I was watching All About Eve (1950), and there was an actress with a small part, few lines, and gorgeous face who I couldn't stop staring at whenever she was on screen. I looked her up afterwards and lo and behold it was then-unknown actress Marilyn fucking Monroe. I get it now.
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It's crazy how subjective this is-- I expected to agree but came away even more convinved that Bette Davis is one of the only people from that era whose acting felt remotely natural.
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I don't know if Marilyn's acting was good, I didn't mean that her acting was captivating, just her face.
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Seems equally likely that you couldn't stop staring at her because you have had so much exposure to her face in popular culture (i.e. subconscious recognition) rather than any inherent magnetism
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Possible! I definitely did not consciously recognize her if that was the case - she looked a lot younger.
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She has a minor, but important role in the excellent crime movie The Asphalt Jungle, the same year as All About Eve, and she's just as distractingly beautiful in it.
Both roles came after her studio makeover and plastic surgery.
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"You won't bore him honey- you won't even get a chance to talk..."
Great Post
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I often have this experience about women (i.e. seeing one whose face is just transfixingly beautiful) and never about men, even though, in practice I'm more attracted to men. What's up with that
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