# Celebrities who look like they're from a differen era. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 9, 2011, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375 "2011-11-09T06:43:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/21 "2011-11-09T19:15:24Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > Helena Bonham Carter looks like she’s from the 1800’s or earlier, which probably is one reason why she does so many historical dramas and fantasies. Hey! I came in here to mention HBC, but I think she’s really from a dystopian/re-boot future. The threads she wears to some red carpet events are sometimes … interesting. Definitely not from the past or present. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/22 "2011-11-09T19:44:58Z")
[Maria De Medeiros](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y0w57yFSv4A/R1rhwoTO_fI/AAAAAAAABns/XJuVKGUOiyc/s400/990HNJ_Maria_de_Medeiros_124.jpg) always make me think of a Flapper. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/23 "2011-11-09T21:03:58Z")
He’s not a celebrity, per se, but ABC newscaster [David Muir](http://syracusepressclub.org/joomla/images/stories/david%20muir.jpg) looks like he’d fit right in with the cast of Mad Men, or any other genuine 1950s-1960s-era set piece. ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/24 "2011-11-09T21:39:22Z")
> [@Bytegeist](#): > > I’ll bet he was the mumbling, frontier-gibberish-speaking old geezer seen in _Blazing Saddles_. That was supposed to be a satire of Gabby Hayes. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/25 "2011-11-09T21:57:08Z")
[James Carville](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/03/carville-rush-limbaugh-is_n_163684.html) is from the year 3000, after humans have begun interbreeding with aliens. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/26 "2011-11-09T22:04:08Z")
> [@Batsinma\_Belfry](#): > > [Aaron Paul](http://www.topnews.in/aaron-paul-cathouse-grand-opening-event-arrivals-211560) Does’t help me place this person. Although I do agree that there is a resemblance to the person in the lower front of the Civil War photo. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/27 "2011-11-09T22:38:24Z")
> [@postcards](#): > > That was supposed to be a satire of Gabby Hayes. Postcards Johnson is right. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/28 "2011-11-09T23:27:52Z")
[Maggie Gyllenhaal](http://www.boshank.com/wp-content/gallery/maggie-gyllenhaal/maggie-gyllenhaal05.jpg)looks like she stepped out of a silent film, or perhaps the Great Depression, to the point where she looks out of place in modern styles. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/29 "2011-11-09T23:37:42Z")
Nemo Johnson is right about Postcards Johnson being right! ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/30 "2011-11-09T23:37:56Z")
Tilda is a good pick. I think Gretchen Moll could have stepped out of the 20’s. Even her name seems to fit. ---
**Author:** ![mac\_bolan00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/31 "2011-11-09T23:48:16Z")
what i can’t understand is why johnny depp and helena bonham carter never hit it off. they could spend the rest of their lives wearing garish make-up and costumes in fashion before the great war. as an aside, which present-day actress do you think looks best in a 30s charslton outfit drinking champagne with confetti showering her, and dancing all night with tuxedos? ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/32 "2011-11-10T00:16:04Z")
> [@Cat\_Fight](#): > > [Maggie Gyllenhaal](http://www.boshank.com/wp-content/gallery/maggie-gyllenhaal/maggie-gyllenhaal05.jpg)looks like she stepped out of a silent film, or perhaps the Great Depression, to the point where she looks out of place in modern styles. Oh wow, I never thought of that, but you’re dead on. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/33 "2011-11-10T01:05:38Z")
Another flapper wannabe is Evan Rachel Wood. I don’t know how successful at it she is, or whether she picked it up trying to emulate her rival-at-the-time Dita Von Teese, but there ya go. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/34 "2011-11-10T01:43:26Z")
Rachel Weisz. The perfect best friend for the 40’s and 50’s blonde star. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/35 "2011-11-10T02:11:42Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > Does’t help me place this person. Although I do agree that there is a resemblance to the person in the lower front of the Civil War photo. > Roddy [Aaron Paul](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0666739/) is in the show _Breaking Bad_, if that helps. ---
**Author:** ![Tabby\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tabby\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabby_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/36 "2011-11-10T02:32:56Z")
> [@mac\_bolan00](#): > > what i can’t understand is why johnny depp and helena bonham carter never hit it off. they could spend the rest of their lives wearing garish make-up and costumes in fashion before the great war. Well, she’s hooked up with Tim Burton which is even better! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/37 "2011-11-10T03:09:47Z")
In her heyday, Bernadette Peters has always been a World War II pin-up girl. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![all1966](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@all1966](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/all1966)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/38 "2011-11-10T23:18:33Z")
I was watching Suburgatory last night, and the actress who plays the daughter Tess (Jane Levy) [http://www.google.com/imgres?q=Jane+Levy&hl=en&sa=X&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&tbm=isch&prmd=imvnso&tbnid=4mIPVz83SVKaUM:&imgrefurl=http://hollywoodyoungblood.us/category/jane-levy/&docid=h6YXzw47gYUe1M&imgurl=http://hollywoodyoungblood.us/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/100911\_JaneLevy\_005.jpg&w=814&h=1000&ei=PFu8TpzWGMTu0gGU8onLBA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=983&vpy=109&dur=1203&hovh=249&hovw=202&tx=80&ty=145&sig=109049584213337069738&page=1&tbnh=115&tbnw=111&start=0&ndsp=25&ved=1t:429,r:23,s:0&biw=1280&bih=572](http://www.google.com/imgres?q=Jane+Levy&hl=en&sa=X&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&tbm=isch&prmd=imvnso&tbnid=4mIPVz83SVKaUM:&imgrefurl=http://hollywoodyoungblood.us/category/jane-levy/&docid=h6YXzw47gYUe1M&imgurl=http://hollywoodyoungblood.us/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/100911_JaneLevy_005.jpg&w=814&h=1000&ei=PFu8TpzWGMTu0gGU8onLBA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=983&vpy=109&dur=1203&hovh=249&hovw=202&tx=80&ty=145&sig=109049584213337069738&page=1&tbnh=115&tbnw=111&start=0&ndsp=25&ved=1t:429,r:23,s:0&biw=1280&bih=572) reminds me of a young Maureen O’Hara. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/39 "2011-11-10T23:44:59Z")
> [@Batsinma\_Belfry](#): > > Lyle Lovett was on The Tonight Show, and I was reminded of how I always thought he should be in Newsreel footage from the Depression or something. So does [Tim Blake Nelson](https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&q=tim+blake+nelson&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=16157l16954l2l17204l6l5l0l0l0l3l468l1390l2-2.0.2l4l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&biw=1002&bih=558&wrapid=tlif132096816075110&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi), which (along with his voice) is why he was so perfect for _Oh Brother Where Art Thou_. In fact he looks so much like that it’s hard to believe him when he plays a modern day cop or a businessman or whatever. Charles Durning would have fit in perfect in the late 19th century when “Fat=Prosperous”, which is why he always works perfectly when playing a figure from that era or a throwback figure like a corrupt political boss (which he’s played several of in his career). Burt Reynolds will never not look like he’s from the 1970s. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/40 "2011-11-10T23:47:56Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > Does’t help me place this person. Although I do agree that there is a resemblance to the person in the lower front of the Civil War photo. > Roddy IMDb FFS. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375.md?page=3)