# Most attractive movie character **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/41 "2011-11-02T23:59:23Z")
Before her auto accident that ended production, [Merle Oberon](http://www.themakeupgallery.info/period/rome/messalina/epicmo.htm) shot the scene in **I Claudius** where her Messalina first catches Charles Laughton’s eye. She walks away pretending not to notice he’s looking, with a brief look over her shoulder thinking “Got him.” If I can add in a TV character, there’s Jack Gilford’s “Simon the Likeable” from Get Smart. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/42 "2011-11-03T00:58:29Z")
Some of my favorites: Michelle Pheiffer in _Scarface_ Laura Harring in _Mulholland Dr._ Nicole Kidman in _To Die For_ Catherine Zeta-Jones in _Entrapment_ ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/43 "2011-11-03T01:29:09Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > Some of my favorites: > Michelle Pheiffer in _Scarface_ > Laura Harring in _Mulholland Dr._ > Nicole Kidman in _To Die For_ > Catherine Zeta-Jones in _Entrapment_ “Hell yes!” to all those, except I’d take Pfeiffer in _The Fabulous Baker Boys_. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/44 "2011-11-03T01:35:41Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > “Hell yes!” to all those, except I’d take Pfeiffer in _The Fabulous Baker Boys_. Can’t believe I forgot that one! Can’t believe I forgot how to spell her name! ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/45 "2011-11-03T01:43:32Z")
Maureen O’Hara in _The Quiet Man_ ---
**Author:** ![coolbyrne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc79bd/32.png) [@coolbyrne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coolbyrne)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/46 "2011-11-03T01:43:52Z")
Hugh Jackman in an otherwise hideous “Kate & Leopold”. Both Michelle Yeoh and Chow Yun-Fat in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”. Cary Grant in “Notorious”. Tilda Swinton in “I Am Love”. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/47 "2011-11-03T01:50:55Z")
**Peg** the Lhaso Apso (I think) from _Lady And The Tramp_. (I can’t get YouTube on this machine, but if you go there and search for “He’s a Tramp” you’ll find umpteen clips of that scene – Including one of Peggy Lee recording it at Disney with some introduction and backround by Disney.) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/48 "2011-11-03T01:55:31Z")
Elizabeth Taylor in _A Place in the Sun_. Montgomery Clift never knew what he was missing. ---
**Author:** ![mac\_bolan00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/49 "2011-11-03T02:01:23Z")
i like 'em young or at least young-looking moira kelly in chaplin (also in the lion king) jamie getz in less than zero elizabeth taylor in faust audrey hepburn in roman holiday daphne zuniga in the fly 2 sharon stone at the interrogation chair jodie foster in lambs 1 ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/50 "2011-11-03T02:05:32Z")
Rachel Ward in _The Thorn Birds._ Perfect. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/51 "2011-11-03T02:37:45Z")
Links, people, links! ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/52 "2011-11-03T03:08:14Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Oh, yes. I watched that movie strictly to see smoldering looks pass between him and Omar Sharif. Plot? What plot? I almost put Sharif on my list. I think I’ll have to watch _LOA_ again and revel in the deliciousness. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Links, people, links! Since I returned to add one to my list (knocking Yul down a notch), here ya go. [ol] [li][Peter O’Toole](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm188323840/tt0056172) in Lawrence of Arabia[/li][li][Oded Fehr](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3349715200/nm0004912) in The Mummy (and The Mummy Returns)[/li][li][Yul Brynner](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm4081227776/tt0049408) in The King and I[/li][li][Orlando Bloom](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm4238376960/ch0000137) as Legolas[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/53 "2011-11-03T03:25:47Z")
Scarlett Johansson in “Lost in Translation”? Here you [go](http://www.google.ca/imgres?q=scarlett+johansson+pictures+underwear+lost+in+translation&hl=en&biw=936&bih=645&tbm=isch&tbnid=MQa3nsFZQMwGDM:&imgrefurl=http://www.screenwritingforhollywood.com/movie-reviews/most-famous-pg-underwear-scenes-in-cinema&docid=6hGz5VCKjCmEVM&imgurl=http://www.screenwritingforhollywood.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/scarlett_butt.jpg&w=318&h=181&ei=CAiyTsPwFuGbiQLiksHpDw&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=364&sig=106678630465268941678&page=1&tbnh=102&tbnw=179&start=0&ndsp=12&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0&tx=80&ty=58). Also, here’s one of Catherine Zeta-Jones in [Intolerable Cruelty](http://www.google.ca/imgres?q=catherine+zeta+jones+intolerable+cruelty&hl=en&sa=X&biw=936&bih=645&tbm=isch&prmd=imvnso&tbnid=RAPzOwqoHTWhpM:&imgrefurl=http://movies.zap2it.com/movies/intolerable-cruelty/photo-gallery-detail/32974/15379&docid=lrDd9HNULYcUlM&imgurl=http://images.zap2it.com/images/movie-32974/intolerable-cruelty-23.jpg&w=432&h=288&ei=SgSyTq6dG-GdiQLMn6DXDw&zoom=1). Not in her undies, sadly. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/54 "2011-11-03T03:30:13Z")
Everything pales next to this: [Rita Hayworth as the title character in “Gilda”](http://classiccinemagold.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Rita-Hayworth-gilda-1946.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/55 "2011-11-03T03:46:56Z")
Scarlett’s a good choice in _LIT_ and _Scoop_. Ava Gardner in the 1946 version of _The Killers_ – she just _is_ a vamp, oozing sensuality. Her freckles are adorable, too. ---
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/56 "2011-11-03T03:58:32Z")
Grace Kelly, in just about every movie she was ever in. But I particularly loved the wardrobe, backgrounds, and photography in **[To Catch a Thief](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm4101478400/tt0048728)**. Cary Grant was at the top of his game in that one as well. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/57 "2011-11-03T04:10:05Z")
Andrew-Lee Potts in [Alice](http://data.whicdn.com/images/14070548/tumblr_kzlj7iKqDj1qa9ueqo1_500_thumb.jpg). I’m now pro guy-liner. Sean Faris in **The Lost Valentine**. Can’t find a good picture ☹ [Paul Walker](http://www.fansshare.com/celebrity/photos/934_cf-into-the-blue-1163282194.jpg) in lots of things, but especially [Into The Blue](http://www.fansshare.com/celebrity/photos/shirt-off-491727431.jpg). And, while I’m not interested in women sexually, I’ve got to admit that Eva Green is totally captivating in **Camelot** , much the same way Audrey Hepburn is in **Breakfast at Tiffany’s**. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/58 "2011-11-03T04:32:17Z")
I fell in love with the actress on these occasions: [Elizabeth Taylor](http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/5677385/img/Elizabeth-Taylor/Elizabeth-Taylor-in-Giant-trailer-2.jpg) [in Giant](http://static.igossip.com/photos_2/march_2011/elizabeth_taylor_james_dean_giant_movie_thumb.jpg) [Madeleine Stowe in Last of the Mohicans](http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTM5MDA0NjExN15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwMTI3NjE3._V1._SX353_SY525_.jpg) [Melanie Griffith in Something Wild](http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/something_wild.jpg) (OK, granted, she hasn’t aged so well, but in that movie…particularly with the brunette wig…) [Rosario Dawson](http://media.photobucket.com/image/clerks%202/VLiS-/CLR/3.png) [in Clerks 2](http://www.nitrovideo.com/moviedb/clerks_2/images/Clerks2-RDawson.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/59 "2011-11-03T04:38:34Z")
> [@coolbyrne](#): > > Both Michelle Yeoh and Chow Yun-Fat in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”. I think the Fight scene between Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Xiyi in the dojo is better than most porn. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/9OxQ-2gR1DU/hqdefault.jpg "Ziyi Zhang vs. Michelle Yeoh best fight scene ever") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OxQ-2gR1DU) hotness ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660/60 "2011-11-03T05:01:08Z")
Sophia Loren, every movie she made in the 50s and 60s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-attractive-movie-character/601660.md?page=4)