FROU FROU LIST - P

Petticoats and Crinolines in Films

Please take notice: These films mostly contain lovely visions of bouffant skirts, particularly of the 50's style, and MIGHT show peeks of petticoats. Very few show full petti-views (these will be noted). We are also now adding films which feature classic crinolines and petticoat as well. You might also review the corsetfilm list located at www.staylace.com/films/indexfiles/a/index.html

Many of the corset-era productions show gowns and petticoats as well!

Any rating comments obviously refer to the quality of the film vis-à-vis frou-frou

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TVM = TV Movie, TVP = TV Special

Note: All clips available here are for review purposes only, presented in order to entice the viewer to purchase the film in its entirety. All copyrights are respected.

Copyright 1996-2009, Petticoat Pond

1957	THE PAJAMA GAME (Watch out for the outdoor dance scene)	DORIS DAY
1957	PAL JOEY (Notably, Ms. Novak does a striptease scene that is unfortunately halted by Frank Sinatra's character.  However, the whole sequence is a treasure as Kim's costume involves a large layered hoop skirt as part of the dress.)  Still Clips	KIM NOVAK
1963	PALM SPRINGS WEEKEND (Minimal bouffant dresses, mostly on Connie--probably the last of the "Fifties era" style in movies, although with a shorter hemline)	CONNIE STEVENS
2006	PAN'S LABYRINTH (Spanish) a/k/a "EL Laberinto del faun"-- Little girl's pretty black dress shows plenty of white petticoat. BUY THE DVD!	IVANA BAQUERO
1963	PAPA'S DELICATE CONDITION (Little girl poufies)	LINDA BRUHL
1989	PARENTS (50s bouffant.  Watch the little girl in the tree -- fluffy pettis!) BUY THE FILM!	MARY BETH HURT
1961	THE PARENT TRAP Still Clips (Miss Mills and others show off their prettiest and FULLEST dresses during the camp dance scene. Another scene has her coming down off of an airplane in a sweet number, and when she arrives home, she walks about the house in the same sweet, full dress! Review by Shelley	HAYLEY MILLS
1964	PARIS-WHEN IT SIZZLES (Our finest lady donning a wonderful hoopskirt)	AUDREY HEPBURN
1961	PARRISH (Bouffant dresses and skirts galore!)	CONNIE STEVENS
1947	PASSI0NNELLE --French a/k/a 'Pour une nuit d'amour'    Stillclip	ODETTE JOYEAUX
1986	PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED (Full view dressing in the very beginning! Another scene shows LOTS of crinolines when the girls are seated on their boyfriend’s laps at a songfest. Then, of course, there is the night scene! And the famous dress!) Wow, fifties petticoats don’t get better than THIS!) Review by Shelley	KATHLEEN TURNER & CATHERINE HICKS
1988	PEE-WEE'S TV CHRISTMAS SPECIAL -- Pee Wee Herman's female guests included Annette Funicello who was wearing the most scrumptious froufrou dress! Also, Miss Yvonne wears a beaut!  Review by Shelley    Still Clips	ANNETTE FUNICELLO
1981	PENNIES FROM HEAVEN -- A dancing scene with plenty of little girl pettis.    VidClip	BERNADETTE PETERS
1991	PERFECT HARMONY TVM	MARY SANTACROCE
2007	PERFECT STRANGER -- The very end features a full-length cocktail gown, with petticoat peeking out. BUY THE DVD!	HALLE BERRY
1958	PETER VOSS, DER MILLIONENDIEB German	INGRID ANDREE
1996	PETTICOAT PLANET	BETSY LYNN GEORGE
1950	THE PETTY GIRL	DOROTHY ABBOTT
2004	THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA -- This excellent film version of Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical is chock full of sumptuous gowns, with attendant hoopskirts and petticoats!  Watch for the enormous hoop lowered form the ceiling onto Ms. Driver. Of some interest is that there are several instances of MEN wearing frou-frou petticoats!   Image More on our sister site BUY THE FILM!	EMMY ROSSUM & MINNIE DRIVER
1954	PHFFFT --  A wonderful fifties skirt and petticoats film. There is an amazing scene in a restaurant when Ms. Novak gets up and embarrasses Jack Lemmon with a "cheerleader" routine, in which she plays with her skirts very attractively. Review by Van Damm  BUY THE FILM!	JUDY HOLLIDAY & KIM NOVAK
1993	THE PIANO (Historical hoop fans--take note!)	HOLLY HUNTER
1955	PICNIC (Full view! Ms. Novak hugs her petticoat at the picnic shower scene! A nice, pink net number!) Review by Shelley	KIM NOVAK
1948	THE PIRATE -- Pre-20th century long petticoats  Video BUY THE FILM!	JUDY GARLAND
1982	THE PIRATE MOVIE (Victorian Petticoats, especially toward the end)	KRISTY McNICHOL
1961	THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM (Sixteenth Century Spanish costumes with petticoat froufrou display. Worth seeing)	BARBARA STEELE
1951	A PLACE IN THE SUN (Miss Taylor wears a wonderful bouffant gown)	ELIZABETH TAYLOR
1956	LOS PLATILLOS VOLADORES (Mexican)   Promotional photo                      OWN THE DVD	EVANGELINA ELIZONDO
1962	PLAY IT COOL (Ms. Shapiro - guest singer -in organdy and satin or taffeta dress, night club scene.) Review by David	HELEN SHAPIRO
1998	PLEASANTVILLE (Fifties bouffant --not enough exposure of pettis, though)	JOAN ALLEN
1957	PLEASE MR. BALZAC --French ("En Effeuillant la Marguerite") -- (Bardot crinies!) A/K/A  ""Mam'selle Striptease" and "While Plucking the Daisy"	BRIGITTE BARDOT
1961	THE PLEASURE OF HIS COMPANY (Fifties bouffant, some visible petti)	DEBBIE REYNOLDS
1960	POETEN OG LILLEMOR OG LOTTE - Danish     (Beautiful heavily-petticoated spanking scene - here looped)	HELLE VIRKNER
1998	POLISH WEDDING (Peeks of pettis on a wedding gown)	LENA OLIN
1989	POLLY -TVM   (LOTS of petticoats throughout, including exuberant dance scenes. I drooled all the way through this one.) Review by Bee Another wonderful scene is where she is carried for a distance wearing the fullest pink dress with white petticoats! The braces on her cute legs are somehow alluring I think. Anyone else agree?  Review by Shelley	KESHIA KNIGHT PULLIAM
1960	POLLYANNA	HAYLEY MILLS
1936	POPPY   Lobby card	ROCHELLE HUDSON
2002	POSSESSION  (Mid-19th century hoops and petticoats, including children's)	JENNIFER EHLE
1947	POUR UNE NUIT D'AMOUR --French a/k/a 'Passionnelle'    Stillclip	ODETTE JOYEAUX
1943	PRESENTING LILY MARS BUY THE FILM!	JUDY GARLAND
1986	PRETTY IN PINK (In a short scene, Annie wears a short, moderately full party dress and  displays her plain tulle crinolines whilst sitting down)	ANNIE POTTS
1968	PRETTY POISON	TUESDAY WELD
1940	PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (In Jane Austen's time the skirt line was slim and loose, so MGM advanced the period fifty years. As the Virgin Film Guide says, "...and the period was advanced to take advantage of the fuller fashions..." Think of that - the makers took one of the classic novels of English literature and brought it forward half a century for reasons that were purely petticoat and pettipants related. That should knock your bobby sox off!)   Review by Pammie, R.I.P. Stillclip BUY THE DVD	GREER GARSON, MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN & ANN RUTHERFORD
1957	THE PRIDE AND THE PASSION (Watch for Ms. Loren's sultry Spanish dance with red petticoats) STREAMING VIDCLIP BUY THE DVD	SOPHIA LOREN
2000	THE PRINCESS AND THE BARRIO BOY a/k/a 'She's In Love' TVM (Miss Nichols at her Quinceanera wearing the very full gown typical for that celebration (15 yrs. coming out party) BUY THE DVD	MARISOL NICHOLS
2009	PRINCESS PROTECTION PROGRAM -TVM  (Hoopskirts and bouffant frocks)    Media	SELENA GOMEZ & DEMI LOVATO
1975	PRIVATE VICES, PUBLIC PLEASURES (Vizi privati, pubbliche virtù) Italian (Lots of Austro-Hungarian pettis, according to Micael)  Click here for still-clip.	PAMELA VILLORESI
2005	THE PRIZE WINNER OF DEFIANCE, OHIO (A snippet of 50s bouffant here and there) BUY THE DVD	JULIANNE MOORE
2005	THE PRODUCERS (Plenty of pettis on stage, and some great fifties long crinolined gowns)	ULMA THURMAN
2007	P.S. I LOVE YOU (Ms. Swank wears a crinolined dress, and shows it.)	HILARY SWANK
2000	PSYCHO BEACH PARTY --  (Early sixties bouffant) BUY THE FILM!	LAUREN AMBROSE
1954	PUSHOVER -- (The fifties bouffant here is on Miss Malone - not much petti action, though) BUY THE FILM!	KIM NOVAK & DOROTHY MALONE

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