Why did Talia Shire's career go straight down the shitter?

She got tired of everyone screaming "Yo Adrienne!" to her on the streets.

Unattractive women have an even shorter shelf-life in Hollywood than beautiful ones get. She could have kept working once in a while if she wanted to play hags. It's the nature of the business.

Why did she change her last name to Shire?

Look at the picture you posted, OP. Look at ANY photo of her, and you’ve answered your own question.

One of the few actresses who I don't mind in spite of their obvious Hollywood connections.

The movie Windows killed her career

I think it may have been because there was a glut of mousy brunettes in the 1970s (Diane Keaton, Margot Kidder, Shelley Duvall, Karen Allen) and people had their fill of her and all the others.

R3 She married the composer David Shire, who did the scores for some good movies. After divorcing Talia, he married DL favourite Didi Conn.

Why must every thread devolve into a discussion about Patti Lupone?

Talia is the widow of producer Jack Schwartzman, father of Jason Schwartzman. Let's just say she's not exactly hurting for money.

R9 Don't you mean "evolve"?

Don't test me, Patti.

Darling R9, if you are trying to be with-it and glib about dear Patti, please learn to spell her surname correctly.

Well, there's always the matter of talent, the ability to act. You must have both.

She was not untalented.

She's Francis Ford Coppola's sister so it couldn't have been from a lack of connections.

Limited range and average looking. And that comes from a fan of her roles.

She was fantastic in the first movie version of The Shining.

She was always a mousy woman.

It's hard to make it in entertainment. Very competitive. Lots of people fall by the wayside.

lack of true talent ?

She had three bombs in a row (and not box office bombs but hated films: Old Boyfriends, Prophecy and Windows.) and then all she did was Rocky sequels. She seemed to think she was a star after Rocky and took rotten movies where she was the star rather than supporting roles or wife/girlfriend roles that probably would have done her better.

I suspect 99% of people who call themselves actors are envious of her career. She's a working actress.

She had a vulnerability to her roles that I liked.

As a beauty school dropout, the second Mrs. Shire was more truly vulnerable.

R7 with the exception of Duvall (for whom mousy would be a kind adjective), all those other women were legitimately pretty. Maybe not bombshells, but certainly pretty.

I don’t even think of Talia Shire as a mousy woman per se, just an “ethnic looking” lady with a bad nose job. Like Didi Conn (that husband clearly has a type).

I remember she guest-starred on Blossom. I feel like that’s the last thing I saw her in.

She should've won an Oscar for her role as the nun in the acclaimed film 'Chantilly Lace' starring Jobeth Williams, Ally Sheedy, Jill Eikenberry and Martha Plimpton

R28 That film was filled with a bunch of has beens and never wases. Did Jobeth pump William Hurt?

[quote][R7] with the exception of Duvall (for whom mousy would be a kind adjective)

Mousy brunettes, as in "mousy hair", as in:

[quote] of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse; "a mousy brownish-grey color"; "mousy hair"; "mouse-colored hair"

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She was never very attractive. Hen Annabella Sciorra started to get all her jobs.

They stopped making Rocky and Godfather movies.

I liked her in the original Rocky. I hate all the sequels.

If Carrie Snodgress' agent didn't ask for too much money for her to play Adrian in Rocky, we might never had heard of Talia and that's not a bad thing.

She was great as Connie.

She most recently turned up on Grace and Frankie, playing Lily Tomlin’s OLDER sister. Yikes.

Weak chin.

What is that horizontal line women have under their noses? What surgery leaves that telltale mark? It's everywhere.

Could someone start a Why did Bette Midler's career go straight down the shitter? thread. Thanks.

She was in both the Godfather and Rocky. Most actors can only dream of a career like that.

Stallone wanted Adrian's family to be Irish with Carrie Snodgress and Harvey Keitel.

She looks better now!

Endlessly chewing the scenery and emoting noisily in the Godfather. The worst performance in the first 2 Godfather films, by far. She borders on the unintentionally funny.

She played the baddie in one of those 90s "Fatal Attraction" clones called "The Landlady."

Seemed like she had an OK career to me.

[quote] She got tired of everyone screaming "Yo Adrienne!" to her on the streets.

It's better than calling her a "spoiled guinea brat" even if her family connections got her into [italic]The Godfather[/italic].

It was all over when she lost the Oscar to our Faye.