Her first substantial part came as the neglected daughter of a party-loving mother in Are These Our Parents? (1944), but, despite being voted by US servicemen as their second favourite pin-up, just behind Betty Grable, she was confined by Paramount mainly to bit parts: you can spot her, uncredited, playing a hat-check girl in The Blue Dahlia (1946).
In the game you play a hat-throwing Nick Carraway walking around in your high society, necking cocktails, defeating butlers and bottle-throwing drunkards, and generally being a bit of a dapper chap.
He is 82, but the years evaporated once he was standing there, lanky in worn jeans and a straw hat, playing a banjo bearing a peace sign and the words, "This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender".
The next new experience: playing a witch ("no pointy hat, alas") in the Pittsburgh project, the Vin Diesel-led The Last Witch Hunter.
In the yet-to-be-titled film, slated for release in January by Universal, "Thor" star Chris Hemsworth plays a black-hat hacker serving federal time who gets furloughed to help a liaison group hunt down a nefarious network operating from somewhere unknown, Mann revealed in an interview this week.
There is a young Redmayne playing a woman in a sun hat in A Passage to India.
One offered such a precise level of detail — the killers were taking aim at "anyone of color, wearing a white hat or playing a sport" — that it proved irresistible, both to students and to members of the media, who (Cullen speculates) were out of their element in this teenage universe, and therefore willing to repeat this rumor whether their "witnesses" had seen the gunmen or not.
Ingels, a compulsive comic who had a brief TV and film career but never entirely left the stage, entered wearing a big hat and playing a trombone.
I can't play in a hat or a visor because I feel I can't see everywhere.
Well, I played a game, shouting, "Hat!" every time someone passed by in one, usually a fedora, usually cheap-looking.
If you can book U2, Coldplay, Beyoncé, Rolling Stones and Metallica to play a jester's-hat-wearing jugglers' jamboree, then you must have a good sense of humour.
