For women In the early 1950s, the
New York City hairdresser M. Lewis popularized this style. Singer
Toni Tennille of the 1970s pop duet
Captain & Tennille wore one as her
signature look along with 1976 Olympic champion and 1976 World champion figure skater
Dorothy Hamill. In the Oscar-winning film ''
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the villainous Nurse Ratched is known for her pageboy. In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Gone", Buffy has her hair cut into a pageboy. In the 1960s TV cartoon Underdog'', the show's
damsel in distress Sweet Polly Purebred (voiced by
Norma MacMillan) has this hairstyle as her
trademark look.
Mia Wallace in
Pulp Fiction also sports a pageboy.
AnnaSophia Robb as
Violet Beauregarde and
Missi Pyle as Violet's mother Scarlett Beauregarde in Tim Burton's film version of
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory both sport pageboys. In the 2003 TV series
All Grown Up! (a spin-off of
Rugrats),
Angelica Pickles (voiced by
Cheryl Chase) sports a pageboy.
Velma Dinkley, of the various
Scooby-Doo animated series, has worn a short pageboy from her first appearance.
Rei Ayanami from
Neon Genesis Evangelion wears a shaggy pageboy. At the end of the Japanese anime series
Kill la Kill, Satsuki Kiryuin cuts her hair into a page style. In
John Green's novel
The Fault in Our Stars, narrator and main character Hazel Grace Lancaster sports a pageboy haircut. The most prominent women to wear pageboys in the 1970s and 1980s were actress
Joanna Lumley as the character Purdey in television's
The New Avengers, and
Diana, Princess of Wales. In fact it was also known as the "Purdey Cut" and the "Lady Di" in the UK at the time.
For men ( 1475). The pageboy was popular among men during the
early Renaissance. This haircut was also popular in the 1900s with young boys as it was first popularized by child actors, such as
John Tansey and, later,
Jackie Coogan. The pageboy look on boys is often referred to as the
Dutch Boy look after the popular fictional character. The pageboy returned to male fashion in the 1960s for grown men with straight hair after getting popularized by British rock bands such as
The Beatles and
The Rolling Stones. This was copied by many of the U.S. garage rock/punk bands, including
The Chocolate Watchband,
? and the Mysterians,
The Monkees and the
Count Five.
Andy Warhol and several members of
The Velvet Underground also sported the androgynous haircut. The early
Ramones haircuts were elongated pageboys, also sported, though less long, by the male members of
Blondie. In the 1980s, the haircut became a symbol of garage punk and UK beat music as seen on the album
Rockabilly Psychosis and the Garage Disease and worn by bands with 1960s influences, such as
The Barracudas and
Primal Scream.
Mansun lead guitarist,
Dominic Chad, was known for sporting this haircut in the late nineties. Although it is currently a hairstyle worn far more by women, many men have worn it, including characters such as
Mowgli in
Disney's 1967 version of The Jungle Book,
Luke Skywalker in 1977's
Star Wars: A New Hope,
He-Man in his 1980s incarnation, Anton Chigurh in
No Country for Old Men, and the eponymous star of the American comic strip
Prince Valiant. The latter instance inspired the pageboy's sometime nickname of "the Prince Valiant" or "Prince Valiant cut". The character of
Willy Wonka as played by
Johnny Depp in the film version of
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory wore this hairstyle.
David McCallum wore the hairstyle in the 1975 TV series
The Invisible Man and child actor
Adam Rich popularized it for children in the series
Eight Is Enough, which ran from 1977 to 1981. Roughly during the run of this show, 1977–1981, hairstyles of similar length over the ears became almost universal for American boys and even young men. English musician,
Liam Gallagher during the later days of
Oasis’s career in the 2000s, and later in the early 2010s, during his stint with
Beady Eye sported this hairstyle. The hairstyle is also displayed by the brothers Anthony and Phillip Bonfiglio, on the animated series
F Is for Family. ==See also==