re: Forgotten Gorgeous Actresses

Valeria Golino (Hot Shots!)


Lynn Collins (John Carter)


Sofie Marceau (Braveheart, The World is not Enough)

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I believe she was in the rock as well. If that is her in the rock I can honestly say she is the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen on the big screen. Just stunning

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Yeah, that was her in The Rock.

She did that, Mallrats, Meet Joe Black, Antitrust, couple other flicks in the 90s and early 00s and then not much - just a bunch of on again/off again television work.

Given her looks, I dunno if she was content acting only enough to make a living or if she didn't play the casting couch game or if she just didn't luck herself into real stardom.

The Hee Haw girls:
Gunilla Hutton



Misty Rowe



Marianne Gordon



Lisa Todd


Barbi Benton

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Alexa Davalos in Chronicles of Riddick

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She's nothing to sneeze at in Man in the High Castle

Rebecca Gayheart (aka noxzema girl).
Probably my first crush not named Alicia Silverstone who isnt forgotten. Image because rules are rules.

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if she didn't play the casting couch game

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This is usually the answer, but you'll rarely see it given.

good actresses have a short shelf life in Hollywood and it's even shorter if you're only positive is looks

also, apparently she did not, in fact, play the casting couch game

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"You see, nothing happened to me with Harvey — by that I mean, I escaped 5 times," she recalled. "I had two Peninsula Hotel meetings in the evening with Harvey and all I remember was I ducked, dived and ultimately got out of there without getting slobbered over, well just a bit. Yes, massage was suggested. The three dinners with Harvey I don’t really remember the time period, I was 25. I remember him telling me all the actresses who had slept with him and what he had done for them. I wasn’t drinking the cool aid [sic], I knew Harvey was a master manipulator. He also announced to me at the last dinner I had with him at Dominic’s that his pilot knew to be on standby because he could never get me to sleep with him, to which I did what I always did, make light of the situation, a joke here or there and moved on. You see, I always thought I was a pro at handling these guys, I’d had a fair amount of experience. Sometimes I got angry, really angry. I wondered why I had Prey stamped on my forehead but this I kept to myself.

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but it was really her acting just being bad. she has one gear and that's very wooden in her delivery and countenance

that can only take you so far.

Saw Dana Wynter on TCM this morning in Something of Value (1957), with Rock Hudson and Sidney Poitier.



No woman ever looked better in uniform than her in Sink the Bismark (1960).



Was in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).



Was still beautiful in Airport (1970).



Dana Wynter on IMDb

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I guess she didn't get into hallmark movies like the other 90s actresses.

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This has to be sarcasm.