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MGM wanted Hedy lamarr for the role and Hedy turned it down for good reasons..number one she was tired playing opposite Tracy, she had made 3 with him) and she was 5 or 6 years younger than Joan Bennett, too young to play Liz Taylors mother...remember a year earlier Hedy played Delilah..that was a real gorgeous woman.

I can't get over how different Joan looked playing "Amy" in the 1933 version of "Little Women" - who could have imagined that nearly 2 decades later she would be playing the mother of Elizabeth Taylor, who also played the role of "Amy" in the 1947 version of "Little Women."

"Don't call me 'honey', mac."
"Don't call me 'mac'... HONEY!"

Joan Bennett was certainly convincing as the mother of Liz Taylor. Even beyond the similar coloring (and Joan was a blonde before changing her whole persona going darkhaired in the early forties), she bore a resemblance that made this a great casting choice.

Except... while Joan at age 40 could well have been Liz Taylor's mother, who was 22 years younger, she did seem rather youngish to be her mother. I guess it's that people tend to marry older now compared to then.

I also think from reading about Bogart and Bacall that Spencer and Kate Hepburn used to socialize with Joan, who was also friends with the Bogarts. So they knew each other (Joan later playing with Bogart in We're No Angels). I agree with others that her greatest role was the stunning performance in Scarlett Street, quite a different role than here. But here she was great, too.

Once Joan went brunette, her beauty just popped! And it never went away...not even in Dark Shadows.