# Which current actresses would be best suited to play these icons?

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**Created:** [March 31, 2013, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-current-actresses-would-be-best-suited-to-play-these-icons/654421 "2013-03-31T13:55:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-current-actresses-would-be-best-suited-to-play-these-icons/654421/21 "2013-04-01T02:51:22Z")

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someone who actually looks like they’re 26?

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**Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-current-actresses-would-be-best-suited-to-play-these-icons/654421/22 "2013-04-02T14:09:11Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> Lindsay Lohan is _26_. How young an actress do you figure we need to play her in her biopic?

There has to be a slew of 40 something actresses that could pull that off. Remember, 26 in Lohan years is 52 to you and me.

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**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-current-actresses-would-be-best-suited-to-play-these-icons/654421/23 "2013-04-02T15:10:38Z")

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> [@don\_t\_ask](#):
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> The way Hollywood works Emma Stone will get all of them. Unless Zooey Deschanel is back to movies. Lucky Dorothy Dandridge wasn’t on your list though.

IIRC Halle Berry played Dorothy Dandridge on TV.

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**Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-current-actresses-would-be-best-suited-to-play-these-icons/654421/24 "2013-04-02T15:17:37Z")

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> [@Zeldar](#):
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> Of all the actresses working today who would be best suited to play these women in biopics:
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> 1. Sophia Loren
> 2. Marilyn Monroe
> 3. Rita Hayworth
> 4. Bette Davis
> 5. Joan Crawford
> 6. Elizabeth Taylor
> 7. Lauren Bacall
> 8. Vivien Leigh
> 9. Brigitte Bardot
> 10. Katharine Hepburn
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> Feel free to add others…

If you are talking about which women actors could play these icons in THEIR prime, I am at a loss. In my opinion, none of the women in Hollywood today have the chops that their predecessors had. Sure LiLo could look like Liz, but she will never have Liz’s swag.

And Sophia Loren? She…um…still does it for me and she’s 70+! Wait., I’m rambling…

I thought Michelle Williams already played Marilyn.

You should also add Ann-Margaret and Anne Baxter…and maybe Anne Bancroft…

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**Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-current-actresses-would-be-best-suited-to-play-these-icons/654421/25 "2013-04-02T15:27:56Z")

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These days you could just get them all to play themselves. Consider[this commercial for chocolate](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFw8NjZF-Qk) currently showing on UK television.

Amazing what you can do with technology these days…

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