# Celebrities who look like they're from a differen era.

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/61 "2011-11-12T19:16:40Z")

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> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#):
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> Tilda is a good pick.
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> I think Gretchen Moll could have stepped out of the 20’s. Even her name seems to fit.

Of course, this wasn’t the 20’s, but they nailed it casting her as Bettie Page.

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**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2011, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/62 "2011-11-12T21:31:19Z")

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> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#):
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> [Tilda Swinton](http://peoplesforeignexchange.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/side-note-on-tilda-swinton/) is from about, oh, 2050.

I have always thought she looked like a flapper, with the severe hair cut, boyish figure, eccentric clothes she is right out of the 1920’s

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**Author:** ![Aeris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Aeris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeris)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2011, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/63 "2011-11-14T15:11:45Z")

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> [@SerenaPerido](#):
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> I’ve always thought Bruno Mars looks like a 1920’s jazz pianist.  
> He doesn’t belong here, he’s way too smooth:
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> [Bruno](http://wgtccdn.wegotthiscovered.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/bruno-mars-09092010.jpg)
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> **Aeris** , I hope you can find those Katy Perry links - I totally agree with your assertion!

:eek:Sorry about the malware. I had no idea.

I didn’t have any luck finding a sure fire source for the pictures I had found earlier. ☹ But if you just google her name you find some pretty good evidence. 😉

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**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-look-like-theyre-from-a-differen-era/602375/64 "2011-11-15T01:37:37Z")

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[Desmond Harrington](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm293897472/nm0004993) (from Dexter), could be in any old photograph from the early 1900s. He needs a bowler hat.

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