June's A Bust All Over?

Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night (Columbia, 1934)
 

June Allyson in You Can't Run Away From It [remake of It Happened One Night], (Columbia, 1956)

Carole Lombard in My Man Godfrey (Universal, 1936)
 

June Allyson in My Man Godfrey (Universal-International, 1957)
 

Norma Shearer in The Women (MGM, 1939)

June Allyson in The Opposite Sex [remake of The Women], (MGM, 1956)



Compare and contrast, darlings.

Dance Break

"You put your left foot in..."

Birthday Wishes

As evidenced below, there is such a surplus of birthday fabulosity in the universe today, that on behalf of the celebrants, we wish for you, dear readers...

...the rare, admirable knack for being being unfailingly upbeat, without ever being "perky."

 

BETTY GARRETT

May 23, 1919 - February 12, 2011

...the talent for knocking back bottomless martinis without ever losing your composure. Or balance.

 

HELEN O'CONNELL

May 23, 1920 - September 9, 1993

...the resolve to insist upon the best possible lighting under all circumstances.

 

ROSEMARY CLOONEY

May 23, 1928 - June 29, 2002

...and, most important, the ability to stand on a pedestal with worshipful minions at your feet.

 

JOAN COLLINS

May 23, 1933

Flare Out

Ann-Margret in The Pleasure Seekers (20th Century Fox, 1964)
Designer: Renié 

Cyd Charisse in The Silencers (Columbia, 1966)
Designer: Moss Mabry

Jane Fonda in Cat Ballou (Columbia, 1965)
Designer: Bill Thomas

Something fishtailed this way wiggles.

Crazy Chapeaux

Boys' Night Out (1962, Columbia)

Madison Avenue (1962, Twentieth Century Fox)

Light in the Piazza (1962, MGM)

Tender is the Night (1962, Twentieth Century Fox)

As you know, here at SSUWAT, it's permanently 1962 -- but let's be honest --

wasn't it a strange year for hats?