I remember Tawny Kitaen had some great looking nails in two 80s movies, Instant Justice and Witchboard. I know she did some other movies around that time too, but I'm not sure if she had long nails in any of them.

I also know she's supposed to be in the next season of Surreal Life. It would be a dream come true if she did the show with long nails.

There was also a movie from the early 80s called Midnight Madness. I don't remember the actress' name but she did have nice long red nails, and although I haven't seen this movie in years and years I seem to remember that there were some good shots of them.

Of course with us all being 'nailomaniacs' one of the first things we all look for in a woman on the screen is her nails, but how many times have you noticed a breakdown in continuity between the scenes?

I'm pretty bad at remembering names of films, but so many time we see a woman getting into a car with longish nails on the right hand say, and in the next scene, supposedly 10 minutes later, these nails are gone, or are painted a different colour.

I think Hollywood should employ one of us to help keep track of the "Nail Detail" in movies.

You have made a very interesting and valid point Leni.

Boomerang is a movie starring Eddie Murphy, Halle Berry, and Robyn Givens (who is the LNB here).
There is a scene where Robyn Givens visits Eddie. Here, her nails are painted a nice white/silvery colour. Then we see them in bed (supposedly that same evening), where her nails are now a bright Red colour. We then have the "next morning" scene, where her nails are back to being white/silver.
I kinda doubt any woman would paint her nails TWICE in one day!!!

I have also seen many movies where an actress has ok'ish to nothing special nails, and then when a close-up on an item she is holding is shown, it's almost as if it is not her hands at all we are seeing, cause the nails are most times beautifully manicured and/or long!!

True, HollyWood should employ some of us for "quality control" reasons.

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Yes I've long noticed this too. I think in some cases they do employ "stunt" hands. i remember 10 or 15 years ago when the tennis player Steffi Graf was doing oil of ulay beauty adverts and she had to admit that they weren't her hands because they weren't ahem up to scratch.

Just a week or so ago I noticed in the Destinys Child 'Survivor' video Beyonce has creamy french nails for the whole video except for the 10 second shot when she is climbing out of the sea onto the beach when she has burgundy.

I couldn't believe I hadn't picked up on it before :-)

Strangely enough, I've also noticed the opposite. I remember years ago watching a TV show called Police Woman and in one episode there was a woman with amazing long nails. She was in numerous scenes and her nails were consistently long and beautiful. Then in one scene they did a close-up of her hands and to my absolute horror her nails were short and ugly. They had on the same colored nail polish, but the beautiful nails were gone. I don't know if they shot that scene out of sequence and it was actually before or after she got her nails done, or if for some unholy reason they decided to substitute another woman's hand in this one scene, but I still don't understand why they would do this. And it must have traumatized me since so many years later I still remember this.

Selena - Jennifer Lopez plays the late Mexican singer. Some shots of the nails during the movie, and a closeup at the end.

I have to aggree enervator. I have seem many movies where the close-up shot nails' are uglier than the normal action shots. Why this is so i have no idea. I'm sure the idea is that close-up shots nails should look better than the action shot nails, or just be consistant and use the same hands as in the action shots!

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In the movie the Sixth Sense, Haley Joel Osmond's (sp?) mom has some very nice nails if I remember correctly. They change color a few times during the movie.

I, too, remember an episode of Ironsides where Ironsides' female assistant had long (at least, long for television) nails. But in a scene where a close-up of her hand holding a a note, the nails were short (though painted the same color). Then, in the long shot, her nails were back again.

My guess is that the people in charge of things either thought that her hands weren't pretty enough for the close-up OR (horror of horrors!) they were uncomfortable showing her long-nailed hands in close-up!

--KerCyt

In the film Schooldaze we see some nice nails from Tisha Campell.And there is a trashmovie with a woman who looks like Elvira, she plays in a tv-whitch/horror show. I don't know the name of the movie, i remember that she wears pointy long black and red nails. Not a great movie though, but you can see her nails pretty good. The movie is based in LA i think.