Gotta see this!

“Bette Davis,...did eight television pilots ...” 
Wow.  Didn't know that.  Never mind, the real eye-brow raiser is "television pilots."  Really?  She was finished on the "big" screen and probably did the TV pilots out of desperation and THEN gets ... nowhere?  Whoa, that's gotta hurt.  Now, all sorts of people are hurtin'--engineers, sales executives,  advertising copy writers and for much the same reason.  Ageism. 

Think Lange's wrong, though.  Movie biz has changed for women.  

Sally Field--Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for Lincoln (as Mary Todd, the President's wife.) Does TV, movies, on Broadway  now, age 70. 
Jodie Foster--acting AND directing (the brilliant Beaver, with Mel Gibson; most recently, the terrific Money Monster, starring George Clooney)--now age 55.  
I think also of Sigourney Weaver (67)  

Dozens of older women work behind the camera as directors, too, including Hurt Locker's Katheryn Bigelow...she's just one of many...