The poster boy for forgotten sex symbols has to be Kier Dullea (pronounced like “here” and “do-lay”) of 2001: A Space Odyssey . Incredibly handsome guy, quickly forgotten about. So much so that when Truman Capote wrote an article on the fleeting nature of Hollywood fame, he entitled it “Kier Dullea, Gone Tomorrow.”
She’s still working. I just saw her in a rerun of Law & Order SVU.
Jacqueline Bisset - IMDb
What is Ali MacGraw doing now? She must be getting on in years, but I remember when a lot of guys had crushes on her.
I would have sworn that Mia Sara was going to be a major star.
And we live on a weird planet where Glenne Headley was never considered a major hottie.
Like many industries, Hollywood has long implemented a system of interchangeable, replaceable parts
Have we forgotten Bo Derek yet? I hope so .
Rant over.
On the male side, there’s Montgomery Clift who was never quite the same after a disfiguring accident.
Entering the 1950s Clift was the most sought-after leading man in Hollywood, and his only direct competitor was Marlon Brando. At one point he was receiving so many offers of roles that friends had to squeeze past stacks of them in order to walk up the stairs. According to Elizabeth Taylor (as quoted in Patricia Bosworth’s biography of Clift), “Monty could’ve been the biggest star in the world if he did more movies” (Clift was notoriously picky with his projects).
On May 12, 1956, while filming Raintree County, he smashed his car into a telephone pole after leaving a party at the Beverly Hills home of his Raintree County co-star and close friend Elizabeth Taylor and her then-husband Michael Wilding. Alerted by friend Kevin McCarthy, who witnessed the accident, Taylor raced to Clift’s side, manually pulling a tooth out of his throat, as he’d begun to choke on it. He suffered a broken jaw and nose, a fractured sinus, and several facial lacerations which required plastic surgery.[8] In a filmed interview, he later described how his nose could be snapped back into place.
After a long recovery, he returned to the set to finish the film. Against the movie studio’s worries over profits, Clift correctly predicted the film would do well, if only because moviegoers would flock to see the difference in his facial appearance before and after the accident. The pain of the accident led him to rely on alcohol and pills for relief, as he had done after an earlier bout with dysentery left him with chronic intestinal problems. As a result, Clift’s health and looks deteriorated considerably.
Edward Montgomery Clift (/mɒntˈɡʌməri/; October 17, 1920 – July 23, 1966) was an American actor. A four-time Academy Award nominee, he was known for his portrayal of "moody, sensitive young men", according to The New York Times.
He is best remembered for his roles in Howard Hawks's Red River (1948), George Stevens's A Place in the Sun (1951), Fred Zinnemann's From Here to Eternity (1953), Stanley Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), and John Huston's The Misfits (1961).
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