Julianne Moore: an immensely talented actress who has performed in a WIDE range of roles, some of them frock flick-related. And a redhead! Let’s take a look at her period and period-ish performances.
Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)
A “fantasy comedy detective TV movie” that’s a combination of HP Lovecraft and film noir. Moore plays “Connie Stone.” This was shockingly well received!
Surviving Picasso (1996)
A Merchant-Ivory film starring Anthony Hopkins as painter Pablo Picasso and Natascha McElhone as his lover Françoise Gilot; Moore plays French photographer, painter, and poet Dora Maar.
Boogie Nights (1997)
Stretching the Official Frock Flicks period to include the 1970s, Moore plays an adult film actress in this story of the rise and fall of an actor in the adult film industry.
An Ideal Husband (1999)
As the brilliantly conniving Mrs. Cheveley, who starts allll the drama in this sparkling Oscar Wilde adaptation.
The End of the Affair (1999)
A story about two lovers having and ending an affair in World War II London.
The Hours (2002)
Three different generations of women have their lives connected by the Virginia Woolf book Mrs. Dalloway; Moore leads the 1950s segment.
Far from Heaven (2002)
An homage to the 1950s films of Douglas Sirk. Moore plays the ideal suburban housewife whose life starts to fall apart; she falls in love as a result, but this isn’t a romance.
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)
A mid-century housewife helps out her family by winning jingle-writing contests.
Savage Grace (2007)
Set in the 1970s, this film “is based on the dysfunctional, allegedly incestuous relationship between heiress and socialite Barbara Daly Baekeland and her son, Antony” per Wikipedia.
A Single Man (2009)
Directed by fashion designer Tom Ford, Colin Firth is a depressed gay man living in 1962 Southern California; Moore is his best friend.
Seventh Son (2014)
A badly reviewed fantasy film, but I’m filling things out here. Moore plays a malevolent witch.
Wonderstruck (2017)
A film set in two time periods (the 1920s and 1970s); in 1927, a deaf girl runs away to find her mother, an actress (played by Moore).
The Glorias (2020)
Four different actresses (including Moore) portray the life of feminist activist Gloria Steinem.
What’s your favorite of Julianne Moore’s period roles?
She’s talented and gorgeous! I NEED that hat from An Ideal Husband.
Kendra, you NEED the green evening dress with black lace sleeves from “The Ideal Husband.”
I could have sworn I’ve seen a Julianne Moore frock flick, but I don’t remember any of the ones listed.
Not Frock Flickable but she’s awesome as Maude Lebowski. I want the bowling valkyrie costume.
I deeply covet every single thing she wears in An Ideal Husband.
She was perfect in A Single Man. She was very good in Boogie Nights. She was good in The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio but the movie overall was so disappointing when compared against the memoir (of the same name), that I can’t really recommend it. I’m REALLY stretching it here, but I’m pretty sure I saw Cast a Deadly Spell back in the day. It was pretty good (to my teenage self), but I don’t recall much of it other than I thought it was cool and creepy. Seventh Son was terrible and a real travesty that that was the film that reunited Julianne Moore and Jeff Bridges so many years after The Big Lebowski (one of my fave films). She has such an ice cold beautiful look for period pieces, and I think she would’ve made an excellent rich bitch American frenemy of Lady Felicia in the early seasons of Father Brown.