For the Love of Opera Gloves presents a (non-comprehensive) list of the movies that have particularly good scenes where the actresses are wearing opera gloves. Three pearl buttons (
) indicate a film that we especially recommend!
The Affairs of Susan (Joan Fontaine)
The Age of Innocence (Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder)
The Ambassador's Daughter (Olivia de Havilland, Myrna Loy)
Anna Karenina (1935) (Greta Garbo)
Anna Karenina (1948) (Vivien Leigh)
Anna Karenina (1967) (Tatyana Samojlava)
Anna Karenina (1997) (Sophie Marceau)
Animal Instincts (Shannon Whirry)
Animal Instincts: The Seductress (Wendy Schumacher)
Annie: A Royal Adventure! (Joan Collins)
April In Paris (Doris Day)
Auntie Mame (Rosalind Russell)
The Battle of Austerlitz (Claudia Cardinale and Martine Carol)
Beau Brummell (Elizabeth Taylor, Rosemary Harris)
Beautiful But Dangerous (Gina Lollobrigida)
Bell, Book and Candle (Kim Novak, Janice Rule)
Bitter Sweet (Jeanette MacDonald)
Black Tights (Cyd Charisse, Moira Shearer)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Audrey Hepburn)
A Breath of Scandal (Sophia Loren)
Bus Stop (Marilyn Monroe)
Call Me Madam (Ethel Merman, Vera-Ellen)
The Cat's Meow (Kirsten Dunst, Jennifer Tilly, Joanna Lumley)
Chaplin (Marisa Tomei, Diane Lane)
The Climax (Susanna Foster, Jane Farrar, June Vincent)
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (Helen Mirren)
Cafe Society (Lara Flynn Boyle et al.)
Dangerous Liaisons (2003) (Catherine Deneuve, Leelee Sobieski)
Death of a Scoundrel (Yvonne De Carlo, Zsa Zsa Gabor)
The Dolly Sisters (Betty Grable, June Haver)
Down With Love (Renee Zellweger, Sarah Paulson)
Dreamboat (Ginger Rogers, Anne Francis)
The Earrings of Madame de... (Danielle Darrieux)
Edward The King (TV miniseries) (multiple actresses)
Emma (Gwyneth Paltrow, Greta Scacchi)
The Emperor Waltz (Joan Fontaine)
Fatal Instinct (Sean Young)
55 Days At Peking (Ava Gardner, Elizabeth Sellars)
The First Traveling Saleslady (Ginger Rogers)
Flame of Barbary Coast (Ann Dvorak)
Forever Amber (Linda Darnell)
Forever Knight (TV series, 1st and 2nd seasons) (Deborah Duchene)
That Forsyte Woman (Greer Garson, Janet Leigh)
French Can-Can (Maria Felix, Francoise Arnoul)
The French Line (Jane Russell)
From the Terrace (Joanne Woodward, Ina Balin)
Funny Face (Audrey Hepburn, Dovima and Suzy Parker)
Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (Jane Russell, Jeanne Crain)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell)
Gigi (Leslie Caron and Eva Gabor)
Gilda (Rita Hayworth)
The Great Race (Natalie Wood)
The Great Sinner (Ava Gardner)
Guys and Dolls (Vivian Blaine)
Gypsy (Natalie Wood)
Happy-Go-Lovely (Vera-Ellen)
The Heroic Trio (Anita Mui, Michelle Yeoh)
How To Marry A Millionaire (Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall)
I Can Get It For You Wholesale (Susan Hayward)
Imperial Venus (Gina Lollobrigida)
The Innocent (Laura Antonelli, Jennifer O'Neill)
It Happened In Athens (Jayne Mansfield)
Jackie Chan's Miracles (Anita Mui)
The Jayne Mansfield Story (Loni Anderson)
Just For You (Jane Wyman)
The Last Remake of Beau Geste (Ann-Margret)
The Law and the Lady (Greer Garson)
Les Girls (Kay Kendall, Mitzi Gaynor, Taina Elg)
Les Grandes Manoeuvres (Michele Morgan, Brigitte Bardot)
Lillie (TV miniseries) (Francesca Annis et al.)
Love At Stake (Barbara Carrera)
Lovely To Look At (Kathryn Grayson, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Ann Miller, Marge Champion)
Lulu Belle (Dorothy Lamour)
Madame (Sophia Loren)
Mademoiselle Striptease (Plucking The Daisy) (Brigitte Bardot)
Magnificent Doll (Ginger Rogers)
Mata Hari (Sylvia Kristel)
The Merry Widow (1934) (Jeanette MacDonald)
The Merry Widow (1952) (Lana Turner)
Monte Carlo (TV miniseries) (Joan Collins, Lisa Eilbacher, Lauren Hutton)
Moulin Rouge (1952) (Zsa Zsa Gabor, Suzanne Flon)
Moulin Rouge (2001) (Nicole Kidman)
My Blue Heaven (Betty Grable, Mitzi Gaynor)
My Forbidden Past (Ava Gardner)
Naked Killer (Chingmy Yau)
Napoleon (1955) (Danielle Darrieux, Gianna Maria Canale, Michele Morgan, Dany Robin and Maria Schell)
Napoleon (2003) (Isabella Rossellini)
Napoleon and Josephine (Jacqueline Bisset, Stephanie Beacham)
A New Kind of Love (Joanne Woodward)
Night and Day (Alexis Smith)
No Way Out (Sean Young)
On Approval (Beatrice Lillie, Googie Withers)
Pal Joey (Kim Novak, Rita Hayworth, Barbara Nichols)
Phantom of the Opera (Susanna Foster, Jane Farrar)
Poor Little Rich Girl (Farrah Fawcett)
Pride and Prejudice (Greer Garson)
The Prince and the Showgirl (Marilyn Monroe)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) (Madeleine Carroll, Mary Astor)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1952) (Deborah Kerr, Jane Greer)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1979) (Elke Sommer, Lynne Frederick, Catherine Schell)
The Reluctant Debutante (Kay Kendall, Sandra Dee, Angela Lansbury)
Rhapsody (Elizabeth Taylor)
Richard III (Annette Bening, Kristin Scott Thomas)
San Antonio (Alexis Smith)
San Francisco (Jeanette MacDonald)
Saratoga Trunk (Ingrid Bergman)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Virginia Mayo)
Seven Thieves (Joan Collins)
The Seven Year Itch (Marilyn Monroe)
Sex and the Single Girl (Natalie Wood)
Sharpe's Justice (TV movie) (Abigail Cruttenden, Caroline Langrishe)
Sharpe's Regiment (TV movie) (Abigail Cruttenden, Caroline Langrishe)
She's Working Her Way Through College (Virginia Mayo, Patrice Wymore)
Shine On, Harvest Moon (Ann Sheridan, Marie Wilson and Irene Manning)
Showboat (1936) (Irene Dunne, Queenie Smith)
Showboat (1952) (Kathryn Grayson, Marge Champion)
Sins (TV miniseries) (Joan Collins, Marisa Berenson, Capuchine, Catherine Mary Stewart, Arielle Dombasle)
Sissi (trilogy) (Romy Schneider)
Slightly French (Dorothy Lamour)
Smiles of a Summer Night (Eva Dahlbeck)
So This Is Love (Kathryn Grayson)
Somewhere In Time (Jane Seymour)
Son of Paleface (Jane Russell)
Sugartime (Mary-Louise Parker, Deborah Duchene)
Swann In Love (Ornella Muti, Fanny Ardant)
Sweet Rosie O'Grady (Betty Grable)
Take Me To Town (Ann Sheridan)
Titanic (1996 TV-movie) (Catherine Zeta-Jones, Eva Marie Saint, Marilu Henner)
Toast of New Orleans (Kathryn Grayson)
Tonight And Every Night (Rita Hayworth)
Topsy-Turvy
Unfaithfully Yours (1948)(Linda Darnell)
The Velvet Touch (Rosalind Russell)
Viva Maria! (Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau)
Wabash Avenue (Betty Grable)
War and Peace (Audrey Hepburn, Anita Ekberg)
With A Song In My Heart (Susan Hayward)
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