Ikon Eastside will be closing their doors for winter and bidding a ‘blonde farewell’ on 3 December.
Starting at 8pm, they’re inviting you to party with them into the evening, taking inspiration from their final exhibition of 2010, AVPD’s Hitchcock Hallway, with the optional dress code of a blonde or white wig.
Alfred Hitchcock is renowned for films featuring blonde leading women such as Grace Kelly, Kim Novak and Tippi Hedren. Music, light and atmosphere all play with notions of mistaken identity and voyeurism.
Strange that the Ikon omits in its list of actresses the name of Madeleine Carroll, who was the very first of Hitchcock’s ice cold blondes, in the film ‘The Thirty Nine Steps.’
See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k09ZhroNr68
Even stranger is this omission when you consider that Madeleine Carroll was from this neck of the woods, a West Bromwich girl, who studied at the University of Birmingham…….