Actresses, playing mothers to adults, while still glam stars

[stuart.uk]

it was said of Ginger Rogers that, in the 40s, she said she didn't want to play mother to grown up kids. if true it seems strange, because any actress, who were still relatively young, that went down that road actually enhanced their careers

examples

Mary Astor/Judy Garland in a number of films
Rosemarry De Camp/James Cagney-Yankee Doddle Dandy
Rosemarry De Camp/Doris Day-On Moonlight Bay and By The Light Of The Silvery Moon
Barbara Stanwyck/Anne Shirley-Stella Dallas
Joan Crawford/Ann Blyth-Mildred Pierce
Myrna Loy/Teressa Wright-The Best Years Of Our Lives
Claudette Colbert/Jennifer Jones and Shirley Temple in Since You Went Away
Olivia De Havilland/John Lund-To Each His Own
Celia Johnson/Kay Walsh and Eileen Erskine in This Happy Breed
Lillian Gish/Joseph Cotton and Gregory Peck-Duel In The Sun
Katharine Hepburn/Robert Walker-The Sea Of Grass
Barbara Stanwyck/Diane Foster-The Violent Men
Jane Wyman/Talbott and W. Reynolds-All That Heaven Allows
Bette Davis/Debbie Reynolds-A Catered Affair
Maureen O'Hara/Claude Jarman jnr-Rio Grande
Maureen O'Hara/Stephanie Powers-McLintock
Maureen O'Hara/Bobby Vinton, Chris Mitchum and Patrick Wayne-Big Jake
Elizabeth Taylor/Dennis Hopper and Caroll Baker-Giant
Anna Lee/Anne Massey-Gideon's Day
Brenda De Banzie/Sylvia Syms-Flame In The Streets
Angela Lansbury/Elvis Presley-Blue Hawaii
Angela Lansbury/Laurence Harvey-The Manchurian Candidate
Vera Miles/Katharine Ross-The Hellfighters
Anne Bancroft/Katharine Ross-The Graduate
Claire Bloom/Anthony Andrews and Diane Quick-Brideshead Revisted
Dinah Sheridan/Jenny Agutter and Sally Thomset (Sally was nearly 10 yrs older than the girl she played)-The Railway Children
Julie Walters/Paul Reiser-My Beautiful Son

[mrsl]

Two more are Lana Turner and Susan Hayward. The best of all though was gorgeous Sophia Loren who always seemed to have one or two kids hanging around her whether they were hers or nieces or nephews.

Anne