# Goodlooking People Overshadowed By Others
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodlooking-people-overshadowed-by-others/505107
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 3, 2009, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodlooking-people-overshadowed-by-others/505107 "2009-08-03T00:52:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2009, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodlooking-people-overshadowed-by-others/505107/1 "2009-08-03T00:52:14Z")
I got this idea from the thread about goodlooking people you don’t like the looks of
What I was looking for are people (men/women) who are really good looking but no one notices because they are often paired up with someone better looking or at least somone who distracts so much attention they don’t get noticed.
To me the biggest example of this was on _WKRP in Cincinnati_. Jan Smithers who played Bailey Quarters on the show was a very striking woman, but she was always so overshadowed by Loni Anderson she never gets noticed.
What others do you think suffer from this problem?
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2009, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodlooking-people-overshadowed-by-others/505107/2 "2009-08-03T01:18:02Z")
Jan Smithers’ beauty was no secret to those of us who watched the show!
An example in a similar vein was Dawn Wells on Gilligan’s Island. She was good looking enough to win Miss Nevada and compete in the Miss America pageant, and inspired the eternal “Mary Ann vs. Ginger” debate with Tina Louise.
But I think the classic example is Kate Jackson in Charlie’s Angels. How would you feel if you looked [this good](http://www.coolestmag.com/celeb/Kate_Jackson/gallery/Kate_Jackson12.jpg)and were still considered to be “the smart one”?
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### Author:  [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2009, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodlooking-people-overshadowed-by-others/505107/3 "2009-08-03T01:26:46Z")
> [@kunilou](#):
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> But I think the classic example is Kate Jackson in Charlie’s Angels. How would you feel if you looked [this good](http://www.coolestmag.com/celeb/Kate_Jackson/gallery/Kate_Jackson12.jpg)and were still considered to be “the smart one”?
I agree with you there, but I recall from Jacklyn Smith’s bio that a minor issue on the show was Jackson’s absolute refusal to play off her looks. Smith says if a part required Jackson to be in a swimsuit or something along that lines, she’d say “no, give it to Farah” (or later Cheryl Ladd)
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### Author:  [@arseNal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arseNal)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2009, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodlooking-people-overshadowed-by-others/505107/4 "2009-08-03T02:06:42Z")
> [@kunilou](#):
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> How would you feel if you looked [this good](http://www.coolestmag.com/celeb/Kate_Jackson/gallery/Kate_Jackson12.jpg)and were still considered to be “the smart one”?
I think I’d feel pretty good about myself, to be totally honest.
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2009, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodlooking-people-overshadowed-by-others/505107/5 "2009-08-03T06:11:08Z")
You know I think I was having a gay moment the other day watching an old episode of “Smallvile”.
I suddenly got the impression that Lex’s dad (back when he had the long hair)
is a very handsome fellow. Not a lot of guys with long hair and beards can pull that off.
I wonder if women or gay dopers find him attractive as well?
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### Author:  [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2009, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodlooking-people-overshadowed-by-others/505107/6 "2009-08-03T07:54:16Z")
Stephanie Zimbalist was way overshadowded by Pierce Brosnan in _Remington Steele_. [Pic](http://timstvshowcase.com/remingtonsteele1.jpg)
Poor girl, she was supposed to be the star.
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### Author:  [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2009, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodlooking-people-overshadowed-by-others/505107/7 "2009-08-03T08:21:40Z")
How about Nicky Hilton, overshadowed by her sister Paris?
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### Author:  [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2009, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodlooking-people-overshadowed-by-others/505107/8 "2009-08-03T09:06:16Z")
Grace Park on **Enterprise** , overshadowed by Jolene Blalock. Two hotties and the Asian one ISN’T the “exotic” one? Unthinkable!
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### Author:  [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2009, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodlooking-people-overshadowed-by-others/505107/9 "2009-08-03T09:08:52Z")
Also, Tara King on **The Avengers**. By all objective standards, she’s actually prettier than Diana Rigg (Their tenures actually overlapped for a few episodes), but lacked her crucial “M. Appeal.”
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### Author:  [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2009, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodlooking-people-overshadowed-by-others/505107/10 "2009-08-03T11:35:48Z")
> [@arseNal](#):
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> I think I’d feel pretty good about myself, to be totally honest.
Yes. I could think of worse things than for people to think of me as pretty \*and \*smart.