Complex sentence: They are usually young and may be attractive, but dress drably and are sexually repressed: in movies such as It's a Wonderful Life and The Music Man their career is characterised as a "fate worse than death".
Split into simpler sentences: They are usually young and may be attractive, but dress drably and are sexually repressed. In movies such as It's a Wonderful Life and The Music Man their career is characterised as a "fate worse than death".