Barbara Hershey

I came here not to comment on her looks. She looks perfectly fine to me. I found her acting to be stiff and artificial. Maybe I never particularly liked her acting in other movies, but to me Farrow and Wiest seem so natural in this and Hershey kind of wooden. I can almost see her thinking "now I should look like this when I'm saying my line".

She was sleeping with an old Max com Sydow and Michael Caine, this film is realistic, she is kind of plain but she is kind of pretty too. It was her personality and intelligence that drew Caine to her. Attraction and sexuality can make people think all sorts of things. For once we weren't looking at all hot, stunning people but more realistic people.

Also Hershey was really glam down here, she was also middle age here. She was a pretty flower child in the late 60s/early 70s.

I have never understood the appeal of Barbara Hersey either. From this to Hoosiers to Tin Men to Beaches- she always seems so boring and morose. That nasty perm brings to mind a single word from "Clueless:" hagsville!

I've been a fan of hers since the late 1960s and have always thought she was drop-dead gorgeous.

Thirty years ago, in 1986 when this film came out, I thought she was beautiful and her hair looked GREAT.
NOW, after watching HAHS tonight on TCM, it's hard to believe I felt this way.
Her hair looks awful, her teeth are gray. But even now I think she was very pretty.
Beauty is in the eye....

She's beautiful. You're crazy.

"A very beautiful Nude Study...actually it was of me".

Woody wrote it of course but it does make her sound conceited.

She looks very pretty here before the perm era:

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I've always found her to be the most attractive actress of her time. I wouldn't say she was as talented as Faye Dunaway but she's definitely my "type".