From those top ten films, the older male characters are detectives, postal workers, criminals, wealthy CEOs, and teachers. The women are maids and wives. “…Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford, Sean Connery, Richard Dreyfuss and other men in their fifties, sixties and even seventies continue to work and get big parts while formidable actresses over the age of forty… search in vain for roles dignified…” (Douglas 278). Older men can still hold positions of power and even have romances (particularly with younger women), but older women almost always have a sedentary character and are very rare for them to have younger men.