I just watched a video about how Gene Kelly would browbeat his female colleagues to tears. But that was by making them practice like hell and yelling at them that they weren’t good enough yet. Cutting their hair? I knew he obsessively controlled the dancing aspects (to the point of being almost abusive about it) but I didn’t think Kelly was deciding what people wore and what their hair looked like. Interesting, quite a control freak.
But he was devout Democrat, so it’s okay.
Fred Astaire was rightwing and Gene Kelly was leftwing. Kelly thought men dancers should act like men and not girly boys so today’s Left would not approve of him.
It was a movie based in the 1920s and the female flappers of that period had short hair. The two female leads in the movie had short hair.