I was watching parts of RTV's Gidget marathon over the 4th and was thinking to myself "my, that Lynette Winter is quite the comely lass".Of course, she was constantly shown to be the supposedly odd-duck girl who was unattractive with all the beach bunnies roaming about - but in reality she was a real cutie. Furthermore, I just read that she played Henrietta Plout on Petticoat Junction, who is again supposed to be an unattractive girl whose mom is always trying to find some sucker to marry her off to. So the lovely Lynette is another example of what I call Hollywood Homely - beautiful women (and probably men as well) who get typecast as ugly characters even though they are quite lovely in a real-world way.
The Hollywood Homelies exist in part because people who are not at least attractive are going to find a harder time interesting audiences to watch. I'm reminded of the recasting of Willow from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer pilot, who was originally a normal looking actress named Riff Regan who was replaced by the Hollywood Homely Alyson Hannigan, who had to try hard to not look amazingly cute.
Does anybody else have examples of Hollywood Homely actresses or actors out there who you've always thought were cute, but who generally played characters who were supposed to be homely?
The Hollywood Homelies exist in part because people who are not at least attractive are going to find a harder time interesting audiences to watch. I'm reminded of the recasting of Willow from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer pilot, who was originally a normal looking actress named Riff Regan who was replaced by the Hollywood Homely Alyson Hannigan, who had to try hard to not look amazingly cute.
Does anybody else have examples of Hollywood Homely actresses or actors out there who you've always thought were cute, but who generally played characters who were supposed to be homely?
