How is it that I've never watched this film?! But I will certainly do so.
"The first is that Norma Desmond is a hideous old wreck at the age of 50."
Bette Davis was 42 years old when she starred in All About Eve (1950). And she played, quite brilliantly and memorably, of course, the role of an aging actress who was now considered "old" and over-the-hill. I think women over the age of, say, 35 years or so, were just considered "old" in Hollywood. And once you were designated "old," it didn't matter whether you were 50 or 80: you were just "old."
How is it that I've never watched this film?! But I will certainly do so.
"The first is that Norma Desmond is a hideous old wreck at the age of 50."
Bette Davis was 42 years old when she starred in All About Eve (1950). And she played, quite brilliantly and memorably, of course, the role of an aging actress who was now considered "old" and over-the-hill. I think women over the age of, say, 35 years or so, were just considered "old" in Hollywood. And once you were designated "old," it didn't matter whether you were 50 or 80: you were just "old."