Classical Hollywood heavily prioritised youth and physical beauty for its female leads. Early cinema treated aging as a loss of marketability. Pioneering actresses like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford famously had to transition into the "Hagsploitation" horror genre in the 1960s—exemplified by What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? —just to secure leading roles as they aged. The Limited Archetypes
The industry standard historically relegated older women to flat, archetypal caricatures:
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