Goodbye, Columbus/ Ali MacGraw Style

Ali MacGraw is an underrated fashion icon, and my personal favorite. From her tomboy style to distinctive features (love those thick brows), she is an icon for fresh and unique beauty. The style is classic, chic, and utterly American. I made this video to showcase all the adorable looks featured in the film. Please enjoy!

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[thebjm1967]

i have been obsessed with this movie since i was 17. i love it!!!!

[diddymuck]

@KUTVgroucho actually Woody Allen's works and most of Neil Simon's film versions I find hilarious and thoughtful. This flick was apparently a showcase of young talent rather than a film to be thought of as a film.

[KUTVgroucho]

@diddymuck Like Woody Allen, Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David, etc, if you don't "get" the whole New York immigrant Jewish subculture, a film like this may mystify you. It's like when I once watched The Sunshine Boys with a soon-to-be-ex girlfriend. I was in stitches through all of it and she barely laughed. By the way, she was from North Carolina. 'Nuff said.

[KUTVgroucho]

Yes, Ali MacGraw had style and chic to burn, but she couldn't act her way out of a paper bag.

[rickydevil32]

Thanks soo much for posting this, I so wish that someone would post the actual movie....it is almost impossible to find to buy or rent anywhere.....great job on the video!!...one of my favorites and reminds me so much of 1969-my senior yr in HS.

[diddymuck]

Or maybe its people are funny looking unless you're the star and the leading lady??? (everyone else seems to be!!!)

[diddymuck]

I never understood the point of this movie. An indoctrination of what being an urban poor student is like when you want to latch onto a rich guy's daughter??? A reaaaallllly long commercial for birth control? a way for future tv people to get their faces ensconched in the viewing audience??

[bluedasher74]

Love her. I still have her book Moving Pictures which I bought in 1991.

And wow, her hair in this movie was rather short considering how long it was in Love Story (which was released a year after Goodbye, Columbus). It grew quickly, I guess.

[squeapler]

The fact that the character is Jewish but her clothes are totally WASP plays up an important theme of the movie, basically that the rich Jewish family is trying to assimilate and blend in with the rich gentiles. You have to be a very beautiful girl like Ali McGraw to carry off some of those looks because the clothes are so very plain and even sort of shapeless, that they only look good on a very lovely woman.

[ra86226]

My mom is slightly younger than Ali and she went to see this film when it came out mainly because of the clothes. Many of the clothes worn, my mother wore at that time. It was all Villager, which was what all young, preppy girls wore. Not all people in the 1960's were hippies. This was WASPish style, even though the character was Jewish in the film. The clothes are basically timeless and are still worn today by the country club set