Voicelessness pop quiz!

[Dr. Richard Grossman]

OK voicelessness old-timers, here’s a pop quiz for you!  Identify the actress who said:

“I paid school friends to go to the movies with me.  I barely spoke until I was thirty.  (My husband) and I recognized each other as born outsiders…Needing to please has always been my weakness.”

Also, the actress reports that before she (at 26 years of age) and her husband met, she had felt invisible.

Any guesses?  No “googling”!

Richard

P.S.  One hint:  She played roles you would expect a “voiceless” actress to accept.

[Meh]

No idea without cheating.

Voiceless actress seems like an Oxymoron

[gratitude28]

Hmmmmmm... no clue. Now I'm going to have to google it!

[gratitude28]

I have two guesses... but I'll wait for you to tell us

[BonesMS]

Any clues as to how old this actress is?

[debkor]

I'm thinking Garbo

I want to be alone.

[Dr. Richard Grossman]

Bones:  “Any clues as to how old this actress is?”

Hmmm.  Her age seems younger and younger every day---still living.

tt:  “ …her reclusiveness is rather well known to people my age.”

Excellent!  She spent her late 20’s, along with her husband and infant as a virtual recluse.

teartracks and debkor:  Was it Garbo?

No, but good guess!

Anyone else want to guess?

Richard

[BonesMS]

Bones:  “Any clues as to how old this actress is?”

Hmmm.  Her age seems younger and younger every day---still living.

tt:  “ …her reclusiveness is rather well known to people my age.”

Excellent!  She spent her late 20’s, along with her husband and infant as a virtual recluse.

teartracks and debkor:  Was it Garbo?

No, but good guess!

Anyone else want to guess?

Richard

Is she middle-aged or Senior Citizen now?

[Dr. Richard Grossman]

Hi Bones,

She's a "senior citizen,"  and (big hint) her ex-husband who was almost twice her age when they married, died within the past 10 years.

Richard

[BonesMS]

Couldn't be Cher as in Sonny and Cher.

Still thinking.............................................

[Dr. Richard Grossman]

Good guess, Bones.  But definitely not Cher.  Sonny did so much womanizing, I’m sure Cher felt completely invisible/voiceless after they were married.   Anyone else want to guess before the answer is revealed?

Richard

[Hopalong]

Mia Farrow?

Is there a prize?

Hops

[BonesMS]

I also started thinking maybe Bo Derek.

[BonesMS]

Good guess, Bones.  But definitely not Cher.  Sonny did so much womanizing, I’m sure Cher felt completely invisible/voiceless after they were married.   Anyone else want to guess before the answer is revealed?

Richard

I also remember how controlling Sonny was.  I remember watching the two of them on a talk show, (can't remember if it was Dick Cavett or some other show), where Sonny told Cher in front of an audience that he was not going to allow her to wear something or other again!  I remember thinking to myself, "WTF?!?!?  Cher is NOT his daughter!  Geez!"  Their divorce was shortly after that fiasco.

[Hopalong]

I guessed Mia Farrow but my post didn't post.


Hops