What’s interesting about the hat Clint Eastwood wore during the making of “Cry Macho”? I’m getting a custom hat designed at Rand’s Custom Hats. So I started following their Instagram page.
They have a huge national following. You’ll see them in Vegas if you get down there for the National Finals Rodeo- for example. Lucky for us, they’re based right in downtown Billings.
Here’s what I’m looking for in a hat: I want something that is a tip of the hat to our Western ranching way of life. Now, my cousins are the cool cowboys in the family- not me- so I don’t want something too traditional. I want something that you can wear to a fancy dinner, or in the dive bar after.
It’s been cool following their Instagram page, especially one of their latest posts. They actually custom designed a new hat that is a rendition of the hat worn by Clint Eastwood in his new movie- “Cry Macho.”In tribute to Clint Eastwood’s 60 years of acting (and just because he’s so cool) and his new movie Cry Macho we did a rendition of his hat from his new movie .Now, to be clear- they did not design the actual hat worn by Clint Eastwood in his new movie.
The audience was “startled” when the value of The Duke’s hat was announced on Antique Roadshow. So what would a hat worn by John Wayne in one of his movies sell for today?Antiques Roadshow provided the answer during season 15, episode 13 of the show. During the episode, a man came in with a hat, a framed photo signed by The Duke’s son Michael, and a framed cartoon drawing.
“This hat belongs to a friend of mine,” said the man. “And he furnished all the costumes for John Wayne.”Collectibles expert Philip Weiss appraised the hat and gave it a pretty high price tag.“The items we have here, the hat and the two framed pieces kind of tie this whole thing in together ,” said Weiss. “The photo up here on this side says, ‘Bud, nice meeting you, Michael Wayne.’
So right there you have a great tie-in with Michael Wayne, John’s son. It puts you all together. Then you have a cartoon drawn here by a Walter Lantz artist Jon Voight, that says ‘I know a fella named Bud who stole a hat just like that from John Wayne.’ So again, now we’re tying the hat in, proving provenance .”But that’s not all, Weiss also pointed out the markings inside the hat that proved it once belonged to Hollywood western superstar, John Wayne.
“To prove that it’s John Wayne’s hat when you open this up, we can see where it says ‘Wayne #1’ which shows that it was one of John Wayne’s hat from one of the movies. And furthermore, when you go to the side here you can see who made the hat. Which is made by Nudies, which is one of the foremost Hollywood costume makers of the time.”
