Trending badgeTrendingPosted 55 minutes agoAudrey Hepburn And 18 Other Old Hollywood Stars At Age 50+ That You Probably Have Never SeenLet's normalize ageing.by Jenna GuillaumeBuzzFeed ContributorFacebookPinterestLink There are so many iconic and timeless images of old Hollywood stars that it can be easy to forget many of them lived (and worked) for years beyond those frozen moments - so here's a look at some classic celebs in their later years. 1. Audrey Hepburn at age 63 Hulton Archive / Getty Images, Ron Galella / Getty Images Photos of Audrey Hepburn as a young woman are inescapable, but she did continue acting (albeit sporadically) into the '70s and '80s, and was very active with humanitarian work until her death at 63 in 1993. 2. Shirley Temple at age 78 Donaldson Collection / Getty Images, Steve Granitz / Getty Images Shirley Temple is most known for how she looked as an actual child, but she lived until she was 85 years old in 2014. She spent much of her adult life working as a diplomat and politician. 3. Doris Day at age 97 Bettmann / Getty Images, Doris Day Animal Foundation / Via facebook.com Doris Day was most famous in her 20s and 30s, but she lived until the age of 97 in 2019. She spent her later years focused on animal welfare work. 4. Lena Horne at age 82 Gilles Petard / Getty Images, New York Daily News Archive / Getty Images Lena Horne rose to fame in the 1930s and 1940s, and continued working right through to the 1990s. She died in 2010 at the age of 92. 5. Ingrid Bergman at age 67 A. L. Whitey Schafer / Getty Images, Dave Hogan / Getty Images Ingrid Bergman was at her peak of fame when she was in her 20s - she was just 27 when Casablanca came out - but she worked pretty steadily up until her death at age 67 in 1982. 6. Charlie Chaplin at age 88 Witzel / Getty Images, Ullstein Bild Dtl. / Getty Images Charlie Chaplin was one of the first movie stars in history, rising to fame in the late 1910s and remaining popular for several decades. After a series of controversies and accusations of communism, he was effectively exiled from the US in 1952 and lived the rest of his life in Switzerland, where he died in 1977 at the age of 88. 7. Brigitte Bardot at age 73 Keystone-france / Getty Images, Eric Feferberg / Getty Images Now 91, Brigitte Bardot is best known for her "sex kitten" era in the 1950s in movies like And God Created Woman. She retired from acting in the '70s and focused on animal activism. 8. Gregory Peck at age 81 United Artists / Getty Images, Denny Keeler / Getty Images Gregory Peck was one of Hollywood's leading men in the '50s, and '60s, and he continued acting into the '90s. He died in 2003, aged 87. 9. James Stewart at age 85 George Rinhart / Getty Images, Ron Davis / Getty Images James Stewart had a prolific career well into his 50s and 60s, and was politically active as a Republican during Ronald Reagan's administration. He died aged 89 in 1997. 10. Rita Hayworth at age 62 Bettmann / Getty Images, Donaldson Collection / Getty Images Rita Hayworth was an "it girl" in Hollywood in the 1940s, and kept acting through to the early 1970s. She developed Alzheimer's disease and died at the age of 68 in 1987. 11. Ava Gardner at age 66 Screen Archives / Getty Images, Fairfax Media Archives / Getty Images Ava Gardner was most famous in the 1940s and 1950s, although she continued acting through to the early '80s. She died at age 67 in 1990. 12. Joan Fontaine at age 71 Donaldson Collection / Getty Images, Ron Galella / Getty Images Joan Fontaine had a long career, but is most known for the movies she did when she was in her 20s, such as Rebecca and Jane Eyre. She lived until the age of 96, dying in 2013. 13. Kim Novak at age 92 Donaldson Collection / Getty Images, Francois Durand / Getty Images Kim Novak is perhaps most famous as one of Hitchcock's blondes thanks to her role in 1958's Vertigo. With a couple of exceptions, she largely retired from acting in the mid '60s and focused on poetry, visual art and photography. She's now 92. 14. Gene Kelly at age 82 Herbert Dorfman / Getty Images, Denny Keeler / Getty Images Gene Kelly was the golden boy of movie musicals in the '40s and '50s, although he did continue working beyond that. He died in 1996 at the age of 83. 15. Laurence Olivier at age 79 Screen Archives / Getty Images, Bryn Colton / Getty Images Laurence Olivier's career spanned many decades, but he is perhaps best remembered for the roles he did when he was in his 30s and 40s, like Wuthering Heights and Hamlet. He lived until 1989 and the age of 82. 16. Tippi Hedren at age 88 Sunset Boulevard / Getty Images, Steve Granitz / Getty Images Tippi Hedren is forever remembered as another iconic Hitchcock blonde, but she did she continue acting well into the 2010s. She's now 95. 17. Ginger Rogers at age 82 Silver Screen Collection / Getty Images, Ron Galella / Getty Images Ginger Rogers is best known for her roles in movie musicals in the 1930s, although her last on screen role was in 19
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