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Chocolate Moose · 06-25-2018, 09:18 AM

Those curls around her face? Gave her an odd look.

Anyone?

stanwyckfan07 · 10-31-2018, 08:32 PM

It was the infamous "marcel" hairstyle that was briefly in fashion in the early 1930's (you will often see beautiful actresses like Barbara Stanwyck with that horrible hairstyle in some of their 1930-33 films). The running gag of the Hillbillies was that they were decades behind the times in terms of fashion and attitudes (they still watched silent films at the "picture show" back home!) so it made perfect since to give Pearl a marcel bob.

DJM77 · 11-05-2018, 08:49 PM

Jethrine's hair was even worse.

Hazel Anyday · 11-05-2018, 11:07 PM

Let's face it, the Kate Bradley hair (Petticoat Junction's Bea Benederet role) was also really weird. A huge beehive giant blonde wig that sat on Bea's head. That thing just screamed "WIG!!!"

Bonniegirl · 11-06-2018, 01:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Hazel Anyday

Let's face it, the Kate Bradley hair (Petticoat Junction's Bea Benederet role) was also really weird. A huge beehive giant blonde wig that sat on Bea's head. That thing just screamed "WIG!!!"

I am ROTFL ing !! You are funny Hazel Anyday !!

But she wore that "mop" well, she still was a very lovely, nice woman as she was also as playing Pearl !

Was it that we were young back than and didn't notice an obvious wig?

Or was it just common that wigs were popular back than and it didn't seem goofy if a woman had an obvious wig on??

Hazel Anyday · 11-06-2018, 03:59 AM

Wigs were definitely popular back in them thar days. My Grandmother had several big wigs. Her natural hair was sort of thin and poofy after she went to the hair dresser, but her wigs were thick and full (but in the same hair style as her own, just what her hair would have looked like if she had more of it). Even my Mom, whose natural hair was long and brown (like Emma Peel's from the Avengers) but I remember she had a wig that was short and Dutch Boyish. It had bangs and short hair that hugged her cheeks. At least her wig was a real different style from her own. I remember seeing it sitting on a white foam head, weird. I was never the same.

warp9p65 · 02-15-2019, 10:33 PM

Even with the weird hair, I really liked the Pearl character. It's a shame she couldn't have made a couple of guest appearances each season after Bea departed for Petticoat Junction.

warp9p65 · 04-28-2019, 10:27 PM

Totally agree. Cousin Pearl should have shown up at least once a season for the sake of continuity.

TheLittleFaerie · 05-06-2019, 12:28 AM

Pearl DID in fact make a really fast appearance in season 7.....~I THINK it was season 7 ~

Bonniegirl · 05-06-2019, 12:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Hazel Anyday

Wigs were definitely popular back in them thar days. My Grandmother had several big wigs. Her natural hair was sort of thin and poofy after she went to the hair dresser, but her wigs were thick and full (but in the same hair style as her own, just what her hair would have looked like if she had more of it). Even my Mom, whose natural hair was long and brown (like Emma Peel's from the Avengers) but I remember she had a wig that was short and Dutch Boyish. It had bangs and short hair that hugged her cheeks. At least her wig was a real different style from her own. I remember seeing it sitting on a white foam head, weird. I was never the same.

Yep!! My Mom had a wig too, very much the same color and style of her real hair, only better!!

The wig was like she just "stepped out of the beauty parlor"!

Being I was really young and didn't really know what the exact reason of the wig was ? I'm thinking she wore it when she was really in need of getting to the Hair salon AKA The " Beauty parlor"( as it was called than)

and her real hair was looking awful?

Or the wig was for really special occasions where she had to look really good ?

But her wig wasn't as goofy and obvious as Pearl's or Kate's ! Or maybe it was !! IDK ??

The 1960's were awesome!!!

treky · 05-06-2019, 01:42 AM

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Originally Posted by TheLittleFaerie

Pearl DID in fact make a really fast appearance in season 7.....~I THINK it was season 7 ~

couldn't have been-season 7 was the 1969-70 season and Bea Benaderet died in 1968.

Chocolate Moose · 05-06-2019, 09:05 AM

i find it hard to believe that a woman from "The Hills" wore a wig.

TheLittleFaerie · 05-09-2019, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by treky

couldn't have been-season 7 was the 1969-70 season and Bea Benaderet died in 1968.

It may have been season 6 then, Pearl is shown briefly speaking on the phone to Jed.

PracTz · 09-15-2019, 06:36 PM

What we have to keep in mind while the Cousin Pearl and Kate Bradley's performer wore these bizarre head coverings atop her noggin, Cousin Pearl and Kate Bradley's bizarre hairstyles were supposed to have been grown from their own scalps then styled in the same way Lucy Carmichael's mountain of red curls was supposed to have been grown from her very own head while her performer Lucille Ball was wearing these huge red wigs that concealed the wrinkle-preventing 'clamps'. I think,too, that both Miss Benederet and Miss Ball liked having not to worry about having to waste time repairing, resetting or rewashing their own coiffures but just plopping the head coverings on and being ready to go ASAP so they could just concentrate on the comedy at hand.

stanwyckfan07 · 12-04-2019, 04:30 PM

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Originally Posted by warp9p65

Even with the weird hair, I really liked the Pearl character. It's a shame she couldn't have made a couple of guest appearances each season after Bea departed for Petticoat Junction.

I missed her -and Jetherine too!! (What was really bizarre was in one of the later episodes Jethro got in drag for something - as if we could have possibly forgotten his amazon of a sister!)

06-25-2018, 09:18 AM	#1
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11-05-2018, 08:49 PM	#3
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11-05-2018, 11:07 PM	#4
Hazel Anyday Member Senior Member Join Date: Apr 12, 2002 Posts: 2,135	How About Bea's Other Mop? Let's face it, the Kate Bradley hair (Petticoat Junction's Bea Benederet role) was also really weird. A huge beehive giant blonde wig that sat on Bea's head. That thing just screamed "WIG!!!"
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11-06-2018, 03:59 AM	#6
Hazel Anyday Member Senior Member Join Date: Apr 12, 2002 Posts: 2,135	Wigs, It's An In Thang Wigs were definitely popular back in them thar days. My Grandmother had several big wigs. Her natural hair was sort of thin and poofy after she went to the hair dresser, but her wigs were thick and full (but in the same hair style as her own, just what her hair would have looked like if she had more of it). Even my Mom, whose natural hair was long and brown (like Emma Peel's from the Avengers) but I remember she had a wig that was short and Dutch Boyish. It had bangs and short hair that hugged her cheeks. At least her wig was a real different style from her own. I remember seeing it sitting on a white foam head, weird. I was never the same.

10-31-2018, 08:32 PM	#2
stanwyckfan07 Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jan 26, 2011 Location: LA Posts: 106	It was the infamous "marcel" hairstyle that was briefly in fashion in the early 1930's (you will often see beautiful actresses like Barbara Stanwyck with that horrible hairstyle in some of their 1930-33 films). The running gag of the Hillbillies was that they were decades behind the times in terms of fashion and attitudes (they still watched silent films at the "picture show" back home!) so it made perfect since to give Pearl a marcel bob.

02-15-2019, 10:33 PM	#7
warp9p65 Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Feb 15, 2019 Location: AR Posts: 49	Even with the weird hair, I really liked the Pearl character. It's a shame she couldn't have made a couple of guest appearances each season after Bea departed for Petticoat Junction.

04-28-2019, 10:27 PM	#8
warp9p65 Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Feb 15, 2019 Location: AR Posts: 49	Totally agree. Cousin Pearl should have shown up at least once a season for the sake of continuity.

05-06-2019, 12:28 AM	#9
TheLittleFaerie Member Senior Member Join Date: Oct 15, 2017 Posts: 1,948	Pearl DID in fact make a really fast appearance in season 7.....~I THINK it was season 7 ~

05-06-2019, 09:05 AM	#12
Chocolate Moose Member Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 21, 2007 Location: Brooklyn, NY Posts: 4,898	i find it hard to believe that a woman from "The Hills" wore a wig.

09-15-2019, 06:36 PM	#14
PracTz Member Senior Member Join Date: Jul 14, 2002 Location: United States of America [Happily Living in the 20th Century] Posts: 2,711	What we have to keep in mind while the Cousin Pearl and Kate Bradley's performer wore these bizarre head coverings atop her noggin, Cousin Pearl and Kate Bradley's bizarre hairstyles were supposed to have been grown from their own scalps then styled in the same way Lucy Carmichael's mountain of red curls was supposed to have been grown from her very own head while her performer Lucille Ball was wearing these huge red wigs that concealed the wrinkle-preventing 'clamps'. I think,too, that both Miss Benederet and Miss Ball liked having not to worry about having to waste time repairing, resetting or rewashing their own coiffures but just plopping the head coverings on and being ready to go ASAP so they could just concentrate on the comedy at hand.