Track down a film called You're a Big Boy Now and see how incredibly hot she is in that movie. It's called acting, folks. Just because she appears ugly and homely in The Beguiled doesn't mean the actress is.
There is no "off" position on the genius switch.
i thought she was pretty in THE BEGUILED actually. and she's only homely because carol was so out-and-out hot, and they both counter-balanced each other. but there was something very sexy about hartman in this movie. sad she ended up leaping out a window. she was quite an actress.
She looked like the kid from Mask.
shareShe is very cute in Big Boy (a personal fave film of mine since childhood). Very sexy as Barabara Darling, and that is a great great film. The writing and directing is genius by a young Coppola.
She also looked very plain Jane in Walking Tall. Definitely a woman who is enhanced with a bit of mascara and eye shadow because her features and hair are so pale. Great actress, sadly committed suicide.
She looks pretty in this, she's just not a bombshell. For the Civil War era, she'd have been considered quite lovely.
shareI wouldn't describe her as 'ugly' in the Beguiled! Homely, maybe, and 'bookish'. I think any warm-blooded male can see right through to the sexy female, though. In a modern nightclub, even if done up as she was in The Beguiled, she would have guys swarming around her like flies, probably more so than the obviously 'hot' chav girls.
shareI don't think she was attractive in this. That said, I don't think any one opinion is relevant. Men (or women) look for different things and what's attractive to one....
And I think that makeup, acting skills, direction, etc. are designed to make the character look a certain way. Add to that the lines she was given to make the character more prim or uptight, and if the looks aren't there and the personality isn't there, what's left?
It's contrast. Make her plain Jane and that makes Carol hotter.
I don't think she looks ugly in The Beguiled at all.
shareShe looked the part she was playing. She wasn't ugly at all and as she told MacBurney she had been at the school since she was 15 and knew nothing of men. She was naive and had no idea what Martha thought of her.
She was brilliant in A Patch of Blue as a repressed blind girl in love with a man who is kind to her.
for civil war era....shes a 10.
shareShe was luminous in A Patch of Blue.
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