# Perfectly cast beauties **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 27, 2010, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfectly-cast-beauties/530692 "2010-02-27T22:03:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfectly-cast-beauties/530692/121 "2011-02-11T13:59:52Z")
Margaret Rutherford in the Miss Marple movies. ---
**Author:** ![soulmurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfectly-cast-beauties/530692/122 "2011-02-11T14:32:16Z")
Bo Derek in _10_. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfectly-cast-beauties/530692/123 "2011-02-11T14:46:19Z")
> [@Miss\_Violaceous](#): > > Uma Thurman in _Beautiful Girls._ > [@Glory](#): > > Not a beauty certainly, but I thought she had a good, scared out of my mind, “I don’t have to be beautiful, I’ll look horrible and sweaty” selfless quality in that role. I agree. I completely believed that she was terrified, and barely holding it together - which is precisely the correct reaction to being trapped in a Stephen King novel. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfectly-cast-beauties/530692/124 "2011-02-11T15:03:17Z")
**Emmy Rossum** in Phantom of the Opera. Drop-dead gorgeous looks and so innocent looking all at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfectly-cast-beauties/530692/125 "2011-02-11T15:23:25Z")
Rosey O’Donnell as Betty Rubble. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfectly-cast-beauties/530692/126 "2011-02-11T16:05:36Z")
I adore Anjelina but think Mr. Eastwood miscast her in [Changeling.](http://trendytrekker.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/angelina_jolie_on_the_set_of_the_changeling_1_0_0_0x0_432x432.jpg)Possibly it’s the fault of the makeup person but somehow she was a little \*too \*beautiful and contemporary looking. On the other hand, I can barely watch Keira Knightley and almost didn’t see Atonement because of it. That would have been my loss as she is both [stunning to look at](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3210/2741038412_f73c0e7b6a.jpg) and did a marvelous job with the role. I think both [Leonardo and Kate](http://www.starblogs.net/titanic-jackandrose.jpg) were utterly miscast in Titanic; she looking like his slightly older aunt. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfectly-cast-beauties/530692/127 "2011-02-11T21:58:46Z")
Wrong: [Uma Thurman](http://stephanie.mancouch.com/720514359/famous-butterfaces/). Period. Squinty-eyed, big-nosed, fish-lipped, man-jawed scrawny freak. I mean, she might be a nice PERSON in person, but she fucks up everything she appears in. Especially The Avengers. I don’t know if anyone could ever match Diana Rigg, but the number of actresses that could have outdone Thurman for the part must number in the tens of thousands. [Gwyneth Paltrow](http://brainwagon.org/category/movie-review/page/3/) in “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow” – so wrong. Granted, gorgeous. Granted, a nice Veronica Lake look for the role. But she’s supposed to be feisty, and I don’t think she has a feisty cell in her body. [Rose McGowan in Red Sonja.](http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/category/rose-mcgowan) I don’t think the movie ever got made, but damn, she had the look for the part. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfectly-cast-beauties/530692/128 "2011-02-11T22:07:31Z")
Lee Meriwether was just the right choice to fill in for Julie Newmar in the old _Batman_ movie. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfectly-cast-beauties/530692/129 "2011-02-11T23:26:16Z")
Scarlet O’Hara should have been Bette Davis. Holly Golightly should have been Marilyn Monroe. ---
**Author:** ![JoelUpchurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@JoelUpchurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoelUpchurch)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfectly-cast-beauties/530692/130 "2011-02-12T05:29:56Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Not…really. [This is how they looked](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mycenaean_Woman.jpg)_when they painted themselves_. Don’t be fooled by the name Schliemann assigned to the site where he did that dig. These people were there long before the Greeks actually got to Greece. I’m pretty sure those breasts aren’t to scale either. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfectly-cast-beauties/530692/131 "2011-02-12T05:39:10Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > Right: Jenna Elfman in **Big Daddy**. If you’re talking about the Adam Sandler movie, she wasn’t in it which (IMHO) _is_ perfect because I can’t stand her. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfectly-cast-beauties/530692/132 "2011-02-12T07:33:53Z")
> [@JoelUpchurch](#): > > Don’t be fooled by the name Schliemann assigned to the site where he did that dig. These people were there long before the Greeks actually got to Greece. I’m pretty sure those breasts aren’t to scale either. That’s a Mycenaean mural, not a Trojan one. So nothing to do with Troy. Which would make sense, Helen wasn’t Trojan. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2011, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfectly-cast-beauties/530692/133 "2011-02-12T07:43:14Z")
> [@Ronald\_C.Semone](#): > > Margaret Rutherford in the Miss Marple movies. “Beauty”?: [http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4041/4191761161\_cb8307781f.jpg](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4041/4191761161_cb8307781f.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfectly-cast-beauties/530692/134 "2011-02-12T07:47:57Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > [Gwyneth Paltrow](http://brainwagon.org/category/movie-review/page/3/) in “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow” – so wrong. Granted, gorgeous. Granted, a nice Veronica Lake look for the role. But she’s supposed to be feisty, and I don’t think she has a feisty cell in her body. Took the words right out of my mouth. The era and the character just begged to be played as the fast-talking, spunky girl reporter, but Paltrow was pensive and hesitant. I’ve always wondered if it was the actress or the director who decided to play the character that way. And the irony is that Blythe Danner in her prime could have nailed it. ---
**Author:** ![groovetuber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@groovetuber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/groovetuber)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfectly-cast-beauties/530692/135 "2011-02-12T09:40:25Z")
Kate Hudson was perfectly cast as Penny Lane in Almost Famous, very touching performance, you’d never know she was actually a great actress without having seen this film. ---
**Author:** ![lshaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e36b37/32.png) [@lshaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lshaw)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2011, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfectly-cast-beauties/530692/136 "2011-02-20T08:10:57Z")
Emmanuelle Beart in _Manon des Sources_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfectly-cast-beauties/530692.md?page=6)