Who were the five most beautiful women in the history of film?

Cafe Society
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I’m having an e-mail discussion on this purely subjective (with one exception) topic and decided to take it to the Dope. needless to say, perhaps, but this is talking at their best (thus Charlize Theron in Monster and Halle Berry in some scenes from Queen, for example, don’t count.
My votes (in alphabetical order)-

  1. Halle Berry
  2. Ava Gardner (this is the one that’s not up for debate :cool: )
  3. Merle Oberon
  4. Charlize Theron
  5. Catherine Zeta Jones

Who are your picks? (You can choose somebody other than Ava, though you’ll be wrong of course.) Please link to pics of stars who may not be known by younger Dopers.

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I can’t argue with your list, but you need to add a few older ones for consideration:

Elizabeth Taylor
Rhonda Fleming
Hedy Lamarr
Jean Simmons

and a few of the more recent ones:

Salma Hayek
Sherilyn Fenn
Virginia Madsen

3

Lana Turner
Audrey Hepburn
Rita Heyworth
Greer Garson
Tie: Donna Reed (at her “It’s a Wonderful Life” age) and Halle Berry.

4

Lauren Bacall

5
  1. Elizabeth Taylor
  2. Linda Darnell
  3. Ava Gardner
  4. Grace Kelly
  5. Maureen O’Hara

VCNJ~

6

Sophia Loren
Jenna Jameson

7

Audrey Hepburn
Glynis Johns (Court Jester era…)
Vera-Ellen (White Christmas)
Lucille Ball
Cate Blanchett

8

Gwyn Paltrow
Mary Tyler Moore
Jodie Foster

9

Christina Ricci definitely deserves a place somewhere on that list.

10
  1. Audrey Hepburn
  2. Grace Kelly
  3. Kate Winslet
  4. Olivia de Havilland
  5. Vivien Leigh
11

I’ll have to agree about sophee.
Jenna is a pretty ragged sample, imho.
Let’s add uma thurman (dangerous liaisons& jennifer 8- **not even ** for kill bill)
Audrey hepburn
Shirley maclaine
vera miles
kathryn grant (the one that married bing)

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In no particular order,

Salma Hayek
Ava Gardner
Catherine Deneuve
Grace Kelly
Maureen Ohara

13

Carolyn Jones
Shirley Jones

14

Greta Garbo
Katharine Hepburn
Bette Davis
Lauren Bacall
Angelina Jolie

15

Ingrid Bergman

16

Audrey Hepburn
Jennifer Connelly
Liv Tyler

17

Audrey Hepburn
Julie Christie
Elizabeth Taylor
Diana Dors
Angelina Jolie

18

In no particular order:

Jodie Foster
Donna Reed
Kate Winslet
Michelle Pfeiffer
Angela Basset

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Okay, reading these I now have to redo the OP to include Maureen O’Hara (I’ll bump CZJ for her- she’s even a gorgeous 80 something) and Sophia Loren (sorry Merle, another olive skinned beauty needs your seat).

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Audrey Hepburn
Sophia Lauren
Michelle Pfeiffer
Evelyn Nesbitt (Do still photos count? I may be wrong but I don’t think she was in any films.)
Alice Krige