That Touch of Mink 1962

 

That Touch of Mink 1962

*glasses used for comic appeal
*glasses to create a "brainy" type


 That Touch of Mink starring Doris Day and Cary Grant is about a young working woman Cathy Timberlake (Doris Day) who gets caught up with a rich playboy  Phillip Shane (Cary Grant).  Cathy on her way to a job interview her clothes were ruined due to Phillip's Rolls Royce splashing into a puddle. She barges into his office demanding him to fix the situation. He does and takes her out on a date to a baseball game, and shopping etc.

This is a silly movie, you can't take it seriously. One clue- Doris Day is in it.

There is one scene in particular I want to discuss. Unfortunately I cannot find a video clip nor a photograph of this  only scene.


Phillip Shane has a financial manager (more like a personal assistant) Roger played by Gig Young who is watching this confusing affair from the sidelines.Gig Young provides comic relief through out the movie. 
 One scene Roger asks his secretary (Jan Burrell), to change. She wears her hair up in a bun, and has glasses. 
 Roger asks her to take her hair down and remove her glasses. Her hair from being up all day, doesn't quite work falling down without styling. Also she gets squinty without her glasses.
                       Roger says "funny it always works in the movies" 

Watch here  go in 55 sec. to see this scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYQVaGDCiZ0

This scene makes fun of other movies, the once glasses are removed and hair is down the woman magically becomes a glamour girl. This shows the reality. Hair really doesn't fall down perfectly, and if you really need glasses you are not necessarily wide-eyed glamorous.  What is in the movies is a fantasy. Does that mean this secretary is actually supposed to be perceived as unattractive?  When she removed her glasses and took her hair down , yet not like the movies; does that mean she cannot and will never fit the ideal?
One can interpret it that way. I think because this movie in it's entirety is silly; nothing meant to be taken seriously.  I think because Roger already shown as a little nutty (there are scenes of him talking to a therapist) he doesn't quite know reality, and in this scene it is shown to him.
 I like this scene because it is satirical, it makes fun of other films and how they portray glasses removal.