# Genuine Ugly Duckling Transformations in Movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 3, 2005, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genuine-ugly-duckling-transformations-in-movies/329221 "2005-11-03T01:39:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genuine-ugly-duckling-transformations-in-movies/329221/41 "2005-11-04T17:17:35Z")
Sandra Bullock does it a second time in Miss Congenality - I love the “eyebrows, there should be two” line. ---
**Author:** ![bubastis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genuine-ugly-duckling-transformations-in-movies/329221/42 "2005-11-04T19:15:27Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > If the film you saw had an opening sequence featuring an animated minstrel changing clothing styles as he sung about his name in different countries (OTTOMH ‘In Germany, I’m Yohann. In Sweden, I am Yann. In Russia, I am Ivan. In America, I’m John!’) It was Fairy Tale Theatre. Holy crap! I used to watch that show! I always thought I’d dreamt it. This is all getting a bit too real. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genuine-ugly-duckling-transformations-in-movies/329221/43 "2005-11-04T20:07:22Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > Which would be a terrific example of the “glasses equals ugly” trope that the OP specifically didn’t want. Not really, because Clark Kent is just supposed to be working as a reporter who wears glasses. I never got the impression that he was supposed to be _ugly_ per se, on account of the glasses. ---
**Author:** ![Seren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@Seren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seren)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genuine-ugly-duckling-transformations-in-movies/329221/44 "2005-11-04T20:22:01Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > Sandra Bullock does it a second time in Miss Congenality - I love the “eyebrows, there should be two” line. Wasn’t that in A League of Their Own? Which also had a few transformations, but the girls were almost all pretty to start with and Marla’s makeover wasn’t that amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genuine-ugly-duckling-transformations-in-movies/329221/45 "2005-11-04T20:26:10Z")
You can see my personal favorite “ugly-duckling-takes-off-her-glasses-and-beccomes-a-smokin’-hot-babe!” scene right [here](http://www.wonderwoman-online.com/rv4.html). ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genuine-ugly-duckling-transformations-in-movies/329221/46 "2005-11-04T20:56:18Z")
> [@Spectre of Pithecanthropus](#): > > Not really, because Clark Kent is just supposed to be working as a reporter who wears glasses. I never got the impression that he was supposed to be _ugly_ per se, on account of the glasses. This is stupid and I have already allowed it to consume far too much of my life. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genuine-ugly-duckling-transformations-in-movies/329221/47 "2005-11-04T21:24:07Z")
> [@Art Vandelay](#): > > You can see my personal favorite “ugly-duckling-takes-off-her-glasses-and-beccomes-a-smokin’-hot-babe!” scene right [here](http://www.wonderwoman-online.com/rv4.html). I’m partial to Bailey Quarters taking off her glasses and coming on to Johnny Fever, myself, but she’s kinda smokin’ hot with the glasses on, so I guess that doesn’t really count… I’ll be in my bunk… ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2005, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genuine-ugly-duckling-transformations-in-movies/329221/48 "2005-11-05T03:14:57Z")
This is cheating a little since the transformation takes place over two movies, but they changed Rachel Weisz from bookish to beauty in such a dramatic way in the \*\*Mummy \*\* movies, that I was over 1/2 way through \*\*The Mummy Returns \*\* before I was sure it was the same actress. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genuine-ugly-duckling-transformations-in-movies/329221.md?page=2)