[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers]
Really? That show couldn’t afford seperate dressing rooms?
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Either couldn’t or wouldn’t, which caused some embarassing mixups with wardrobe (examples: 1 and 2.)
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting]
Catherine Deneuve used to be smoking. Oh, wait, she still is.
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Oh yeah. In that incredibly hot scene in The Hunger where she seduces Susan Sarandon, the boys would look at us girls and say something like “But no, you wouldn’t… I mean, if she… honey? Honey?”
[QUOTE=Neidhart]
I only knew Eileen Brennan as a grizzled old lady with a chain-smoker’s rasping voice.
But when I watched The Sting, my eyes bugged out! Eileen was a fox back in 1973, and her voice was a lovely contralto!
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She was, unfortunately, well on her way to rasping grizzlehood by 1980, when she played crazy bitch Capt. Lewis in Private Benjamin. Pic.
I was watching Heroes the other day thinking, “When did Eric Roberts become a candidate for Cracked.com’s Men who look like old lesbians?”
I watched one of the “behind the scenes” making-of videos for Mass Effect, and Shannon Elizabeth, who did some voice acting for the game, was featured in one of the interviews. Holy shit! She looked like she was in her 40s, not her early 30s. She’s not aging well, and she’s still quite young.
[QUOTE=InappropriateHumor]
My daughter had a “Wow” moment just a couple of nights ago over Clint Eastwood.
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Jeez, I just had one too! He was damned hot!
[QUOTE=Peter Morris]
Angela Lansbury has been mentioned at least twice already, but check out this shot:
http://www.moviemarket.co.uk/library/photos/169/169888.jpg
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She was quite good looking. I loved her as the Princess Gwendolyn in The Court Jester. Hubba hubba.
“If he dies, you die…”
[QUOTE=Shamozzle]
Not that they are unattractive now, but Candace Bergen, Kirstie Alley, Susan Sarandon, and Cybill Sheperd were all smokin’ hot at one time.
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All of which reminds me of Kathleen Turner. Someone who’s only known her recent incarnation might be surprised at the (barely suitable for work) earlier version. (Rent Body Heat for the full effect.)
(In fairness, I believe she’s had some health problems.)
I had always known of Laurence Olivier as one of the “great actors,” but had never heard him referred to as particularly dreamy. I was most familiar with him from the films Sleuth, Marathon Man, The Merchant of Venice and Rebecca (in which he was young, but very very creepy). Having recently watched Pride and Prejudice and (especially) Wuthering Heights, I’ve discovered man was hot.
Here’s a 1942 picture. Not very Shultz-like but also not very blonde.
I never realized that the Gloria Stuart in Titanic (1997) was the same Gloria Stuart who was in The Invisible Man (1933).
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn]
It may be common knowledge, but I had no idea (until someone here pointed it out to me) that in her early days Lucille Ball was a smokin hot model- the second picture on her wikipedia page is amazing.
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She wore miniskirts into her '70’s. Legs that wouldn’t quit.
She got Bette Davis eyes.
[QUOTE=Rilchiam]
And Angela Lansbury in Gaslight is as unlike Jessica Fletcher as night is to day.
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Film critic James Agee was moved to write of Lansbury in the 1940s, when she was playing young tarts: “She looks like the milkmaid in a pornographic print.”
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Mptv/1293/0659_0063.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1293/Mptv/1293/0659_0063.jpg.html%3Fhint%3Dnm0001783&h=127&w=123&sz=49&tbnid=Y0yT0S9yMQ4J:&tbnh=127&tbnw=123&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=1&ct=image&cd=1
Sally Struthers.
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/54/039_32737~Jane-Fonda-Posters.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Jane-Fonda-Posters_i275150_.htm&h=127&w=101&sz=59&tbnid=cVt57yC9YJoJ:&tbnh=127&tbnw=101&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=1&ct=image&cd=1 Jane Fonda
[QUOTE=CalMeacham]
I think that’s an official Church picture, not a contemporary one, and I think they embellish his image a bit. Most of the contemporary pictures don’t make him quite as handsome, to my eye.
Here’s a daugerrotype, which looks pretty good:
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Oh my god… Joseph Smith is a female Cardassian!
[QUOTE=Biggirl]
I was watching the Hitler Chanell back when all they showed was stock footage of WWII and there was footage of Queen Elizabeth. Wow! She was totally cute back then.
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I saw a picture of Prince Charles in a magazine from the early 70s once and I was shocked to see how cute he was.
It was pretty obvious Gregory Peck was good looking at any age, but I didn’t realize how hot he was when he was young til recently.
Princess Bride: 20 Yrs. Later was a bit of a shocker. I myself didn’t start out nearly as well as most of these people. I’m doomed.
Lindsay Lohan will be an interesting test case…question being: will it take 10 years, 5 years, or 6 months for us to say ‘wow, she used to be hot!’