This is very cute.
It’s flattering, it’s breezy, it’s houndstooth, it shows off how tiny she is… it’s one of those things where we’d normally see this and go, “Well, okay, but what if she burned off all her Admirably Charming mojo before the big night?” And then we’d start talking about how funny she was on The Good Wife, and that hairdo she had in Parenthood, and wishing she and Keanu Reeves could have a hilarious on-camera reunion on Raising Hope, and then we’d completely forget what we were talking about and why we’re here.
I MEAN. What a dish. Why didn’t Kate Winslet wear this? We’d all be slobbering over how perfect it was and how much she made us eat our words about her recent case of the Fashion Blahs, and then possibly making references to Kate-and-Leo fan fiction before making another reference to Mildred Pierce and “Let’s get stinko,” and how I almost typed that as “Plinko,” and how much BETTER that movie would’ve been if she had, indeed, said, “Let’s get Plinko,” followed by a cameo from Bob Barker. Instead, Martha Plimpton defeated Winslet on the carpet, and all Kate has left is to laugh at me for writing that terrible run-on sentence. Well, and she also has her looks and her Oscar and her Grammy and her Golden Globe and her Emmy, and all that money. But, whatever. The moral of the story is, Martha Plimpton rules.
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My favorite dress of the night! Soooooooooo gorgeous.
When she went up onstage for that (very charming) bit before her award was announced, I audibly gasped. Girlfriend looks GOOD.
I gasped — in the good way — when Martha stood up and made her way to the stage for the “beauty pageant.” That burgundy dress is stunning, and I love the houndstooth one, too. Imagine how much better she’ll look when SHE WINS NEXT YEAR, ACADEMY.
I was so pleasantly surprised by Martha Plimpton. That dress is gorgeous. She should be an ad for awards shows–you don’t need crazy patterns, rosettes, boobs falling out of your dress or a back cut down to your crack to get attention. She looks amazing.
Thank you so much for showing this picture. I didn’t even know who it was til I watched the show again this morning. Good lord she is stunning!
That dress is just perfection and her body is fricking amazing.
Best dressed of the night, hands down.
I really need to own that houndstooth dress immediately. Love!
I’m biased because I think she’s utterly fabulous but she really does look good, especially the top dress.
What I took from this post is that Kate Winslet has an EGGO.
Both dresses are supreme perfection on her. I bow down.
She’s head to toe flawless in both dresses. I love them!!!
Both dresses are fabulous! While the second is more dazzling, the first is more daring and I think she pulled it off brilliantly.
I am so ridiculously in love with the houndstooth dress. I would wear that EVERYWHERE.
Also, Martha Plimpton is crazy hot. And coincidentally hilarious. That beauty pageant group on the stage made me laugh like a crazy person, alone in my house. Amy Poehler started a movement and I love her even more for it.
What I love is that she’s still “quirky” Martha Plimpton while looking utterly beautiful while doing it. Cleans up really pretty…but still is probably bawdy after a drink or two.
She looks fabulous! She is fabulous. Remember when teen actresses didn’t all look like playboy bunnies in training? SIgh.
Love her. And love both dresses. Wowsa.
Can we all please just take a moment to remember that she was in Goonies? Girl has gone far!
Best dressed.
I am SO GLAD you posted this, because it was my favorite of the night, and she looked so tiny and perfect, and then I couldn’t find any pictures of it this morning. Yay!
I loved that dress. Such a wonderful color, so sparkly, fit her like a glove.
Down here is our time, but up there is Martha’s time! She looks great!
I thought she looked fabulous, too, and really happy. I love the shoes she’s wearing with the houndstooth dress. They are perfect. That’s how to accessorize.
Best dressed at the Emmys! And I would kill kittens for that first dress [not really, but do covet it!]
She was my favourite of the night. Stef cleans up nice!
She looks great, but I thought she was in her 50s, not 41 years old. She obviously hasn’t had any work done – good for her. This must be how skewed my view of normal aging has become.
Both looks are fantastic on Ms. Martha. I see her around NYC all of the time and she always looks cute but these are Va-Voom. The evening gown was one of my favorite of the night. She may not have won but its better to look good than to feel good. No? YES!
“She looks great, but I thought she was in her 50s, not 41 years old. She obviously hasn’t had any work done – good for her. This must be how skewed my view of normal aging has become.”
I didn’t know how old she was but there’s NO WAY I would have guessed 50s. You ARE skewed, sista!
Wow, she knocked it out of the park. I love both outfits, down to every detail. I had no idea she had such a great figure, and she looks so fresh-faced and happy. Great to see her working. Not all of the Goonies have had it so good. I haven’t seen The Good Wife, but I ADORED her in Company. She played Stephen Colbert’s wife and was hilarious!
she and Cobie Smulders were my best dressed, both seemed so effortless
An ex once told me I looked like Martha Plimpton (or, in his words, “the chick from The Goonies”). I took it as an insult at the time.
Now that guy CAN SUCK IT, because La Plimpton is stunning.
LOVE the houndstooth – want it bad! The burgundy one was fantastic and she looked great in both.
@CJ:
She was one of my favorites in Company. I am impatiently waiting for the NY Philharmonic to release the DVD for public sale (they will be, I asked
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I love the evening look, and the way the Carradine DNA expresses itself more strongly the older she gets.
But I want the houndstooth, dammit, although in a slighly smaller repeat, what a gorgeous day dress, eye-catching and demanding respect.
This was my favorite dress of the night! It’s amazing, and she looks amazing in it.
WHERE DO I GET THAT FIRST DRESS? (Sorry for caps but it required shouting!). Seriously – both dresses are drop-dead gorgeous and she is rocking them both. I hope the fashion police bowed down before her because that is winning!
Holy crap she’s gorgeous! I love both dresses and desperately want to own the first one (at least).
I’ve loved her ever since the Goonies though, so she can do no wrong in my eyes.
Goonies always look good!!!
I want to look this awesome all the time. Martha looks fantastic in both!
ok, it’s online petition time for a keanu/martha reunion on raising hope… i would kill… i already love that show too much.
I squealed when she went on stage and I saw what she was wearing. My favorite dress of the night, hands down!
Yes, indeedy, she rules! She is rocking both looks. And she is really, REALLY good in “Raising Hope”. Her character’s relationship with her husband is one of the best on TV.
I, too, gasped audibly when she popped up on the stage during the Best Actress, Comedy, segment. What color! What sparkles! And dear lord in heaven, what flawless fit on a body that rocks harder than a thousand thousand rocks rocking their hardest. I liked other gowns last night, even loved other gowns, but absolutely no one got a reaction out of my like La Plimpton.
Really exciting to see, especially, since she was dressed up as a kind of neighborhood Mrs Whatsit for her appearance on the late, unlamented “7th Heaven.” Good for Martha for showing how she cleans up.
That houndstooth is amazing, too–there’s a reason everyone in the comments wants a copy for herself–but that evening gown is breathtaking, and looked even better on her in motion than it does in stills.
Huh? Have none of you eyes? I’m with Nancy. This person has the face of an unattractive Helen Mirren. I’d have placed her over 55. The dress, perfection, her wretched hair and makeup, if she is wearing any, a crime and a sin. The houndstooth is Ferragamo, so of course divine.
I love Martha! Hers was my favorite dress of the night and I adore the houndstooth one as well. Kinda wish the Fug Girls hadn’t made this into a post about Kate Winslet. Couldn’t they let Martha have her moment?
Best dressed at the Emmys, by a MILE. She looked gorgeous. We used to take our pets to the same vet in NYC (she had a beautiful yellow Lab) and she seemed warm and down-to-earth. My husband says the same thing about her after waiting on her a few times in the restaurant where he worked.
Seriously, every one else during the pageant category looked so dumpy compared to her. She knocked it out of the park.
Hands down the most stunning gown of the night. Well played, Martha.
What? I can’t see how anyone can look at that first houndstooth dress photo and see a woman in her 50s. Zoom in on either pic if you have to – that is not the face nor chest nor hands of a woman in her 50s… She doesn’t even look 40. Her hair is short but it’s always been. If that could be me at 50, I’d be ecstatic.
She is my new favorite person. She’s hilarious on Raising Hope and she looks incredible here. I love both of these and she should totally be declared best dressed at the Emmys. Plus I follow her on Twitter and she’s funny and snarky just like you would want her to be.
A tie between her and Evan Rachel Wood for best dressed of the night….
Perfect dress. Easily my favorite of the night. Total knockout.
Both dresses are so lovely, and she looks exquisite in them. Very pleasantly surprised.
Plimpton for President
I WANT…. both!
A) I love you for referencing The Price Is Right and knowing that Plinko is a game, and B) she absolutely looked amazing. Props to her, seriously. Because she is not a classic beauty, and she looks f-ing fantastic!!!
I was watching the Emmys by myself and actually squealed aloud when she went up on stage. “Oh she looks so pretty” Love both these dresses on her. And no way does she look in her 50′s.
So beautiful and elegant–perfectly cut, and she makes me smile. Because she’s FABULOUS.
She is my best-dressed of the night. This dress is absolutely gorgeous!
Those arms! Oh my god, she looks amazing.
Best dressed of the night hands down!
I covet that red dress with every fiber of my being. Absolute favourite of the night, she looks AMAZING
Love her and both the dresses. She was definitely the best dressed last night.
Agreed! Martha Plimpton RULES!
Plimpton does rule hard. Not only can she dress beautifully, she’s one of the most hilarious and trenchant tweeters ever (actually, so are her costars Garret Dillahunt and Shannon Woodward – who knew Raising Hope was such a hotbed of writerly wits?).
I love both these dresses. So pretty, appropriate and insouciant. Lovely.
WOW. I want both of those dresses so hard! That second dress may very well be one of the all-time best you’ve featured on this site. Ever. That dress is absolute perfection. Girlfriend needs to give her stylist a raise!
Love both dresses and her body in them. Although I have never thought she was attractive by any stretch of the imagination, her looks have mellowed, and her figure is envy-inducing.
Do not love her hair and makeup in the second outfit; they’re aging her face. (There also seems to be a run of too-blonde hair lately — Martha, Kate Winslet, Amy Poehler. I’m talking to you.)
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Who made the houndstooth dress? I love houndstooth, and I am willing to sell a kidney to have this dress.
Far and away my FAVORITE! Poor Martha got no post-Emmy fashion kudos. Major error. Martha Plimpton, you looked FABULOUS!!!
Martha Plimpton really is AWESOME and I love her so much on “Raising Hope”! The 1st look is so casually elegant and fun that I WANT all of it! The red dress is my 2nd favorite of the night, but GOOD LORD look at the body on that woman… it’s enviable!!! COVET THE RED DRESS!
Perfection!
Agree, perfect. Both dresses. But especially the red one. Gorgeous. Kate Winslet, eat your heart out indeed!
Everytime I watch Raising Hope, first thought is how funny Plimpton is and second thought is, wow, she has a really nice bod!! Plimpton rules indeed.
WOW! I have always loved Martha Plimpton, but this is amazing. She looks radiant – her stylist deserves a raise!
Agreed, she’s awesome. Teen and Young Adult actors of the 80s and early 90s REUNITE! Goonies, of course. I also remember her in My Own Private Idaho–with River Phoenix AND Keanu Reeves. And she’s in I Shot Andy Warhol. And she’s the best in Parenthood–check out Joaquin Phoenix in that one too, when he was known as Leaf. I miss the 80s. She looks fabulous. There is hope for me yet!
She is fan-friggin-tastic on Raising Hope. I was going to say “AWESOME” but everyone else already said it!
And I often find myself wondering when she got so pretty.