Julie Bowen as Mary Richards


http://i1331.photobucket.com/albums/w594/JamesGrec3/THR_Modern_Family_1_zpsdql8r7vt.jpg


“I worship Mary Tyler Moore, and I think her show was one of the original great programs about a girl. She was funny, and she was smart. And she wasn’t just the girlfriend or the wife.”

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/modern-family-cast-creates-famous-823739

What is interesting to me is how "old" the cast of the MTM show looked relative to similar actors 40 years later. Bowen turned 46 last month, and MTM was 33 when the iconic shot was taken. Actually Bowen is around the same age Ed Asner was then. I have been watching some MTM show and looked up Asner and was shocked that I am actually older now than he was when he did the show.

Being in one's 40's in the 1970's, is a lot older than being in one's 40's in the 2010's. I don't know if it is because the 1970's people grew up in the Depression and WWII, or what.

To end, I saw a MTM episode with Phyllis as a main character in the episode and I thought to myself, I am getting old because Cloris Leachman looked good!

To end, I saw a MTM episode with Phyllis as a main character in the episode and I thought to myself, I am getting old because Cloris Leachman looked good!

No, it's not just you. Cloris Leachman was a stunning-looking woman in those days. Here she is accepting her Oscar in 1972 (for The Last Picture Show) and looking particularly gorgeous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuYk6ypdBug

Wow!! She was beautiful and sexy back then. She is still attractive.

What is interesting to me is how "old" the cast of the MTM show looked relative to similar actors 40 years later. Bowen turned 46 last month, and MTM was 33 when the iconic shot was taken. Actually Bowen is around the same age Ed Asner was then. I have been watching some MTM show and looked up Asner and was shocked that I am actually older now than he was when he did the show.

Being in one's 40's in the 1970's, is a lot older than being in one's 40's in the 2010's. I don't know if it is because the 1970's people grew up in the Depression and WWII, or what.

To end, I saw a MTM episode with Phyllis as a main character in the episode and I thought to myself, I am getting old because Cloris Leachman looked good!
People age slower these days likely due to people not being chain smokers like folks were back in the day. Just one reason.

In the spring 1969, Ed Asner guested on the final episode for that season of the TV series Ironside. He had turned 39 just a few months earlier. (b. Nov. 1929). After his character is murdered by a bomb is character's age is mentioned as 45.

Two years later in the spring of 1971, now it's Lou Grant that is 45 in the final episode of Season 1. Ed Asner himself would have recently 41.

Ed Asner might have always looked older, yet he is still with his at age 86.

As old as Lou may have looked, his ex wife looked even older.

Julie Bowen as Mary Richards


http://i1331.photobucket.com/albums/w594/JamesGrec3/THR_Modern_Family_1_zpsdql8r7vt.jpg


“I worship Mary Tyler Moore, and I think her show was one of the original great programs about a girl. She was funny, and she was smart. And she wasn’t just the girlfriend or the wife.”

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/modern-family-cast-creates-famous-823739
I know this is an old thread, but she really looks terrific in this mock-up.