In this video, hair dresser Betty Glasow talks about working on “A Hard Day’s Night.” Note: it starts with a clip that includes Jimmy Nichol, the temporary touring drummer who filled in for Ringo, while he was having his tonsils taken out.
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These pictures show Betty setting the hair of beauteous Prue Bury. (Prue’s name is pronounced like “blueberry.”)
The next picture is a truly delightful one of Prudence, taken before filming started of the scene with her and Pattie Boyd. Click to see a 1024×768 scan.
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See how Prue still has the clips in her hair? The newspaper next to Prue says “the Beatles” and if you look at the paper John Lennon is holding it says, “she’s with it! she’s got it!” That is so perfect. Prue is still very with it and she’s definitely still got it. I’m fairly sure that Ringo was sitting across from John.
And this is Betty Glasow getting Prue’s hair camera-ready for that day’s filming.
The finished product.
By the way, Prue’s regular hair stylist was Vidal Sassoon. Not one of his people, but Sassoon himself.
Oh! so cool, I have never seen this video, thanks Doug!! 🙂
Ha! Hair rollers!!! 😀
I hadn’t ever seen that clip, but every red-blooded female Beatles fan, past and present, was and is jealous of Betty, getting the supreme privilege of playing with the boys’ hair!
I was looking at the 1024×768 scan, and noticed the newspaper name. At least I thought I did. Figured I’d ask you in a comment if it really was what it looked like, then I went back and read the post, and there was my answer!