Loved this collection of comments about older actors...just to prove that they were young once, here's an eclectic bunch of actors in their relatively youthful days:
Burt Mustin (in college when he was a goalie on the hockey team):
Harry Davenport:
Cathleen Nesbitt in the mid-teens:
C. Aubrey Smith in the 1880s & 1890s when he was a professional cricketeer famed throughout the British Empire for his sportsmanship, not his acting:
Fay Bainter &
Estelle Winwood in Hay Fever in 1927:
Fay Bainter in The Kiss Burglar on Broadway (1918):
Estelle Winwood photographed by Edward Steichen 1923:
Henry Hull (circa 1910):
Hattie McDaniel (circa 1915):
Eugene Pallette as a baby and as a young & svelte fellow:
Paul Fix as a young sailor:
Isobel Elsom as a young British star on stage:
Porter Hall in the '20s:
Boris Karloff in the late teens (before eyebrow grooming?):
Sidney Blackmer early in his career:
Cecil Kellaway as a young actor:
Walter Hampden as Othello in 1925, when he was in his mid-40s:
Lloyd Nolan in college in the '20s:
Natalie Schaefer & Louis Calhern, sometime during their marriage (1933-1942):
Gladys Cooper in her teens: