For decades, the arithmetic of Hollywood was brutally simple: a man’s career aged like fine wine; a woman’s career aged like milk. Once an actress crossed the nebulous threshold of 40, she faced a cinematic death sentence. The roles dried up, transforming from complex protagonists into caricatures: the nagging wife, the wise-cracking grandmother, or the spectral "ghost of Christmas future" warning ingénues of the ravages of time.
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