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
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.
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| 1996 | RADIANT CITY - TVM | KIRSTIE ALLEY | |||
| 1991 | A RAGE IN HARLEM (Watch the dance floor!) | ROBIN GIVENS | |||
| 1970 | THE RAILWAY CHILDREN (Children flag down a train by removing and waving their petticoats) | JENNY AGUTTER | |||
| 1957 | RAINTREE COUNTY
(Beautiful Miss Taylor in 1860's crinolines. Features one lovely scene
with her getting dressed with her hoop and petticoats!) Poufies will shake
their tails in disbelief, but this Civil War film required more elaborate
costumes than "GWTW." One for Ms. Taylor was 'a gown of mousseline,
embroidered with morning glories over blue taffeta, with a changeable
lavender/green taffeta bodice.' Goodness me! Review by Pammie Click here for 4 still-clips. YouTube clip |
ELIZABETH TAYLOR & EVA MARIE SAINT |
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| 1958 | RALLY 'ROUND THE FLAG, BOYS! (Joanne Woodward and others parade with their baby strollers in nice, full frocks. Very fifties.) Review by Pammie | TUESDAY WELD | |||
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JOAN LESLIE | |||
| 1984 | THE RATINGS GAME (French maid pettis!) | RHEA PERLMAN | |||
| 1960 | THE RAT RACE (Some 50s bouffant, since it was filmed in The Era) | DEBBIE REYNOLDS | |||
| 2001 | RAT RACE ("Lucy" type dresses and some pettipeeks) | KATHY NAJIMY | |||
| 1942 | REAP THE WILD WIND (1840's dresses with some nice peeks. There is a spanking scene with all displayed!) --RECOMMENDED | PAULETTE GODDARD | |||
| 1954 | REAR WINDOW
(In one of the
early scenes, James Stewart awakes to find Grace Kelly [playing a wealthy
and demure young socialite] leaning over him, wearing one of the widest and
loveliest early 50s skirts you could ever hope to see. They exchange a few
pleasantries, and then, feeling tired, she limply poufs down on a settee.
Now you don’t actually see much - this is not slipping on the stairs stuff,
but Grace Kelly is so swooning lovely [never more so than in this
scene], and her voice is so beautiful, that this is a more overwhelming
and sigh-provoking scene than most other film actresses can achieve by
giving a full petticoat view. Actually, she usually wore nice full skirts
in her films.) Review by Pammie 14 STILLCLIPS, A VIDCLIP, AND A PROMO PICTURE |
GRACE KELLY | |||
| 1940 |
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JOAN FONTAINE | |||
| 1985 | REBEL VIXENS (A parody of "The Scavengers" (1971), with plenty of Civil War hoopskirts) [a/k/a "The Grabbers", "Ambush!" and "Renegade Raiders"] | MARIA LEASE | |||
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SANDRA DEE | |||
| 1961 | REPTILICUS (Low-budget but enjoyable Danish-American science fiction thriller about a rampaging prehistoric monster in Copenhagen provides ample displays of pretty Danish girls in bouffant skirts and petticoats.) Review by Rhonda Risque | MARLA BEHRENS,
MIMI HEINRICH & BODIL MILLER |
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| 1959 | THE RESTLESS YEARS | SANDRA DEE | |||
| 1988 | RETURN OF THE KILLER TOMATOES! | KAREN MISTAL | |||
| 1954 |
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ELIZABETH TAYLOR | |||
| 1953 | RICH, YOUNG AND PRETTY Click here for 2 still-clips. | JANE POWELL | |||
| 1996 |
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JUDITH GODRÈCHE | |||
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MARIAN CARR | |||
| 1958 | ROCK-A-BYE BABY (Fifties bouffant - in one scene Miss Stevens falls into water a gets wet. We then see her dress and petticoat draped on a bush to dry out) | CONNIE STEVENS | |||
| (?) | ROCK AND ROLL MOM -- TVM (Three mothers perform on stage, wearing delightful full skirts and crinolines--lovely stuff!) | DYAN CANNON | |||
| 1956 | ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK - Moving Clip | (VARIED) | |||
| 1990 | ROCK HUDSON -- TVM (Early 50s froufrou scattered throughout the beginning--peeks and puffs!) | DIANE LADD | |||
| 1956 | ROCK, PRETTY BABY | LUANA PATTEN | |||
| 1956 |
ROCK, ROCK, ROCK
(Petticoats under
dancing skirts, rock 'n roll style!)
--Does anyone know the
material of the petti she is wearing during the long dance sequence at the
ranch? Very unique!
Write Tessy. Probably the best teenage dance scenes EVER to be placed on film. This is the best example of 50's teenage innocents with petticoats which go flying during the great dance numbers!! NOT to be missed. Plenty of low angle shots of the girl's petticoats during the musical numbers. You don't suppose they knew what would sell, do you? Review by Shelley |
TUESDAY WELD | |||
| 1953 |
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AUDREY HEPBURN | |||
| 1959 |
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HEATHER SEARS | |||
| 1937 | ROSALIE (Miss Powell sports a delightfully poufy dance costume) Stream | ELEANOR POWELL | |||
| 1954 | ROSE MARIE -- (Ms. Blyth, wears very full skirts and petticoats, with one scene where she is filmed from below on a landing at the top of a flight of stairs.) Review by Van Damm | ANN BLYTH | |||
| 1951 | ROYAL WEDDING Click here for 2 still-clips. | JANE POWELL | |||
| 1975 | ROYAL FLASH --(Set in the mid 19th century, Ms. Bolkan appears as the famous adventuress, Lola Montez. In one scene she is shown dancing with Malcolm McDowell wearing black 1860s underwear - hoop skirt and corset.) | FLORINDA BOLKAN | |||
| 1994 | RUNAWAY DAUGHTERS -- TVM Remake of the classic 50's teen flick with many wonderful scenes featuring fabulous dresses. (Note: the original might also have merit, but I have never seen it.) Review by Shelley | JULIE BOWEN |
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