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

Cafe Society
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She made some quickly forgotten silent films. Most of her “film career” was serving as a consultant on movies about her own life and scandals.

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Rita Hayworth deserves her props.
http://www.msstate.edu/Images/Film/RitaHayworth.jpg

23

Oh yeah, forgot Michelle Pfeiffer. Remove Diana Dors from my list.

24

Agreed. Sorry, Cate, but Michelle dressed all in black in Ladyhawke… yikes almighty…

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[ol]
[li]Hedy Lamarr[/li][li]Ava Gardner[/li][li]Audrey Hepburn[/li][li]Rita Hayworth[/li][li]Marlene Dietrich[/li][/ol]

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For face only (and not in any order)

Greta Garbo
Hedy Lamarr
Marlene Dietrich
Katherine Hepburn
Donna Reed

All of these but Hedy seemed also to inhabit their beautiful faces with great character and intelligence, which made them even more appealing to me.

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My Top 5, in alphabetical order:

  1. Maggie Cheung
  2. Audrey Hepburn
  3. Anna Karina
  4. Diana Rigg
  5. Catherine Zeta Jones

Rounding out the top 10 would be Jenny Agutter, Ingrid Bergman, Veronica Lake, Isabella Rossellini and Barbara Stanwyck.

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[QUOTE=lissener]
[ol]
[li]Hedy Lamarr[/ol][/li][/QUOTE]

Hedley.

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In no particular order:

  1. Grace Kelly
  2. Elizabeth Taylor
  3. Jessica Lange
  4. Sophie Marceau
  5. Helen Hunt
30

Never saw the film, so I googled. Wow.

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In their “prime” pre 1960

Grace Kelly
Rita Hayworth *
Ava Gardner *
Elizabeth Taylor *
Gene Tierny

In their “prime” after 1960

Raquel Welch
Nicole Kidman
Kim Basinger *
Angelina Jolie *
Michelle Pfeiffer

Honorable mention –

Marilyn Monroe, Doris Day, and Sandra Dee

  • top five all time
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Grace Kelly
Vivien Leigh
Elizabeth Taylor
Michelle Pfeiffer (older Michelle, not Scarface Michelle)
Angelina Jolie

33

Please, everyone – if you’re going to nominate someone, include a link to a picture. In other words: CITE?!

Thank you so much, to those that already included links.

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Shirley Jones

Carolyn Jones

35

A still photo would only ever tell you a fraction of the beauty of the actress. If you haven’t seen her moving about for yourself; having a name or having a still photo, neither tells you much.

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In no particular order:

Ingrid Bergman
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Elizabeth Taylor
Grace Kelly
Kate Winslet

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In no particular order:

Veronica Lake http://www.imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1096/Mptv/1096/3912_0176.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Lake,%20Veronica%20(I)

Jean Simmons http://www.imdb.com/gallery/hh/0001739/HH/0001739/iid_923416.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Simmons,%20Jean%20(I)

Carolyn Jones- this is not a good photo for her but imdb didn’t have any good ones.http://www.imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1306/Mptv/1306/0042_0105.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Jones,%20Carolyn%20(I)

Louise Brooks http://www.imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1303/Mptv/1303/3974_0092.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Brooks,%20Louise%20(I)

Clara BowThe "It " Girl

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Catherine Zeta-Jones
Sophia Loren*
Elizabeth Taylor
Madge Sinclair*
Rita Hayworth

  • I have a thing about high cheek bones. My paternal grandmother, in her youth, resembled Sophia. Wish I gotten the “beautiful gene” she had.
39

Okay, for a while there I was wondering whether I’d be the first to nominate Dietrich.

No particular order:

Marlene Dietrich
Audrey Hepburn (duh)
Sayaka Kusunoki (okay, porn actress, but if HubZilla can nominate Jameson, I can nominate her)
Kristanna Loken

I’m half tempted to say Marley Shelton for Sin City’s Lady in Red sequence, but I haven’t seen that in a while and don’t have a particularly clear image of it. Coinflip between her and Christina Ricci.

40

Now that’s a Sith Lord I can follow!
I add Sean Young and Paulette Goddard, and I third Maureen O’Hara.