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For every actress who survived into her fifties—a Katharine Hepburn or a Bette Davis—there was a catch. They were forced into caricatures: the eccentric spinster, the domineering matriarch, or the comic relief. There was no space for a fifty-five-year-old woman to have a sexual awakening, a career crisis, or a complex emotional life. She existed only in relation to younger characters.
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