updated: 05/02/2005
In Shining Through Melanie Griffith played Linda Voss, a WWII American spy in Germany. The IMDb plot summary sums up the result accurately, if cruelly: ‘For this part, the producers bravely (if stupidly) cast Melanie Griffith’.
The story is told in flashback from a present-day TV interview: hence the ageing makeup.
John Caglione Jr and Doug Drexler were special makeup effects artists: character ageing .