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The first time we see Wanda Hawley’s scalp glint beneath the single overhead bulb, the cut is already a manifesto: a declaration of war against the gilded cage called “prospective matrimony.” In Bobbed Hair—a title that refuses the definite article, as though any additional word might muffle its electric snap—hair is ...

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Thomas N. Heffron

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" The first time we see Wanda Hawley’s scalp glint beneath the single overhead bulb, the cut is already a manifesto: a declaration of war against the gilded cage called “prospective matrimony.” In Bobbed Hair—a title that refuses the definite article, as though any additional word might muffle its electric snap—hair is never mere filament; it is currency, contraband, crown, and coup d’état. Director Kenneth Webb, working from a scenario by Harvey F. Thew and Hector Turnbull, opens the film insid..."

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Harvey F. Thew, Hector Turnbull
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