she was seriously miscast as a homely woman.
Anyway, it's always a pleasure watching the beautiful and talented Dorothy McGuire.
Bette Davis pulled off this "ugly duckling" role much more convincingly in "Now Voyager".
I agree. This was on again last night and I watched it. I thought she was lovely, her voice, her take on life, her calmness about life itself. I felt she was absolutely beautiful.
shareAlways a putz, I do think they did a good job on making he look 'the ugly duckling'....considering what they had to work with of course....
Urania to Terpsichore: "You're so quiet. Musing????"
I agree - she was quite homely to begin with, and she wasn't that beautiful once they tried to beautify her. It basically amounted to curling her hair and taming her eyebrows, as well as some make-up? Not much of a stretch.
shareI think they did a good job of subtley making her more homely.
I think they did the eyebrows, maybe some facial padding (her cheekbones weren't as accentuated) and lighting helped and of course no hairstyle at all. But it was subtle and then the "makeover" was just enough!
Love this movie!
I think they overdid the "homely" thing on McGuire - I think she just should have been very, very plain - NOW VOYAGER is my favorite film and probably my favorite Bette Davis performance, yet I think "homely" was overdone there as well - Charlotte should have just been very, very plain, almost worn-out. But "homely" does make for a somewhat stronger contrast when the characters are "transformed."
I mean, they matted down Audrey Hepburn's hair and smudged her face with dirt as Eliza Doolittle, but she was still gorgeous!
"If I'd been a ranch they'd have named me the 'Bar-None'."
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I agree. This movie is one of my favorites. I suspend disbelief. Hollywood will sometimes put beautiful women as "ugly" like Olivia De Havilland in The Heiress and Joan Fontaine in Jane Eyre. She was not so ugly that someone would look at her and not want to dance. I thought she was lovely.
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