Barbara Stanwyck (29) looking very cute with a short curly hairstyle in The Bride Walks Out (1936). This flick is actually better than you might expect for the time. Humor is mostly dry even as the champagne flows.

Constance Bennett (29) smoking in Our Betters (1933). Soft short hair in a jaw-length bob with a dramatic wave at the temple. Suited the elegant occasion with her modest black long-sleeve dress and long three-strand pearl necklace. Fancy and formal, it's cuter than the blunt plain 1930s haircuts of Louise Brooks. She was smoking non-stop as a social climber for the entire scene from which this single still of was captured. Subtle retro smirk somehow captures the moment of youthful arrogance perfectly. (Courtesy RKO Radio Pictures)

Ann Miller (20) with long curly 1940s hairstyle in Reveille with Beverly (1943). Ann was one of the best female dancers of her era like Rita Hayworth. Those two ladies were friends and in fact were also the most beautiful brunettes of the 1940s. (Courtesy Columbia Pictures)

Side view of big retro curls

Rita Hayworth (23) with cute mid-length wavy hair in You'll Never Get Rich (1941). She played Sheila Winthrop, a dancer, opposite Fred Astaire, in this fun movie. The girl can dance! (Courtesy Columbia Pictures)

Lana Turner (25) with adorable platinum blonde curly hairdo in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946). Pretty impressive 1940s bob. Here she is in her Twin Oaks restaurant waitress uniform.

Round beachy bob hairstyle from the 1960s (James Coburn movie). Thick and beveled, sideparted and slightly messy, it's also cute.