Was she considered particularly attractive in her time? She's far from ugly, but she has something...different about her. Eyes a little far apart or something. I'm just wondering how she compared to other actresses from around this time. Rita Hayworth was a total knockout.
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I think her fame as an adult was based more on her singing and acting talent than on her looks, but she was in no way considered unattractive.
I always thought she was pretty :)
In fact, for a brief time before the movie was being filmed, an early design idea they had for Dorothy was to put Judy Garland in a poofier dress with a blond wig and "dolly" makeup, but the producer wasn't happy with her look and wanted to use Judy's natural looks instead. So that's why they made her dress more low-key (she was playing a farm girl, after all) and had her go back to the brown hair and less makeup. I think it worked out just fine :)
Movie was great, and she's about as cute as she ever was in it. It would have been crazy to go the other direction.
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