Toupee worn by Carl Reiner as Alan Brady on The Dick Van Dyke Show
date: label: date made
content: 1950s
name: label: user
content: Reiner, Carl
label: related person
content: Van Dyke, Dick
notes: label: Description
content: Toupee worn by Carl Reiner as Alan Brady on The Dick Van Dyke Show. The show aired on CBS from 1961-1966, with Reiner serving as producer, writer, and actor in the role of Alan Brady, the demanding and vain host of a fictitious variety show. Dick Van Dyke starred as television writer Rob Petrie and Mary Tyler Moore played his wife Laura. In the memorable episode "Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth," Laura accidentally reveals that Brady wore a toupee on television. She visits Brady to apologize, only to find him furious and surrounded by several different toupees on mannequin heads to whom he tells "Fellas, there's the little lady who put you out of business!"
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
topic: label: Subject
content: Television
label: Subject
content: Entertainment
label: Subject
content: Humor
label: Subject
content: Comedy
label: Subject
content: Hairstyling
label: Subject
content: Fashion
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0140.02
label: accession number
content: 2017.0140
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0140.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: toupee
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: hair (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (form material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (box material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/8 in x 9 5/16 in x 7 5/16 in; 10.4775 cm x 23.65375 cm x 18.57375 cm
label: Measurements
content: toupee on form: 4 in x 7 in x 8 1/2 in; 10.16 cm x 17.78 cm x 21.59 cm