Barbara Hershey

OMG, I came on here to say the same thing. After seeing this movie a million times I get that she's the young, idealist sister, blah blah. To me, though, just comes across as totally weird and in some scenes very annoying, and look at who she sleeps with in this movie. Ew. And, the clothes and hair of the mid eighties gone terribly, terribly wrong. Seen her in other stuff, she didn't bother me, just this one. Off the subject, but I love Julie Kavner, you know, Marge Simpson, almost wish she was in it a little more.

The '80s were all about frizzy perms and, even worse, mullet haircuts for women (short and spiky on top, long in the back)! And I'm pretty sure that this movie was filmed before the trend of lip injections ... I thought Barbara Hershey's look was perfectly suited for the role of Lee in 1986. Elliot found her attractive physically, but probably even more important, vulnerable and more needy than Hannah. Lee fulfilled in him a sense of feeling important and maybe just a bit superior to her intellectually. Lee seemed always to be attracted to men who served as teachers or mentors rather than someone who was her equal. Each sister had her own unique appeal, but IMHO Lee was the most attractive. Personally, I thought for someone who was supposed to be a successful actress Hannah came across as kind of frumpy, and Holly's style was kooky.

Woody Allen told her NOT to wear make-up for this role. She had never made a film without make-up so she was surprised. The physical appearance of her character was what the DIRECTOR envisioned.

The eye of the beholder. Ever since I saw her in "Last Summer", she has been high on my list of most beautiful actresses. I thought she was gorgeous in "Hannah and her Sisters".

Barbara Hershey's acting in this is why I rate the movie one star less than perfect. Otherwise, I love it. She seems so self-conscious and phony, and doesn't relate to the other actors in a natural way.
Of course, she was used to playing sex-pot roles, which may be why he cast her forthe part.

She was/is beautiful, in my opinion, but the style in America during the eighties was pretty funky. When I watch Woody Allen (and other) movies from the seventies and prior, I'm attracted to the styles (i.e. Annie Hall), but the eighties styles are such a mess on some levels. Was it during the eighties that we starting unanimously deciding that France and other certain countries were ahead of us in the style dept?

Oh, i totally loved hershey.

Funny enough I mistook her as Sigourney Weaver initially.

I thought she was a bit one dimensional in her part.

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