19 Side-By-Sides Of Old Hollywood Actors In Their First Movie Roles Vs. Their Last

    Legends only.

    Kayla Yandoli
    by Kayla Yandoli

    BuzzFeed Staff

    1. Katharine Hepburn

    RKO Radio Pictures / Warner Bros. Pictures

    Left: Playing Sidney Fairfield in A Bill of Divorcement (1932)

    Right: Playing Ginny in Love Affair (1994)

    2. Judy Garland

    20th Century Fox / United Artists

    Left: Playing Sairy Dodd in Pigskin Parade (1936)

    Right: Playing Jenny Bowman in I Could Go on Singing (1963)

    3. Sidney Poitier

    20th Century Fox / Universal Pictures

    Left: Playing Dr. Luther Brooks in No Way Out (1950)

    Right: Playing Carter Preston in The Jackal (1997)

    4. Marlon Brando

    United Artists / Paramount Pictures

    Left: Playing Ken Wilocek in The Men (1950)

    Right: Playing Max in The Score (2001)

    5. Natalie Wood

    RKO Pictures / MGM

    Left: Playing Margaret Ludwig in Tomorrow Is Forever (1946)

    Right: Playing Karen Brace in Brainstorm (1983)

    6. Dorothy Dandridge

    Million Dollar Productions / Warner Bros. Pictures

    Left: Playing Helen Fielding in Four Shall Die (1940)

    Right: Playing Gianna in Malaga (1960)

    7. Cary Grant

    Paramount Pictures / Columbia Pictures

    Left: Playing Stephen Mathewson in This Is the Night (1932)

    Right: Playing Sir William Rutland in Walk, Don't Run (1966)

    8. Audrey Hepburn

    Eros Films / Universal Pictures

    Left: Playing an uncredited hotel receptionist in One Wild Oat (1951)

    Right: Playing Hap in Always (1989)

    9. Sammy Davis Jr.

    Warner Bros. / Paramount Television

    Left: Playing Rufus Jones in Rufus Jones for President (1933)

    Right: Playing Sideman in The Kid Who Loved Christmas (1990)

    10. Rita Hayworth

    Fox Film Corp. / MGM

    Left: Playing Carmen in Under the Pampas Moon (1935)

    Right: Playing Señora de la Plata in The Wrath of God (1972)

    11. Anna May Wong

    Universal Film / Universal Pictures

    Left: Playing an uncredited girl in Outside the Law (1920)

    Right: Playing Tawny in Portrait in Black (1960)

    12. Gene Kelly

    MGM / Universal Pictures

    Left: Playing Harry Palmer in For Me and My Gal (1942)

    Right: Playing Danny McGuire in Xanadu (1980)

    13. Eartha Kitt

    20th Century Fox / Warner Premiere

    Left: Playing herself in New Faces (1954)

    Right: Playing Mona in And Then Came Love (2007)

    14. Rock Hudson

    Warner Bros. / The Cannon Group

    Left: Playing an uncredited pilot in Fighter Squadron (1948)

    Right: Playing Frank Stevenson in The Ambassador (1984)

    15. Rita Moreno

    United Artists / Everett Collection / 20th Century Fox

    Left: Playing Dolores Guererro in So Young, So Bad (1950)

    Right: Playing Valentina in West Side Story (2020)

    Note: Moreno's last official film role is undetermined, given that the legendary actor is still alive.

    16. Bette Davis

    Universal Pictures / MGM

    Left: Playing Laura Madison in Bad Sister (1931)

    Right: Playing Miranda Pierpoint in Wicked Stepmother (1989)

    17. Lena Horne

    Million Dollar Pictures / Universal Pictures

    Left: Playing Ethel Andrews in The Duke Is Tops (1938)

    Right: Playing Glinda the Good Witch of the South in The Wiz (1978)

    18. Carmen Miranda

    Public domain / Wikipedia / Paramount Pictures / Via commons.wikimedia.org

    Left: Playing herself in Alô, Alô, Brasil! (1935)

    Right: Playing Carmelita Castinha in Scared Stiff (1953)

    19. And Gregory Peck

    RKO Radio Pictures / Universal Pictures

    Left: Playing Vladimir in Days of Glory (1944)

    Right: Playing Lee Heller in Cape Fear (1991)