# Most attractive movie character
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [November 2, 2011, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660 "2011-11-02T18:24:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@spazurek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spazurek)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2011, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/1 "2011-11-02T18:24:40Z")
I just watched Lost in Translation for the 2nd time and I had to shout it to the world: Scarlett Johannsen’s character in that film is absolutely stunning. I was in rapture every moment she was on screen.
Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca ranks a close second, but I think Johannsen in Lost in Translation has to be my #1. It’s curious because I haven’t found her as attractive in other roles; I think it’s a combination of her natural beauty and the attractiveness of her character in that film.
Who’s your favorite? Happy to hear male/female/other. Also curious if you find that it’s film-specific, the way I do, or do you like a certain actor in anything.
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### Author:  [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2011, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/2 "2011-11-02T18:32:35Z")
Imagine hanging out with **Audrey Hepburn’s Princess Anna in Roman Holiday**. Sigh…
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### Author:  [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/3 "2011-11-02T18:33:04Z")
Courteney Cox in _Cocoon: The Return_.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2011, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/4 "2011-11-02T18:46:42Z")
Three right off the bat:
Keira Knightley in _Pride & Prejudice_. I still haven’t quite recovered from the crush I developed when I saw her in that movie: [http://data.whicdn.com/images/10915602/Pride\_And\_Prejudice\_46229\_Medium\_thumb.jpg](http://data.whicdn.com/images/10915602/Pride_And_Prejudice_46229_Medium_thumb.jpg)
Ingrid Bergman in _Casablanca_, definitely: [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0gDLpiOq1lM/TXEzSrTBL5I/AAAAAAAAEXA/AtRiJUp9aeM/s1600/ingrid%2Bbergman%2Bcasablanca%2B2.jpg](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0gDLpiOq1lM/TXEzSrTBL5I/AAAAAAAAEXA/AtRiJUp9aeM/s1600/ingrid%2Bbergman%2Bcasablanca%2B2.jpg)
And rounding out the trifecta would be Donna Reed in _It’s a Wonderful Life_: [http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/img/6/0/4/1/12921406-12921409-large.jpg](http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/img/6/0/4/1/12921406-12921409-large.jpg)
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### Author:  [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/5 "2011-11-02T18:56:28Z")
Natalie Wood in _The Great Race._
> **[Humanvise](https://humanvise.tumblr.com/post/845601649/via-bringonxtoys-natalie-wood-in-the-the-great)**
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> (via bringonxtoys)
> Natalie Wood in the THE GREAT RACE (1965) I grew up watching this movies I must of seen it about 5 times before I was a teenager that a lot considering it was pre-vhs/dvd times. I...
> **[The legendary director Blake Edwards](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/celebritynews/8208053/The-legendary-director-Blake-Edwards.html?image=6)**
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> The director was known for the Pink Panther films and for Breakfast at Tiffany’s
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### Author:  [@tim-n-va](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim-n-va)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2011, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/6 "2011-11-02T19:02:31Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Three right off the bat:
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> Keira Knightley in _Pride & Prejudice_. I still haven’t quite recovered from the crush I developed when I saw her in that movie: [http://data.whicdn.com/images/10915602/Pride\_And\_Prejudice\_46229\_Medium\_thumb.jpg](http://data.whicdn.com/images/10915602/Pride_And_Prejudice_46229_Medium_thumb.jpg)
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> Ingrid Bergman in _Casablanca_, definitely: [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0gDLpiOq1lM/TXEzSrTBL5I/AAAAAAAAEXA/AtRiJUp9aeM/s1600/ingrid%2Bbergman%2Bcasablanca%2B2.jpg](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0gDLpiOq1lM/TXEzSrTBL5I/AAAAAAAAEXA/AtRiJUp9aeM/s1600/ingrid%2Bbergman%2Bcasablanca%2B2.jpg)
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> And rounding out the trifecta would be Donna Reed in _It’s a Wonderful Life_: [http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/img/6/0/4/1/12921406-12921409-large.jpg](http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/img/6/0/4/1/12921406-12921409-large.jpg)
Plus one on Donna Reed especially if you narrow it to the one scene by the fire when she says “Welcome home Mr. Bailey”.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2011, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/7 "2011-11-02T19:08:01Z")
> [@tim-n-va](#):
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> Plus one on Donna Reed especially if you narrow it to the one scene by the fire when she says “Welcome home Mr. Bailey”.
You know how to make me smile, my friend.
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### Author:  [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2011, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/8 "2011-11-02T19:10:17Z")
Madeline Stowe’s character Dr. Katherine Railey from the Sci-Fi/Time Travel film “12 Monkeys” was possibly THE Perfect Woman; She was absolutely physically stunning, well educated, financially affluent, open-minded, independent, and above all, still single…
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### Author:  [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/9 "2011-11-02T19:15:53Z")
Kate Winslet’s character in anything, but specifically in _Titanic_.
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### Author:  [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2011, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/10 "2011-11-02T19:21:08Z")
[Ava Gardner in The Killers](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Thekillers2.jpg) (1946)
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2011, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/11 "2011-11-02T19:27:18Z")
Honestly? Karen Allen as Marion Ravenwood in _Raiders of the Lost Ark_.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2011, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/12 "2011-11-02T19:36:57Z")
> [@Alessan](#):
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> Honestly? Karen Allen as Marion Ravenwood in _Raiders of the Lost Ark_.
Ah, yes. Smart, spunky, beautiful, and could _definitely_ hold her liquor: [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/\_EABuPIKLAtM/S4C62fnfcbI/AAAAAAAADGQ/t0eYfZDj4j8/s200/Marion+Ravenwood.jpg](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EABuPIKLAtM/S4C62fnfcbI/AAAAAAAADGQ/t0eYfZDj4j8/s200/Marion+Ravenwood.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/13 "2011-11-02T19:38:51Z")
> [@WordMan](#):
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> Imagine hanging out with **Audrey Hepburn’s Princess Anna in Roman Holiday**. Sigh…
Yes, I think I am faintly in love with her in that movie. I honestly don’t think anybody else in this thread comes close.
ETA: It’s funny, I think Marion is rather plain and not pretty at all, and I don’t much like her personality. Still, she’s far better than Screeching Lady in the other movie.
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### Author:  [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2011, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/14 "2011-11-02T19:42:54Z")
> [@Alessan](#):
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> Honestly? Karen Allen as Marion Ravenwood in _Raiders of the Lost Ark_.
She’s great in _Raiders_, but I really fell in love with her character in _Starman_.
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### Author:  [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/15 "2011-11-02T19:43:09Z")
> [@Anaamika](#):
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> I think Marion is rather plain and not pretty at all, and I don’t much like her personality.
Name your second, you scurvy dog!
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### Author:  [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/16 "2011-11-02T19:52:55Z")
Grace Kelly in Rear Window. Her entrance is amazing.
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2011, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/17 "2011-11-02T19:58:31Z")
> [@gaffa](#):
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> Name your second, you scurvy dog!
I don’t need any seconds. Pistols at dawn!
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### Author:  [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2011, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/18 "2011-11-02T20:03:51Z")
Audrey Tatou in _Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain_ and Emily Blunt in _Wild Target_.
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### Author:  [@carlotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlotta)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2011, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/19 "2011-11-02T20:13:45Z")
Ewan McGregor playing Christian in _Moulin Rouge_. For the longest time I kept renting other Ewan McGregor movies and feeling vaguely disappointed until I realized it was the character I felt so attracted to and not the actor.
I love a man who sings and dances. When will Hugh Jackman make a musical dammit? (a movie I mean, I can’t be affording Broadway tickets).
Funny about the OP, I usually think Scarlett Johansson is pretty darn attractive, but I couldn’t believe how well she was hiding it in _Lost in Translation_.
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### Author:  [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2011, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/20 "2011-11-02T20:14:57Z")
Lana Turner in _The Postman Always Rings Twice_. Her first scene has to be the most stunning entrance in movie history.
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