I used to watch this movie as a teenager, and I loved Mary Steenburgen. Not for her looks very much, but for her forwardness - I wished she would swoop me up and have her way with me.
In this movie, she is barely cute. But damn! The older she gets, the hotter she looks! How is that even possible?
I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.
I had watched her in films years ago. She seemed to disappear for a while and then started being in movies again, at least the ones I watched. She seemed older to me back then for some reason but she really wasn't that old apparently
shareGenes, healthy life style or both.
shareFor me, Mary's most unattractive feature was the whiff of neurosis I got off her. While she had a girlish quality, she generally had an anxious, high-strung air about her. Getting through menopause may have helped her mellow and sorted that out. Many women have commented how more serene they become once estrogen isn't causing havoc with their moods. I mean no disrespect as I have always liked her.
Of course, a more pedestrian answer might be she gave into the song of the sirens and had some minor 'procedures'.
Curious, I've always confused her with Mary Gross and I've just found they were born only six weeks apart.
For years, decades, I never thought Mary Steenburgen was attractive. Then I watched the Bill Bryson movie last year, A Walk in the Woods, in which Steenburgen appears as a motel proprietor, and I found myself thinking, "Damn! When did she get so hot?"
This is different from a woman "aging gracefully" or "preserving her looks." This is a woman who just got better-looking as she got older.
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"Here is the ice you ordered, Mr. Ismay." – Titanic Captain E.J. Smith
This is different from a woman "aging gracefully" or "preserving her looks." This is a woman who just got better-looking as she got older.