pageboy n. 1. ... 2. A hairstyle, usually shoulder-length, with the ends of the hair curled under smoothly in a loose roll.
~ The American Heritage Dictionary
Bangs are optional.
The wonderful thing about a pageboy is that it has so many different looks. Since it is long but doesn't quite touch the shoulders, both gravity and inertia make it move independently of the wearer so it seems almost animated. However, it is mostly interesting because it is very simple and simplicity is beautiful.
That analysis is an attempt to dignify my obsession but the pathetic truth is that I have that gene which makes me predisposed to fall in love with any woman in a pageboy. So here is my homage to the pageboy, alphabetically by first name...
| Alexis Bledel as Rory Gilmore in Gilmore Girls |
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| Alicia Morton in Annie |
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| Alisen Down The pageboy was cute, but her new longer hairstyle is really beautiful. Maybe a pageboy is not right for every face. |
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| Allison Mack |
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| Alyson Hannigan |
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| Alyssa Milano |
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| Anna Paquin Whenever I watch Anna, I think that someday she's going to win an Oscar and then I remember that she already has. This is from A Walk On The Moon. There are scenes in the movie where her pageboy is more well managed, but this close-up couldn't be resisted. |
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| Anna Wintour editor-in-chief of American Vogue |
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| Anne Hathaway as Agent 99 |
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| Alyssa Milano |
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| Amy Mentes Alfagrl-Ducati racer |
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| Angelica Lee |
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| Barbara Feldon Agent 99 in Get Smart |
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| Barbra Streisand This is the best look ever for Barbara Streisand. This is from the movie, On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, but she wore her hair this way in several of her early movies. |
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| Bess Armstrong This is from High Road To China before she had her hair abbreviated to be Angela's so-called mother. |
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| Beverley Mitchell |
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| Björk |
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| Brenda Song |
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| Britney Spears |
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| Brittney Irvin as Nan in Little Men |
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| Calista Flockhart |
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| Carly Schroeder |
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| Catherine Bell Major/Lt. Colonel Sarah 'Mac' Mackenzie in the TV series JAG |
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| Catherine Keener in Simone |
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| Catherine Zeta-Jones Oscar winning Catherine Zeta-Jones as Velma Kelly in Chicago |
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| Charisma Carpenter |
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| Claire Danes Angela Chase in her so-called pageboy |
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| Clare Grogan as Susan in the movie Gregory's Girl |
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| Colleen Moore silent film star, not to be confused with Louise Brooks |
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| Dana Delany |
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| Deanna Milligan |
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| Diane Venora |
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| Dianne Wiest from the movie Little Man Tate |
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| Elina Löwensohn Sofia Ludens in the movie Amateur |
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| Elisa Donovan as Amber in one of her many wigs in Clueless |
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| Elisha Cuthbert from the remake of My Sassy Girl |
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| Elizabeth my niece, who inspired me to do this |
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| Elizabeth Densmore |
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| Emma Thompson as Dora Carrington in the movie Carrington |
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| Emo Philips comedian |
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| Georgina Cates Not only is this perfect, but it is also red! |
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| Gillian Anderson |
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| Gina Gershon |
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| Glynis Barber as Lady Harriet Alexandra Charlotte Makepeace in Dempsey and Makepeace |
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| Grace Lee Whitney |
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| Gwyneth Paltrow as Margot Tenenbaum in The Royal Tenenbaums |
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| Haley Hudson |
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| Hayley Atwell Julia Flyte in Brideshead Revisited |
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| Heather Matarazzo |
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| Irene Jacob from the wonderful film, Trois couleurs: Rouge |
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| Isabelle Huppert from the movie Amateur |
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| Jane Lane Daria's sarcastic friend |
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| Jean and Liz Sagal Who remembers the twins, Liz and Jean Sagal? Before Mary-Kate and Ashley, before Tia and Tamera, there were Jean and Liz in Double Trouble. |
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| Jena Malone |
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| Jessica of Girls' Generation (So Nyeo Shi Dae) (SNSD) |
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| Jewel Staite
in her Catalina rainbow wig in Space Cases Zabagabe! |
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| Ji-hyun Jun the Sassy Girl |
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| Jodie Foster from the movie Little Man Tate |
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| Joi Lansing |
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| Julia Stiles |
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| Julianne Moore as Maude Lebowski in The Big Lebowski |
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| Kate Beckinsale from the movie Cold Comfort Farm |
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| Kate Bosworth in the movie 21 |
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| Kate Hudson from the movie Le Divorce (Jet Girl is in this movie!) |
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| Kate Isitt |
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| Keiko Agena Lane Kim in Gilmore Girls |
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| Kellie Martin |
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| Kellie Waymire Kellie as Ensign Elizabeth Cutler from Star Trek: Enterprise. It is so very sad, that after staying only thirty-five years, on November 13, 2003, the beautiful Kellie Waymire left us forever. |
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| Kelly MacDonald |
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| Kim Lieu as Paige Hong Fat in Harriet the Spy |
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| Kirsten Storms This is from Zenon: The Zequel. She actually had better hair in the first movie--radical variations on the theme: pigtails. |
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| Kristin Scott Thomas |
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| Lacey Chabert This wild ragged look, which is anything but smooth, probably doesn't qualify as a pageboy by the strict definition. But it's close enough for this collection. |
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| Laura Bertram Gemini award winner, Laura Bertram, as Amanda Zimm in Ready or Not. (Laura currently plays Trance Gemini in the science fiction series Andromeda) |
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| Lauren Holly |
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| Lauren Lee Smith According to Wikipedia, her hairstyle in Mutant X, is called a pageboy flip. |
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| Lauren Maltby a not well known, but delightful young actress |
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| Leslie Wolos |
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| Lexa Doig as Andromeda (Rommie) in the science fiction series Andromeda |
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| Linda Cardellini as Velma Dinkley in Scooby-Doo |
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| Linda Park as Ensign Hoshi Sato in the science fiction series Star Trek: Enterprise |
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| Lindsay Felton as Caitlin in the Nickelodeon series Caitlin's Way |
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| Lindy Booth as Diana Moller in Mutant X |
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| Lisa Ryder as Beka Valentine in the science fiction series Andromeda |
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| Liza Weil as Paris Gellar in Gilmore Girls |
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| Louise Brooks Though her hair is a little short by the dictionary definition, Louise Brooks is nonetheless the quintessential pageboy girl. |
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| Lucy Liu |
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| Majandra Delfino Majandra keeps changing her look on Roswell, but this is the best one. |
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| Malgorzata Foremniak |
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| Marie Osmond |
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| Mary-Kate Olsen who never makes an appearance twice with the same hairstyle so this is very rare |
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| Mary Thurman |
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| Mary Tyler Moore Mary Richards in The Mary Tyler-Moore show |
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| Maryam d'Abo Kara Milovy in the James Bond film The Living Daylights |
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| Maura Tierney |
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| Melissa Joan Hart Clarissa, The Explainer at Nickelodeon's Second Annual Big Help-A-Thon in 1995 |
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| Melissa McIntyre as Ashley Kerwin in the Canadian series Degrassi: The Next Generation |
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| Meredith Bishop Annie Mack in The Secret World of Alex Mack |
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| Meredith Henderson |
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| Mia Maestro as Cristina Kahlo, the sister of Frida Kahlo, in the movie Frida |
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| Michelle Meyrink This is from Real Genius. In her past, she was also a Valley Girl named Suzi. |
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| Michelle Pfeiffer in Scarface |
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| Mira Sorvino |
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| Mireille Mathieu French singer |
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| Mischa Barton looking very Louise Brooks |
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| Natalie Portman Natalie Portman's hairstyle for the movie The Professional was actually intended to copy that of Louise Brooks. Recently she has returned to a similar bob. |
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| Natanya Ross as Kelly in the movie Bellyfruit |
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| Nicole Kidman from the movie To Die For |
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| Olivia Tennet is Dr. K in the Power Rangers |
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| Park Shin-Hye |
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| Patricia Arquette as the reluctant heroine in Beyond Rangoon |
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| Phoebe Cates This picture is from Drop Dead Fred. Pheobe had four different hairdos in this movie. Her character started out with long beautiful hair and then her mother had it cut shoulder length. Then Drop Dead Fred altered it while she was sleeping with some mischief. And finally she fixed that by having it cut into a pageboy. The asymmetric Drop Dead Fred 'do was actually quite attractive; it was a sort of half-a-pageboy. |
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| Prince Valiant As a boy, he probably started his career as a page, and then never changed the haircut. |
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| Rachael Leigh Cook |
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| Renee Zellweger Lucy Hill in the movie New In Town (2009) |
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| Rita Tushingham Nancy Jones in the movie The Knack (1965) |
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| Robia La Morte Jenny Calendar from Buffy the Vampire Slayer |
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| Robin Tunney Teresa Lisbon in The Mentalist |
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| Romola Garai Cassandra Mortmain in I Capture The Castle |
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| Roxann Dawson Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres in Star Trek: Voyager |
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| Sabrina Lloyd Who is Sabrina Lloyd? This is from the movie, Father Hood. |
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| Sally Field |
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| Sally Kellerman as Dr. Elizabeth Dehner in the Star Trek episode: "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (1966) |
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| Sandie Shaw |
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| Sandra Bullock Ah, Sandra, the most beautiful woman in the world; she needs to stick with this look. |
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| Sara Major This is Sara Major from The Tribe as Patsy, the other half of the inseparable Patsy & Cloe, obviously in a wig. |
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| Sarah Michelle Gellar Buffy the vampire slayer! |
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| Sarah Hughes |
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| Sarah Polley one of the most talented young actors to come out of Canada in recent times |
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| Sela Ward |
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| Selma Blair from Legally Blonde |
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| Stefanie Powers The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. in a lesser role. |
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| Susan Dey |
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| Tara Fitzgerald in Brassed Off!. |
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| Teri Hatcher as a faithful recreation of the comic book Lois Lane in Lois & Clark |
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| Thora Birch as Enid in Ghost World (also a candidate for the Cute Girls In Glasses web page) |
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| Uma Thurman from Pulp Fiction in a wig |
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| Vanessa-Mae "The Violin Player" |
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| Victoria Beckham is Posh Spice of The Spice Girls |
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| Victoria Principal |
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| Victoria Spence Salene in The Tribe |
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| Wendy Padbury as Zoe Herriot in Dr. Who |
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| Winona Ryder |
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| Zain Verjee anchor for CNN International |
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| Zooey Deschanel |
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Splitting Hairs
People sometimes insist that the hairstyles on this page are bobs and not pageboys. At the top of the page, I provide the American Heritage Dictionary definition of a pageboy. Many of the haircuts fit that definition, so there are some pageboys in this collection. My understanding, from a little internet research, is that a bob is shorter than a pageboy. However, shorter is a subjective term. Louise Brooks is definitely a bob. Furthermore, the hairstyle doesn't necessarily have to be shoulder length to be a pageboy; note that the dictionary definition says "usually" shoulder length. So the pageboy ends and the bob begins somewhere between shoulder length and bald. I put the line somewhere near the chin. If it's shorter than that, it's a bob. If longer, then it's a pageboy. The chin length criteria is not arbitrary because, if shorter than that, the hair is no longer altered by gravity and inertia; the hair doesn't move much; it's not alive; it's boring.
Submissions
I will accept submissions. Specific people that I'm looking for include: Diana Rigg, Paula Marshall, Hope Davis, Kelly McGillis in The Babe, and Gérard Depardieu. I list these because I've seen them or at least recall seeing each of them in a pageboy. Also Hayley Atwell in Brideshead Revisited and Christine Baranski in Mamma Mia! I'm almost certain that I've seen a photo of both Sonny and Cher in pageboys. I'd really like to get a copy of that; it's my Holy Grail of pageboy photos. I would also like to find better pictures of Rachael Leigh Cook, Calista Flockhart, Sela Ward, and Mary Tyler Moore.
Retractions
If you find yourself mentioned here and would not like to be, simply send your request to Abadeo@sbcglobal.net and I will remove any reference to you.
