Audrey Hepburn

Bountiful like Melissa McCarthy?

Not all women.

No...straight men found her beautiful as well...but I doubt 'Breakfast At Tiffany's" is on many straight guys' favourite movie list...or any of her films, actually.

[quote] Straight men would prefer more bountiful women.

Are you really that dense?

Just like some gay men prefer teen looking twinks with no muscles and some gays adult looking guys with muscles straight men also have loads of different body types they like. You can't just say that straight men only like women with curves and big tits because it's not true. Some guys really do like thin women with small tits.

I suspect you're right. They preferred bounciful, bountiful actresses like Jayne Mansfield they actually want to fuck. Audrey Hepburn appeals to people who are not interested in fucking women.

That's why Audrey Hepburn was so miscast in Breakfast at Tiffany's.

R6, Truman Capote wanted Marilyn for the movie, I believe.HE didn't want Aubrey to be in the movie.

You're fucking kidding me, right??

Billy Wilder thought she was the most beautiful woman in Hollywood.

R2, you're correct. She was twee.

R7 yes I read that as well. It's quite obvious from the novella too that the role was for a Marilyn Monroe.

I know some straight men who prefer twiggy women.

In the original novella, Holly Golightly is described as a curvy blonde.

Before the actual movie was made, one of Capote's friends (I think actually his agent) once on the spur of the moment played a prank on Capote by telling him that the studio that had bought the rights was indeed going to make a movie out of it, but they were retitling it "Follow that Blonde." And Capote believed it until his friend broke up laughing!

"for all of her chic thinness, she had almost a breakfast-cereal air of health"

She was not voluptuous.

Hollywood discovered the skinny Dutch girl and brought her to the US where, asfter the tight rations of the war years, she went nuts in the restaurants and started getting chubby.

Straight men found her adorable, and funny at times. They liked her well enough.

But I don't know of any straight men who have gone all culty about her, not the way they have about Monroe. But then, they couldn't have "rescue" fantasies about Hepburn, who lived a fairly sane and normal life.

William Holden, who IMO was the most handsome man during his heyday, went bonkers for her.

Willowy was his type. Except for the cheap one night stand AKA Shelly Winters he had every Xmas eve.

Didn't William Holden have a LT thing with Stefanie Powers?

Hepburn looks really different without her signature eyebrows, and if you see close-ups of her from movie sets you can see how much they were painted in.

She's sort of Anne Hathaway-ish - huge features, tiny face, although Hepburn had better bone structure and, I think, a prettier mouth and chin-line than Hathaway. She had an affair with Albert Finney when they did "Two for the Road". I thought her chemistry with Peter Finch in "A Nun's Story" was tremendous, although the director, Fred Zimmerman, says the Finch character's presence in the film made the church very cautious about advising the movie, for fear it would play sexual subtext.

I agree with Emma Thompson - in all of Hepburn's signature movies I think she's unbearably twee and whimsical, and her voice drives me crazy. I know it's her "real" voice, but it feels like the worst kind of affectation. BUT, she was really good in A Nun's Story, to my surprise. I believed her in it.

It takes all kinds to make a world. She was lovely and I am sure many men were enchanted by her .

What a wholly different film "Breakfast at Tiffany's" would have been with Marilyn. There probably would have been a "Well she's just a whore" attitude toward the character from the movie-going audience, and likely wouldn't have been a "Moon River" .

R15, Hollywood "discovered" the skinny British-Dutch girl as she was starring on Broadway in "Gigi," after appearing in a number of British film and television productions. It's not like she was a completely novice discovery.

Jack Kennedy would stay up nights in the White House watching Roman Holiday. When he first met Jackie he excitedly told his buddies how much she resembled Audrey. Nuff said.

Albert Finney in 1967 was delicious.

She was pretty and charming, and straight men like charm as much as anyone else.

She was the kind of woman that doesn't drive straight men wild with lust, but they'd see her as wife/girlfriend material more than a one-night-stand. IMHO that's one reason her casting worked in "BaT", she played a hoor but you could always see her as more than a hoor. And that's why it's so different from the book, but the unrepentant slut of the book wouldn't have seemed sympathetic to 1960s audiences.

I'm a lesbian and I don't get her appeal. By all accounts she seemed a nice person and I don't hate her as an individual, but I find her performances terminally dull, uncharismatic, samey and the whimsy gets tiring. Give me a woman over a "lady" anytime. I've never enjoyed any movie she's been in and she's the main reason why.

The strange thing I've found over the years, is those that do love her, do so to an aggravating extreme. Every single fan of hers I've encountered, gay or straight, male or female will brook no argument about her being the most luminescent, beautiful star ever. This extends beyond their right to think so and they can get quite nasty to anyone with the temerity to disagree.

Just a strange quirk I've seen in her fans that I've not noticed so universally applied with any other stars' fans. They take loyalty to a long passed stranger to a frightening degree. Maybe I've just got unlucky and all you fans on here are normal and not unhinged, in which case my apologies. But that has been my strange experience. But it's definitely only served to put me off her more.

She didn't take herself half so seriously as her fans - and her detractors. She also fucked enough men in her life so I guess a few men found her attractive. Emma Thompson's twee remark needs to be retired from DL lore. It's not half as clever as everyone thinks. Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Nun's Story, Two for the Road, Wait Until Dark, Robin and Marion - these films are just fine.

She wanted to be a dancer but the war took care of those dreams as well as her health. She wasn't self-involved, loved her kids, had man trouble - and did solid humanitarian work. Was she a saint? No. The most beautiful star ever? Of course not. But she had presence.

She was unique.

She had a models figure a beautiful speaking voice she was ethereal and good . I am sure she made whoever who very happy between the sheets . It wasn't that she was a " lady" she came across as approachable not as an untouchable goddess .my love of her is not obsessive but she was one of a kind . She had real class and it this current climate it's oddity.

I had her 3 ways to sunday.

R2 I have to admit I agree with you. She a bit before my time but then so were Grace Kelly and Marilyn Monroe and countless others.

For sheer beauty - Grace Kelly oozed radiance and charisma. Audrey Hepburn carved her own niche I suppose, same with Katharine Hepburn - the latter not a ravishing specimen but she definitely lit up the screen with her strong, defiant character roles.

I think a lot of the subjectively which are what comments are all about - just comes down to an individual's set of values and cultural influences.

Note: In the weeks leading up to his 'big society' wedding to Jackie, he was courting / romancing big time a blonde Swedish socialite and sending letters to set up rendezvous in her country. So I guess hubby-to-be Jack was pretty flexible in the skirt chasing department as he had a pretty broad palette of "types" from which to choose.

R31 here. Correction meant to type r26 in my first line. Sorry.

JFK had em all: Gene Tierney, Grace Kelly,Marilyn,Angie Dickinson,Dietrich.. how did Audrey Hepburn escape Jack?

She had a great body and a beautiful face but personality wise I found her utterly boring and almost ordinary.

Didn't realize you knew her. Tell us more about her "ordinary" personality.

R28. Not to the hoarders of hipster women copying her short bangs and thinking they're unique as well.

Audrey = nice but dull. For a star, she managed to put out something that was utterly sexless. It doesn't matter if that was true of the real woman or not, that's what she resonates on screen. And that's what's falsely acclaimed as a classiness and why she'd be popular on the DL.

I like how Marilyn is thrown in as the comparison here. There were a helluva load of stars between the two. Give me some wit, fire, earthiness, spirit, confidence, sass, intelligence...over Audrey any day.

Two of the most beautiful Best Actress Winners wait backstage at the Oscars for their turn to present.

A lot of my straight male friends think she's beautiful. Interestingly they also like Grace Kelly too.

I will add I personally thought she was a terrible actress. So, not really a fan.

One person's "sexless" is another person's "sexy." Yeah, she had no curves but that doesn't make her sexless.

Grace Kelly had curves. Hepburn was built like a 14-year-old boy: perfect for the Givenchy dresses et al., not so ideal for Playboy-type fantasies.

Hepburn also had eating disorders throughout her life and there's nothing sexy or glamorous about that, frankly.

[R41] Grace Kelly didn't exactly have curves and she was a big slut.

Grace Kelly radiated sex. Audrey was the feyest of fey and the twee'est of twee. She would maybe hold your dick if she was wearing gloves.

Gracie was always billed as "the ice princess" It was Grace the Good and Marilyn the Bad as far as Phoneywood PR was concerned. Grace had her share on men but because of her family wealth never had to suck dick for parts a la Norma Jean. Audrey Hepburn on the other hand was "discovered" by that old pussy licker Colette. Now that's an interesting story.

Audrey never had short hipster girl bangs. That was Leslie Caron.

[quote]Truman Capote wanted Marilyn for the movie, I believe.HE didn't want Aubrey to be in the movie.

Did Capote ever comment on Mickey Rooney's contribution to the movie?

[quote]I like how Marilyn is thrown in as the comparison here. There were a helluva load of stars between the two.

R36 I think people are comparing the two, because Marilyn (Capote's first choice) lost the part of Holly Golightly to Audrey. It was the only time the two were up for the same part. And, of course, they're very different. Hence the comparisons.

R33 Jayne Mansfield also claimed to have bedded JFK.

Are you aware that Audrey has a couple of nose thinning rhinoplasties?

[quote]Emma Thompson's twee remark needs to be retired from DL lore. It's not half as clever as everyone thinks.

I thought they were funny as hell! I remember when she first made the statement back in summer 2010. The Daily Mail commenters went apeshit. Good times.

[quote]"I find Audrey Hepburn fantastically twee. Twee is whimsy without wit. It's mimsy-mumsy sweetness without any kind of bite. And that's not for me. She can't sing and she can't really act, I'm afraid. I'm sure she was a delightful woman – and perhaps if I had known her I would have enjoyed her acting more, but I don't and I didn't, so that's all there is to it, really."

R21 why wouldn't there have been "Moon River" if Marilyn had been cast? She had a good voice. In fact, better than Audrey's. Unlike Audrey, she was never fully dubbed in any of her films, except for the opening, high No's at the beginning of "Diamond's Are a Girl's Best Friend," which were done by Marni Nixon.

[quote]Emma Thompson's twee remark needs to be retired from DL lore. It's not half as clever as everyone thinks.

You in danger, gurl - DL gets very upset if you knock Emma.

[quote]Did Capote ever comment on Mickey Rooney's contribution to the movie?

I don't know why everyone gets so upset about that - maybe just in America where even the word 'Oriental' makes people spin - unless you happen to be Oriental.

R7 it's too bad that Marilyn missed out on two Oscar-nominated roles -- BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S and Tennessee Williams' BABY DOLL. In both cases, the authors desperately wanted her but were vetoed by the studios. I hope she at least found comfort that two revered writers would have preferred her.

R53 you really can't figure out why it would be upsetting to someone, especially to an American of Japanese descent?

My grandmother always remarked that Hepburn looked like a "plucked chicken" in her films. Now that's all I can see.

R23, the only thing Jackie had in common with Audrey was they both had very large feet. Neither were conventionally beautiful, but Audrey was more pleasing to the eye than Jackie. She didn't have that too large head and FAS eyes. And Jackie had a coarse streak as wide as the Mississippi running down her back. Especially when it came to money. Audrey was a very gracious woman who had a successful film career and devoted the latter part of her life to helping the poor. Jackie was an ambitious, greedy courtesan in the tradition of Wallis Simpson and Pamela Churchill Averell Harriman.

R56 heh, when I was 13, my siblings and I were over at my grandparent's house (c. 1993), and for movie night, we rented SCHOOL TIES, which had just come out on video. Anyway, my grandmother remarked that Brendan Fraser looked like 'a young Rodney Dangerfield," and I've never been able to shake off that image. haha

Audrey is a patrician beauty. It's the whole package. Style, beauty, class. Grace is more of an icy beauty, "man killer." The type that men want bc she's somewhat unattainable. Marilyn is the obvious beauty but in a cheap dime store way. The other two say Vogue and Bazaar and Marilyn says playboy or penthouse. I'll take Audrey and Grace over Marilyn any day.

She was 60 in this picture. She looks much older.

R60 didn't Audrey smoke? That may be (partly) why.

I think Hepburn's eating disorders came from lack of food in Holland during the Nazi occupation. For a while she was left eating with turnips and grass...at least that's what I've read. She had the grace and carriage of a dancer...which was her first love, or her first whack at the performing arts. I think it's mixing apples with oranges to include her along with Monroe or Grace Kelley. She had a sense of style and grace that doesn't exist today. I think Cary Grant was also taken with her during their filming of Charades..."all I want for Christmas is Audrey Hepburn"...

Monroe was tragic and Grace Kelley was an emancipated, independent blonde who slept with whomever she pleased, always thought her beauty was over rated. Her greatest role was Princess Grace...

Straight men weren't into Audrey Hepburn. Except of course all those straight men who married and/or dated her: Mel Ferrer, Andrea Dotti, Michael Butler, William Holden Albert Finney, Lord Hanson, Ben Gazzara, Robert Wolders, etc.

Then again, it's DataLounge: I'm sure someone will come along to insist all those men were really gay.

No, straight men don't just like big-titty blonde bimbos. In fact there are a fair number who like waifs. I've known some men who specifically like really skinny girls because they like the feeling of physically overpowering them.

No. My mom's bf thinks she's great. There's a subgroup of straight guys that like the look. Same guys that like Hermoine/Emma Watson. It's a Ginger / Maryanne thing, probably a bit of a whore/wife complex too despite holly golightly.

[quote]No, straight men don't just like big-titty blonde bimbos. In fact there are a fair number who like waifs.

True.

The early to mid-1960s fit Audrey very well in a way they didn't fit Marilyn (if she lived). Marilyn would never have been able to bring Breakfast at Tiffany's off - or any of the later 60s looks Audrey had.

r67 Marilyn in her mid-twenties, before the booze and dope got the best of her, would have been great in "Breakfast at Tiffany's."

I found her unfathomably boring.

[quote]Marilyn would never have been able to bring Breakfast at Tiffany's off - or any of the later 60s looks Audrey had.

How do you know?

& Audrey looked ridiculous in all that mod gear. Most actresses even younger than her, didn't do all that.

Audrey was terribly miscast in BAT -- she was supposed to be a girl from Podunk, not a Belgian sophisticate. Marilyn WAS a girl from Podunk.

[quote]Audrey was terribly miscast in BAT -- she was supposed to be a girl from Podunk, not a Belgian sophisticate. Marilyn WAS a girl from Podunk.

They weren't going for reality.

They were going for 'pretty' and glossy.

Ah yes, pretty and glossy

Audrey Hepburn could never play anything but Audrey Hepburn. For instance, in SABRINA she;s supposed to be a Long Island girl yet she sounds like she's from anotha lahnd!

Her sons are awful. Always trying to squeeze all the money they can out of her legacy- that awful chocolate commercial - and they've apparently just decided to stop fighting over her stuff.

Haven't had time to read the he whole thread, but I've always found her to be lovely. She does not fit the archetype of the classic Hollywood sex symbol of days gone by (Marilyn Monroe), but she did serve her purpose in something that I think is far more important. She gave American women an idea of what it was to look, and dress like a lady.

Even though Holly Golightly may have been best cast with MM, Audrey created an iconic figure of the single girl in NYC.

She is unforgettable.

Well, as in real life, there was more than one archetype of beauty. Even when bosomy blondes were in, the slender gamine or ingénue was never completely out, and vice versa.

In THE VIRGIN SUICIDES, Jeffrey Eugenides writes that Audrey Hepburn is someone whom "all women idolise and men never think about."

Audrey never played a vamp...it might have changed men's attitudes towards her

Breakfast at Tiffany's was one of those times when what at first seemed like a miscasting actually made the movie work. Hepburn made Holly work because she was sophisticated and so you didn't feel quite as bad for her--it all seemed like a game. With Monroe in the role, Holly would have seemed more desperate, more pathetic. Plus the reveal when you find out she's LulaMae would have been much different.

As far as straight men finding Hepburn beautiful... there are plenty who do. The same way there were guys who would rather have the two Charlie's Angels who weren't Farrah, there were guys who'd rather have Hepburn than Monroe. Or as someone upthread noted, there are guys who like twinks and guys who like bears.

Women like Audrey because she was a real-life poor little rich girl. Gays like her because she seemed both glamorous and nice---and at the same time helpless, like she needed protection.

Straight guys don't care about her one way or the other---she looked like she would be a dead fish.

R80 we are not talking about angels -- Charlie's or otherwise.

We're talking about the women that straight men like R82

And while many go for big tits and flash, not all of them do. The CA trio seemed to embody all three in a way that DLs 50-70 year old demo could best appreciate.

Audrey was cast along much older men in most of her films. In Sabrina, Holden goes after her but she ends up with much older Bogart. She rarely starred alongside male actors of her generation which made her appear less sexy or sexual. I like her but it's one of those things that I really dislike about her films. She and Fred Astaire even laughed about this when they made Funny Face. So many missed opportunities.

Different straight guys like different things. She was pretty despite her lack of curves too.

R84 Marilyn and Grace Kelly were also paired with much older men, and it didn't make them less sexy or sexual.

Marilyn and Grace careers weren't identical to Audrey's.

Many of Marilyn's men of the same age were often supporting, like in Gentlemen Prefer Blonds and The 7 Year Itch. She was the star and the men were second fiddle. But Marilyn got to play with Robert Mitchum, Tony Curtis, John Lemmon, Yves Montand. As for Grace, her career was short lived. It lasted 6 years. Audrey's career lasted much longer. By the 1960s she seemed old even though she wasn't. Starring with Humphrey Bogart, Fred Astaire, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant (in the 1960s), Rex Harrison, etc, took its toll. Her contemporaries were Anthony Perkins in Green Mansions, Mel Ferrer in War & Peace and George Peppard in BAT. Hardly hot stuff. Even Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday was old for her. He was pushing 40 and she was 22 years old. Had she starred with Paul Newman or Marlon Brando, things would have been different.

Audrey was quite tall, almost 5'8", which isn't evident in most of her films. My straight male friends seem to prefer small busty, insipid women. Audrey was none of those things.

Nah, straight guys like taller women, as long as they're an inch shorter than them. They just have a hard time finding them.

In my experience, the only guys who are into short girls are socially awkward losers with little control over aspects of their life. They often date Asians.

Straight guys LOVE tall women, you guys are nuts. Or you hang with rednecks.

Straight guys also like petite women. I know a few.

We're not talking about petite women, R91.

Her eyebrows were weird.

My benchmark on people i meet: if they liked Breakfast at Tiffany's (the movie) they're dead to me.

R94 Why? 'Cause of the Mickey Rooney scenes?

Audrey Hepburn was beautiful. A different kind of beauty, a lot of charm and incredible eyes involved. But she was beautiful. The camera loved her.

because that movie is horribly twee, r95. The rooney scenes are awful too, of course.

[quote]My benchmark on people i meet: if they liked Breakfast at Tiffany's (the movie) they're dead to me.

I wouldn't like you either, gurl.

One thing for sure, if Marilyn had played Holly Golightly, her iconic "little black dress" would've fetched much more at auction. About ten years ago, it sold at auction for $923,187. On the other hand, Marilyn's "white dress" from THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH fetched $4.6 million 6 years ago. A record at the time. Last year, the "Happy Birthday dress" sold for $4.8 million -- a new record.

That said, my favorite Audrey film is ROMAN HOLIDAY. It may be a cliche to say that, but I find it very enjoyable. For one, I love movies that take place over 24 hours or just overnight (e.g. DAZED & CONFUSED, BEFORE SUNRISE). Secondly, Gregory Peck is just too virile and sexy. And thirdly, Audrey is really delightful. Since it's one of her first films (and first American movie) she doesn't see all that affected to me yet.

love aud. she worked for UNICEF for years.....

Jeffrey Eugenides doesn't speak for all straight guys. He also prefers Asians

Straight guys also don't care about height on average. Straight women and gay men care about height.

My dad loved her. He thought she was elegant and exotic. My mom is the same type, slim and birdlike, also as a result of childhood deprivation, though in her case it was growing up poor in inner city Dublin in the 1930s, not war rationing, though that affected them too.

[quote]Straight men would prefer more bountiful women.

Straight men are no more homogeneous than gay men. Plenty of straight men prefer a pretty face over anything, and many of them actively seek out slight women as sexual partners.

She is totally ridiculous as Bogart's lover in Sabrina. It is very unrealistic and ruins the film. She looks like his granddaughter.

I don't find her beautiful. So sue me. There are two types of beautiful women, the ones that straight men would fuck in a heartbeat ie the obvious ones, and the ones that look odd or quirky that fashion designers and women think look beautiful. Hepburn falls into the latter. She also had ugly feet.

I'm a lesbian, and I loved Audrey Hepburn.

Well R21 MM DID sing "River of No Return" in the eponymous movie...

R68 in "Clash by Night," opposite hunky Keith Andes, she's delightfully fresh and feisty. In Showgirl she's luscious, with courtesan undertones.

R110 What?! Olivier doesn't get a mention nor a "hunky" descriptor?

[R33] JFK did date Audrey when he was just starting in politics---he didn't miss much. Mary Gallagher, JFK's long time secretary, wrote about Hepburn showing up at his office when he was a Senator, very glamorous, carrying a certain type of umbrella--which is an odd detail. I guess he was never going to marry her/get serious as she was an actress, and had been around a bit---and he needed a certain type of wife for his career.

(Of course, Jackie was no blushing virgin and was a money-grubbing deb courtesan who knew exactly how to reel him in with that faux "aristocratic" French background of hers).

R111, well, whatever makes stiff your skiff...

Y’all are crazy. Audrey was a babe. Most women don’t have an hourglass figure anyway, who are you kidding?

And look who Bogie ended up with. Another young, tall, skinny, model type. So they weren’t that far off, age difference aside.

Old thread I know, but recently active so I thought I'd post this.

This is not just "naturally" thin. Her ribs are sticking out.

She was too thin and pixie like to be beautiful. I guess it was such a different look in the early 1950s that she stood out. By the 60s though she looked scrawny and ill. Those mod hairstyles didn't help.

R26, are you single?

Thin looks terrible on older people. That's why Audrey pulled it off in her twenties.

[quote]Straight men would prefer more bountiful women.

Straight men want to marry an Audrey (So classy! So ladylike! So charming!) and cheat on her with someone hot, voluptuous and slutty with titties they can gnaw on.

Audrey Hepburn - Sorry, not a smashing beauty past Age 30

I totally agree with Emma Thompson.

R99-I interviewed a gallery owner who knows the photographer who took the iconic birthday dress - the one of Marilyn from behind. It's one of the only photos that survived that infamous performance, because the Secret Service went around and confiscated as much film as they could from the photographers. Even with the footage, JFK did not want those images out.

R122 amfAR founder Mathilde Krim, who hosted the after party, gave an interview to 20/20 and pretty much said the same thing. That the Secret Service confiscated all the cameras and took the photographs, but she said that they specifically took the ones with MM, JFK, and RFK together. Only one survived (below) because that photographer had the presence of mind to take out the film before the SS got to him.

Straight men all wanted to fuck AND marry me when I played a whore once.

R122-yeah-I think they took whatever film they could because they didn't know what would be on the rolls. That dress is still outrageously sexy well over half a century later.

Audrey was charming and had the manners you would associate with a sophisticated aristocrat. She was not sexy. Thank God she didn't try to be.

It's interesting that actresses (and people in general) who came from the upper class get away with behavior that would be condemned in actresses from humble backgrounds. Audrey had at least 2 affairs with married men. Grace Kelly slept with many of her married co-stars. Still classy, according to public perception. The rich get a pass. The privileged surface matters more than the actual behavior.

Yeah, Marilyn was no angel and hooked up with married men like Elia Kazan, Yves Montand, and JFK. Yet, she gets branded as the whore of Hollywood while they whitewash the behavior of Audrey and Grace (who was a contender for the biggest slut). Marilyn was hardly the worst. She gets singled out because this hypocritical double standard has much to do with her poor background.

Although Audrey had a deprived childhood during the WWII, she had aristocratic ties. Her mother was a baroness. No surprise that she had elegant manners, but she was just as flawed in her personal life as many other stars. The social elite were/are usually given the benefit of the doubt. It smacks of classism. It also ties into the reality that starlets who didn't come from wealth were forced to use the casting couch if they wanted a career. Actresses were unmolested if they had upper class connections (Audrey, Grace, Elizabeth Taylor, Gene Tierney). After all, studio executives didn't want to upset the powerful relatives.

Studio execs got pussy whenever they could. Fuck the relatives (so to speak).

From what I gather, straight guys want to fuck pretty much all of them. She wouldn't be their first choice, but most would probably think she was cute at least.

Men are such pigs!

R127, perhaps now but back in the studio days wealthy actresses were left alone. Gene Tierney said as much.

[italic]"The sexual abuse she had endured as a child had programmed her to please men. And she didn't have an assertive mother to protect her, or an upper-class background or Broadway acting experience to impress studio executives. According to Fox star actress Gene Tierney, these three attributes, which she herself possessed, kept her off the "casting couch."[/italic]

—from "Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox

Archetypal subsets straight guys are into: artst classy cool petite brunettes like Audrey; slutty hot af like Marilyn; 5'10" tall & fit & confident like an 80s/90s supermodel; 5'2" with huge boobs (it's a thing); girl next door classic 5'5" cheerleader pretty; Jewish; Asian; pretty Black.

Correction: Audrey had 3 known extramarital affairs.

1. William Holden 2. Albert Finney 3. Ben Gazzara

"artst classy cool petite brunettes like Audrey"

Audrey was not really petite at 5 foot 8. She was, however, a "tall short person" in that she had very short legs and a very long waist. In other words, the opposite of the leggy petite girls that most straight men prefer. Lesbians, however, love her.

Why do straight men have a thing for women's legs? I may be watching a YouTube clip of an actress on some talk show and inevitably several guys comment about their legs.

Because good looking, proportionally long legs are aesthetically pleasing on anyone, even men.