceremony with Roberta as Maid-Of-Honor, which leaves Genevieve and Annie as bridesmaids. Horace, Bernice’s fiancée eventually gets his three partners in the ranch with him to act as Bestman and groomsmen, which leads to Roberta, Genevieve, and Annie also becoming ranch wives. Three years pass by, and on Saturday May 5TH, 1923, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, Bernice together with Roberta, Genevieve, and Annie each miraculously gives birth to a baby boy. By now even Bernice’s hair has grown long again to the very same length prior to the bobbing. Ofcourse, Bernice had since taken a vow never to have her tresses shorn ever again. Marjorie, on the other hand, is now living in Scotland 🏴 where she wed a Scottish Laird while getting in touch with her late father’s relatives who were still in the old country as it were.
It's a double-edged sword. I show this every year to my 11th grade students in preparation to read Gatsby, in order to demonstrate Fitzgerald's preoccupation with status and class. The story is fantastic, but the sound is trash. That incessant hiss is so very distracting, coupled with the fact that these fantastic actors sound like they are talking inside of a shoe-box. This film is begging for a "re-master." I absolutely love this film, and what it brings to the discussion. The kids' faces are priceless when Bernice cuts Marjories hair. There is ALWAYS and audible gasp from my students when the moment comes.
I didn't like it at first but when she combed it out and arranged it right, the bob is really adorable. If I had the face shape for it, I might do it myself.
I remember being told about my great great aunt Daisy who was a young woman in late teens in the early 20s and she used to have gorgeous auburn hair to get thighs her moms pride and joy and when Daisy cut her hair just to her chin her family would not talk to her for like 2 or 3 weeks and made her take her meals in her room her family ily were gutted but Daisy loved her hair and I seen an old photo off her and I thought she suited it and oddly enough almost 100 years later the style is still cool she cut her hair on 1923
Holy socks, when I saw this in high school I had no idea how great this cast is. Also, the staging of shots is echoing all sorts of famous paintings. Great stuff.
Exactly. But a "bob" haircut carries implications of being a "loose woman." It's OK, in that society, to whisper daring things (as Marjorie teaches Bernice to do), but to actually do such things puts her beyond society. And Marjorie knows this when she tells her cousin to keep saying this.
Likely "loose" because the Bible tells women to keep a "crowning glory" of long hair, and as short hair mimics that of men, and implies a female's arrogation of male freedom-of-action privileges, as to pursue sexually. But as industrialization progressed and women took jobs in factories, food preparation and service and the like, like long skirts (a proven trip, bicycle-wheel tangle and fire hazard), long hair became mass impractical, so society came to prefer it.
The most fashion-conscious women, the high fashion, artistic types, bobbed their hair during WWI or before. The actual cutting of long hair into short hair wasn’t done as shown here. Most women’s hair was already cut short in the front on both sides. Meaning they had short hair in the front with a long strip of hair hanging down in the back. They pinned the strip up in a long sideways bun in the back with the short sides sticking out in front. So all the hair cutters had to do was lop off the ponytail-like piece in the back to shorten the hair. Most women, like my grandmother, didn’t get their hair bobbed till 1928 when Mary Pickford did. By that time, my grandmother had four kids and a full-time job as an accountant. She didn’t feel like fooling with her hair anymore, which was very thick like mine. I can’t imagine growing my thick hair that long, like waist-length. In the summer with the humidity, it gets wet and never dries. So you’re going around all the time with wet hair. I would have hated that, if I lived at that time I would have cut it before the war for sure.
I recall seeing in a documentary on the History Channel where the U.S. Navy had to hire women for the position of civilian clerks. Strange thing though, some of the footage appears to have shown the women in question being lined up to have their tresses shorn, but the vhs tape I recorded the footage on was lost in a flood in 2010, thanks in part to the army corps of engineers releasing water to save the earthen dam of Cave Run Lake.
I fell into a peer pressure like this with piercings .... its like we got them to prove we were "grown" in a way... it was silly but it sure character built lol
I watched this in ninth grade english lit. The year before, I had watched the shining in the theaters and couldn't believe it was the same actress. I've had a great respect for Shelley Duvall ever since then. RIP
Thing is with what she's learned about flirting, and being the first of their group on this trend and the scalping stunt-she's gonna be unstoppable. Imagine the gossip! "Is it true what you did last summer?!" I mean it's 100 years later and I would want to hear the story if she tells it right. "While she was asleep?" But in the first few days it would be incredibly frightening for Bernice. It would be like having a pink mohawk without the pink mohawk attitude. But I like to think she grew into her hair and learned to have a little fun.
They cut out the part where Aunt Josephine tells Bernice that her bobbing her hair will create a scandal especially if she shows up at the Deyos party!
If only it could possibly be remade as a feature for theatre screens with either Drew Barrymore, Melanie Lynskey, Lindsay Lohan, Winona Ryder, Anna Kournikova, Megan Follows, or Abigail Breslin as Bernice, a good deal of continuity would reveal why her parents sent her to Aunt Josephine in the first place, for example, to prevent her from rushing into matrimony with a Montana cattle rancher as a possibility?!
In the 1960s, she appeared in movies like “THE CHILDREN’S HOUR” with Audrey Hepburn, “SPENCER’S MOUNTAIN” with James MacArthur, the episode of “THE TWILIGHT ZONE” called “I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC”, and also she portrayed my ancestor Jemima Boone Calloway in the classic 1964-70 NBC action adventure series “DANIEL BOONE”.
Look at it this way, Marjorie had it coming. Bernice cut off both of Marjorie’s braids. So, basically in other words, when Marjorie awakens to find her braids are missing, obviously she’ll let out a blood curdling scream arousing Aunt Josephine. They go to the guest room only to find it vacant except for the note on the pillow addressed to Aunt Josephine personally. So rather than try to send a telegram on ahead to Eau Claire to notify Bernice’s father (the brother of Aunt Josephine’s late husband), Aunt Josephine forbids Marjorie to see Warren for the rest of the summer, which leads to Marjorie leaving home, and going to Glasgow in Scotland 🏴 where she weds a gentleman named Tannen who’s a biological descendant of the Duke of Montrose. Back in Eau Claire, however, Bernice’s parents are feeling ashamed of themselves for having sent her to spend the summer with Aunt Josephine or Marjorie. Therefore, in putting his foot down, her father allows for her to go to Montana to wed the rancher she’s set her sights for. Ofcourse, Bernice then telegraphs Roberta and Genevieve to come to Montana wherein Roberta is the Maid-Of-Honor and Genevieve is the only bridesmaid, which leads to them falling in love with the rancher’s two partners. After which Bernice, Roberta, and Genevieve each gives birth to a son per mother. In fact, it’s during the nine months of expectancy that as if by a miracle, Bernice’s hair has grown long again, and she’s just as pretty as she was before the first snip of the barber’s scissors. Then later on during WW2, the sons of Bernice, Roberta, and Genevieve are among the wounded at Omaha Beach in Normandy, and as they slowly recover in the military hospital somewhere north of London, the sons meet Marjorie and her daughters who are all volunteer civilian nurses, and a photo in the effects of Bernice’s son brings back a flashback of fright to Marjorie because the photo shows Bernice after her hair grew back, and the infant in her arms in in the photo is the wounded soldier who she just finished medicating.
Henry Fonda beautifully sonorously emotes, intones his intro to the story. Splendid ensemble cast, especially the sui generis talented Shelley Duvall, and period recreation.
@@LindaCooper-i3f Huntley or Brinkley might have worked, especially Brinkley as he had a droll tone, but they were more associated with heavy news delivery and analyses.
Yeah same here I’m living in the wrong 20s I wish I could live in 1920s I’d have a bob and be out having fun all day not stuck at home self isolating yet still could get a bob cut
In the classic 1964-70 NBC adventure series “DANIEL BOONE” she portrayed Daniel’s daughter Jemima. If in doubt, just check out the IMDb file for that show as well as her IMDb file, just in case.
I saw this film in high school during Chemistry class. Our teacher said it was her favorite film of all time. My favorites were films like Blade Runner and Excalibur, and I remember just staring at her in wonder (she was gleefully sipping Tab cola and watching with the class). My lab partner and I decided to do our term paper on shampoo in her honor. She was a sexy , cool nerd before such a thing was cool.
@@dynamopirate470 The same time has now passed, 46 years, since this film was made, its story set in 1920. So we're experiencing nostalgia for nostalgia.
FYI, Locks Of Love was founded in 1998. This story takes place in 1920. 9 times out of 10, after sweeping up Bernice’s tresses from his floor, the barber eventually sold them to Madame Sofronie who probably asked him to try getting more feminine customers because she rarely bobbed the tresses that she sheared off of other ladies, especially one time customer Della Young about fifteen years earlier.
I watch this on PBS while in high school 1976/77 and will never forget my HS English, Mr. Moldovan (Harvard'59) got this biggest kick that A. I watched it and B. Discussed in class at Detroit Redford. La'Twaneesha looked at her nails during my talk.
What's the other movie in which they are also in together? Bud Cort was in Harold and Maude with another great actress, Ruth Gordon, and the other film with Shelley is also directed by Hal Ashby.
In the original short story, Bernice has LONG DARK hair. “That this hair, this wonderful hair of hers, was going-she would never again feel it’s long voluptuous pull as it hung in a dark-brown glory down her back.” If they made a modern version of Bernice Bobs her Hair, I’m seeing Megan Fox over Shelley DuVall.
@@dynamopirate470 Yes Megan Fox is far too good looking, toi beautiful to play Bernice. Fitzgerald writes that once Bernice cuts off all that gorgeous hair, it becomes apparent that she just doesn't look that good without the hair. Bernice isn't particularly attractive in terms of her face, certainly no standout beauty like Fox. Fox would be better cast as Marjorie, the popular, pretty girl, the one all thr boys flock to.
Really interesting to see this. I’ve been aware of the story for a few years now through a song by my favourite band, The Divine Comedy. The song, in the words of the writer, Neil Hannon, “efficiently synopsises” Fitzgerald’s story, and is simply entitled…Bernice Bob’s Her Hair! Here’s a link to the song. I hope you enjoy it!! ua-cam.com/video/DzE_7tMXKD8/v-deo.html
It's funny, I always cheered for Bernice's actions at the end. Then I read this story to my students in 2017 and they all said that "Bernice did too much." & "She should have let it go." It made me feel like a vindictive person for celebrating Bernice's revenge. Are millennials more forgiving? Maybe.
Her cousin forced her to bob her hair. She could have told Bernice not to do it, that her mother would be angry or something. Instead she told Bernice she could back out and didn't do anything to help her. Apparently you missed the fact that Bernice's cousin was jealous of her and tricked her into bobbing her hair. So Bernice did exactly the right thing. Her cousin deserved to get her braids cut off!!
Shelley Duvall is such a haunting, delicate beauty in any haircut!!! And this is one of my favorite Fitzgerald short stories. It's so great that this is on UA-cam for anyone to access
Only in this adaptation, she portrays the title character in a situation of laughing on the outside and crying on the inside, after the hair bobbing that is.
Rip Shelley Duvall
@pressmin,
Now she belongs to the ages.
This production made quite an impression on me when I saw it when I was a teenager. Marjorie is such a mean girl and the ending is poetic justice!
Now that’s the spirit.
My dear uncle, Mark Newkirk, was in this movie. He's the one telling Roberta to just play the same song again. He died in 2010 at 57. It's cool to see him dancing and full of life. He was an amazing man. Thank you for posting this 💯💕
I'm sorry for your family's loss and that your uncle didn't have more time. Thanks for sharing this!
Sorry for your loss. You are welcome
Your uncle now belongs to the ages.
Marjorie had it coming😂
I agree completely with Bernice getting revenge on her cousin Marjorie by cutting off her waistlength auburn braids for spite, and then putting them into Warren’s vehicle on the front seat of all places.
Kids in 2020: mom im gay
Kids in 1920: mom I bobbed my hair
I would've compared a girl bobbing her hair in 1920 to a girl becoming a man in 2020!
Kids in 2023: mom, I cut my d*&- off.
Watching this for school
for what class?
@@pressmin English
Bernice was ahead of her time. All those girls likely bobbed their hair as time went on.
Well the Jazz Age was right around the corner so...
Unless, Bernice eventually regrew her tresses.
@@LindaCooper-i3f She wouldn't, it would be deeply out of style for the next 50 years until the 70s.
I remember seeing this as part of a series of American short stories - Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Paul’s Case, I’m a Fool and Under the Biltmore Clock - that were debuted on public television in my area. Back when PBS really strove to offer artistic renderings to challenge and expand the mind. Since it’s gone corporate, PBS is virtually no different than any streaming or cable service.
How true that is, especially since a lot of modern day followers of Lenin are in charge of the system.
@@LindaCooper-i3f LOL! Sure, Leninists are great at getting corporate sponsorships. And Lenin loved Celtic Woman and Scandinavian murder mysteries.
Just telling it like it is.
At 16:07 the young minister student, perceiving Bernice a kindred soul, confides to her that "a noisy, crowded dance floor is my pet abomination" ... well, we all have one.
JudgeJulieLit He’ll make a hella minister!
Didn't ministers consider dancing a sin?
@@melissacooper8724 To my knowledge, of all Christian church sects, just Baptists consider dancing a sin.
@@JudgeJulieLit Okay thanks!
Not exactly.
What happened to the American Indian mixed heritage of Bernice? This was an interesting film, but inaccurately depicts Fitzgerald’s characters. The pain of growing up was Not Fitzgerald’s main theme here. There was a lot more going on in the real work. I did appreciate the reaction of reality settling into the faces of the young men and women when Bernice cuts her hair. Faced with the reality of change and loss, they looked as though they’d had the stuffings kicked out of them ... looking forward to it ‘til it was in their faces. Interesting how Bernice ducks out at the end. Leaves a lot to imagine about when she gets back to Eu Clair ... People think they’re ready for change, but change often meets stiff resistance. She’s made the dive. Now it’s sink or swim!
They cut out the part where Aunt Josephine told Bernice that if she was going to bob her hair that she should've waited until after the party at the Deyos. Why? Because she knew that Mrs. Deyo would be very upset if she saw Bernice with bobbed hair. To Mrs. Deyo bobbed hair on a woman is an abomination.
Obviously it looks like the Deyo family is of the Apostolic-Pentacostal faith, which holds firmly to the philosophy of 1 CORINTHIANS 11:15 from The New Testament.
Although, Fitzgerald says that she’s a farmer’s daughter from Eu Clair, Wisconsin, in the original story, what if maybe the reason that her folks sent her to New York to spend the summer with Cousin Marjorie and Aunt Josephine was try to get her to forget about marrying Horace the Montana cowboy who she desperately loves. Yet, somehow it was unknown to them that Marjorie would become jealous of Bernice’s beautiful long pretty hair, and then trick her into bobbing it. This probably would have been avoided if only Aunt Josephine’s late husband Uncle Simon hadn’t died in the 1918 flu epidemic. Anyway, Bernice probably paid extra for a one way train ticket to Montana to be near Horace, and to also elope with him. Once in Montana, Bernice spends a good deal of time in the guest room of Horace’s ranch. Somehow, she manages to regrow her tresses to about what we know today as brastraplength, by which time Horace has just finished helping in the district cattle roundup. Naturally, he’s quite surprised to see Bernice who has spent the last few weeks of summer hiding in the house on his ranch. No sooner is the district roundup completed, and the buyers for the steers begin coming to select which steers from which herds go to the different meat packing plants across the nation, one train with cattle buyers also brings Roberta, Genevieve, and Annie to Montana. Because when they got their train fare from Bernice, she also advised them not to tell either Marjorie or Aunt Josephine who are none the wiser for the present.
Mrs. Deyo eventually broke off her friendship with Aunt Josephine after seeing that Marjorie was bobbed while she slept, and that Marjorie also had flim-flammed Bernice into having her hair bobbed prior to her finding out. Marjorie feeling so embarrassed, boards a boat for Glasgow, Scotland 🏴, never to show her face in New York again. Horace’s three partners are also his brothers; Bartholomew, Mark, and Luke. No sooner is Bernice married to Horace, Bartholomew eventually marries Roberta, leaving Mark to marry Genevieve, and Luke then marries Annie. The ranch keeps thriving until the 1929 stock market crash. So, while trying to dig an additional well for watering the cattle, Horace accidentally hits a potential well for crude oil, which saves the ranch from ruin, and by the time that President Truman signed the peace treaty with Japan, only then does the oil play out, and the ranch returns to its purpose of raising prime beef cattle.
@@LindaCooper-i3f Quite a story, isn’t it!!! 👍👍
Apparently, Mrs. Deyo obviously preferred the philosophy of 1 CORINTHIANS 11:15 from The New Testament in no uncertain terms.
I was so happy when Bernice took the scissors ✂️ to Marjorie’s hair at that end.
It was just retribution against Marjorie for talking Bernice into having her hair bobbed in the first place.
However, in the original story, the barber allows Bernice to face the mirror 🪞 the whole time he cuts off her beautiful long pretty hair. Whereas, in this adaptation, no sooner has she removed all of her hairpins and decorative combs that held her hair up, the barber turns the chair around so her back is towards the mirror 🪞 during the process of the haircut 💇♀️, and yet at least the producers stayed true to the story by having the barber cutting off Bernice’s beautiful long pretty hair from left to right.
So later on that night as Bernice prepares to leave for home, she uses a pair of 16”Inch scissors (for normally cutting wallpaper) to cut off both of Marjorie’s braids.
Thus, Bernice now has satisfaction, and Marjorie is facing both humiliation and embarrassment alike for what she did.
I like to think she only cut one braid off. That way Marjorie has to go to the barber to get it evened out.
I think that’s what happened in the short story - she only cut off one plait.
No, Bernice cut off both of Marjorie’s braids as mentioned in the original Fitzgerald story.
I actually think that the following morning, Marjorie awakens to find both of her braids missing, and lets out a blood curdling scream that arouses Aunt Josephine.
After which, they find Bernice’s note explaining everything.
This is followed up by Aunt Josephine punishing Marjorie for tricking Bernice into having her hair bobbed.
I remember seeing this the first time it was on TV. I don't know why, but I thought I remembered her hair sticking out more and being frizzy after it was cut. It looks good really. I remember in the original movie "Cheaper by the Dozen" that was set in the same era, the oldest daughter bobbing her own hair. Cute movie.
Interesting cinematic and literary historical note. An earlier antecedent was the heroine Jo in Louisa May Alcott's book Little Women, who in late 1860s New England America cuts short her long hair, to sell it for money for her family, as likely had young girls centuries before her--as in Victor Hugo's 1845 written, 1862 published Les Miserables--to sell for wigs to affluent, especially older, women and men.
Wasn't the original Cheaper by the Dozen in the 40s or 50s, when short hair was in and quite normal? This is original from 1920.
As for Little Women and Les Miserables, cutting your hair to sell it or because of sickness (this often happens in old stories as well, they have to shave their heads because you have "the fever" and the hair is leeching their strength) was seen differently than cutting it for no reason (essentially because you want short hair). Though selling it was often also portrayed as somewhat "shameful".
Mrs. March's unforgettable response "Oh, Jo, your only beauty!" way to go, Marmee@@JudgeJulieLit
@@macbethpkyiv Brutal truth from a mother.
@@macbethpkyivMs magazine used to run a Little Women cartoon where No was drawn bald with random short hairs sticking out. It was great.
Jesus that ending
Too bad that Fitzgerald never wrote a sequel covering Marjorie’s humiliation and embarrassment that followed.
This depiction of 1920 sure is better than Downton Abbey's.
That’s an unfair comparison. Downton Abbey depicts the British titled aristocracy in a castle in the Yorkshire countryside. “Bernice” is set in middle-America featuring rich young girls and boys. There’s more than one reality that depicts the 1920s, worldwide.
@@jonwiley2592 I said about the clothing. Like At Lady Edith's wedding set in 1920, the ladies clothing were like 1923-1924: Loose tubular shape, skirt length at the ankle. 1920 look was more like depicted on this film.
Don’t forget about the character that Louise Lombard portrayed in the British tv series “HOUSE OF ELLIOTT”, her raven tresses were bobbed in the third episode of the first season of the series.
@@LindaCooper-i3f Oh dear, sadly I didn't saw it, I'm brazilian(lol) But surely I will search about it!
I remember being 12 years-old and watching this after it was written up in the NY Times, Arts & Liesure section. Now, Shelly Duvall has departed us and I've unsubscribed from the NY Times...
Most intriguing.
This is a blackmail at is finest
Possibly, although we know that Marjorie gets a good dose of retribution in her sleep from Bernice.
Bernice is the bad person not Marjorie. Marjorie helped Bernice even tho she didnt like her. She even tried to talk Bernice out of cutting her hair. i also think the bob looked good and Marjories friends were being nit heartless but snobish. its not like anyone tricked her.
Two words... peer pressure.
And just the same, Bernice cutting off Marjorie’s braids is justified.
From relatives like 1ST Cousins?
45:45 - 🤣🤣🤣🤣
My oldest son and I first watched this on the Sunday Night Showcase on the Disney Channel in 1988. It was sad when the cutting started, and yet all you could see were the facial reactions of the observers. Also, I think that the barber purposely turned the chair around because he assumed that maybe Bernice would cry 😭 if she was facing the mirror 🪞. Although, the only part of that scene in the barbershop that the producers got right was the fact that the barber did cut off Bernice’s beautiful long pretty hair, handful upon handful upon handful, from left to right, while Fitzgerald’s story actually has Bernice facing the mirror 🪞 during the haircut 💇♀️. Eventually, Bernice got her retribution against Marjorie after cutting off both of her middle-of-the-back-length auburn braids, and placing them on the seat of Warren’s Rolls-Royce.
Anyway, let’s just say that instead of returning to Eu Clair, Wisconsin, she buys a one way ticket to some town in Montana to join her fiancée Horace Addams who has a 50,000 acre cattle ranch. Horace is busy with the district roundup that summer of 1920, and he doesn’t know Bernice has arrived at the ranch, making herself at home in his house in one of the guest rooms.
By roundup’s end, Horace is informed by the household servants of Bernice’s presence. Ofcourse, by now her hair has at least grown to about what we label in modern terms as brastraplength. Before too long, Bernice has Horace sending away for Roberta, Genevieve, and Annie to come to the wedding, even though Bernice and Horace are eloping without anyone noticing.
Marjorie on the other hand has fled America 🇺🇸 for Scotland 🏴, especially after she woke up to find her braids missing, and her blood curdling scream woke up Aunt Josephine who’s in shock seeing Marjorie’s hair shorn as retribution for having tricked Bernice into bobbing her hair in the first place. Basically, Bernice was sent to spend the summer with Marjorie and Aunt Josephine because her parents didn’t exactly approve of Horace and his family’s eccentricity. They just didn’t count on Marjorie becoming jealous of Bernice’s beautiful long pretty hair, and that she film-flammed her into a haircut 💇♀️. Now, Marjorie wouldn’t have done it if her late father, Uncle Felix hadn’t died in the 1918 flu epidemic.
Anyway, with new found friends Roberta, Genevieve, and Annie taking a liking to the Montana atmosphere, Roberta serves as Maid-Of-Honor while both Genevieve and Annie are the bridesmaids. In less than a week, Bernice and Horace are married. Before too long, Horace’s partners who are also his brothers; Bartholomew, Mark, and Luke, have taken a liking to the city girls, and in no time flat, Roberta is married to Bartholomew while Genevieve has married Mark, leaving Annie to marry Luke. By 1923, all the wives, including Bernice have given birth to a son each. In fact, even Bernice’s hair is twice the length it was before being bobbed. By this point in time, Bernice’s parents have a grandson that compensates for the elopement. Aunt Josephine is now a grandmother of triplet girls that Marjorie has bore for her husband Laird Edmond Tannen.
The ranch of Horace and Bernice thrives until the 1929 stock market crash. So, one day while digging a new well for watering the cattle, Horace accidentally discovers a potential crude oil deposit, and the ranch is saved, especially since Horace only permits one oil well for every 10 square acres, which allows for undisturbed grazing of the cattle. After the incident at Pearl Harbor, the sons go out and enlist to defend the red, white, and blue. By war’s end, the sons return home with brides in tow. Horace Jr. has a bride from India 🇮🇳, which delights Horace and Bernice. Whereas the sons of Roberta, Genevieve, and Annie, each has a bride with a Scottish accent and each one is a carbon copy of Marjorie. Ofcourse, even the three daughters of Marjorie agree with Bernice about the unfair thing that their mother did to her years earlier, and apologize. On the G.I. Bill, the sons work together on the ranch as the oil is slowly playing out, and the herd of cattle is enlarging.
Porra vey net lixo
Si.
You were an original in the crowd, a maverick Shelley Duvall.
Thank you for the performances and your unique presence, may your journey be delightful and all the
hurts, healed.
R.I.P.
RIP Shelley Duvall
Yes indeed.
I was absolutely delighted when that ending happened and I realized the title meant "Bernice Bobs HER Hair" and not "BERNICE Bobs Her Hair"
You have opened my eyes
Ah yes.
Yes, loved the ending! It was only fair, for Bernie ce to do the same! Can you imagine , the scene extending to the next morning?!
Haha haha!!!
My grandmother bobbed her hair in the early 1920s and was the first one in her school to do so. Her teacher called her up front to the class and shamed her in front of everyone. I saw this film in 1978 in my American Lit class and haven't seen it since. Thanks for posting...fun to see again.
Welcome
My darling wife and I saw this 43 years ago.. it's fantastic...have waited so long to see all this joy once again.
@@pressmin Nancy del resplandor
Obviously it looks like the family were firm believers in 1 CORINTHIANS 11:15 under the circumstances, and they felt embarrassed when they saw her tresses bobbed.
I can easily see an adult Charlie Brown (now married to the little redhead 👩🦰 girl) if she was persuaded into bobbing her hair by Charlie’s old enemy Lucy who always pulled away the football in time for poor Charlie to wind up flat on his back. Well, Charlie would be filling out every coupon he could scare up for mail order hair growth and restoration formulas to get his wife to looking again like Lady Godiva or Rapunzel.
Bernice will live forever.
In the depths of our hearts, yes.
I would loved to have seen Marjorie's reaction
Too bad that Fitzgerald didn’t think of writing a sequel in which Marjorie wakes up, goes to the mirror, and then lets out a blood curdling scream as she notices that her braids are gone. Eventually, it would come as a shock to Aunt Josephine as she finds out that the bed in the guest room wasn’t slept in at all, and then she finds the note from Bernice on the pillow. After reading the note, Aunt Josephine realizes that it was Marjorie who tricked Bernice into getting her hair bobbed. As to how Aunt Josephine would punish Marjorie is anyone’s guess. I feel that maybe when Bernice got home, naturally her folks would be in for a shock themselves. However, although Wikipedia lists her hometown as being in Wisconsin, I suspect that most likely that she was actually from Montana instead, and also the fiancée of a young well-to-do cattle rancher to boot. So, eventually unbeknownst to either Marjorie or Aunt Josephine, Bernice wires train fare to Roberta, Genevieve, and Annie (Marjorie’s friends) to come to Montana for the wedding ceremony with Roberta as Maid-Of-Honor, which leaves Genevieve and Annie as bridesmaids. Horace, Bernice’s fiancée eventually gets his three partners in the ranch with him to act as Bestman and groomsmen, which leads to Roberta, Genevieve, and Annie also becoming ranch wives. Three years pass by, and on Saturday May 5TH, 1923, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, Bernice together with Roberta, Genevieve, and Annie each miraculously gives birth to a baby boy. By now even Bernice’s hair has grown long again to the very same length prior to the bobbing. Ofcourse, Bernice had since taken a vow never to have her tresses shorn ever again.
Marjorie, on the other hand, is now living in Scotland 🏴 where she wed a Scottish Laird while getting in touch with her late father’s relatives who were still in the old country as it were.
It's a double-edged sword. I show this every year to my 11th grade students in preparation to read Gatsby, in order to demonstrate Fitzgerald's preoccupation with status and class. The story is fantastic, but the sound is trash. That incessant hiss is so very distracting, coupled with the fact that these fantastic actors sound like they are talking inside of a shoe-box. This film is begging for a "re-master." I absolutely love this film, and what it brings to the discussion. The kids' faces are priceless when Bernice cuts Marjories hair. There is ALWAYS and audible gasp from my students when the moment comes.
Agreed! Such a perfect setup for asking students: "Who goads 𝙮𝙤𝙪 into doing things you later regret, just to be popular?" Timeless question for teens.
Bernice was just getting even for being tricked into getting her hair cut 💇♀️ off.
gotta love the ending...pure pay back lol !
True retribution no doubt.
I didn't like it at first but when she combed it out and arranged it right, the bob is really adorable. If I had the face shape for it, I might do it myself.
We had to watch this when I was in high school in the late 90s. My whole class agreed she looked better with the bob.
you could totally pull this look off !!!
With a face like that, you could wear your hair any way you want.
Perhaps, but eventually she managed to regrow her tresses under her circumstances.
Possibly.
I remember being told about my great great aunt Daisy who was a young woman in late teens in the early 20s and she used to have gorgeous auburn hair to get thighs her moms pride and joy and when Daisy cut her hair just to her chin her family would not talk to her for like 2 or 3 weeks and made her take her meals in her room her family ily were gutted but Daisy loved her hair and I seen an old photo off her and I thought she suited it and oddly enough almost 100 years later the style is still cool she cut her hair on 1923
Obviously it looks like her family were firm believers in the philosophy of 1 CORINTHIANS 11:15 in no uncertain terms.
Holy socks, when I saw this in high school I had no idea how great this cast is. Also, the staging of shots is echoing all sorts of famous paintings. Great stuff.
So it seems.
Bernice's haircut is hella cute I don't see what's wrong with it
Exactly. But a "bob" haircut carries implications of being a "loose woman." It's OK, in that society, to whisper daring things (as Marjorie teaches Bernice to do), but to actually do such things puts her beyond society. And Marjorie knows this when she tells her cousin to keep saying this.
Likely "loose" because the Bible tells women to keep a "crowning glory" of long hair, and as short hair mimics that of men, and implies a female's arrogation of male freedom-of-action privileges, as to pursue sexually. But as industrialization progressed and women took jobs in factories, food preparation and service and the like, like long skirts (a proven trip, bicycle-wheel tangle and fire hazard), long hair became mass impractical, so society came to prefer it.
Back then she was considered bald. It was extremely brave of any woman to be the first to embrace any new, controversial fashion.
Olive Moskal One would think, eh?! But that’s the way it was!
Mari Drake the main theme plays at wrong times
The ending was just fantastic
At least we know Bernice had the last laugh.
RIP Shelley Duvall.
You’ll always be remembered for both this and “POPEYE”, “TALL TALES & LEGENDS”, and especially “SUBURBAN COMMANDO” with wrestling legend Hulk Hogan.
RIP Shelly Duvall
Now she belongs to the ages.
Whoa, that ending was sinister! xD
Only in this adaptation, his convertible is nearer.
Her cousin : "Maybe we can wet it so it won't stick out like that".."Well for heaven's sake's don't let it worry you".
Odge Botkins.
The most fashion-conscious women, the high fashion, artistic types, bobbed their hair during WWI or before. The actual cutting of long hair into short hair wasn’t done as shown here. Most women’s hair was already cut short in the front on both sides. Meaning they had short hair in the front with a long strip of hair hanging down in the back. They pinned the strip up in a long sideways bun in the back with the short sides sticking out in front. So all the hair cutters had to do was lop off the ponytail-like piece in the back to shorten the hair.
Most women, like my grandmother, didn’t get their hair bobbed till 1928 when Mary Pickford did. By that time, my grandmother had four kids and a full-time job as an accountant. She didn’t feel like fooling with her hair anymore, which was very thick like mine. I can’t imagine growing my thick hair that long, like waist-length. In the summer with the humidity, it gets wet and never dries. So you’re going around all the time with wet hair. I would have hated that, if I lived at that time I would have cut it before the war for sure.
I recall seeing in a documentary on the History Channel where the U.S. Navy had to hire women for the position of civilian clerks.
Strange thing though, some of the footage appears to have shown the women in question being lined up to have their tresses shorn, but the vhs tape I recorded the footage on was lost in a flood in 2010, thanks in part to the army corps of engineers releasing water to save the earthen dam of Cave Run Lake.
I fell into a peer pressure like this with piercings .... its like we got them to prove we were "grown" in a way... it was silly but it sure character built lol
that might be the case with tattoos today.
It takes more character to resist peer pressure to do a dumb thing.
I watched this in ninth grade english lit. The year before, I had watched the shining in the theaters and couldn't believe it was the same actress. I've had a great respect for Shelley Duvall ever since then. RIP
Same here. This and The Shining is where I really developed a love for the 1920s era.
Most interesting.
Goodnight nurse.
Thing is with what she's learned about flirting, and being the first of their group on this trend and the scalping stunt-she's gonna be unstoppable.
Imagine the gossip!
"Is it true what you did last summer?!"
I mean it's 100 years later and I would want to hear the story if she tells it right.
"While she was asleep?"
But in the first few days it would be incredibly frightening for Bernice.
It would be like having a pink mohawk without the pink mohawk attitude. But I like to think she grew into her hair and learned to have a little fun.
Good grief!
They cut out the part where Aunt Josephine tells Bernice that her bobbing her hair will create a scandal especially if she shows up at the Deyos party!
It’s just a short story, and time as well as budget issues needed to be considered.
Loved the ending; jaw dropping for me. Cracked.....me.....up! 😄
The one in the barbershop, or the retribution against Marjorie?
I just read this delightful short story and then had to come over here to see this screen adaptation. Very amusing.
If only it could possibly be remade as a feature for theatre screens with either Drew Barrymore, Melanie Lynskey, Lindsay Lohan, Winona Ryder, Anna Kournikova, Megan Follows, or Abigail Breslin as Bernice, a good deal of continuity would reveal why her parents sent her to Aunt Josephine in the first place, for example, to prevent her from rushing into matrimony with a Montana cattle rancher as a possibility?!
Thanks so much for the upload! I've read the short story but could never find the movie.
Maybe it’s just about time that someone made a 90MIN version for theatre screens?
I love Veronica Cartwright in this. This performance is fun in light of her work in The Birds and Alien - and then Jack’s mom on Will & Grace!
In the 1960s, she appeared in movies like “THE CHILDREN’S HOUR” with Audrey Hepburn, “SPENCER’S MOUNTAIN” with James MacArthur, the episode of “THE TWILIGHT ZONE” called “I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC”, and also she portrayed my ancestor Jemima Boone Calloway in the classic 1964-70 NBC action adventure series “DANIEL BOONE”.
Love Shelly Duvall, she's geeky and sly.. wasn't expecting that ending, hahaha! ✂️
Look at it this way, Marjorie had it coming.
Bernice cut off both of Marjorie’s braids.
So, basically in other words, when Marjorie awakens to find her braids are missing, obviously she’ll let out a blood curdling scream arousing Aunt Josephine. They go to the guest room only to find it vacant except for the note on the pillow addressed to Aunt Josephine personally.
So rather than try to send a telegram on ahead to Eau Claire to notify Bernice’s father (the brother of Aunt Josephine’s late husband), Aunt Josephine forbids Marjorie to see Warren for the rest of the summer, which leads to Marjorie leaving home, and going to Glasgow in Scotland 🏴 where she weds a gentleman named Tannen who’s a biological descendant of the Duke of Montrose.
Back in Eau Claire, however, Bernice’s parents are feeling ashamed of themselves for having sent her to spend the summer with Aunt Josephine or Marjorie. Therefore, in putting his foot down, her father allows for her to go to Montana to wed the rancher she’s set her sights for. Ofcourse, Bernice then telegraphs Roberta and Genevieve to come to Montana wherein Roberta is the Maid-Of-Honor and Genevieve is the only bridesmaid, which leads to them falling in love with the rancher’s two partners. After which Bernice, Roberta, and Genevieve each gives birth to a son per mother. In fact, it’s during the nine months of expectancy that as if by a miracle, Bernice’s hair has grown long again, and she’s just as pretty as she was before the first snip of the barber’s scissors.
Then later on during WW2, the sons of Bernice, Roberta, and Genevieve are among the wounded at Omaha Beach in Normandy, and as they slowly recover in the military hospital somewhere north of London, the sons meet Marjorie and her daughters who are all volunteer civilian nurses, and a photo in the effects of Bernice’s son brings back a flashback of fright to Marjorie because the photo shows Bernice after her hair grew back, and the infant in her arms in in the photo is the wounded soldier who she just finished medicating.
I remember seeing this on tv and then the next day the teacher showed it in school :)
Yes, on public television.
Interesting.
Quite.
I saw this in school and never forgot
Remarkable.
Me too. In English class
Henry Fonda beautifully sonorously emotes, intones his intro to the story. Splendid ensemble cast, especially the sui generis talented Shelley Duvall, and period recreation.
They should have gotten either Huntley or Brinkley for the opening of this instead.
@@LindaCooper-i3f Huntley or Brinkley might have worked, especially Brinkley as he had a droll tone, but they were more associated with heavy news delivery and analyses.
Then perhaps why not let Stewart Granger handle the introduction possibly?
That dance. 😂
Don’t know off hand.
RIP Shelley Duvall!
How true that is.
The Jazz age is full of gorgeous women, oh my !
I wish I could time travel to this time
Interesting stuff
The only part I like about you, is your picture.
F#ck off please and thank you!😀
Yeah same here I’m living in the wrong 20s I wish I could live in 1920s I’d have a bob and be out having fun all day not stuck at home self isolating yet still could get a bob cut
To quote both Archie and Edith, “Those were the days”.
Great Caesar’s Ghost!
I've been wanting to see this for years, but could never find it. Thanks!
Welcome
Brilliant play, beautifully played by Shelley Duvall.
Yes, but in Fitzgerald’s original story, Bernice has raven hair while in this adaptation she has golden blonde tresses.
Shelley Duvall is a goddess.
RIP Shelley Duvall
Just like the Greek Goddess Aphrodite.
It wouldn’t come as no surprise to me if one of her pallbearers was Hulk Hogan who was in the movie titled “SUBURBAN COMMANDO” with her.
Veronica Cartwright was great in this. Fun film.
In the classic 1964-70 NBC adventure series “DANIEL BOONE” she portrayed Daniel’s daughter Jemima.
If in doubt, just check out the IMDb file for that show as well as her IMDb file, just in case.
This is one of my favorite short films with Shelley Duvall 💛 so sad to hear she passed away.
At least she’s reunited with her leading man Robin Williams.
Warren: I'm full of sap.
Bernice: I'd never know it -- you certainly look healthy.
Warren meant that he felt like a kook.
@@LindaCooper-i3f Newly feeling fecund biologically and intellectually, as in his writing career, like fictionist Fitzgerald.
What dance were they doing throughout this movie?
Not exactly too familiar with the dance in question.
pretty good thanks!
More or less.
I remember watching this in High School Jr year ,,Damn that was 30 years ago
Quite perplexing, isn’t it?
Savage Bernice
Please, just run away from the barber's chair!
Antonia Ko Nah-long live the Savage Bernice!
I saw this film in high school during Chemistry class. Our teacher said it was her favorite film of all time. My favorites were films like Blade Runner and Excalibur, and I remember just staring at her in wonder (she was gleefully sipping Tab cola and watching with the class). My lab partner and I decided to do our term paper on shampoo in her honor. She was a sexy , cool nerd before such a thing was cool.
Life is too short & i’m getting too old.
How old ARE u?
19
lmao xD
She'd have made a perfect Mabel Normand if she was a brunette...
Don’t forget that in Fitzgerald’s original story, Bernice was raven haired.
RIP Shelley Duvall
R.I.P.
Yes indeed.
Thank you so much for sharing this! I haven't seen it since the 80's.
the amount of blush and contour they put on Bernice makes her look like a gaunt horse
She looked beautiful.
Beautiful with buck teeth!
Possibly.
Before the bobbing? Yes.
After the bobbing? Not exactly.
From that kind of a description, she sounds like she ought to be a Southern Belle instead of a dairyman’s daughter from Eau Claire in Wisconsin.
What an ending!
Throwing Marjorie’s two braids onto the seat of Warren’s Rolls-Royce.
I love the bob
That figures.
Rip. Shelly
Both you and Robin Williams.
Does anyone know which year this was filmed?
It came out on October 6th, 1976. Probably filmed that same year or a year prior like some films are.
@@dynamopirate470 The same time has now passed, 46 years, since this film was made, its story set in 1920. So we're experiencing nostalgia for nostalgia.
Interesting question.
More or less.
So it seems.
Yeah he also stole his wife's stories. Couldn't come up with his own stuff.
Good grief.
What's the use of the jelly beans?
"Nice girls" didn't wear makeup, so they were using the dye of the red jelly beans to rub on their lips.
Lipstick!
i hope she donated to locks of love
FYI, Locks Of Love was founded in 1998.
This story takes place in 1920.
9 times out of 10, after sweeping up Bernice’s tresses from his floor, the barber eventually sold them to Madame Sofronie who probably asked him to try getting more feminine customers because she rarely bobbed the tresses that she sheared off of other ladies, especially one time customer Della Young about fifteen years earlier.
Fresh
Good grief.
So good !!!!
Before the bobbing possibly, but afterwards, only when Marjorie got her retribution in her sleep.
I watch this on PBS while in high school 1976/77 and will never forget my HS English, Mr. Moldovan (Harvard'59) got this biggest kick that A. I watched it and B. Discussed in class at Detroit Redford. La'Twaneesha looked at her nails during my talk.
Sounds like the sack race at the Rotary Club picnic.
Watching for Shelley Duvall only.
RIP SHELLEY DUVALL
So far so good.
If only some publicity stills were available on eBay.
Very well done. well acted and entertaining!!
More or less.
What's the other movie in which they are also in together? Bud Cort was in Harold and Maude with another great actress, Ruth Gordon, and the other film with Shelley is also directed by Hal Ashby.
Brewster McCloud is the name of that movie, I think.
It's called Brewster McCloud and it's directed by Altman I believe
@@sharonviale8423 That’s it! It’s such a lovely weird movie.
He was also an intern in the cinematic adaptation of “M*A*S*H”.
Good guess.
In the original short story, Bernice has LONG DARK hair. “That this hair, this wonderful hair of hers, was going-she would never again feel it’s long voluptuous pull as it hung in a dark-brown glory down her back.” If they made a modern version of Bernice Bobs her Hair, I’m seeing Megan Fox over Shelley DuVall.
It doesn't have to be exactly like the short story.
Megan is too model-like. Shelley fit perfectly as a shy young woman who is easily peer pressured.
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Yes Megan Fox is far too good looking, toi beautiful to play Bernice.
Fitzgerald writes that once Bernice cuts off all that gorgeous hair, it becomes apparent that she just doesn't look that good without the hair. Bernice isn't particularly attractive in terms of her face, certainly no standout beauty like Fox.
Fox would be better cast as Marjorie, the popular, pretty girl, the one all thr boys flock to.
All because of the fact that Marjorie was jealous of Bernice’s beautiful long pretty hair.
That’s one way of telling it like it is.
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Heavens to hemlock.
Really interesting to see this. I’ve been aware of the story for a few years now through a song by my favourite band, The Divine Comedy. The song, in the words of the writer, Neil Hannon, “efficiently synopsises” Fitzgerald’s story, and is simply entitled…Bernice Bob’s Her Hair!
Here’s a link to the song. I hope you enjoy it!!
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Interesting.
Poor Shelley Duvall did not age well, sadly.
RIP Shelley Duvall
She aged well because she was living. She was a person, not just a celebrity
Dr. Phil has enough proof of that.
Goodbye Olive Oyl.
More or less.
Sorry, but that was so petty of Bernice. Nobody forced her to bob her hair.
Oh didn't they?
It's funny, I always cheered for Bernice's actions at the end. Then I read this story to my students in 2017 and they all said that "Bernice did too much." & "She should have let it go." It made me feel like a vindictive person for celebrating Bernice's revenge. Are millennials more forgiving? Maybe.
@@ahaley3292 I did too.
Her cousin forced her to bob her hair. She could have told Bernice not to do it, that her mother would be angry or something. Instead she told Bernice she could back out and didn't do anything to help her. Apparently you missed the fact that Bernice's cousin was jealous of her and tricked her into bobbing her hair. So Bernice did exactly the right thing. Her cousin deserved to get her braids cut off!!
@@ahaley3292 Millennials more forgiving now? Tell that to all the bully's in high school now - boys and girls!!
Why was bobbing your hair considered so subversive back then?
The guy who played Charlie was also the delivery boy and Shelly's earlier picture three women directed by Robert Altman
Interesting.