Brigid wasn't that attractive

I agree. Mary Astor was never a beauty and she was 35 by the time she played Brigid. Nice clothes but her features aren't very good. There a lot of femme fatale beauties who would have looked better.

I think she was.

I agree.

She was a beautiful woman in a terribly unflattering haircut, and FYI Mary Astor had a reputation as a massive slut after an ugly divorce in the mid-thirties made her interesting diaries public. So 1940s audiences may have thought of her as extremely sexy, in a way that hasn't carried over the years.

It really is a pity about that haircut. It makes her look hard and old, at an age when she could still look beautiful and sensual.

Yeah, I definitely would not have lost even a nickle trying to help her, much less being knocked out, held at gunpoint, etc.

I'm glad someone else started this thread instead of me. I had to look on IMDb to see how old she was in this. Only 34/35!! I'm in my 50s and I could pass as her daughter. Mary Astor looks so old and matronly in this, her makeup seemed to enhance her wrinkles and thick face to make her look like she was in her 50s. I didn't get it. There were plenty of femme fatales that would have been better in this. Mary Astor lived plenty obviously in her 34 years, but as a sexpot femme fatale she was horribly miscast. She should have played the middle aged mother if they could write a role for that.