The weirdest thing to believe about this story is that Ann Blyth was only 35 years old, 3 years younger than her character states she is. But because of how people, especially women, looked back then due to make up of the day, she actually looks at least 50!
This story might work much better now due to fact we all look much younger than we did half a century ago. Though with cosmetic surgery or many without using it, these days again a person who is 60 now can easily look 38! So actually that is contradictory to what I first said, actually you'd have to have the main protagonist actress be played by a 20 year old. Because at least they'd look 20 and it would be more realistically, mysteriously frightening. There have been a lot of stories similar to this over the years of course. And this remains creepy, fanciful fun.
This story might work much better now due to fact we all look much younger than we did half a century ago. Though with cosmetic surgery or many without using it, these days again a person who is 60 now can easily look 38! So actually that is contradictory to what I first said, actually you'd have to have the main protagonist actress be played by a 20 year old. Because at least they'd look 20 and it would be more realistically, mysteriously frightening. There have been a lot of stories similar to this over the years of course. And this remains creepy, fanciful fun.