The 5 Most Beautiful Women in Cinema History.

Susannah York

Kathleen Turner in "Body Heat".

Sophia Loren

Audrey Hepburn

Aishwarya Rai.

End of thread

Olivia Newton-John

Ursula Andress Bo Derek Liz Taylor Garbo

Shelly Duvall

Olivia Hussey.

Ingrid Bergman

Lois Chiles

Ava Gardner

Elizabeth Taylor

Vivien Leigh

Brigitte Bardot

Natalie Wood

Hedy Lamarr

"The Most Beautiful Girl in the World": Hedy Lamarr

I'd replace Michelle Pfeiffer in the OP with Dolores Del Rio.

Sharon Tate

Evelyn Nesbit

Hedy goes into history more as a brilliant inventor.

Halle Berry

Interesting thread. I have to think it, first. Give me time.

Tragic silent screen beauty Mary Nolan.

Dolores Costello (Drew Barrymore's grandma)

Verushka.

Romy Schneider.

Raquel Welch (this thread ain't about acting)

Margaret Avery

Gong Li

Evelyn Kuhn

Pam Grier

Anne Ramsey

Look at the chin on the girl in the OP. Not surprised gay men would fine masculine women the most beautiful

20 replies and no mention of Monica Bellucci?!

R10, every girl but Bardot looks the same in your post. You could have picked one and been done with it.

Halle Berry

Vanessa Williams

In Peter Brook's Mahabarata, two clans of brothers fight for the hand of Draupadai, The Most Beautiful Woman in the World.

She enters from a corridor of dimly lit veils, and I thought, so let's see this "most beautiful woman in the world now."

Mallika Sarabhai.

Damn if she wasn't the most beautiful woman in the world.

She's a prominent women's rights activist in her 60s now but will link if I can find a pic from her glory days.

Dolores Del Rio. My country-ass great-aunt was such a fan of hers that she named one of her daughters Dolores Del Rio. LOL

Catherine Deneuve

Grace Kelly

Romy Schneider

Natalie Wood

Janet Leigh

After that, it would be interesting to make a thread on the sexiest woman in cinema history.

This thread is just about beauty, right...?

Virna Lisi

Gene Tierney

Lena Horne

Diahann Carroll

Natalie Wood

Brook Shields Lesley-Anne Down Sophia Loren Claudia Cardinale Virna Lisi Ava Gardner Hedy Lamarr Lauren Bacall Raquel Welch Gene Tierney Linda Carter Jaclyn Smith Paulina (the model) I'm sure I'm forgetting quite a few

Have you all notices nobody mentioned DL favorite and gay icon Liz Taylor??? I didn't either. I think she was beautiful when very young, aged fast and lost her beauty fast.

*noticed

Irene Papas

Virna Lisi

Joan Fontaine (sorry, Olivia)

Alida Valli

Lee Remick

What is that ridiculous hissing over there at the R13 table?

R32, yeah, Elizabeth was stunning, indeed. Right observation.

Ava Ava Ava!

Teenage Ava

Isabelle Adjani

Ann Margaret

Barbara Steele

Jacqueline Bisset

Paulette Goddard

R39 It's Ann-Margret

I don't think Charlotte Rampling was so much beautiful as she was provocative and interesting looking.

Bloody gorgeous.

Faye Dunaway nobody mentioned here. Jacqueline Bisset

Elizabeth Montgomery, you mortals!!

[quote]Bloody gorgeous.

If you like horseface.

I was born in 1979, my list, those who ravish me when they're on screen: Keira Knightley Samantha Mathis Marion Cotillard Jane Fonda Michelle Williams Rachel McAdams Marisa Tomei

R19 Yeah, Gong Li for sure. Natalie Portman actually gets more ravishing as she gets older. I was drooling at how beautiful Penélope Cruz was in Broken Embraces.

Ava Gardner

Audrey Hepburn

Elizabeth Taylor

Capucine

Maureen O'Hara

Natalie Wood was not some great beauty, I can't believe how many of you listed her.

I like the beautiful tomboy lesbians, Kristy McNichol and Nancy McKeon. Beautiful eyes and smile.

Dorothy dandridge! Hands down

R49, i was one of the most beautiful and sexiest actresses, how could you not like me?

Eat my pussy, Natalie.

Nobody mentioned me

*And* we can act your asses off the screen.

Gina Lollobrigida

[R55] continued

The trouble is, you can't separate the woman from the role that got her on this list. Take out one or maybe iconic roles, and in most cases there isn't much left.

Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not.

Grace Kelly/To Catch a Thief

Rita Hayworth /Gilda

I could go on forever, but there's almost always one picture that was lightning in a bottle, and the rest of their career was just one try after another to recapture it. I mean, would Grace Kelly been an icon based on High Noon or The Bridges at Toko-Ri ?

Juliette Binoche

I can't believe it took 58 replies for Rita Hayworth to be mentioned. Beautiful woman - too bad she was married to such bastard men.

Always thought DeeDee Pfeiffer was prettier than her sister.

Binoche? Jeez. Let the parade of dick noses begin.

I also drool over Kate Beckinsale.

Daneille Darrieux

Lucia Bose

Silvana Mangano

Michele Morgan

Reta Shaw

Catherine Deneuve, Ursula Andress, Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, Ann-Margret and last but not least Natalie Wood. I'm over 55.

Sonja Henie, the love of my life. If only she hadn't broke my heart...

[R55] continued: Young Catherine Deneuve was heaven.

Isabelle Adjani

The most interesting actresses have rarely been "perfect" looking. In fact, what is the purpose of this list apart from celebrating phenotypically fortunate but often dull screen presences. Life is too short for this shit. And I'm not old.

Agree with R55. Isabelle Adjani. Exquisite. Stole every scene from Sharon Stone in Diabolique.

Madonna

Evelyn Nesbit was never in the cinema. She was a photo model, not a movie star.

Incredibly, no one yet has mentioned Marilyn Monroe. She was considered the epitome of sexual beauty in her day, and remains one of the most iconic images of all time.

I hope R68 is joking because no one in their right mind would ever consider Madonna beautiful at this or at any other time in her life.

R32, that's bc only people over 70 think Liz Taylor was beautiful. She looks so ordinary to me. And please old people, enough with the "oh her coloring." Ugly is ugly no matter what color she has. My top three: Isabelle Adjani, Carole Bouquet and the sublime Jean Seberg. Not my generation but Jean is so angelic and classically beautiful.

Julie Christie.

Young Jessica Lange. Sadly, plastic surgery ruined her best feature: her big, brown, doe-eyes.

Anna Karina

In OP's post I misread Maude Fealy for Maude Findlay.

Not nearly enough mention of Sophia. David Shipman, easily the best cinema chronicler, said she was the most beautiful actress in the second half of the twentieth century.

I'm surprised there has been very little mention of Audrey Hepburn.

Marilyn Monroe and the young Ava Gardner.

María Félix

Maria Ouspenskaya OWNS this thread!

Marilyn out and about without a lot of makeup.

"That's bc only people over 70 think Liz Taylor was beautiful. She looks so ordinary to me. And please old people, enough with the "oh her coloring." Ugly is ugly no matter what color she has."

You are seriously stupid. Elizabeth Taylor "ordinary?" We should all be so ordinary. And "ugly is ugly no matter what color she has?" Elizabeth Taylor ugly? And "no matter what color she has?" You're an idiot!

Emmanuelle Béart

Isabelle Adjani

Romy Schneider

Julie Christie

Monica Belucci

Emanuel Lewis

Kojak- Who Loves YA BABY!!!??

Kate Jackson

Shelley Hack

My mim's beaver!!!

Moose Cock Pie

Chocodiles, BITCH!!!

Another vote for Aishwarya Rai.

R82, yes ordinary. If she were in her 20's or even 30's today, she'd barely get cast as an extra. ORDINARY!!! I'd continue on about how ordinary she is but I suspect you'd probably have a stroke and shit your Depends. Now calm down and drink your prune juice.

R86 is obviously a retard who thinks he's funny. He's not. He's just retarded.

Barbra Streisand was gorgeous in the early 70's.

R87, okay how about we split the difference and call it a day. She had nice tits...just put a bag over her face and you have a winner. Happy?

Maureen O'Hara, Tuesday Weld, Eva Green, Brooke Shields

1920's actress, Anna Mae McKinney was considered the first black bonified movie star. She was called the black Garbo.

Eartha Kitt

Flora Robson

Anne Revere

Jenna Jameson

Sharon Tate

Faye Dunaway

Dianne Keaton

Meryl Streep

Another vote for Ingrid Bergman and Vivien Leigh. And they were both more than just a pretty face

[R55] Diane Keaton looked great in Love and Death.

Senta Berger

Marlene Dietrich

Marilyn Monroe

Sophia Loren

Lana Turner

Lauren Bacall

Monica Vitti

Elizabeth Taylor was very short which diminished her beauty in person but vat a vondahful personalitay.

Julie Christie. Thread closed.

Catherine Zeta Jones

Rachel Weisz

Monica Bellucci

Marilyn Monroe Catherine Deneuve Sharon Tate Natalie Wood Faye Dunaway

The greatest actress of them all - Farrah Fawcett in "Logan's Run"

[quote] Evelyn Nesbit was never in the cinema. She was a photo model, not a movie star.

WRONG.

She made several films.

Another vote for Catherine Deneuve.

Vanessa Redgrave was gorgeous in Camelot; Jane Fonda in Barbarella; Ginger Rogers in the Fred & Ginger movies (faded quickly after)

Sharon Tate

Phoebe Cates Marion Cotillard Cate Blanchett Diane Keaton Rachel Weisz Vivian Leigh

It pisses me off the way people just throw lists of names on their posts to these "most beautiful" threads. Being *truly* beautiful is very rare; most of the women mentioned here are pretty, not beautiful. But it doesn't seem as if no one knows the difference. My list?

Vivienne Leigh Hedy Lamarr Catherine Deneuve

Y'all have such conventional taste.

R10 has it about right, but I would put Sharon Stone in place of Natalie Wood.

Deneuve was not a great beauty, more a a very pretty model with a bad nose job R113.

Catherine Deneuve and David Bailey at Cannes Film Festival, 1966. She looks so cute and sweet.

R113 What an odd thing to be pissed off about. Everyone sees beauty differently, there's no right or wrong. I personally find strong, interesting looking women more beautiful than what others see as traditional beauty. Doesn't make me right or wrong, that's just my taste.

FABULOUS outfit, R116!

[quote]It pisses me off the way people just throw lists of names on their posts to these "most beautiful" threads. Being *truly* beautiful is very rare; most of the women mentioned here are pretty, not beautiful. But it doesn't seem as if no one knows the difference.

You were the one correcting others on what constitutes beauty R117. You also said it pisses you off, then go on to accuse that it is an odd thing to be pissed off about. I laughed out loud. I was not pissed off. Deneuve is a dull and uninspired choice. Pretty.

[quote]Everyone sees beauty differently, there's no right or wrong.

My point is that I think there is a distinct difference between beautiful and pretty/attractive. Most of the women listed here I consider merely pretty or attractive, but in the end it is simply an opinion. And everyone see's beauty differently. I personally am saddened to see only a handful of WOC's listed but lets be honest: not too many of them got to work in films.

Marilyn Monroe

Ava Gardner

Greta Garbo

Sophia Loren

Lee Remick

What R119? I've made two posts on this thread before this one - R112 with my list and then R117 where I said it was an odd thing to be pissed off about. I was talking to R113. I never corrected anyone and I never said I was pissed off. I have no fucking idea what you are crapping on about.

Julie Christie

Monica Vitti

Jane Fonda (Klute period)

Ingrid Bergman (Notorious, Casablanca)

Faye Dunaway (Thomas Crown Affair, The Arrangment)

Maude Fealy? How old is OP?

Anouk Aimee

Isabelle Adjani

Stephane Audran

Marie Laforet

Francoise Hardy

Kim Basinger

Ava Gardner in 'Pandora and the Flying Dutchman'

Greta Garbo in 'Mata Hari

Catherine Deneuve in 'Indochine'

Audrey Hepburn in 'Sabrina'

Marilyn in 'The Prince and the Showgirl' (Olivier directing her said her face looked like she was 5 years old).

OP completely invalidates himself by not including Vivien Leigh and Rita Hayworth.

Suzy Parker

Marilyn in 'The Misfits'

Sophia in 'Arabesque'

Audrey in 'Charade'

Vivien Leigh in 'GWTW'

Ingrid in 'Casablanca'

The unseen women:

Rebecca in Rebecca Addie Ross in A LetterTo Three Wives

r113 = r120

A Thousand Ships, One Hundred Faces. Beauty in the Twentieth Century is a BIG book that covers this subject beautifully. There are ten women per decade with multiple photos and a historical essay on each woman. Some come from the world of society or modelling or the stage, but the majority are of course from Cinema. I think there is also a "hall of fame" or top ten of all time. The discussion of beauty - it's spiritual, artificial and sometimes trendy nature is juxtaposed with more classical ideas. One of the last of the great coffee table books on this subject before the plethora of available photos on the internet made this kind of book obsolete.

Ewwww, R57--what IS that?

Gong Li

Capucine

Virna Lisi

Anita Ekberg

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

"FABULOUS outfit, R116!"

I like the photo I posted at R116, but I was thinking it might look better as a short dress.

I definitely agree with Sophia Loren in "Arabesque".

Sick of the Aishwarya Rai troll. That woman has light brown skin and non brown eyes. That is her "beauty". India has some of the ugliest "most beautiful" women of any country because of their obsession with euro features. Aishwarya Rai has bug eyes and an over prominent nose. She is not beautiful; at best she is pretty when photographed from certain angles.

One of the top five most beautiful women in a film I have seen is Billie Dove in Fairbank's The Pirate.

All she does in the film is stay below deck looking worried hoping that Doug will save her.

But the gorgeous two tone early Technicolor and lighting make her look impossibly lovely.

Watching her in that I kept thinking wow!

Talk about having faces.

Oops. I meant to post this.

Taylor was very short but I can't imagine anybody watching The Last Time I saw Paris not thinking that this is one fucking beautiful woman.

And it's one of her best performances.

glad to see so much love for Virna Lisi. She was beautiful 'til the end. a real classy lady.

Vivien Leigh, Rita Hayworth, Sharon Tate, Gene Tierney, Sharon Stone, Brooke Shields, Halle Berry, Angelina Jolie, Diahann Carroll, Lana Turner, Ava Gardner

I'd post my list, but I'm sick of being called an Eldergay.

If we are talking film, we need to consider how beauty appears on the screen in a moving image.

A film persona emerges that can enhance, negate, or nearly nullify beauty in a still shot.

Elizabeth Taylor had a beauty that lent itself perfectly to film. It was nearly impossible not to look at her.

Marilyn Monroe might have been less beautiful but her magnetic presence on film made her even more stunning than Liz.

Capucine was the opposite. I love her regal look, but she didn't have the talent or charisma to hold a frame like Taylor or Monroe. Still, I count myself as a fan.

I would argue Grace Kelly is such a flat and uninteresting actress that her beauty becomes an human aesthetic equivalent to set design or outdoor scenery.

And I know how those sentences sound, so I'll Mary! myself right here.

I agree Deneuve's looks have always been overrated. Bad old fashioned nose job, and she got jowly really early - i was watching those Carson reruns on Antenna and she was on from feb 1980 - she already looked very aging, jowly, overall not great (and she was smoking to my amusement, back when guest smoked on talk shows)

Sophia Loren was another overrated one with that honker and overbite and in general very "cheap" look - doesn't surprise me she was a prostitute!

R79, María Félix was indeed stunning, a true old-school movie star.

Most of her work is in b/w, but if you get a chance, see her in Flor de mayo AKA Beyond All Limits. The color photography will knock you out.

R137 I agree about Aishwarya Rai. Had she not had those light coloured eyes, she'd be nothing special even in Indian terms and they do have some beautiful women. Never has any person owed so much of what they have to an eye-color.

R147 she looks like a prettier version of Bianna Golodryga...the reporter married to former Obama number cruncher Peter Orzag.

If you said she were Russian Jewish I would believe you.

Vera Hruba Ralston

Going by strictly beauty alone, two hall-of-fame beauties immediately came to mind: Hedy Lamarr Ursula Andress

For beauty combined with unique charisma: Ingrid Bergman Audrey Hepburn Tuesday Weld

Then there are other stunners at their peak: Ava Gardner Rita Hayworth Elsa Martinelli Marisa Mell Camilla Sparv Candice Bergen Nastassja Kinski Monica Bellucci Aishwarya Rai

Diana Ross was especially beautiful in Mahogany.

Mar&icaute;a Félix became very campy and draggy-looking in her old age.

^ María

Jaclyn Smith was physical perfection but it was boring.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Louise Brooks. Or Marlene Dietrich. Both are considered stunning beauties.

Step aside bitches. Miss Vivien Leigh was one of the most beautiful women ever! Even gay Laurence Olivier fell for her.

Miss Angie Dickinson

Neither a "personality" (Bette Davis) nor a "technician" (Meryl Streep) but searingly human and, in her time, a beauty. Few screen actresses can summon such authenticity. Anna Magnani...the non-actress (who went on to be actress) in Au hasard Balthasar. There are certain films with child/teen performances given before the actress has developed guile. Lilya 4-ever was one. The boy in Central Station. Somehow Liv held on to that core and elaborated it into her adult acting style. Perhaps an odd example but Emma Thompson in Wit had moments (not the asides) such as when her mentor (Eileen Atkins) read the children's book to her went to that place as well. At her best, Liv took your breath away not with Stanislavski tricks or emanations of a strong personality but richness and texture and a kind of tragic bemusement. She reminds me of my mom. They knew each other (Liv was much older) and I actually have a birthday card from Liv to her.

Greta Scacchi

A few beauties I saw only were one of the actresses playing the sisters as young women in Babette's feast and the two girls on the raft in Aguirre, the Wrath of God

saw only once*

Garbo

Deneuve

Dietrich

Sharon Stone

Bacall tied with Rampling (same beautiful eyes!)

I'll take Grace Kelly over Liz Taylor any day. Grace was a classic patrician beauty. Liz...classic librarian type with blue eyes. If she had brown eyes, no one would be talking about her.

Myrna Loy. Gorgeous in every movie, every still photo, she's in.

Edith Massey

good actress, but she looks like a Pekingese dog, R164

Grace Kelly for the win, with Sophie Tucker bringing up the rear.

No competition...but with a nod to the natural beauty and presence of Liv Ullman;

Marilyn Monroe

Kathleen Turner

Grace Kelly

Jennifer Lopez

Loretta Young and Carole Lombard were two of the the most beautiful women of the 1930s.

And though their looks could be deemed as "classic" they were not bland and boring. They each had a unique beauty, unlike so many of the actresses mentioned here, especially from the 1970s-2000s.

I know I'll get oh deared for this and I don't give a shit.

Grace Kelly literally could not act her way out of a paper bag.

Garbo. 100% All of these women are beautiful, most of them in a sexually fertile way but as for profound, otherworldly beauty, it has to be Garbo. She looked like a walking statue. She looked like a carving. To be considered "most beautiful", I think you have to have a very unusual, unearthly quality that is both pleasing to look at and unsettling at the same time. She had it.

r158, another vote for Liv Ullmann as well. Even now she is still beautiful with a lovely personality.

Who gives a shit about profound, otherworldly beauty.

Give me a beautiful woman in a sexually fertile way anytime.

[R172] I love the scene in Queen Christina where Garbo "memorizes" the room at the inn. Pity about her lover's distractingly contemporary speaking voice. Can't remember the actor's name--John Gilbert? She was such a treat in Ninotchka.

"WRONG.

She made several films."

Films that amounted to nothing. Evelyn Nesbit's movie "career" was a joke. People just wanted to LOOK (she was considered the most scandalous of women) at her, so was in a few minor films to milk her notoriety for all it was worth. She was no actress. In fact she had no talent at all. If there was ever anybody who had looks but no talent it was Evelyn Nesbit.

R176 She actually had talent as a model. Yes, there is such a thing. She had an unusual way of posing by staring down the camera, that pretty much changed art and theater photography trends after her.

More than that, she was an exploited teenager and didn't deserve to be looked at like a harlot by half the country, when she'd pretty much aged too much for Stanford White's tastes by 16.

That face. Those eyes. She is everything.

Really [178]? To me she resembles a heavily made-up transsexual. I did enjoy the bitch slap she gave her ungrateful daughter in Mildred Pierce, though.

Long-forgotten silent starlet Mary Eaton:

Grace Kelly just doesn't do it for me. She has a cube-shaped head.

r176, the topic was not whether she could act. She starred in several films, and was thus a part of cinema history. The thread title is asking for "The 5 Most Beautiful Women in Cinema History," not "The 5 Most Beautiful Women Who Were Also Great Actresses in Cinema History."

Merle Oberon. Ava Gardner. Liz Taylor. Jennifer Jones. Hedy Lamarr.

Amalia Fuentes, the Elizabeth Taylor of Philippine Cinema

Edie Sedgwick

Lauren Bacall. Casablanca

Katherine Deneuve. Early films

Dorothy Dandrige. Carmen Jones

Vanessa Redgrave any film

Whitney Houston Waiting to Exhale

Liv Ullman looks like a payroll clerk.

Carole Lombard's glamour shots still look contemporary. Her beauty - and that of young Joan Crawford - seem much more timeless.

Ava Gardner Claudia Cardinale Rita Hayworth Ursula Andress

and Olivia Hussey

Some women, such as the young Christie Brinkley, have that "generically beautiful" look reminiscent of Barbie. Infantile features (large eyes; thin, straight, short (but not too puggy) nose; bee-stung Cupid's bow mouth that is "tall" horizontally but "short" vertically) that are symmetrical and proportionate. Pleasant, but bland. I think the real beauties are the distinctive, striking kind.

Beauty is momentary in the mind, but in the flesh, it is immortal.

I always loved Barbara Parkins. She WAS the 60s.

..as was Miss Elke Sommers.

The statement that "Beauty has to be exactly the same in the eye of every beholder" is certainly true!

Datalounge favorite - Cheryl Ladd Millennium (1989) Poison Ivy Purple Hearts

Marilyn Monroe Rita Hayworth Gene Tierney Jacqueline Bissett Gong Li

Marilyn Monroe in The Prince and The Showgirl

This thread is not complete without Dorothy Dandrige:

How about Vanessa Williams. She has been in the movies and did that Dance With Me movie. Here she is:

Even though she was, of course, very attractive and I tend to find brunettes most beautiful, it has never been apparent to me what was so special about Hedy Lamarr. She was once considered the most beautiful woman in the world. I don't know, perhaps it was her generally bland performances that cause me to find her rather forgettable.

Angela Bassett as well and she has aged great or at least the work she has had done has been minimal:

Gugu Mbatha-Raw was gorgeous in the movie Beyond the Lights (even with purple hair) as well as the movie Belle and stars opposite Mattheew MCon... in the Free States of Jones:

We have these same threads pop up every 2 months and the same people keep popping back up. Past beauties...come on, there are current women in Cinema who are much prettier than Joan Crawford or just as beautiful as Deneuve.

I've always loved Rachel McAdams face.

The lovely Diahnn Carroll:

Eva Mendes

Only bit parts but because it is Hollywood she will never be as big as she could be based on her looks but Chris Rock's new girlfriend Megalyn Echikunwoke:

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Miss Cillian Murphy owns this thread.

Some straight up dogs in this thread. Beauty truly IS in the eye if the beholder.

R174 Well, it wasn't only women buying all those movie tickets.

[R187] You've apparently met some anomalous "payroll clerks."

Without makeup, Rachel McAdams, Joan Crawford (in her case, even with)...I needn't continue, nearly every woman on this list except Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Bergman, Olivia Hussey, Susannah York, and some others I can't think of are/were very, very plain and in some cases below average in attractiveness.

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What gives, bitches?

I adored Kim Novak in Vertigo, as both "Madeleine" and Judy, and found her touching in Picnic, but there's something quite artificial about the way they made her up. Which is funny because in private back then she was a bohemian. No idea what motivated her to undergo the procedures that eventuated in the grotesque who appeared at the Oscars. She's a really cool woman, not really an actress (Hitchcock was operating her like a marionette in Vertigo), and had no need to mutilate herself.

For a relatively short time Judi Bowker had a stunning natural beauty. I suspect she drank.

Suzanne Pleshette

[quote]Greta Scacchi

Good call. I don't care how Gay you are, you wanted to fuck her in White Mischief.

Elizabeth Taylor

Grace Kelly

Marilyn Monroe

Hedy Lamarr

Louise Brooks

Deneuve has a very masculine jawline/chin in OPs picture. She's striking and beautiful rather than pretty and feminine but the picture mostly makes me wish I could find a man with her bone structure.

Jennifer Lopez

Eva Langoria

Gwyneth Paltrow

How modest to put yourself last after the two Latino midgets GOOP. I see what you did there.

Dionne Warwick

Cybill Shepherd

Candice Bergen

Shelley Hack

Phoebe Cates

Jennifer Beals

Catherine Deneuve's sister, Françoise Dorléac, was beautiful too.

The only current actress I find beautiful is Charlize Theron. And the person who keeps pushing Dionne Warwick....thanks for the laugh.

Sharon Stone hasn't been mentioned much, but should be. Nearly perfect features and an intelligent look. She has aged beautifully as well

I would venture to say op's pic is the best Deneuve ever took. Never saw her as a great beauty.

[R223] I don't think ANYONE has aged as well as Jennifer Beals. Pity about her acting. With a Yale degree, she could have done something more consequential. Still, she seems like a very cool woman. Not sure that she qualifies as a timeless beauty, but what she had she has kept and in some ways improved upon, maybe even naturally!

Was Francoise more beautiful than Catherine? F died tragically in a coat wreck on the way to the Nice airport right after completing Les Demoiselles...

I meant car wreck. Damn datalounge.

R230 ha I had some weird Isadora Duncan vision with the coat hanger acting like her scarf....

Marpessa Dawn, of "Orfeu Negro" ("Black Orpheus")--one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen:

I think R10's list is better than the OP's -- except that, yes, Catherine Deneuve belongs on every list of the most beautiful women in cinema history.

Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo in Umbrellas have to be one of the most beautiful couples in cinema history.

Redford and Fonda in Barefoot are another.

But I guess that's a different thread.

Camille 2000 - I know this is about women, but did Castelnuovo have the most beautiful ass ever on the screen?

I'm in the minority but every time I see Sophia Loren and I want to swap her out for Gina Lollibrigida who I think peaked in her 30s was stunning well into middle age. She was breathtaking in close up in Come September.

Bunch of white bitches. You are all racists! I'm boycotting DataLounge.

"The topic was not whether she could act. She starred in several films, and was thus a part of cinema history. The thread title is asking for "The 5 Most Beautiful Women in Cinema History," not "The 5 Most Beautiful Women Who Were Also Great Actresses in Cinema History."

"Cinema history?" HAHAHA! She was a nothing and nobody in films. Some figure in "cinema history!"

You must be the Evelyn Nesbit Troll, always extolling her beauty and "innocence. Yes, poor dear little Evelyn, exploited by her evil men like Stanford White and Harry Thaw, such an innocent littler flower. She wanted to marry White but he wasn't keen on marrying her, so he must not have been THAT evil to her. So she marrying the ugly, crazy Thaw, for his money of course. Still pissed off at White for dumping her, she told crazy Harry a tale of how White "ruined" her by taking her virginity and Thaw went even more berserk than usual, killing Thaw in front of a crowd of people. So I guess you could say her actions resulted in the murder of Stanford White.

Nesbit for years told a lurid tale of how White would have her nude and and swinging in a "red velvet swing" above him. Many years later she was asked about the infamous red velvet swing and said "I never heard of it." When confronted with evidence of her tales of the swing, she lamely replied "I guess my memory isn't all it should be." Or maybe she made the whole thing up.

She lied between her teeth during her crazy husband's trial, thinking that if she did she could divorce him and get a huge settlement. His family did pay her off, but not nearly as much as she was hoping for. One spectator said that underneath her sweet exterior there was an "ice cold brain." Another said that she had "the face of an angel and the heart of a snake." Both statements were true. '

The Roddy McDowall home movies showed the actors/actresses au naturale and in this clip Jane Fonda is gorgeous at 4:18. Suzanne Pleshette (most beautiful Jewish woman ever) and Natalie Wood look great too.

Lee Remmick is jaw dropping at 2:06 on this one sans makeup.

[R232] Agreed about Marpessa Dawn. I went to college with her daughter. Marpessa and Bruno Mello died within months of each other.

Nino Castelnuevo was so fucking hot in Les Parapluies

Greta Garbo Lauren Bacall Juliette Binoche Cate Blanchett Charlotte Rampling/ Hanna Schygulla

Yes, I'm into slavic eyes.

Honorary mentions: older Fanny Ardant, older Angela Basset, Catherine Deneuve, young Monica Vitti, and several Japanese and S. Korean actresses but I don't know their names.

ITA about Merle Oberon...not much of an actress, but that face!!!

Frances Farmer

Jessica Lange as Frances Farmer

Damn, they almost look alike.

Elizabeth Taylor

Hedy Lamarr

Ava Gardner

Marilyn Monroe

Grace Kelly

Honorable mention: Vivien Leigh, Yvonne DeCarlo, Gene Tierney (these three almost went in my top five), Charlize Theron, Sharon Stone, Kim Basinger, Natalie Wood, Diahann Carroll, Tuesday Weld, Loretta Young, Sharon Tate, Olivia Hussey, and young Brooke Shields.

Yvonne DeCarlo was stunning.

Kate Beckinsale

Current actresses? Charlize, Halle and Angelina (if she would eat a sandwich).

All time? Vivian, Marilyn, Ava, Michelle, Liz

I'm voting on beauty and charisma.

lindsay lohan is the most beautiful actress to have graced our screens, since 2004, that face omg, i cant

R250, how predictable.

go fuck yourself, donna pescow,

At long last she has made a film of two... How did we miss gorgeous LUPITA Nyongo?

Gong Li was so beautiful in "Raise the Red Lantern".

R255 Could fool me and say that's a guy. Asians aren't very gender dimorphic.

Jacqueline Bisset!

The lips, eyes, and cheek bones...Kerry Washington:

Vanity

Madeleine Carroll

Binoche!

Kerry Washington is nothing. I see lots of black women who are not actresses or in any show business occupation who are comparable to her. She stinks as an actress, too. Her every emotion is conveyed by one facial expression: wide eyed, mouth open.

Dorothy Lamour.

The glamour shots of yesteryear were amazing. Everything was light and shadows, no photoshop.

You'll notice in those Golden Age glamour shots like the one of Dorothy Lamour above, the heavy graphic dark shadow under the chin? That was the "key light" doing that and all the divas back then like Dietrich and Crawford demanded it in all of their closeups as well as their stills.

A tie between Garbo and Lamarr. If I say anything more, I'll have to "Mary" myself.

She is not very popular right now, not even a good actress, but she has the perfect face, according to some computer.

Dietrich in and out of glam.

Claudia Cardinale

Nastassja Kinski

Who is that r266?

We need more pics of Sharon Tate on here.

That is Amber Heard at R266. I see her as a very pretty woman but not the most beautiful. That is a very good picture of her.

R269 It's Julia Roberts

Has Jean Simmons been mentioned yet? She deserves to be thrown into the mix. Eva Marie Saint, too. And Cybill Shepherd (I thought of because Saint played her mother on Moonlighting).

Pfeiffer hasn't been mentioned enough - I dont care if she had a nose job.

ELIZABETH TAYLOR in 1959.

Ornella Muti

Monica Bellucci, Vivien Leigh, Marilyn, Rita Hayworth, Ava Gardner.

Dionne Warwick

Here you go R270.

Anita Ekberg

Grace Kelly

LMAO over here, r277! BRAVO!!!! And you found the perfect picture to showcase her in all her glory, hahaha.

I said Sharon Tate way back in the thread and after reading through all the responses, I am still sticking with her. She is definitely in the top five.

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Ava Gardner

Anyone with a nose job or other facial plastic surgery shouldn't be on this list. That includes Marilyn Monroe.

That would eliminate many of the women on this thread R286. Marilyn was beautiful before her minor nose job and beautiful after.

After and always. No sense being silly. She had far from classic features, but Marilyn was undeniably beautiful.

Catharine Deneuve, most beautiful of all.

R286 also eliminates Deneuve. And someone mentioned Suzanne Pleschette, too.

r286, okay, show me those who hasn't had a nose job. I think the nose job practice goes way back to the 1920s.

Sarah Silverman when she told the Bernie Bros that they were being ridiculous.

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Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Kate Beckinsale.

I'm not allowed to make posts, but somebody start a thread of the five ugliest...

Monica Bellucci

Michelle Pfeiffer

Kate Beckinsale

Freida Pinto

Gong Li

The beauties from earlier eras didn't generally have nose jobs. Plastic surgery wasn't the big thing it came to be back then. They were NATURALLY beautiful. I think plastic surgery really took off in the eighties. Halle Berry and Michelle Phieffer are two examples of the trend; they're both considered great beauties but earlier photos of them reveals they had their noses redone and probably other things as well.

r297 Marilyn Monroe had plastic surgery in the early 1950s. But she was only one of many.

Oooh please, anti-plastic surgery troll, you're a tedious little bitch.

Oh don't bother to mentioned me! Bitches.

Audrey and Capucine were of the opinion that blondes could not be truly beautiful. Only brunettes.

Sophie Marceau

"Show me those who didn't have a nose job."

Well, here are a few:

Garbo

Louise Brooks

Mary Miles Minter

Ava Gardner

Lana Turner

Gene Tierney

Hedy LaMarr

Clara Bow

Marlene Dietrich

Sharon Tate

Grace Kelly

Audrey Hepburn

Jean Harlow

Vivien Leigh

Why should someone who's had work done to her face be celebrated for beauty? That's as dumb as when people celebrated Pamela Anderson for her fake breasts in the 90s or those who celebrate Kim Kardashian for her fat-injected butt now. The doctors should be celebrated in those cases.

I prefer the natural beauties who were simply born stunning.

Jean Simmons Gene Tierney Ava Gardner Elizabeth Taylor Grace Kelley

Gong Li, who radiates beauty from hyper-glamour mode (as in Shanghai Triad) or peasant mode (The Story of Qiu Ju) and everything in between.

Angelina Jolie

Barbara Stanwyck

Katherine Hepburn

Grace Kelly

Michelle Pfeiffer

Ok to the person who keeps listing Dionne Warwick, are you trying to be funny or are you serious? At first I thought it was a joke but now I'm starting to think you are serious. She is an ugly woman inside and out.

"So I guess you could say her actions resulted in the murder of Stanford White."

Nope, batshit crazy Harry Thaw was responsible for that.

R303 and quite a few of those you listed had kind of large noses. It might have worked for them anyway, but Audrey Hepburn for example had a total beak.

Also I don't think we should be counting reconstructive surgery as plastic surgery. Ann Margret was a natural beauty.

Taylor had a week chin as did Monroe, but she got hers fixed. I would like to see a list if women who did not have corrective surgery..I'll bet it's hard to select then.

21st century stunners:

Natalie Portman

Amber Heard

Scarlett Johansson

Kate Beckinsale

Keira Knightley

Liv Tyler

Margot Robbie

Charlize Theron

[quote]Audrey Hepburn for example had a total beak.

Are you insane, R310?

Who the hell is Amber Heard? I've heard her name in association with Johnny Depp but never anywhere else.

Right must add Katherine Hepburn, hair piled high, simply stunning as she got older. Yet no matter how she aged she was still able to snare Cynthia McFadden - watch and learn Sarah Paulsen. Holland Taylor is fantastic for this day, but you missed the Queen by 3 decades.

R313 no are you blind. Look at her profile one of these days.

Cosmetic surgery was being performed in the 1920s. Gloria Swanson, the silent film star, had a nose job.

There were probably more that we are unaware of because the studio had tight control over their image. I wouldn't be surprised if someone on R303's list had cosmetic surgery.

I can't pick anyone I've only seen in black/white and without HD.

example of an incredible natural beauty who never touched her face with surgery. Here is Vanity when she was a teenager in a pageant:

Vanity channeling old hollywood glam:

Miss me with Vanity. Denise was a pretty girl, but no raving beauty. She was very tiny and had a butch look about her. She was never a star of cinema. But,yes, it is the Vanity troll who insists that other legendary beauties have tampered with their looks and are disqualified. I knew Denise Matthews and you don't want to know....

Enough with the Gong Li stan! She has always been considered a common cow by Chinese beauty standards.

Dionne Warwick

R321 is a troll who thinks plastic surgery-enhanced Marilyn Monroe should be praised for her surgeries. She was pretty but needed surgery to get a career going. The others you list like big-nosed Hayworth and Leigh? Hardly the most beautiful women of all time. Beautiful but not THE most. This thread isn't about who was the biggest star of most talented actress btw. Marilyn certainly couldn't act.

*Legendary* Beauty!, Pop *Diva*, Revolutionary Dancer and Entertainer, Movie *Star* Miss Janet Jackson

Garbo and Monroe.

Diana Ross

Barbra Streisand

Marilyn before the surgeries. Pretty but hardly remarkable.

Not sure if Bardot has been mentioned, she was a sex kitten before she became a raddled old Nazi. Courtenay Cox was actually very gorgeous before she started fucking around with her face.

Charlotte Rampling is a ugly racist.

Jennifer O'Neill

Carole Lombard was memorable

Oh yes, R332, Jennifer O'Neill was gorgeous. Not the most beautiful, but I see the lovely Gloria De Haven died in the last couple of days. RIP.

R329, aka Vanity freak. Monroe was a beautiful child and adult. You posted a distorted picture. Do you want to know how many men and boys Denise fucked in one night for coke and attention? I can tell you. And she had hundreds of nights like that. Denise was the biggest whore Niagara, Montreal, NYC, Paisley Park and L.A. ever saw. The stories will never go away except none but the sleaziest men even want to be associated with fucking her. Sad to say it was not for better parts, songs or career advancement. She would blow the parking lot attendant while she waited for the next one. She grabbed dick in parties, licked her lips like a $2 dollar whore and loved to walk around with cum inside her. Some damaged people need to seduce others to feel secure, she let everyone fuck her. She was a sweet girl with her eyes always glazed over looking for more. A dinge disturbed PIG woman. Jesus couldn't wash that away. She was diseased and sought the wrong help. Denise was never beautiful without a lot of makeup and she wasn't pretty for long.

Aishwayra is beautiful, but plastic and lightened to the nth degree.

Our Miss Brookes.

Brook Shields circa Blue Lagoon

R335 you racist piece of shit. First of all your precious doctor-created Marilyn was just as much of a whore and mentally damaged but this isn't about that. The fact is Norma Jean Baker was just a pretty plain girl before all the surgeries and vastly overrated afterwards. The fact is she wouldn't have had a career had she not had all those surgeries done to her face. It is therefore strange to celebrate her as 1 of the most beautiful women ever. No one who knew Vanity would ever say she wasn't naturally beautiful even without makeup. There have been many people over the years who talked about how even more stunning she was in person. She made her career off her NATURAL beauty.

Now back to Norma Jean's ORIGINAL unremarkable face.

Lana Turner was lovely in her youth. She hardened quickly.

As long as we aren't strictly sticking to cinema.....

This thread is ridiculous. Elizabeth Taylor was one of the most exotic-looking actresses who has ever worked in Hollywood---hands down. She might not be your "type" (she's not mine---I'm a big gay, but I have a type of woman, and the Snow White look just never did it for me), but no one else looks like her.

So, what is "beautiful?" It really is subjective---if I had to make a call, I would say that it's one-part charisma, poise, and allure, and one-part impeccably beatific, and/or NATURALLY exotic features (which is not to discredit anyone with a nose job, just someone who shaved a giant hook or shapeless pug nose into something utterly different). I think that beauty has far more to do with the ability to captivate than actual physical characteristics.

Cher in her exotic untouched beauty. A great actress too.

Never understood the appeal of Miss Deneuve. She looks like a tranny in the OP.

It's a shame that Cher hated her original features so much. She really shouldn't have had anything done to her face or removed those ribs. Her unique look set her apart from all the cardboard copies at the time.

Jane Greer

So true R345. Not to be rude, but I wasn't born when the Sonny and Cher show was on. My mother told me that Cher was one of the most exotic and gorgeous and all over sexy women who lived. I know - the nose her teeth, no tits. I have since watched a lot of old footage. She was gorgeous. My mama don't lie.

Sela Ward

I love Kiko Mizuhara's look. Girl next door meets Chanel. Here she even got Lagerfeld away from his boyfriend for a second.

Dionne Warwick

Dionne isn't in films.

Have you not seen "Slaves"?

MICHELLE PFEIFFER before & after plastic surgery

An odd thread for a gay site, but no problem.

Raquel Welch Julianne Moore Annette Stroyberg Emmanuelle Béart Eva Aulin (from the movie "Candy")

This 1 minute long clip of SHARON TATE is almost 50 years old; that's part of what's stands out about her is that TATE' look isn't particularly dated.

HEDY LAMARR

R349 I love Kiko but that's bitch's beauty is man made. Before she looked like a pretty but common south asian girl, those surgeries made her exquisite.

If you're talking about beauty from within the most incandescent actress ever:

Setsuko Hara.

Arsenic Hall

LOL R357, but let's look at it this way: Even WITH surgery, Kiko's sister is really homely.

R328 Are you kidding? Beauty and Streisand don't come to my mind - many complementary words do but not that combination.

Dionne Warwick

Beauty as they say is in the eye of the beholder, how ever on screen and off here is my list- Obviously Elizabeth Taylor , I met her through her stylist many times, on screen the camera adores her, and off screen I have been to her home and had dinners with her, I can vouch she is in the top 3. Vivien Leigh Greta Garbo These are old, today honestly not cinema great, but pure beauty on camera Debbie Mazar is stunning, met her in person at SOBE Fand W Festival, and she is a throw back to the to the real old Hollywood Glamour Stars of the past, Beautiful skin, piercing blue eyes, jet black beautiful coiffed hair, she is more stunning than she gets credit for, but she doesn't care! That is why I anoint her, hope you are on her Deb!

The problem with the Asian girls that are being nominated on this thread is that: a) they're not captivating in any way, and b) their faces have been completely transformed. Eyelid surgery, sawing on the jaw bones, a drastic narrowing of the nose. They look like completely different people, and always notably whiter (they never ever rock their natural hair color or texture). And then we're supposed to agree that they're "the girl next door meets Chanel?" Yeah, one who spent $50,000 of surgery, and months laid up after v-line jaw surgery.

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Gong Li has as much allure on the screen as Garbo or Dietrich.

R342 makes a point. Cinematic beauty has a quality that does not exist in the real world or in still photography. Presence in a moving picture counts for a lot.

I like tomboyish women like Jodie Foster and Kristen Stewart. Seriously--if I were straight those are the kind of women I'd go for. And yes, I do see the irony.

[quote]Who gives a shit about profound, otherworldly beauty.Give me a beautiful woman in a sexually fertile way anytime.

Fecund enough for you?

Some of these top 5 lists are absolutely ridiculous! Keira Knightley? Amber fucking Heard?

I defy anyone to name a more beautiful actress than Gene Tierney in her prime. She should be on EVERY damn list in this thread.

[quote]Are you kidding? Beauty and Streisand don't come to my mind - many complementary words do but not that combination.

To be sure, Barbra Streisand has never been a "great" or "true" beauty but she was a lot better looking than people gave her credit for.

IMO, the most beautiful woman ever ( not just in movies ) is the greatest Bollywood actress ever, Madhuri Dixit. Never watched any movie of her's but boy is she unfathomably gorgeous.

Even a tacky costume can't let Madhuri's beauty down.

Madhuri Dixit also has the best smile I have ever seen

Even at almost 50 now, Madhuri Dixit gives 20 something gorgeous divas a run for their money.

Madhuri DIxit aged almost 50

1. Sophia Loren

2. Sophia Loren

3. Sophia Loren

4. Sophia Loren

5. Sophia Loren

Winona Ryder

R364, you could say that about any of the ethnic women mentioned on this thread. Those who have features that are consistent with their heritage are ridiculed. It's clear that the concept of "Most Beautiful" on this thread is a Western one.

Wino also had a nose job

Everyone is ethnic, r378. I think you mean non-white.

And yes, by and by large the concept is Western, as are most of the film stars who we have been exposed to. It is not a surprise that most of the postings fall into that line. That said, I enjoy seeing ethnic diversity in the suggestions.

I agree that there is regular ridicule of people with non-white features, here and elsewhere, on DL. Posting multiple photos of Dionne Warwick absolutely has an ugly racist undertone, and the Streisand with the elongated nose reeks of anti-Semitism. The commentary aimed at Asians is pretty explicitly racist. There are white actresses posted here as a joke as well, though not with the same insistence.

I am not a SJW, but I do tire of this shit over and over on DL.

I agree that the swipes at Warwick are blatantly raclist. As for Steisand I said nothing about her nose so don't put words in my mouth. If asked I would say her eyes were actually what bothered me the most.

R380 yes preach it. I'm not sure why DL has attracted a fair amount of racists who exclude non-whites and then throw a tantrum when their delusional, ignorant views are challenged. Some of the white actresses mentioned in this thread are/were beautiful but plenty of them are/were average at best.

Audrey Hepburn, Greta Garbo, Capucine, Grace Kelly, Sophia Loren, Faye Dunaway (in Bonnie and Clyde and The Thomas Crown Affair), Renee Russo, Ava Gardner, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ana D'Armas, Diana Ross (in Mahogany) Beyonce ( in Dreamgirls), Carole Bouquet, Veronica Lake (in Sullivan's Travels) Elizabeth Taylor, Dina Merrill, Gene Tierney, Hedy Lamarr, Gayle Hunnicutt, Angelina Jolie, Lauren Bacall

Um, Catherine Zeta Jones anyone?

R 384, someone mentioned CZJ up thread. She's gorgeous. That silly film she was in with Julia Roberts, playing sisters....wow, when they were close up on screen, there was no doubt who was the better looking sis, and it wasn't Julia.

Hello bitches forget me?

I nominate jun ji Hyun there aren't enough Asian beauties on this list (no dirty skinned Indians don't count)

R376, don't forget Sophia Loren.

Beauty from within, Dame Margaret Rutherford

[quote]Beauty from within, Dame Margaret Rutherford

Is that from "Mad About Men" with Glynis Johns? I LOVE that movie

And Donald Sinden was HAWT!

I'm not sure,[r390], it didn't say, but it looks like it. She may more likely be among the 5 homeliest women in cinema history, but I love her and would rather watch her any day rather than half these glamour pusses. I don't know about Donald Sinden, but I confess to a secret lust for Papa Bear James Robertson Justice from that era.

Kristen Stewart

R368

ANN-MARGRET never bore children.

Streisand is beautiful in that unique untouched way. I thought she was gorgeous in What's Up Doc.

Funny Girl

What's up Doc?

The Way We Were

Jayne "Check out My Boobs" Mansfield

R396 Aniston has definitely tried to emulate that look.

Monroe was not only one of the most beautiful but underrated as well, a true talent and the camera loved her, The Misfits one of the greatest raw performances ever, She let losers like Miller and DiMaggio pigeonhole her , and try to convince her she had no talent, ultimately leading to her insecurities and unfortunate death at 36. Jean Harlow another great abused talented beauty way ahead of her time who let losers and users into her life , so sad.

Gong Li is undeniably beautiful, and well-suited for moving pictures.

The K star that r387 posted looks like every other surgerized actress from Korea---and like absolutely NO Korean woman did 50 years ago.

She looks like everybody else---what makes her so special?

KC Concepcion is a stunningly beautiful Filipina actress.

Marilyn had unattractively shaped eyes. She would do all these tricks with eye makeup, squinting, and head tilting to distract you from it. Her upturned eyebrows also gave an illusion of counteracting her downturned eyes. It's actually hard to find pictures of her with her eyes open and her head held at a normal angle. She was pretty normal looking before she got the surgery. Her surgeon gave her a beautiful nose however. Marilyn had a great body and a voice and personality straight men found sexy. I mean, Jean Harlow was considered sexy for her day too. The blonde hair helped both of them. Marilyn doesn't come close facially to people like Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Gene Tierney, Virna Lisi, or Audrey Hepburn in terms of beauty.

I'm not saying those are the five most beautiful in my opinion either. I do think all of them were very beautiful though.

R200, I agree. I don't think Hedy's eyes were nice and her lips were completely overdrawn with the shape changed so who knows what they really looked like. She certainly wasn't ugly, I just don't think she was one of the top five at all.

I think Maggie Cheung might be the most beautiful Asian actress. Anyone see Hero or Wong Kar Wai's In the Mood for Love?

Stunning.

R385, CZJ in Zorro. That movie made her a star

Very beautiful, [r402], and wasn't she only 18 when she made that?

Virna Lisi was amazing

Apparently Lucy thought she was amazing too and seemed to channel her in a photo shoot

Why is it that Marilyn Monroe could have a great nose job a thousand years ago but today with all the great technology you see so many awful looking ones, even by supposedly good doctors?

To the person who posted all the Barbra Streisand pics. Why is she only photographed on her left side? Have you seen her right side? I know she made a big stink about being photographed on her left side.

Because darling they had faced then

Jun ji Hyun a true natural beauty

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Jun Ji Hyun has had extensive plastic surgery. The on,y thing that she hasn't done is alter her jawline, which is very surprisingly common in Korea (a lot of Korean women have distinctively heavy, square-shaped jaws, and there are several surgeries and injection procedures to correct it).

Sh e looks exactly the same.... R416

Audrey Hepburn Elizabeth Taylor Brad Pitt

Wow, r402. She is gorgeous.

Olivia Wilde, Leelee Sobieski, Kristin Kreuk..

Sharon Tate. She was even more beautiful without makeup and never had plastic surgery.

R411 I think because Marilyn's nose was never large to begin with, her rhinoplasty was very minor. The surgery only removed a bit of cartilage from the tip. It wasn't like the entire bridge of her nose was shaved down.

Ava Fucking Gardner

"Sh e looks exactly the same.... [R416]"

Uh, except her eyes, nose, and cheekbones.

Brooke Shields peaked in her teens. After that she became more and more tranny-looking. Her wacky mother Teri even mentioned the change in her looks. She told her "Brooke, your face is looking boxy."

another vote for Monica Bellucci

Rita Hayworth

Grace Kelly

Charlize Theron

Selena Gomez

The most beautiful...Elizabeth Taylor

Beautiful Teen...Brooke Shields

Still beautiful...Sophia Loren

Honorable mention...Marilyn Monroe

I don't even think Amber Heard is pretty. Generic and easy to forget.

Amber Heard is okay.

Diana Rigg (when a young woman)

Genevieve Bujold

Mary Louise Parker

Jennifer Connelly (after her nose job)

Charlize Theron

Beautiful

La Fonda!

Bette Davis Eyes!

R432 she really was/is beautiful but oddly enough she has never been "famous" for her beauty. I guess her acting had something to do with it.

R427

No, she should've toned it down eons ago.

R428 She is pretty, but in a slightly dull cookie-cutter blonde way. Generic and easy to forget as you say but that doesn't mean she isn't good looking. Whereas Depp's previous women (Sherilyn Fenn, Winona, Vanessa Paradis) were much more distinctive beauties (though Vanessa has lost her looks now)

CZJ was in her peak in The Side Effects. She had already matured at the time and looked very elegant.

Sophia Loren nowadays is the epitome of "mutton dressed as lamb".

CZJ looked great.

It's too bad that CZJ had to kiss Rooney in Side Effects. So unappealing.

Whoopie Goldberg, whoever doesn't agree with me is a racist!!!

R441 Ted Danson fucked that ugly POS, so I guess some people do find it attractive.

Cardinale babe

Classic - looks better than the real Princess Grace!

Marilyn had her bulbous, wide-bridged nose made tiny and the shape was totally changed. Her nose was not small or nice at all before. She had at least two nose jobs. Hollywood execs were not impressed with her looks pre-surgery and she was described as having a "potato nose" and "weak chin." The surgeries, raising her eyebrows, and her skill with makeup made her much better looking.

Nose jobs could always be bad. I think Catherine Deneuve's was bad. It depends on the skill of the surgeon.

Olivia Wilde

Alicia Vikander.

R447 The very definiton of plain.

Maggie Cheung, essentially playing herself, in Irma Vep.

R387 "no dirty skinned Indians don't count" says the dimwit complaining about not enough asians.

I don't think any woman could top the beauty of the young ELIZABETH TAYLOR.

R455

Had noting to do with the bridge of her nose; only the bulbous portion around the lower part was thinned out. Additionally some cartilage was placed on her right mandible to strengthen the appearance of her jawline.

That's it. Nothing more and there was nothing done to raise her eyebrows. MONROE was a studious observer and learned every trick possible to make up her face to her advantage.

R450 Indians are brown not Asian it's the Same as saying Russians are Indian its fucking stupid

But Marilyn did have her hairline raised like Rita Hayworth, didn't she, r452? I'm sure I read that somewhere.

E414 Lol, no korean female celebrity is natural. All of them are manufactured products of their agencies. Maybe they din't get invasive surgery but they always get tweaked out to the maximum with, veneers, iall sorts of injections, skin bleaching, extreme diets....

R447 Really? With that nose and jaw? This shot highlights all of her facial flaws. At least she's skinny.

R453, you are dim as well as unpleasant. Of course Indians are Asian. What the fuck else would they be?

^^^ Indigenous Peoples

R453 - brown is not the same as "dirty" you racist asshat.

this thread is filled with multiple racist posts, not surprised.

I hate to say this, but I'm actually digging #444 Cheryl Ladd..

More Alicia beauty.

Young Penelope Cruz

In a different era Jaclyn Smith would have been a major MGM star. As it were she still is one of the most beautiful actresses ever. I've only included her in this thread because she DID make a handful of theatrically released B movies AND was Cubby Broccoli's first choice to play Holly Goodhead in "Moonraker".

She turned it down because of the character's name.

Like I said....she was meant for another era.

Natural beauty.

"In a different era Jaclyn Smith would have been a major MGM star."

Nah, she would have been doing B-movies

Jaclyn Smith, Amber Heard -- beautiful but there's nothing behind the looks, like empty shells. They both act like robots.. The charisma and talent is the sparkle that made Ava Gardner, Marilyn, Liz Taylor such standout beauties.

Vikander is beautiful. She is extremely talented and there is definitely something behind the good looks.

" Plastic surgery wasn't the big thing it came to be back then. They were NATURALLY beautiful. "

Yeah right. Lena Horne, Marlyn Monroe and Jane Russell had nose jobs.

Is all just a matter of personal taste. There is no right answer, kids.

Not with THAT bone structure R466!

She hasn't gotten much love here, and a lot of it may have been smoke and mirrors...but Marlene Dietrich was beautiful

R467 oh character schmaracter after a certain point someone is just gorgeous. Jaclyn Smith would be one of those people.

It's always Farrah defenders who have perpetuated this anyway becaus Farrah's beauty could never compare - she was all teeth and hair and her actual features (nose, jawline, etc) were a tad masculine. Plus she aged horribly. She had an aggressive publicist and a then-famous husband.

So that's that.

Annie Hall, King Of Comedy, Shelly Hack has it ALL!

Well, to be fair - Shelly Hack was dierected by three Academy Award winners: Woody Allen, Joseph Brooks, and Martin Scorsese.

Why was Lynda Carter never a major player? The woman was a knockout!

No ones talking about me! I'm beautiful me! Me! Me!

Elizabeth Taylor. Such style. Such grace.

Not bad for a street hooker, R477.

Lupita Nyong'o

I agree with r240, I love those Roddy McDowell home movies, and Lee looks marvellous here. She is in a few others too, along with Dame Bacall, Paul Newman and others. Can you imagine a group of actors in a situation like this today - they would all be tweeting and posting pictures of themselves with their celebrity friends - but back then it was a group of friends and co-workers enjoying a quiet sunday afternoon.

Sadly, most of these are long departed now ..... Funny seeing Remick with her then husband Bill Colleran who seems to be pestering her and being a nuisance, no wonder she divorced him.

Lupita has a great smile

R477

TAYLOR who's persona was well crafted by MGM, became a pig. Some blamed her coarsening on MIKE TODD. One thing is clear, she couldn't go back !

Maggie Smith was a beauty, and amazingly talented.

Another shot of Dame Maggie

Lupita is suppose to be a diva bitch, but I don't know, maybe people are just being racist. Her brother was being a jerk at the Oscars though.

Rita Moreno

Anita Ekberg Ursula Andress Yvonne Furneaux Eleanor Parker Rhonda Fleming

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Kristin Kreuk is stunning.

R488 Megan Fox has had a lot of work done to her face too. The press and fans called her out on trying to look like Angelina Jolie, who also got a nose job

Viv and Larry. That anti Marilyn berserk troll is kind of funny. Monroe was beautiful like babies and ice cream and the moon. Her loveliness maybe doesn't hold up to feature by feature examination, but there is no more documented proof in human history of a woman who was both casually and professionally beautiful.

Ava Gardner, Vivien Leigh, Elizabeth Taylor and Garbo were the great beauties of the screen. Cheryl Ladd IS better looking than Grace Kelly and Jaclyn Smith was more beautiful than Gene Tierney or Linda Darnell. Some People have a problem with objectivity. Obviously there is more to beauty than mathematics.

Coloring, facial contours, eye nose lip chin ratio and possibly character has something to do with it. But not likely. Perfect beauty comes not often, don't confuse it with your crushes.

[quote] Some People have a problem with objectivity.

I've never read a more painfully self-unaware or unintentionally ironic comment than the screed at R491.

Baby, you're funny.

"Painfully self-unaware." Is that a DL thing?

Winona Ryder...so beautiful.

And unlike a lot of the women already mentioned, she's still beautiful and aging very well.

Cybill Shepherd always had a big ass and walked with the grace of a truck driver.

Jean Harlow was NOT beautiful. She had a great body and photographed well, but she had a manly brow, beady deep set eyes and a large oddly shaped nose. Those iconic George Hurrell pictures were made to take advantage of her good points (translucent skin, cherubic visage) and to hide her bad ones. But she was an original.

R489, I agree. I was stunned when I first saw her on Smallville 15 years ago.

A young Candace Bergen was really gorgeous. Has she been mentioned?

Harry Dean Stanton, obviously.

Michèle Mercier. I saw her in an old horror movie "Black Sabbath" last night on TCM. Gorgeous in a slinky black cocktail dress with diamond accents and fuck-me heels. Her hair was dyed black and in French curls, and she was stunning.

She has been mentioned - although not enough in my opinion -- another vote for Bergman. Although I think part of her appeal is with her voice and her charisma in addition to her looks.

Dina Merrill

If only I were in the cinema.

OMG, the woman in the pic of OP looks like Heidi Montag pre-surgery.

r503 You never will be darling. Too ethnic looking, too fat, too unattractive, too.......

I have to agree with those that picked Sharon Tate and I usually don't find blonds attractive. Had the biggest crush on Jennifer O'Neill and wanted to looking like her.

Liz Taylor

Jacqueline Bissett

Faye Dunaway

Marilyn Monroe

Michelle Pfeiffer

Jean Simmons

Rachel Weisz

Shannyn Sossamon (A Knight's Tale)

Liv Tyler (1995-1995, [italic]Stealing Beauty[/italic], [italic]Heavy[/italic], [italic]Empire Records[/italic] era)

Olivia Hussey, Zeffirelli's, [italic]Romeo and Juliet[/italic]

Hedy Lamar

Vivien Leigh

Elizabeth Taylor

Sharon Tate had no plastic surgery either.

Jane Fonda: Barbarella era.......

R512, I don't know. I think she'd gone under the knife a few times.

I don't think so. She looked the same after she became famous as her high school pictures. If she had surgery, I haven't read or seen evidence of it.

A high school picture of Sharon. If she had any facial surgery it was extremely subtle.

R512 No surgery

None of those 5 OP mentioned.

R17, I still don't see evidence of plastic surgery. She looked different in her youngest pictures (most people do) but not from high school on. Makeup artists and hairstylists would have made her look better, naturally. If anything maybe she had a slight nose job (I even doubt that) and they didn't use fillers back then, right?

R517^^

R519 Meant to reply to the person who said she had plastic surgery, since the photo shows her face stayed the same and wasn't surgically altered.

R517, I thought you were R514 and being sarcastic haha. sorry.

R522 Right after I posted the comment, I noticed it did look like I was being sarcastic. lol

Hedy Lamarr-Greta Garbo-Marilyn Monroe-Elizabeth Taylor-Ava Gardner. But still.. Vanity wasn't an actress per se. But the stunningly gorgeous Canadian, remains the most Beautiful woman I have EVER seen. With or without makeup, Vanity was just so alluring and classically beautiful. All natural from birth, no surgical enhancements. Shania Twain, again, not an actress, but SMOLDERING and classically beautiful. Thank you Canada.

I agree that Vanity was one of (maybe not the top five, for me) the most beautiful actress/singers I've ever seen. She was very personable and charismatic and it was hard to take your eyes off of her.

Interesting thread. You can really tell who is/comes from beauty. Their bar is set higher.

Princess Grace

Liz Taylor

Gene Tierney

Viv Leigh

I don't have a #5.

Maybe not all time but Micki and Maude was on TV the other night and Ann Reinking really was so pretty.

Another vote for Winona.

Winona looks very pretty in that photo, my GAWD!

I'm just amazed that people didn't immediately see what R514 meant. DL really has gone downhill.

Glad you other posters recognize. Scorpio women are exceptional huh? Winona, Grace Kelly, Gene Tieney, Hedy Lamarr... I'm a Scorpio, but Gemini is the most physically beautiful of the twelve, in my humble opinion. Especially the men. OMG!

..............

More Winona.

Ms. Horowitz did have a very successful nose job, one of the best I've seen.

Winona before and after.

Winona is pretty, but one of the 5 most beautiful women in cinema history? I know beauty is subjective, but really?

More Nona Nose

Eyes, nose, lips, heart shaped face, cheekbones, long neck and beautiful coloring with dark hair and blue-green eyes....Vivien Leigh was to me the most beautiful.

[quote]Winona is pretty, but one of the 5 most beautiful women in cinema history? I know beauty is subjective, but really?

To each his own, I suppose.

Aside from her nose job (which 90% of the women listed here probably also had), I always found Winona very beautiful in a natural sense. With or without make-up, candid or beauty shot, they still look amazing.

I see some of the women here who, in my opinion, look way too over-plucked, tweezed, and artificial for my tastes, which I personally wouldn't classify as beautiful. I guess I'm just not into the old Hollywood pencil-thin eyebrow, pursed red lips and icy eyes look.

I really don't think she had a nose job. My nose can look three times bigger with a picture taken at a different angle, different lighting different makeup etc. it's not Blake Lively where you clearly see the nose bone is a different shape - and wider.

Will the Winona loon fuck off already?

[quote]I guess I'm just not into the old Hollywood pencil-thin eyebrow, pursed red lips and icy eyes look.

It's not required. Still beautiful on my days off.

We were sequestered with the DL trolls. There was only one solution if we were EVAH going to get home again. Ladies and Germs, the 5 most beautiful:

1) Gong Li

2) Liv Ullmann

3) Faye Dunaway

4) Lupita Nyong'o

5) Winona Ryder

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What? Do I want to discuss the violence in the jury chamber? Sorry, I will make no further comment.

A very inclusive, cosmopolitan list indeed. If you had to cockstuff a couple of contrary mouths, R544, your efforts and truly refined taste, are much appreciated. Unique.

The only one I agree with is Gong Li.

"I really don't think she had a nose job. My nose can look three times bigger with a picture taken at a different angle, different lighting different makeup etc. it's not Blake Lively where you clearly see the nose bone is a different shape - and wider."

Uh, Wino's nose job is even more obvious than Blake's. She had a normal sized nose, now she has a Michael Jackson nose.

More Noni

Dude, ^^ Pulleeaasse. Get a blow up doll, download Winnie's face, slap it on..and RYDER all fucking day. You fucked up an interesting thread because you're intellectually stunted. You're friggin' scary. BTW lame-ass, Winnie Poo shoes, couldn't carry her Scorpio sister, BO DEREK's used kotex. If you're going to obsess fuck-face, get some taste, and some eyeglasses.

We're not in Kansas City anymore, honey!

So right R550, that's why I'm from the great state of MISSOURI. Learn it, live it, love it troll.

R549...shut the fuck up asshole! God I fucking hate these bitter old queens who always turn into little fucking cunts whenever their idea of good taste isn't being validated.

Give over it, dick head. Just because you don't find Winona beautiful, doesn't mean others don't. Beauty is SUBJECTIVE! So sit down and shut your pie hole and let people post their own god damn opinions in peace.

The only thing ruining this thread is your whiny bitch-ass who can't fathom that maybe we see beauty differently.

And here's a another picture of Winona just to piss you off.

Now let's see if you're going to continue to be a whiny little cunt and bitch even more, or actually be just shrug it off, say "not my taste," and move the fuck on like any sane, normal person.

Thank you, r552!

Janbot is talking to herself again.

R544 , my post, well of course the trolls didn't get my nasty snark.

I nominated the 5 favs of 5 stans/trolls, who will shove their goddess into any and every thread possible ad infinitum. Sorry but none of the 5 are great beauties. But you'd NEVER LET US OUT OF THE JURY room until you have your prize for your diva.

But, were is the Liv Ullmann strain/troll? Silent lately.

girls, please

Here is just the thread for Mr. Pretty and Witty and Bright at R531.

Penelope Cruz looks like Daffy Duck and both Lynda Carter and Jean Harlow have piggish faces.

R552.. Bitch, I'm a nurse. You are definitely feeling some type of way. It's me, AIKC R449, The subject of this wonderful thread, with 550+ postings, is 5 most beautiful screen goddesses. Not Winona Ryder fan crush. Winona is beautiful, still, but to hijack an interesting thread for your own psychotic fixation and ramblings, is unforgivable. Into Winona? Start your OWN fucking thread. Such inspired vitriol. You're quite a nasty, crazed, piece of work. You had to ruin someone else's inspiring thread, because you probably realized, in your manic state, 500+ posters, with interesting and varied opinions, ain't gonna be giving a good shit about Winona or you. Get a life you obsessive psycho. Worship my Scorpio sister from afar. The restraining order she wisely obtained against your sick ass, won't allow you in the same zip code. You and Winona, effectively ended an interesting conversation. Get help!

R559-For someone so bent out of shape about Winona being mentioned here, you seem to be the only one still talking about her.

You're still bitching about how the 6 or 7 posts pertaining to her has hijacked a thread with over 500 postings--3 of which are from you bitching about her.

We get it--you don't agree she's one of the 5 most beautiful women in cinema. She's not a "goddess" to you.

Others disagree with you. Get the fuck over it.

Ugh, can we please stick with the actual beautiful women? (Mentioning the same actress several times and posting multiple pictures of the actress does not make your point any stronger, by the way.)

Has anyone said Vivien Leigh?

[quote] A Thousand Ships, One Hundred Faces. Beauty in the Twentieth Century is a BIG book that covers this subject beautifully. There are ten women per decade with multiple photos and a historical essay on each woman. Some come from the world of society or modelling or the stage, but the majority are of course from Cinema. I think there is also a "hall of fame" or top ten of all time. The discussion of beauty - it's spiritual, artificial and sometimes trendy nature is juxtaposed with more classical ideas. One of the last of the great coffee table books on this subject before the plethora of available photos on the internet made this kind of book obsolete. —Elizabeth Taylor made it for the 1950s, but was not one of centuries top ten.

This sounded very interesting. I can't seem to find it anywhere. Maybe I'm not looking in the right place. If you're still reading this thread, R133, any clues or an ISBN?

Thank you R552, Vivien Leigh is quite exquisitely beautiful. Striking. Yeah Boo, you and Winona fans above are preaching to the choir. Vivien Leigh is herself a Scorpio like Winona. We Scorpio's know, being hot and sexy comes with the gig. Don't hate. Appreciate...Bo Derek-Hedy Lamarr-Gene Tierney-Grace Kelly-Jaclyn Smith-Katy Perry-Dorothy Dandridge-Ciara-Jamie Chung-Kendall Jenner-Lauren Hutton-Jean Seberg-Katherine Hepburn...Just a couple more Scorpio stunners. Yeah, we know.

R564, are you quite all right?

Why wouldn't I be R565? I'm fucking bored as hell. Watching Mtv awards, and noticing a pattern in the choices. Thought I made my point. ^

Vera Farmiga

Cannot stop with Ava Gardner. Truly in top 5 of all time.

Salman Hayek

Gorgeous Ava. Such a radiant smile.

Divine.

Mixing it up with a twist.. Post 60's ex-models turned actresses: KIM BASINGER- DAYLE HADDON JANE KENNEDY-CARRE OTIS-BARBARA PARKINS.

Ava Gardner Ava Gardner Ava Gardner Ava Gardner and Ava Gardner

Anyone with big tits. You can't be a 10 without those tits!

I agree: Big Tit Women: Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Diana Dors, Raquel Welch.

Hedy was classically beautiful with no surgery. She was the most beautiful woman in Hollywood according to Lana Turner, "she couldn't act but she was breathtaking. She was like a statute. She was so beautiful it was sickening".

Madeleine Ashton

Ann-Margret. 1 of the most beautiful women in the world even to this day.

Hedy Lamarr, Elizabeth Taylor, Catherine DeNeuve, Ava Gardner, Romy Schneider

Another vote for Vivian Leigh

Hedy Lamarr, Gene Tierney, Ava Gardner, Virna Lisi and Grace Kelly. I wanted to add Jacqueline Bisset but that would make 6.

Hedy Lamarr

Marilyn Monroe

Grace Kelly

Ava Gardner

Elizabeth Taylor

Bump

1) Vivien Leigh 2) Natalie Wood 3) Elizabeth Taylor 4) Lauren Bacall 5) Ava Gardner EVERYBODY knows this Op

Natalie Wood was blah to me. She wasn't ugly but she didn't really have interesting features.

Hedy Lamarr, Gene Tierney, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly and Jacqueline Bissett-and in that order.

Merle Oberon, Ava Gardner, Gene Tierney, Dorothy Dandridge, Kay Kendall, Angela Bassett...