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 Posted:   Apr 12, 2016 - 7:19 PM   
 By:   RoryR   (Member)

What? No Irene Ryan as Granny Clampett?

How about Elsa Lanchester and Estelle Winwood in MURDER BY DEATH?

How about Estelle Winwood in THE PRODUCERS?

How about Eva Moore in THE OLD DARK HOUSE?

How about Elspeth Dudgeon in THE OLD DARK HOUSE? Best old lady disguised as an old man ever, had me fooled.

How about Elspeth Dudgeon in SH! THE OCTOPUS? Best transformation of an old lady into an older hag ever.

How about Mary Gordon as Mrs. Hudson in all those Sherlock Holmes movies?

How about Margaret Hamilton in THE ANDERSON TAPES?

And what about Maria Ouspenskaya? Any old lady that can avoid being killed by the Wolf Man is one hell of an old lady.

Now, I gotta go. This thread stinks of used diapers and talcum powder!

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 12, 2016 - 7:29 PM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

Helen Hayes as the stowaway in AIRPORT (Academy Award winning performance)

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 13, 2016 - 1:51 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

Wow. I've heardly heard of ANY of these.

 
 Posted:   Apr 13, 2016 - 6:03 AM   
 By:   jackfu   (Member)



Estelle Getty (Sophia) trying to sell folks on the concept of "bacon, lettuce and potato sandwiches".

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 13, 2016 - 6:25 AM   
 By:   Tall Guy   (Member)

Dave in b, with that homo hetero heading, i nearly missed this FAVOURITE OLD LADIES IN MOVIES thread due to thinkin it waz another gay pride thread!!


Yet you still looked...

(ok, as did I)

 
 Posted:   Apr 13, 2016 - 7:29 AM   
 By:   RoryR   (Member)

Wow. I've heardly heard of ANY of these.

Heardly heard, eh? You're getting old, Thor, and you better hurry and watch more movies before you die.

 
 Posted:   Apr 13, 2016 - 7:30 AM   
 By:   RoryR   (Member)

dp

 
 Posted:   Apr 13, 2016 - 9:30 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

A heardly heard of wildebeests?!

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 13, 2016 - 11:21 AM   
 By:   Last Child   (Member)

I dont even get what the question is. Is this thread for gerontophiles?

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 13, 2016 - 11:52 AM   
 By:   Doc Loch   (Member)

I can't believe no one has yet mentioned (unless I missed it) Ruth Gordon in HAROLD AND MAUDE. And her Oscar-winning role in ROSEMARY"S BABY, which resulted in one of the all-time great acceptance speeches.

 
 Posted:   Apr 13, 2016 - 2:03 PM   
 By:   Octoberman   (Member)



"Can we PLEASE get back to discussing how erotic I am?"

 
 Posted:   Apr 19, 2016 - 2:02 PM   
 By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member)



How about Estelle Winwood in THE PRODUCERS?



I personally thing Estelle Winwood might be the quintessential LOL.

 
 Posted:   Jun 27, 2016 - 8:41 PM   
 By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member)

Seeing Edna May Oliver in LITTLE MISS BROADWAY made me think she's a great LOL (if if she was only 49 at the time).

 
 Posted:   Jun 27, 2016 - 11:12 PM   
 By:   Josh   (Member)

Patricia Hayes played a very LOL (and quite a spunky one at that!) in one of my favorite childhood films, THE NEVERENDING STORY (1984).



http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0371175/?ref_=tt_cl_t13

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 28, 2016 - 12:18 AM   
 By:   Disco Stu   (Member)

Helen Hayes as the stowaway in AIRPORT (Academy Award winning performance)
For that and her appearance in one of the "Herbie" films she goes to a new category:
Terminally annoying/ kill that character.
Good god both her appearances are so extremely punchable.

D.S.

 
 Posted:   Jun 28, 2016 - 2:46 AM   
 By:   RoryR   (Member)


Good god both her appearances are so extremely punchable.

D.S.


You want to punch an old lady, and Helen Hayes at that?!!!

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 28, 2016 - 6:09 AM   
 By:   John B. Archibald   (Member)

And Estelle Winwood in THE GLASS SLIPPER (1955), a sometimes quirky take on the Cinderella story. Winwood played the Fairy Godmother as a kind of bag lady, but had some pithy lines, such as, when Cinderella, about to leave for the ball, says she loves her, Winwood responds with, "That's very good, if you can love one person, it's that much easier to love someone else." And there's another fine quip about corsets, and how they affect men. This was one of the few films where she actually had lines. As a lady who lived to be 101, she often complained that she was frequently the old lady brought out at events.

She also got a chance to be funny in THE MAGIC SWORD, but her appearance in CAMELOT was little more than Guinevere's old lady-in-waiting....

 
 Posted:   Jun 28, 2016 - 7:54 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

Ruth Gordon in Harold and Maude.

 
 Posted:   Jun 28, 2016 - 8:20 AM   
 By:   RoryR   (Member)


Good god both her appearances are so extremely punchable.

D.S.


You want to punch an old lady, and Helen Hayes at that?!!!


Hey, I just remembered...

How about that LOL getting punched in the stomach in BLAZING SADDLES?

Anyone got a screen capture of that? One movie I don't have on DVD or Blu-ray.

 
 Posted:   Jun 28, 2016 - 12:20 PM   
 By:   Octoberman   (Member)

Heh...

 
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