# Actresses who age BADLY
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-who-age-badly/91367
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [November 4, 2001, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-who-age-badly/91367 "2001-11-04T00:30:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Bossk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bossk)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2001, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-who-age-badly/91367/1 "2001-11-04T00:30:08Z")
My vote would go to Shirley Knight.
[In her younger days](http://www.neosoft.com/~meeker/shirleyk.html)
[And today](http://www.open.org/~glennab/shknfpg.htm)
Oof.
I don’t remember Kathleen Turner staying hot for too long, either.
Your picks?
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2001, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-who-age-badly/91367/4 "2001-11-04T00:46:05Z")
Dyan Cannon. The way she looks now, her picture could have been used as the cover of the Dead Kennedys’ “Plastic Surgery Disasters” album from the early 80’s.
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### Author:  [@bafaa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bafaa)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2001, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-who-age-badly/91367/5 "2001-11-04T01:32:06Z")
Kelly McGillis
She’s gone the same route as Kathleen Turner.
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### Author:  [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2001, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-who-age-badly/91367/6 "2001-11-04T01:43:59Z")
Goldie Hawn
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### Author:  [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2001, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-who-age-badly/91367/7 "2001-11-04T01:49:40Z")
[hijack] Could we broaden this rather-sexist thread to include actors who age badly, as well? …Anthony Michael Hall, Kiefer Sutherland [has he actually declined, though?], and Sean Connery (c. his ugly “Diamonds Are Forever”-through-“Zardoz” phase, only; he’s drastically improved since!) come to mind.
Oh, and Melanie Griffith. Little-girl affectations plus collagen lips – feh!
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### Author:  [@Frannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frannie)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2001, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-who-age-badly/91367/8 "2001-11-04T02:01:59Z")
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> \*Originally posted by repleat \*
> \*\*No photo from that, but you can get the idea from this one
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> \*\* [“Samson and Delilah” Victor Mature, Angela Lansbury 1949](http://us.imdb.com/EGallery?source=mptv&group=1035&photo=4161_0003.jpg&path=pgallery&path_key=Lansbury,+Angela) \*\* \*\*
Oh, heavens! In fifty-two years she aged fifty-two years? Imagine THAT? (wtf???)
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### Author:  [@Frannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frannie)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2001, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-who-age-badly/91367/9 "2001-11-04T02:03:14Z")
Goldie Hawn? Goldie looks BAD? Since when? Perhaps you need to visit your optometrist.
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### Author:  [@Kaje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaje)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2001, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-who-age-badly/91367/10 "2001-11-04T02:09:59Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Frannie \*
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> > \*Originally posted by repleat \*
> > \*\*No photo from that, but you can get the idea from this one
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> > \*\* [“Samson and Delilah” Victor Mature, Angela Lansbury 1949](http://us.imdb.com/EGallery?source=mptv&group=1035&photo=4161_0003.jpg&path=pgallery&path_key=Lansbury,+Angela) \*\* \*\*
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> Oh, heavens! In fifty-two years she aged fifty-two years? Imagine THAT? (wtf???) \*\*
Well sure but look at [this](http://us.imdb.com/EGallery?source=mptv&group=1026&photo=818-86.jpg&path=pgallery&path_key=Lansbury,+Angela) one. That was only 12 years after samson and delilah.
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### Author:  [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2001, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-who-age-badly/91367/11 "2001-11-04T02:10:07Z")
I didn’t say she looks BAD. I said she was aging BADLY.
Although she looks better than some, she’s the first one that popped into my head…so shoot me.
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### Author:  [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2001, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-who-age-badly/91367/12 "2001-11-04T02:12:46Z")
Shirley MacLaine. But somehow what she’s 'morphed into is completely fitting. She didn’t age well, but it still works.
Joan Collins. Not that anyone could tell with that seventy pound slab of concrete makeup on her face. Never mind the plastic surgery, gal…we can still tell you’re a seahag.
Elizabeth Taylor. Hey, she looked completely awesome there for a while in her late fifties to early sixties (not counting the drunken pillhead years mixed in periodically hither and yon). Now she looks like a little old lady with too much jewelry, wearing 80’s 'do’s, and basically epitomizing the term “has-been”. (And all this flack from a major _fan_!)
Liza Minelli. I know there’s already been a thread about this. So, 'nuff said.
Demi Moore. Actually, the very last photo I saw of her, she looked halfway passable, but the few I saw before that she looked like a crackhead. Too thin, cadaver cheeks, stringy, lank hair…oh yeah…major sexpot there, baby. She’s what? Thirty nine? She looked fifty-five.
There’s a few younger actresses that don’t seem to be doing well with their looks, either. Gimme a few years. I’ll be dawgin’ them about looking like crap, too. 😃
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### Author:  [@Frank\_O.Pinion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank_O.Pinion)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2001, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-who-age-badly/91367/13 "2001-11-04T02:23:51Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Frannie \*
> \*\*Goldie Hawn? Goldie looks BAD? Since when? Perhaps you need to visit your optometrist. \*\*
She’s in the category of “Well, you don’t really look so bad, it’s just that we can tell you’re much older than you want everybody to think you look”.
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### Author:  [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2001, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-who-age-badly/91367/14 "2001-11-04T03:12:05Z")
Ugh. Goldie Hawn looks AWFUL! All that dyed hair and fake lips…yak!
Same can be said for any of the plastic-surgery queens. They don’t look young. They just look like older ladies who have had too much plastic surgery. And some of them, like Melanie Griffith, look much older than they are because of all the plastic surgery.
I agree about Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Collins, too. What’s up with all that black eyeliner?
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### Author:  [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2001, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-who-age-badly/91367/15 "2001-11-04T04:13:30Z")
Teri Hatcher
…and not that she was gorgeous to begin with, but if Joan Rivers gets ONE more face lift, her eyes are going to be vertical!
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### Author:  [@upperdeckfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/upperdeckfan)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2001, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-who-age-badly/91367/16 "2001-11-04T04:52:49Z")
“Joan Collins. Not that anyone could tell with that seventy pound slab of concrete makeup on her face. Never mind the plastic surgery, gal…we can still tell you’re a seahag.”
Silkythreat, I hereby nominate you to present a weekly “Hollywood Minute” here at the SDMB.
All in favor?
:gavel:
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2001, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-who-age-badly/91367/17 "2001-11-04T05:08:27Z")
Two words: Tallulah Bankhead.
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### Author:  [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2001, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-who-age-badly/91367/18 "2001-11-04T07:04:52Z")
Bette Davis
I don’t know if it’s just **Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte** and **Whatever happened to Baby Jane** that her freaky characters did me in or what, but she always looked mean to me inthe older years. I remember saying “Was she ever pretty?” to someone and they showed me some early pics. Damn! She didn’t age. Time smacked her on the face with a 2x4.
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### Author:  [@Caracticus\_Potts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caracticus_Potts)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2001, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-who-age-badly/91367/19 "2001-11-04T07:40:59Z")
Daryl Hannah. Somewhere along the way she seems to have shaved off her eyebrows and did a really nasty job drawing them back on. :eek:
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### Author:  [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2001, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-who-age-badly/91367/20 "2001-11-04T11:38:29Z")
It isn’t the _age_ that is the problem, (IMO) it’s what the person does with their looks. Too much plastic surgery doesn’t look good. Not that Goldie or Dyan actually are _ugly_ (far from it) but their surgery is a little too obvious.
I don’t think Kathleen Turner looks so bad. Not that I’ve seen the most recent pictures of her. She looks a little plumper, perhaps, but normal, natural, and a woman of “her age”. (Whatever her age is?) Nothing wrong with looking like an attractive 50, or whatever. People don’t look identical forever, after all.
Teri Hatcher (who I always thought was very beautiful) doesn’t look too great these days, as someone else mentioned. But that’s because she’s gotten herself so thin. I don’t know how old she is (late 30s?) but stick-thin can sometimes be aging. Apparently it is so with her. If you saw her in her earlier work (remember her guest starring in “MacGyver”?) but the thing that was charming about her was that she was slightly plump and voluptuous. It is my suspicion that she’d still look great if she’d allow a little plumpness in her life!
I just saw a biography on Brigitte Nielson (married to Stallone for a while, 6 ft. tall bombshell) and she looks OLD. She is only in her late 30s. She shouldn’t look so…wrinkled. But I think it might be the fast living and maybe too much smoking? All I can think is that she should NOT have so many fine (and not so fine) wrinkles at her age.
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### Author:  [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2001, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-who-age-badly/91367/21 "2001-11-04T13:33:35Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Rez \*
> \*\*Bette Davis
> I don’t know if it’s just **Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte** and **Whatever happened to Baby Jane** that her freaky characters did me in or what, but she always looked mean to me inthe older years. I remember saying “Was she ever pretty?” to someone and they showed me some early pics. Damn! She didn’t age. Time smacked her on the face with a 2x4. \*\*
Bette Davis was breathtaking in her very early days. For about five years. But yes, you’re quite correct that she started looking fifty in her thirties.
In her case, though, who gave a rat’s ass? She got by on talent. Never looks.
(Good thing, huh? 😉 )
And **Caracticus Potts** , I second that emotion for Darryl Hannah. Of course, in my NSHO, she was a nightmare on stilts to begin with.
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### Author:  [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2001, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actresses-who-age-badly/91367/22 "2001-11-04T14:53:56Z")
Susan Sarandon. Oy. Although to me she always looked bug-eyed and old. I agree with Teri Hatcher…she’s TOO DAMN THIN!! She’d be so pretty if she gained about twenty pounds. Liza Minelli I agree with definitely…she changed so fast. I suppose it’s her health problems, though
Goldie Hawn looks good for her age, I think. On her close ups her age really really shows, however.
Off the top of my head, those are the ones that come to mind.
Lorie
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