9. Dancing Hair - Saturday Night Fever
In the role that elevated his status through the stratosphere and made him a star, Travolta is seen here in 1977's 'Saturday Night Fever' busting out some now-famous moves on the dance floor and sporting the timeless back-comb, in its thick and luxurious glory. It's lovingly preened, standing upright on his head like a proud peacock. Travolta plays working-class Brooklyn lad Tony Manero, a dreamer who just wants to dance (oh, but don't we all?) and is fiercely enamoured and protective over his image, including his painstakingly-styled hair. In a famous quote from the film, Manero is slapped round the head by his father at the dinner table, prompting him to exclaim: "Would you just watch the hair?! You know, I work on my hair a long time and you hit it. He hits my hair." I doubt we'd get the same reaction out of him these days, but in the film Travolta is dressed to impress and armed with a comb for any eventuality. He's the pretty boy with no hard edges, unlike...