There’s an OPI red nail polish in the room where Emmanuelle (Claude Gajan Maull) puts her son Tito (Vince Galliot Cumant) to bed.
Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (1970)
There’s a factice bottle of a Christian Dior perfume on the fridge Augusta Terzi keeps in her bathroom. The bow-topped front label is impossible to read, so I unfortunately don’t know what perfume it is.
All About Eve (1950)
Margo (Bette Davis) and Karen (Celeste Holm) are at the Stork Club in New York with their partners. Two boxes of Le Galion Sortilège can be seen on their table. This choice is extremely accurate because the French fragrance, created in 1937 by Paul Vacher, really was the trademark perfume of the NY nightclub.
The boxes are unfortunately left unopened, so we cannot see its content, but this would be it – the beautiful fluted bottle the perfume had in its original version.
But the perfume bottles are not the only Sortilège presence on Margo’s table.
There’s a cute scented gadget – a stork-shaped perfume holder.
Besides the cameo in the Mankiewicz film, many are the stars who went to the Stork Club and were photographed with a box of this perfume on their tables. How glamourous!
Jennifer 8 (1992)
It’s Christmas time in Eureka, and Margie (Kathy Baker) and Freddy host a party for family and friends. During the party, Margie retouches Helena’s make-up and puts some perfume on her.
It’s not a spray bottle, the one that Margie takes out of her mirrored cabinet, but a splash one. The opaque glass flowers decorating the stopper are quite unmistakable.
When the girl finally holds the bottle, the mystery is finally revealed: it’s Chloé.
This romantic white floral perfume is a creation of Betty Busse. It was launched in 1975 under the label Parfums Lagerfeld, because Karl Lagerfeld was at the helm of the brand as main designer from 1966 to 1983.
Sliver (1993)
Zeke (William Baldwin) is at Carly’s party and he’s reading a magazine. On the back cover there’s an advert for Dior Miss Dior starring Heather Stewart-Whyte.
Anna May Wong’s Dressing Table (1933)
This beautiful picture of the American actress was taken backstage at the Tivoli Theatre in Aberdeen (Scotland) in October 1933. Among the beauty products on her dressing table there are two particularly interesting items.
The first – in the round tin box – is Max Factor Supreme face powder, which was part of a theatrical make-up line.
The second is the iconic flacon bouchon coeur by Guerlain. The label cannot be read, so it’s hard to tell what fragrance it contained. We can make some assumptions, though.
This bottle was originally created for the extracts of L’Heure Bleue, Fol Arôme (both released in 1912) and Mitsouko (released in 1919). All of them were released way before 1933, so one of these could be sitting on Wong’s table.
The Edge of Seventeen (2016)
There are a MAC lipstick and IT Cosmetics CC+ cream by the washbasin in Nadine’s bathroom.
Thanks to Emily in the comments for the IT Cosmetics id.
Copycat (1995)
When agents M. J. Monahan and Reuben Goetz pay a visit to doctor Helen Hudson, the woman they’re protecting, we can get a look at her busy dressing table.
The first thing that has caught my attention is the perfume on the left – the 1980s classic Valentino. Created by Pierre Dinand and first launched in 1979, is a floral powerhouse. I still remember when my mother wore it: I was in heaven because it smelled amazing on her.
On the bottom left there’s Elizabeth Arden Lip Spa lipstick.
When the camera pans to M. J. (Holly Hunter), we can also see an Annick Goutal perfume (behind the blue box with red tassel) and a factice of Guerlain Shalimar in the background.
Urban Cowboy (1980)
There are bottles of Fabergé Brut Classic and Old Spice Original colognes on Bud Davis’s bathroom shelf.
American Gods S02E02 (The Beguiling Man)
Technical Boy (Bruce Langley) is trying to summon Media and the goddess lures him to the windows of an Inglot shop. She doesn’t show herself but she speaks through the monitors in Times Square and through the flat screens in the shop window.
Strangely enough, the lipsticks appearing on the screen above are not by Inglot. As a matter of fact, the lipsticks of the Polish brand usually have a glossy black tube; the only lipsticks with metal and plastic tubes are from the Jennifer Lopez collection, but their shape is different from those seen on screen.
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