In Wings of Desire, Peter Falk tries on a lot of hats. He knows it matters. The hat can make or break a character.

What's the most memorable hat you've ever seen in a film?

For me, of course, Indiana Jones' fedora is the king of all movie hats.

Post pictures, if you can find them.

Nice hat montage in City Slickers.

Buster Keaton's shallow porkpie hat ("as flat and thin as a phonograph record," James Agee famously wrote) is probably the most iconic hat in the history of film for me, edging out Chaplin's derby and Lloyd's boater by virtue of being a little more unusual and more essential to the character.

The Ascot Day hats by Cecil Beaton in My Fair Lady, though Eliza's made the poster.

Gabriel Byrne, Miller's Crossing

The Jewish headgear in Pasolini's The Gospel According to Matthew -- which a reader helpfully informs me were inspired by the 15th-century frescos of Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca, just as all the costumes, created by costumer Danilo Donati, reflect Italian Renaissance sacred art.

(I don't now have a good image from Piero, although I've seen them and the influence is obvious.)

Crocodile Dundee's hat. I bought one for my dad after seeing the movie. I think he wore it once before the cat turned it into his bed.

The little boy with the bark in The Gods Must Be Crazy II.

Professor Fate in The Great Race...



This will probably also be my choice when the Today's Favorite: Facial Hair thread is started.

Aside from ballcaps, I only own two hats. The above-mentioned Indiana Jones brown fedora, and a Blues Brothers black fedora...

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Yes! My favorite. Tom cares a whole lot about that hat.

Rita's collection of hats in Arrested Development are hilarious, too.

Gotta agree. Great hat, and great use of the hat throughout the story.

"Nuttin' more pathetic then a man chasin' after his hat."

The fetching and extremely useful hat worn by Addie (Tatum O'Neal) in Paper Moon.

In Gone with the Wind, Scarlett O'Hara's hats are a pretty good barometer of her character's social and emotional state...

Oddjob's in Goldfinger

Robin Hood's "disguise" in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Matt

I don't know if this is true, but according to an interview on an NPR show some years ago, a film historian said that James Stewart wore the same white hat in all of his westerns starting with Winchester '73. Stewart wanted his hat to appear very broken in. If so, that would be this hat (image taken from The Naked Spur)...

Yikes! How could I have missed:

Rocky and all the sequels - Adrian [sic] could disappear, but not the hats. You could have a separate thread for "best hat ever worn in a Rocky movie". Regardless of what you might think of Stallone, the man can wear a hat.

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And it's not just Stallone, either -- many of the supporting actors got to wear a variety of hats.

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And, speaking of "Jewish" headgear, let's not forget Jesus Christ, Superstar:

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i seem to recall lena olin wearing a hat in the unbearable lightness of being...

Raising Arizona:"Son, you got a panty on your head"

ok,ok I've taken liberties with the assignment....

Harry in Jaws. "that's some bad hat Harry"


My favorite hats in a movie are probably the ones worn by Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in the closing scene of Casablanca.