icon). Your mileage, as the saying goes, may vary. (Why three buttons, by the way, and not four? Because three is the traditional number of pearl buttons on a mousquetaire.)
The following list is intended to present visitors to this site with a guide to movies that have scenes in which the actresses wear long gloves. It's not intended to be comprehensive; if you have other titles, please feel free to contribute them! (Due to the fact that the availability and number of vidcap galleries change frequently, I can't provide specific links for the movies with images available on-site; for a comprehensive list of what I have to offer for your viewing, please visit Opera Gloves in Movies and On TV: The Index. Also note that not all the movies listed on this page are currently available as vidcap galleries on this site, although many of them are in the process of being vidcapped; be sure to check the What's New page for the latest updates.)
NOTE: I have marked films that I personally think to have especially good opera-glove scenes, or which have multiple lengthy scenes featuring opera gloves, with three pearl buttons (the icon). Your mileage, as the saying goes, may vary. (Why three buttons, by the way, and not four? Because three is the traditional number of pearl buttons on a mousquetaire.)
101 Dalmatians - Glenn Close
Absolute Power - Judy Davis
The Adventures of Mark Twain - Alexis Smith
The Affairs of Susan - Joan Fontaine
The Age of Innocence - Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder
Afterglow - Julie Christie
Ain't Misbehavin' - Piper Laurie and Mamie Van Doren
An American In Paris - Leslie Caron
American Psycho - Reese Witherspoon
Anastasia - Ingrid Bergman
Anna Karenina (1935) - Greta Garbo
Anna Karenina (1997) - Sophie Marceau and others
Animal Instincts - Shannon Whirry
Animal Instincts 2 - Shannon Whirry
Animal Instincts: The Seductress - Wendy Schumacher
Annie's Royal Adventure - Joan Collins
The Apartment - Shirley MacLaine
April in Paris - Doris Day
Around the World in 80 Days - Marlene Dietrich
Artists and Models - Dorothy Malone and Shirley MacLaine
Aspen Extreme - Finola Hughes
Attack of the 60-Foot Centerfold - J. J. North, Raelyn Saalman, and Tammy Parks
Baby Face Nelson - Lisa Zane
Backtrack - Jodie Foster
The Bandwagon - Cyd Charisse
Barb Wire - Pamela Anderson Lee
The Barkleys of Broadway - Ginger Rogers
Batman and Robin - Elle MacPherson
Batman Forever - Nicole Kidman
The Battle of Austerlitz - Claudia Cardinale and Martine Carol
Beau Brummel - Elizabeth Taylor
The Beautician and the Beast - Fran Drescher
Beautiful but Dangerous - Gina Lollobrigida
Bell, Book and Candle - Kim Novak, Janice Rule
The Belle of New York - Vera-Ellen
Beverly Hills Cop II - Brigitte Nielsen
Big Night - Minnie Driver
Bittersweet - Jeanette MacDonald
Black Tights - Moira Shearer, Cyd Charisse (especially the Charisse sequence)
The Blue Iguana - Pamela Gidley
The Bobo - Britt Ekland
Body Chemistry 4 - Shannon Tweed
Body of Influence - Shannon Whirry
Bonfire of the Vanities - Kim Cattrall and Melanie Griffith
Born To Be Bad - Joan Fontaine
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Audrey Hepburn
A Breath of Scandal - Sophia Loren
Bus Stop - Marilyn Monroe
Cafe Society - Lara Flynn Boyle and others
Camille - Greta Garbo
The Carpetbaggers - Martha Hyer
Cast A Deadly Spell - Julianne Moore
The Cat's Meow - Kirsten Dunst, Jennifer Tilly, Joanna Lumley
Chances Are - Cybill Shepherd
Chaplin - Marisa Tomei, Diane Lane
Charley's Aunt - Kay Francis
Chain of Desire - Linda Fiorentino
Clean Slate - Valeria Golino
The Climax - Susanna Foster, Jane Farrar, June Vincent
Clue - Lesley-Ann Warren and Eileen Brennan
The Conspirator - Elizabeth Taylor
Conquest - Greta Garbo
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover - Helen Mirren
The Cool Surface - Teri Hatcher
Cover Girl - Rita Hayworth
Cry Baby - Amy Locaine
Dave - Sigourney Weaver
De Mayerling a Sarajevo - Edwige Feuillere
Deceived - Goldie Hawn
Demolition Man - Sandra Bullock
Desiree - Jean Simmons
Destry Rides Again - Marlene Dietrich
Dinner At Eight - Jean Harlow
Doctor At Sea - Brigitte Bardot
Doctor Zhivago - Julie Christie
Down With Love - Renee Zellweger
Drop Dead Gorgeous - Kirstie Alley
The Earrings of Madame de... - Danielle Darrieux
Easter Parade - Judy Garland, Ann Miller
Easy To Wed - Lucille Ball
Ed Wood - Sarah Jessica Parker
Edward the King - various actresses (especially the last seven episodes of the mini-series)
Emma - Gwyneth Paltrow, Greta Scacchi
The Emperor Waltz - Joan Fontaine
Exit to Eden - Dana Delany
Fatal Instinct - Sean Young
55 Days at Peking - Ava Gardner and others
Finding Graceland - Bridget Fonda
The First Traveling Saleslady - Ginger Rogers
Flame of the Barbary Coast - Ann Dvorak
For Richer, For Poorer - Kirstie Alley
For The Love Of Mary - Deanna Durbin
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The Four Feathers (2001) - Kate Holmes
Four For Texas - Anita Ekberg
Four Rooms - Madonna and Tamlyn Tomita
The Foxiest Girl in Paris - Martine Carol
The French Line - Jane Russell, various starlets
Funny Face - Audrey Hepburn
Gangster World - Stacey Williams
Gentleman Jim - Alexis Smith
Gentlemen Marry Brunettes - Jane Russell, Jeanne Crain
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell
Ghost Ship - Francesca Rettondini
Gigi - Leslie Caron, Eva Gabor
Gilda - Rita Hayworth
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing - Joan Collins
The Glenn Miller Story - Frances Langford
The Golden Bowl - Uma Thurman
Good Girls Don't - Julia Parton
Gotham - Virginia Madsen
The Great American Beauty Contest - Farrah Fawcett
The Great Caruso - Ann Blyth
The Great Lover - Rhonda Fleming (actually elbow-length, not really opera-length, but still a good sequence)
The Great Race - Natalie Wood and others
The Great Sinner - Ava Gardner
Greystoke - Andie MacDowell
Guns - Cynthia Brimhall
Guys and Dolls - Vivian Blaine & The Goldwyn Girls
Gypsy (1962) - Natalie Wood
Gypsy - Cynthia Gibb
Hamlet - Julie Christie and Kate Winslet
Hangover Square - Linda Darnell
He Said, She Said - Sharon Stone
Heartbreakers - Sigourney Weaver
Heathers - Shannen Doherty
Hello Again - Shelley Long
Hello, Dolly! - Barbra Streisand
Here Come The Girls - Arlene Dahl
Hollywood or Bust - Anita Ekberg
Hot Shots! Part Deux
Hotel Paradiso - Gina Lollobrigida
The House of Mirth - Gillian Anderson
How The Grinch Stole Christmas - Christine Baranski
How to Marry A Millionaire - Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall
The Hudsucker Proxy - Anna Nicole Smith
I Can Get It For You Wholesale - Susan Hayward
I Love Trouble - Julia Roberts
An Ideal Husband - Cate Blanchett, Minnie Driver, Julianne Moore
Imperial Venus - Gina Lollobrigida, others
An Inconvenient Woman -Rebecca DeMornay
Indiscreet - Ingrid Bergman
The Innocent - Laura Antonelli and Jennifer O'Neill
It Happened In Athens - Jayne Mansfield
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy: The Untold Story - Jaclyn Smith
The Jayne Mansfield Story - Loni Anderson
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - Joan Collins
The Josephine Baker Story - Lynn Whitfield
The Kid from Brooklyn - Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Eve Arden
The King and I - Deborah Kerr
King Ralph - Camille Corduri
Kiss Me Kate - Ann Miller
La Femme et Le Pantin - Brigitte Bardot
La Ronde - Danielle Darrieux
Lace - various actresses
Lace II - Phoebe Cates and others
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981) - Sylvia Kristel
The Lady Eve - Barbara Stanwyck
Lady L - Sophia Loren
Lady of Burlesque - Barbara Stanwyck
Lady Sings the Blues - Diana Ross
The Lady Vanishes - Cybill Shepherd
The Last Action Hero
The Last Emperor
The Last Remake of Beau Geste - Ann-Margret
The Law and the Lady - Greer Garson
The Legend of Lylah Clare - Kim Novak
Les Girls - Kay Kendall, Mitzi Gaynor and Tania Elg
Les Grandes Manouevres - Brigitte Bardot, Michele Morgan
Let's Make Love - Marilyn Monroe
Life is Beautiful - Nicoletta Braschi
Lillian Russell - Alice Faye
Lillie - Francesca Annis and many others
Liquid Dreams - Candice Daly
Living in Oblivion - Catherine Keener
Long Gone - Virginia Madsen
The Lot (AMC TV series)- Sara Botsford and Linda Cardellini
Love and Death - Olga Georges-Picot
Love At Large - Anne Archer
Love at Stake - Barbara Carrera
Love in the Afternoon - Audrey Hepburn
Love Potion Number 9 - Sandra Bullock
Lovely To Look At - Kathryn Grayson, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Marge Champion and Ann Miller
Lulu Belle - Dorothy Lamour
Madame - Sophia Loren
The Magnificent Ambersons - Anne Baxter and Dolores Costello
Malibu Express - Sybil Danning
Mannequin - Kim Cattrall
Marriage Is A Private Affair - Lana Turner
Masquerade in Mexico - Dorothy Lamour
Masters of Menace - Teri Copley
Mata Hari - Sylvia Kristel
Mayerling - Catherine Deneuve, Ava Gardner
Meet Me in Las Vegas - Liliane Montevecchi
The Merry Widow (1930's) - Jeanette MacDonald
The Merry Widow - Lana Turner
Midnight Lace - Myrna Loy (Doris Day is gloved through most of the film, but not in opera-length gloves
The Millionairess - Sophia Loren (not opera-length gloves, but one of the sexiest glove scenes in film)
Miracles - Anita Mui
Mirror Images - Delia Sheppard
Model by Day - Shannon Tweed and Famke Janssen
Monte Carlo - Joan Collins, Lauren Hutton and Lisa Eilbacher
Moon Over Parador - Sonia Braga
Moulin Rouge (1950's) - Zsa Zsa Gabor
Moulin Rouge (2001)- Nicole Kidman
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle - Jennifer Jason Leigh and Gwyneth Paltrow
My Blue Heaven - Betty Grable
My Forbidden Past - Ava Gardner
My Wonderful Life - Carol Alt
The Naked Detective - Taylor St. Claire
The Naked Gun 33 1/3 - Anna Nicole Smith and Raquel Welch
Naked Killer - Various actresses
Napoleon (1950's) - Michele Morgan, Danielle Darrieux, etc.
Napoleon (2003) - Isabella Rossellini, etc.
Napoleon and Josephine - Jacqueline Bisset, Stephanie Beacham
A New Kind of Love - Joanne Woodward
Nicholas and Alexandra - Janet Suzman
Night And Day - Alexis Smith and others
The Night They Raided Minsky's - Britt Ekland
No Way Out - Sean Young
Norma Jeane & Marilyn - Mira Sorvino
The Nutt House - Traci Lords
On Approval - Beatrice Lillie and Googie Withers
On The Town - Ann Miller
One Night at McCool's - Liv Tyler
Only You - Kelly Preston
The Opposite Sex - Ann Sheridan
The Oscar - Elke Sommer
Our Man Flint - various actresses
Out To Sea - Dyan Cannon
Pal Joey - Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak
Palais Royale - Kim Cattrall
Paris Holiday - Anita Ekberg
Parnell and the Englishwoman - Francesca Annis
Partners In Crime: The Crackler - Francesca Annis
Phantom of the Opera - Susanna Foster, Jane Farrar
Picture Mommy Dead - Zsa Zsa Gabor
Pillow Talk - Doris Day
The Playgirl - Shelley Winters and Colleen Miller
Plucking The Daisy - Brigitte Bardot
Pocketful of Miracles - various actresses (also see "Miracles", Jackie Chan's remake)
Poor Little Rich Girl - Farrah Fawcett
The Portrait of a Lady - Nicole Kidman
Portrait of a Stripper - Lesley-Ann Warren
Presenting Lily Mars - Judy Garland
Pretty Woman - Julia Roberts
Princess Caraboo - Phoebe Cates
The Princess Diaries - Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews
The Prince and the Showgirl - Marilyn Monroe
The Prisoner of Zenda (1950's) - Deborah Kerr and Jane Greer
The Prisoner of Zenda (1979) - Elke Sommer and Lynne Frederick
Prizzi's Honor - Anjelica Huston
Public Enemy - Jean Harlow
Ragtime - Elizabeth McGovern, others
Rasputin - Greta Scacchi and others
The Rawhide Years - Colleen Miller
The Red Shoes - Moira Shearer
Relative Values - Stephanie Beacham
The Reluctant Debutante - Kay Kendall, Angela Lansbury and Sandra Dee
Rich, Young and Pretty - Danielle Darrieux
Richard III (1995) - Annette Bening, Kristin Scott-Thomas
The Road to Hong Kong - Joan Collins (elbow-length)
Roba da Ricchi - Francesca Dellera
Robotrix - various actresses
The Rocketeer - Jennifer Connelly
Rocky and Bullwinkle - Rene Russo
Roman Holiday - Audrey Hepburn
Romance on the High Seas - Doris Day
The Rumor Mill - Elizabeth Taylor
Sabrina - Audrey Hepburn
Saigon - Veronica Lake
Salome, Where She Danced - Yvonne De Carlo
San Francisco - Jeannette MacDonald
Saratoga Trunk - Ingrid Bergman
Satan In High Heels - Sabrina
Scandal - Joanne Whalley-Kilmer
School Daze - Tisha Campbell
The Secret Agent Club - Lesley-Anne Down
Secret Games 2: The Escort - various actresses
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - Virginia Mayo
Secrets - Stephanie Beacham
Sense and Sensibility - Emma Thompson
Seven Thieves - Joan Collins
The Seven Year Itch - Marilyn Monroe
Sex and the Single Girl - Natalie Wood
Shall We Dance - Ginger Rogers
Sharpe's Regiment - Abigail Cruttenden, Caroline Langrishe
Sharpe's Justice - Abigail Cruttenden, Caroline Langrishe
Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady - Morgan Fairchild
She's Working Her Way Through College - Virginia Mayo and Patrice Wymore
Shine On, Harvest Moon - Ann Sheridan, Irene Manning and Mary Wilson
Showboat (1936) - Irene Dunne
Showboat (1952) - Kathryn Grayson
Simply Irresistible - Patricia Clarkson
Sincerely Yours - Dorothy Malone
Sins - Joan Collins, Arielle Dombasle, Marisa Berenson, Capuchine and Catherine Mary Stewart
Sins of the Night - Deborah Shelton
Sissi (Austrian/German trilogy) - Romy Schneider
Smiles of a Summer Night
So This Is Love - Kathryn Grayson
Someone To Watch Over Me - Mimi Rogers
Something For The Boys - Vivian Blaine
Something In The Wind - Deanna Durbin
Somewhere In Time - Jane Seymour
Son of Paleface - Jane Russell
South Beach - Vanity
Spy Hard - Talisa Soto
Spymaker - Kristin Scott Thomas and others
Stars and Stripes Forever - Debra Paget
Strapless - Blair Brown and Bridget Fonda
The Stud - Joan Collins
The Stuntman - Gina Lollobrigida
Sugar Time - Mary Louise Parker, Deborah Duchene
Summer Holiday - Marilyn Maxwell
The Swan - Grace Kelly<
Swann In Love - Ornelia Muti, Fanny Ardant
Take Me To Town - Ann Sheridan
The Tall Guy - Emma Thompson
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Cate Blanchett and Gwyneth Paltrow
The Temptation of Dr. Antonio - Anita Ekberg (part of "Boccaccio '70"
The Terror of Dr. Hichcock - Barbara Steele
That Hamilton Woman - Vivien Leigh
That Midnight Kiss - Kathryn Grayson
That Naughty Girl - Brigitte Bardot
There's No Business Like Show Business - Mitzi Gaynor
The Thomas Crown Affair - Rene Russo
Three Little Words - Vera-Ellen, Arlene Dahl
The Time, The Place And The Girl - Janis Paige and Martha Vickers
Titanic (TV movie) - Catherine Zeta-Jones
Titanic - Kate Winslett
To Catch A Thief - Grace Kelly
Toast of New Orleans - Kathryn Grayson
Tonight and Every Night - Rita Hayworth
Topsy-Turvy - various actresses
Tracy and the T-Rex - Denise Richards
Transylvania Twist - Teri Copley
Trial by Jury - Joanne Whalley-Kilmer
The Truth About Women - Eva Gabor
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles - Ann-Margret
Two Weeks With Love - Jane Powell
Under the Cherry Moon - Kristin Scott-Thomas and Francesca Annis
Une Parisienne - Brigitte Bardot
Unfaithfully Yours - Linda Darnell
The Unfaithfuls - Gina Lollobrigida
The Unsinkable Molly Brown - Debbie Reynolds
The Velocity of Gary - Salma Hayek
The Velvet Touch - Rosalind Russell
Vice Academy II - Ginger Lynn Allen
Viva Las Vegas - Ann-Margret
Viva Maria - Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau
War and Peace - Audrey Hepburn and Anita Ekberg
Weird Science - Kelly LeBrock
The West Point Story - Doris Day
What A Way To Go! - Shirley MacLaine
Wild Wild West - Salma Hayek
With A Song In My Heart - Susan Hayward
Words and Music - Cyd Charisse and Dee Turnell
Wrongfully Accused - Kelly LeBrock
The Young Girls of Rochefort - Catherine Deneuve and Francoise Dorleac
Zapped - Heather Thomas
Ziegfield Follies (1946) - Marge Champion
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