May
10
2013

Famous frames to be inspired by unforgettable film roles

Maybe you don’t notice – not at the first sight, what an impact an eyeglasses frame can do in shaping an unforgettable film appearance. Maybe you will linger for a moment if somebody asks you which eyeglasses worn by a movie character you remember the most. Or maybe there was a time that your own frame choice depended solely on one unforgettable film character. In any case, let us remember a few of those who marked the film history.

 

Marilyn Monroe – One of the greatest film divas of all times, whose star marked not only the Hollywood boulevard of fame but the whole world, one of the most popular female actresses of all times and the glorified sex symbol, Marilyn starred as Pola in “How to Marry a Millionaire”, a 1953. romantic comedy from 20th Century Fox. Pola is extremely nearsighted, but hates to wear her glasses if there was a man “in sight”. As she puts it “”Men aren’t attentive to girls who wear glasses.” Despite that, Marilyn cat eye glasses became an archetype and everything but – something men’s would divert their attention from.

 

Gregory Peck – one of the world’s most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s, pronounced one of the great male stars of all times and also a member of International Best Dressed list in Hall of Fame, Gregory made one of his best film appearances in “To Kill a Mocking Bird“ which granted him the Academy Award. Peck plays Atticus Finch, a righteous town lawyer, which was later pronounced as a best movie hero of the 20th century. The frames that added Gregory a revered, heroic, classical look, today are revived by Oliver Peoples Frames in debut of the 50th anniversary of the book.

 

Julius Henry “Groucho” Marx – American comedian and film and television star, widely considered one of the best comedians of the modern era. His rather distinctive and hugely popular appearance was appropriately embodied in one of the recognizable novelty disguises, known as the “Groucho Glasses”, which is a one-piece mask consisting of horn-rimmed glasses, large plastic nose, bushy eyebrows and mustache.

 

Dustin Hoffman – in Tootsie, a comedy from 1982. Hoffman plays a talented but rather opinionated actor who wants to prove a point and auditions for a role in a soap opera – as a woman. In 2000 the American Film Institute ranked Tootsie as the second funniest film of all time.Dustin Hoffman’s female role, Dorothy Michaels, is really unforgettablewith her giant spectacles.

 

Michael Caine – Caine, in the acclaimed Woody Allen film from 1986, Hannah and her sisters, owes his confused and rather memorable looks largely to his eyeglasses, which take us to a simpler time. These rims differ from the range of frames Caine wears in his personal life, that are inspired with the more classical look – timeless black fits.

 

Melanie Griffith –in 1988 plays a frustrated but resourceful secretary who struggles for success in the business world of New York. For this role Griffith was nominated for the Academy Award and she can really pull off the sentence – “I have a head for business and a bod for sin…” (which became a famous blooper – maybe because in the scene she doesn’t wear her reading glasses)

 

Geoffrey Rush – in 1996, plays a role of a peculiar bipolar pianist in Shine, a movie based on the true story of Australian pianist David Helfgott. The film was nominated for seven Oscars, with actor Geoffrey Rush winning for Best Actor. The glasses Geoffrey Rush wears in the movie certainly add to the flare of the genius tormented pianist, who is also attractive, in his own peculiar way.

 

Daniel Radcliffe – in the globally recognized serious of books and equally if not more, loved film serious, Radcliffe, as Harry Potter, wouldn’t be who he is, without his spectacles. Unlike Superman, he doesn’t take them off when he assumes the heroic part of his otherwise skittish personality, but on the contrary, when in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows“ he loses his spectacles, Harry has a real problem. Only magic can now save our beloved boy wizard.

 

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