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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What middle-aged women in Hollywood used to look like:

Olivia de Havilland at age 49:
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Lana Turner at age 53
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Lauren Bacall in "The Shootist" at age 52
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Rita Hayworth at age 52 in "The Road to Salina"
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Grace Kelly at age 49
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Elizabeth Taylor at age 49 appearing in the soap General Hospital:
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These ladies look so much better than the plastic/botox crowd with the creepy taut and poofed out faces.  Natural aging is so much more attractive.[/quote]

I think they all look terrible for their stated ages!  Probably because they didn't have sunscreen and everyone smoked back then.  My mom is in her 60s and I think she looks better than most of them. [/quote]

Lack of sunscreen (& botox, fillers, chemical peels & retin A) is the main reason middle aged actresses generally looked older 30-40+ years ago than they do know. Another reason is out (&, subsequently, Hollywood's) changed perceptions about age. Until fairly recently, 40-somethings were more likely to be the grandparents of elementary & preschoolers than the parents (even in higher COL/well educated areas) & both the way they dressed, did their hair, etc & the roles they were typically cast in reflected this.

When my parents got married in the 70s, for instance, my grandmothers were in their mid-40s & they have short, permed (or maybe hot-rolled?), un-dyed gray hair & are dressed like stereotypical "old ladies" in the wedding pictures. I remember looking at the wedding album when I was in middle school & bring shocked when I did the math & realized they were about the same age in the pictures as my mom was at the time! Meanwhile, my mom & mother-in-law were 59 & 63 when DH & I got married in 2010 & neither of them look like "old ladies" in our wedding pictures. This is thanks, in part, to their skin having aged better because they used sunscreen for most of their adult lives & had access to good anti-wrinkle cream from mid-age on but also because, unlike women of their mothers' generation, they didn't feel like they should start dressing in shapeless clothes, stop getting stylish haircuts, etc, once they reached a certain age. [/quote]

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