There’s no basis in fact for this myth. In television and movies, the widow’s peak tends to be a “bad guy” feature. Dracula and the Joker, for example, both have a widow’s peak.

A widow's peak is one of the many different defining ... where this hairline was originally thought to be a bad omen, signaling early widowhood. During this period, widows would typically wear ...

I left my hair (and my head) down, worried that exposing my forehead would reveal one of my biggest insecurities: my distinctive widow’s peak. Sometime after I saw Leonardo DiCaprio with his ...

One of the more prevalent ones is the spooky-sounding widow’s peak. If you are unfamiliar with the term, it refers to a small, V-shaped patch of hair right at the top of where the forehead hits ...

John Irvin’s “Widows’ Peak,” which opens Wednesday, is two movies in one. And as is usually the case with such dichotomous endeavors, one works and the other doesn’t. The angle that’s ...