Old picture of a famous TV sitcom actress. You'll never guess!

[MarathonMike]

I won't say yet, see if you can guess.

 

[miketx]

Lucy.

 

[playtime]

lucille ball.

 

[Hellbilly]

Irene Ryan

 

[playtime]

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holy crap batman!

 

[toobfreak]

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BINGO

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

I won't say yet, see if you can guess.
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Famous TV Sitcom. Well......she's not Mister Ed

 

[miketx]

Well I was wrong, looks like it is Ms. Ryan. We can see what happens from excessive smoking of crawdads!

 

[tycho1572]

 

[miketx]

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Doris Day.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

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I myself did not know, but yes it is "The Beverly Hillbillies"

It say 1920 so she was 18 years in age born 1902, it illustrates again the absolute tragedy of the human ageing process because she was very beautiful as a young woman.

Irene Ryan - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[tycho1572]

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Doris Day.

Donna Douglas.....

 

[MarathonMike]

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Yep! Did you guess or had you seen this pic before? Granted the pic is probably 50 years prior to her Granny role but there just wasn't any resemblance I could see.

 

[miketx]

I knew...

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

I won't say yet, see if you can guess.
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Here in the middle of the picture is Irene Ryan in the 1948 film "Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven" she is almost already unrecognisable from the picture in your OP when she was 18 years in age in 1920, below she would be 46 years in age:

 

[MarathonMike]

I won't say yet, see if you can guess.
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Here in the middle of the picture is Irene Ryan in the 1948 film "Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven" she is almost already unrecognisable from the picture in your OP when she was 18 years in age in 1920, below she would be 46 years in age:

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Wow even at 46? She must have had a hard life, she was a total knockout!

 

[Hellbilly]

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Yep! Did you guess or had you seen this pic before? Granted the pic is probably 50 years prior to her Granny role but there just wasn't any resemblance I could see.

The filename gave it away.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

Irene RyanView attachment 327917

Yep! Did you guess or had you seen this pic before? Granted the pic is probably 50 years prior to her Granny role but there just wasn't any resemblance I could see.

Theoretically he could have held his cursor over your OP picture, if you do that it says GRANNY.jpg and he could just have guessed Granny as in The Beverly Hillbillies as your thread titles does say OLD picture of a FAMOUS TV sitcom actress.

 

[MarathonMike]

Irene RyanView attachment 327917

Yep! Did you guess or had you seen this pic before? Granted the pic is probably 50 years prior to her Granny role but there just wasn't any resemblance I could see.

The filename gave it away.

Oops! I edit the pic itself but forgot the filename would be visible. Doh!

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

I won't say yet, see if you can guess.
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Here in the middle of the picture is Irene Ryan in the 1948 film "Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven" she is almost already unrecognisable from the picture in your OP when she was 18 years in age in 1920, below she would be 46 years in age:

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Wow even at 46? She must have had a hard life, she was a total knockout!

Yes she was incredibly beautiful at the age of 18 and TOTALLY unrecognisable at 46, even if you would have posted a picture of her at age 46 I don't think anyone automatically would have thought it was the SAME Irene Ryan. I can't find alot about her early life only she was married to the actor Tim Ryan and they were married from 1922-1942, but there is nothing about any traumatic happenings or a hard life, but as you comment there must have been something because I can't see how someone goes from being very beautiful at 18 to being completely unrecognisable less than 20 years later.