Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › PageboyPageboy - Wikipedia

    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.

  2. The "Prince Valiant" haircut, a variant of the pageboy resembling Val's, was once popular, particularly for children. Harvey Kurtzman and Wally Wood satirized the strip with Prince Violent in Mad #13 (July 1954), which ends in Violent losing his page-boy haircut to "the fair maid Alota" in the best of all causes.

    • WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST PERSONALLY REQUESTED IT. Newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst—the inspiration for Orson Welles’s myopic character in Citizen Kane—isn’t usually thought of as a comics fan, but he was the one who insisted that cartoonist Hal Foster move away from his comic adaptation of Tarzan to mount a new strip exclusively for Hearst’s newspapers.
    • THE PRINCE WAS JUST A KID. The early weeks of Foster’s strip were lacking in the muscular, galloping prince with the pageboy haircut that readers typically associate with the strip.
    • IT WAS ORIGINALLY SUPPOSED TO BE A FANTASY EPIC. Prince Valiant is far from a historical account of Medieval times, but Foster’s original intention was to inject more fantastical elements into the series.
    • THE STRIP WAS SURPRISINGLY CONTEMPORARY. Though Prince Valiant never adopted a more current hairstyle, his creator did factor in the state of the world.
  3. People also ask

  4. Aug 6, 1994 · King Arthur knew Prince Valiant was a knight beyond reproach. But could he have predicted the warrior with the silly-looking haircut would last 3,000 episodes?

  5. Sep 20, 2002 · Coming to her aid is Haku (Jason Marsden), a severe-looking boy with a Prince Valiant haircut.

  6. Feb 10, 2014 · Every Prince Hairstyle From 1978 to 2013, in One Chart. Over the course of his 35-plus years in music, Prince has found a lot of ways to be funky. Case in point: His hair, which he’s...

  7. Feb 23, 2023 · The Prince Valiant haircut is a variant of the Pageboy style, resembling Val's hairstyle. It was once very popular, especially among children. It was so trendy that even famous people like Lassie, Pete Rose, and Phil Donahue had their hair done by the same hairdresser who beautified Prince Valiant.

  1. People also search for