Years later, Darren Aronofsky gave her another chance to shine with her dazzling, desperate performance as a dumpy housewife addicted to diet pills. She received her sixth Oscar nomination, but what followed? The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood (bleh) and more TV. When the same thing happened to Bette Davis's career, she at least wound up with an interesting second life in exploitation and horror films (thanks to her comeback hit What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?). 5. Bela Lugosi in Ninotchka (1939)One can argue that Lugosi, in Dracula (1931), is one of the most famous faces in movie history. But Lugosi's career after that slid drastically downhill, embodied by a number of increasingly cheap horror and exploitation films, eventually ending with his trio of Ed Wood flicks. His only break came in 1939 when the celebrated, irreplaceable director Ernst Lubitsch cast him in Kommissar Razinin, in this legendary comedy opposite Greta Garbo (and written by Billy Wilder).
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