Who was the most beautiful actress of all time?

Lucille Ball wasn't even the most beautiful actress of *her* time.

Definitely Michelle Pfeiffer. Ironically she HATES her beauty ever being brought up.

Current challenger: Margot Robbie. Liz Taylor was gorgeous for a hot minute but she faded FAST.

How did Lucy make the list?

Viv

I was watching a (young) Vivien Leigh movie just the other day; she had the most perfect face I've ever seen.

Though she certainly was *a* beauty, r1.

Charlize Theron, Halle Berry, and Gene Tierney should be on the list

Halle Berry is on the list.

Much like Donald Trump is a poor man’s idea of wealth, Elizabeth Taylor is a poor man’s idea of beauty.

Who made this list, Jen Aniston? How is Angelina Jolie not on the list? She is the most beautiful actress of all time hands down.

And, some of those old hollywood actresses should be replaced by actresses like CZJ, Charlize and Sharon Stone.

Olivia Newton-John

Michelle Pfeiffer. Without a doubt. Look at her...perfect facial ration. She's beautiful.

^^ratio, not ration. thanks, autocorrect.

Vivien, by a mile.

r14 she's pretty. i don't think she's beautiful though.

Where’s Queen of Hollywood, much loved by DL and 5 time holder of People’s most beautiful title, Julia Roberts?

A couple of years ago, I got into a discussion with some straight male co-workers about who was the most beautiful modern actress (they don't know about Leigh, Lamarr, and Liz). Most of the discussion consisted of people suggesting names, and hearing "Well she's great, but she's not really BEAUTIFUL" in response.

The universally acclaimed winner of the discussion was Salma Hayak, everyone present agreed that she's not just beautiful, she's REALLY BEAUTIFUL.

There are also minor actresses who were/are also stunning. Was just thinking about this a few night ago while rewatching Goodfellas. Elizabeth Whitcraft, the actress who plays Tommy’s date at the Copa (she embarrassed him by praising Sammy Davis Jr’s personality) was absolutely exquisite.

She retired from acting and does hair styling in Hollywood for film and tv.

Julia is too equestrian-looking to be considered.

Whoopi Goldberg!!!

This thread is literal violence!!!

SJP

Why am I always overlooked?

Elizabeth Taylor. She didn’t need plastic surgery like Michelle Pfeiffer.

[quote]discussion with some straight male co-workers about who was the most beautiful modern actress (they don't know about Leigh, Lamarr, and Liz)

Really? None of them had a clue about who Elizabeth Taylor is?

Rita Hayworth, Charlize Theron, and Angelina Jolie need to options on the list. Pfieffer probably wins regardless, but (like Jolie) I feel like by having a nose job, she cheated.

Taylor was beautiful, but not in "of all time" way, honestly. I would say Raquel Welch in her prime was more beautiful than Liz.

Op, you idiot, Julia Roberts at least deserves to be in the poll. Where is she ? She was stunning when young.

Catherine Deneuve

Julie Christie

Nope, r27...her ugliness of character is enough to count her out.

As mentioned previously, Julia Roberts is too equestrian. It's like that old joke: Julia Roberts walks in to a bar. The bartender says, Hey Julia, why the long face?

A very underrated beauty is Marpessa Dawn, star of Orfeo Negro. Much more beautiful than Dandridge, imho.

Ava Gardner should be on the list. She was incredibly beautiful. Charlize Theron, Angelina Jolie, and Jessica Alba are the most beautiful of today's actresses.

A genuinely impossible question to answer. There were so many it's impossible to choose just one. I would add Kiera Knightley to the list. (In her Pride and Prejudice days.)

Queen Julia’s long face is a part of her beauty!

Grace Kelly, duh.

r33 Keira is beautiful but I wished she never fucked with her nose. Way too thin for her face. She's still beautiful though.

WTF is equestrian ? And who made you the arbitrer of which face shape is beautiful ?

At her peak, Julia Roberts was considered the most beautiful woman.

r37 is for r30

Let's break this down into simple terms. Julia Roberts has a face like a horse.

Julia has an okay face with a big set of teeth. She's not beautiful, she's striking and was used in most movies for a comedic device. She's not at all beautiful.

Ava Gardner oir Gene Tierney would be my choice. I always thought Arlene Dahl was very beautiful, as well. The fame of modern actresses doesn't seem to be about beauty, very much. A lot of them look hard, to me.

Isabelle Adjani

r40 r39 Any one who says Julia Roberts isn't beautiful is a fucking misogynist intimidated by the power and influence she wielded when she was the face of Hollywood. You hate powerful women, admit it, you woman hating pig. By no definition she is not considered beautiful.

Ingrid Bergman, Alida Valli, and Hedy Lamarr, as well.

^ Um, yeah, no, Julia is definitely NOT beautiful. It has nothing to do with the alleged power she wielded. She just belongs under a saddle.

Why not Marilyn Monroe. If we are talking IN makeup and lighting, and while acting. She was rather mesmerizing.

Marilyn Monroe was incandescent . Golden ratio.

I don't understand how anyone can think Vivien Leigh wasn't beautiful. She was the greatest beauty of the first half of the twentieth century.

r45 It has everything to do with her popularity and influence. You think powerful women cannot be considered attractive. It's probably stemming from your internalized misogyny. To say that she is not the most beautiful ever is one thing but to call her plain ugly ?

Hedy Lamarr by a country mile. Not only was she gorgeous, she was a self-taught scientist and is the Mother of WiFi. Single White Female ruined the name Hedy (Hedwig). However I bet it comes back in style within the next 10 years.

But brilliance and incredible personal history aside, Rita Hayworth and Gene Tierney deserve to be on this list!

Diahann Carroll, Raquel Welch, Jacqueline Bisset, Faye Dunaway, Sharon Tate,

Julia Roberts is just NOT very attractive. She's quite ordinary. Plus, she can't act to save her life and is by most accounts a really nasty person in real life.

I agree r48. I'm a huge fan of Liz, but Vivienne was more beautiful. Liz was very short and easily gained weight. Julia Roberts is fugly as hell. I watched Mystic Pizza the other night and was blown away that she had such a huge career. Angelina is the most beautiful living actress.

Dame Joan Collins deserves this! 87 and still beautiful.

Gene Tierney.

Dorothy Dandridge is a very interesting choice, she definitely was a star and a very beautiful woman. Love her in Carmen Jones.

Julia Roberts is far below Keira Knightly. But still think Marilyn and Michelle are completely Hollywood beautiful.

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r57: i've read about her sister committing suicide. Julia seemed to have no emotion when it came to her sister, she seemed to not give a fuck about her sibling. She seems like a deplorable, honestly. She didn't seem to try to help her at all. i could be wrong. besides that, she is not beautiful and apparently a shitty person to work with (i.e. don't look at me/don't talk to me type).

I think of Vivien Leigh as beautiful, or very pretty, or lovely. But not one of the most incredibly beautiful women of all time. Maybe because I think her face was a bit pinched, and she was very petite, and one of those actresses who are all head, on a tiny body. There were certainly models more beautiful than some of these actresses. Nancy Kwan was very lovely, btw. I think Hope Lange was beautiful.

The correct answer was left out of the poll:

R60 Agree 100%

My vote is for Ann Sheridan.

All these white people voting just for white women. It's a joke.

^^^Jump right in and start naming some gorgeous black women. Halle is very beautiful and has already been mentioned.

I am white and nominated Diahann Carroll. She was a very pretty girl and a beautiful young natural young lady. Before she transformed into a glamorpuss, before the nose jobs and expert makeup, she was very pretty and also very friendly looking.

"^^^Jump right in and start naming some gorgeous black women. Halle is very beautiful and has already been mentioned."

Did you see the name of the poster?

Team Ava Gardner

Jesus F Christ why is Lange included here too?

Julia should be on this list, definitely over someone like Jessica Lange or Salma Hayek, who are beat looking.

It’s Angelina or Halle Berry. I’d also include Jennifer Connelly in her prime if we’re just talking about beauty here.

No one who looks like a monster in old age like Lange. Jesus. Alcoholic, hateful, horror show bittie with no films since about 1995.

Keira Knightley as well (again, this is just beauty here).

[quote] Hedy Lamarr by a country mile.

Agree.

Ava Gardner and Jennifer Connelly

Unfortunately, Hedy's infamous appearance at the 1974 Legends Fashion Show is hard to unsee.

Cybil Shepherd

[quote]All these white people voting just for white women. It's a joke.

Read the goddamn thread!

[quote]A very underrated beauty is Marpessa Dawn, star of Orfeo Negro. Much more beautiful than Dandridge, imho.

Olivia Hussey

Caroline Munro

Britt Ekland

Ava Gardner

Uhh....what about Pamela Anderson and Heather Locklear?

where Sophia? And unlike many of these Hollywood golden era beauties, who’s looks were very much dependant on make up and lighting. Loren would still be considered gorgeous today even without the era’s make up and lighting.

Tori Spelling

i have never found Vivien Leigh attractive, i find her look very pinched and too tight. even in her heyday i think the public considered her a great actress more than a great beauty.

r91 the photo looks modern - so much so that I could see it in the September 2021 issuse of Vogue and not realize it is 50-60 years old.

Jessica Lange was and is breathtakingly beautiful.

This poll is useless without Kristin Davis.

And who’s the Indian actress Julia Roberts called the most beautiful woman in the world?

r86 Kristin Davis??? a great beauty?

she looks like the coach of my debating team in high school. i guess to each his own.

Pia Zadora

My off the wall choice is Jean Arthur. She was so beautiful and natural all through the 1930s. I watched Easy Living this afternoon and was reminded of how alluring she could be, in any look.

Davis, Kristin for sure.

Vivien Leigh, without question.

Marlene Dietrich - A beauty from her era/time, who knows what she’d look in today’s styling and make up?

R75 - Your point applies to every single woman on this list. they/we all have an expiration date. So let’s not play that game.

Me actually, but unfortunately I was born into the wrong gender and there are some minor issues like large brow and chin, size 13 feet and I'm on the tall side.....

Purely on looks and nothing else, you can’t take seriously a list that doesn’t include peak Jolie, teenage-30s years. Even as a 15-16 year-old you could see what a real beauty she is in any era. Not a generic beauty but with interesting features.

R86 - maybe Aishwarya Rai?

r96 truly beautiful. she was voted the most beautiful woman in the world at one time, if i recall correctly.

Nancy Davis, Just kidding.

I was thinking about Jean Arthur earlier, too. She was very lovely. And in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, she was already almost 40. Another actress like that was Irene Dunne. Margaret Sullavan was very special and lovely, also. But not a great beauty.

Maureen Ohara was beautiful when she was young and soft. She worked up a hard look quickly. Like Joan Crawford, also very pretty when young.

In The Quiet Man (that picture) she had already been in the movies about 14 years.

Garbo when she had baby fat

Kandyse McClure

Lara Parker

Nastassja Kinski

I don't know how anyone can find Angelina Jolie beautiful at all. That's just weird to me.

Elizabeth is the most beautiful of the ones listed (see A Place in the Sun) but Catherine Deneuve is the most beautiful of all time.

You must remember this???

Gene Tierney, hands down.

Taylor.

Salma Hayek? She’s so fucking cheap looking.

I agree Vivian Leigh - she looked liked a porcelain doll.

Why was Lucy and Halle Berry on this list, but not Marilyn or Grace Kelly? What about Audrey Hepburn?

Joan Allen before plastic surgery.

Natassja Kinski, Dorothy Dandridge, and Carole Lombard. Isabelle Adjani and Catherine Deneuve are stunners too.

Michelle Pfeiffer looks like a malevolent rat. I understand that my opinion is in the minority given how widely praised she is for her looks.

What about Sharon Tate?

Jennifer Tilly

112 posts and no mention of Brigitte Bardot?

Gina Lollobrigida, who is still with us, was quite beautiful as was her country-lady Sophia Loren.

Vivien Leigh, Greta Garbo, Hedy Lamarr, Gene Tierney and RIta Hayworth were all gorgeous as well. Liz Taylor's side mole was distracting a little.

For me it's Lynda Carter.

Mia Farrow

Natalie Wood.

Lupita Nyong’o

I honestly find Sharon Stone more beautiful than Michelle Pfeiffer. More statuesque and intriguing.

Racism! Racism! I'm the most sexual!!!

R119 and with no make-up Michelle Pfeiffer looks like a duck.

How did Salma Hayek and Lucille Ball make this list?

R119 well Sharon didn’t have to get a nose job to be considered beautiful so I guess all thinks being equal, she wins. Which brings me to my question - anti aging surgery /procedures aside, should we be counting women who had pre-fame plastic surgery? Especially nose jobs? Think of all the ordinary women out there whose looks would be elevated by well done rhinoplasty.

Mary Pickford.

R122 I'm sure Ball was a joke, but Hayek was probably added to be fair to include a Latina actress. I would have put J-Lo

Salma has gorgeous tits.

For past actresses, Ingrid Bergman. Currently I would have to say Natalie Portman.

Lucille Ball was a great beauty. I don't know why you folks can't see it.

Penelope Cruz is the most beautiful Latina actress.

Lucille Ball was hot when she was younger.

Penelope Cruz

What are some of these doing on the list? Jessica Lange (ordinary at best), Michelle Pfieffer (plan generic Valley Girl) - both are now so worked over they look a joke.

Lucille Ball was never a great beauty.

No Bergman, Garbo, Gardner, A. Hepburn.

I guess Jennifer Jones wasn't a great beauty but since we've mentioned so many others...I liked her.

Elizabeth Gish

You mean Lillian Gish?

there is a golden ratio that makes a face beautiful. i'll leave it at that.

Olivia Hussey, though both Iman and Jennifer Connelly are very nearly as beautiful.

Don't forget Lisa Bonet

And Thelma Ritter.

Blue Ivy Carter

Blue ivy lol

Edna May Oliver amd Marjorie Main were lookers

Raquel Welch should be a contender

I picked Salma Hayek, even at 50+ she’s still gorgeous. But I also think Jennifer Connelly, Phoebe Cates, and Janice Dickinson were beautiful when young.

LITERAL VIOLENCE WITHOUT ALOK VAID-MENON

Que brutta.

Francesca Annis is incredibly beautiful. She was one of Cleopatra's ladies-in-waiting and went on to play the Jersey Lillie and many other roles, lIke Wives and Daughters, Cranford and Home Fies.. She is now 76 and still looks great.

Get off my list.

The Queen

Elizabeth Taylor really was dazzling in the Cat on a Hot Tin Roof era.

Must have been so humiliating to become as fat as she did.

Olivia de Havilland was quite beautiful as was Loretta Young. Deanna Durbin grew up to be quite lovely as well.

Farrah Fawcett

You faggots are ungrateful bitches. Let me remind you that hunks like Redford, Bridges, Sharif, O'Neal, Patinkin, Nolte and Matthau have all found me gorgeous....... well, they were told to say the line and they did without asking for a rewrite. What more do you judgmemtal people want? Even Betty Bacall told me I was beautiful. Study James Brolin says it to me fourteen times every day! Sure it's part of his contract but ya know he could have feigned memory loss if he didn't want to say it.

I feel much better about cutting Jason out of the will completely and leaving him just a box of fruit loops. The AC/DC pansy will enjoy that.

Ava Gardner

Sharon Tate, Mila Jovovich.

Mildred Natwick

Elisabeth Moss

R148 Jesus and she looks so mean.

Marie Dressler

Norma Shearer, the First Lady of the DL

Candice Bergen was beautiful when she was young.

She’s up there. Top 10.

Always enjoy this thread. The same names come up lover and over so there must be something in it. They all have a period when their beauty at its peak is truly breathtaking. Am an elder gay and still find Hedy Lamar, for a short while in the 40’s, on film more so than stills stops me in my tracks. In this YouTube compilation the clip from Ziegfeld Girl where the huge orchid pulls away, although a bit cheesy now, still stops my heart for a moment.

Greta Scacchi was the most beautiful actress of the 80s.

R126: Salma's tits are fake. She also had an excellent nose job.

R25 & R123: I can understand why some think plastic surgery is cheating. Braces & orthodontic work could be considered cheating as well.

I look at it this way: good plastic surgery enhances what you already have. It can't turn a homely person into a great beauty. Joan Rivers, Phyllis Diller, and Tori Spelling didn't have much to work with. So, the beautiful ones mentioned here who've had help from surgeons (Michelle, Angelina, Marilyn, Halle, Salma, Diahann Carroll) were pretty to begin with.

You people need to think outside the box. Yvonne De Carlo was stunning in her youth.

R158 She also appears to have had her nicotine teeth fixed.

I think that we should draw a distinction bewteen actresses we like, and actresses who were/are objectively beautiful. We should also remember that it's possible to have delicate features without being beautiful at all - for example, both Angela Basset has very fine features, but her angular, manly jaw prevents her from being truly beautiful. The same could be applicable to a young Linda Evans.

People like Hedy Lamarr, Vivien Leigh, Jean Simmons, Jennifer Jones, Elizabeth Taylor, Gene Tierney, Sophia Loren, Veronica Lake, Dorothy Dandridge, Charlize Theron, Halle Berry, a young Brooke Shields, Vanessa Williams, Rinko Kikuchi, Jaclyn Smith, Faye Grant, Lupita Nyongo, Gong Li, Michelle Pfeiffer, Olivia Newton-John, Marilyn Monroe and Salma Hayek, are all objectively beautiful regardless of their level of acting talent (and yes, I know that I am not including everyone).

On the other hand, there are actresses who are merely pretty (or in some cases, completely average) but their exceptional charisma and glamorous demeanour elevates them above the rest: Marlene Dietrich, Norma Shearer, Meryl Streep, Joan Collins, Cher, Lana Turner, Joan Crawford, Jessica Lange, Clara Bow, Lena Olin, Cate Blanchett, Lucille Ball, Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine, and a long etcetera.

Finally, there are actresses who are a product of marketing and are not even pretty, but are aggressively promoted as being gorgeous, for some inexplicable reason: monkey-eyed and shark-mouthed Julia Roberts; Cameron Diaz and her hideous skin, potato nose and misshapen mouth; Jennifer Lopez and her utterly plain face and oddly proportioned body; human blank canvas Anne Hathaway; Millie Bobby Brown and her achondroplasia face; Farrah Fawcett and her witch nose, bulging eyes and abnormally large mouth, as well as an also very long etcetera.

Unfortunately, what we perceive as beautiful tends to be conditioned by other traits that we find appealing, or what we project of ourselves on others. That, however, doesn't have any bearing on the objectivity of what is beautiful and what isn't.

Why isn't the stunning Miss Francis on the list?

My lesbian girlfriend is outraged that her own favourite, Romy Schneider, isn't even on the list.

Lois Chiles

Romy Schneider is a good one, R171.

Yvonne De Carlo is another good one. I had forgotten about her. I had never seen her outside of the Munsters, then when I came across some pictures of her when younger I saw how beautiful she was.

Apollonia! I mean, come on.

Loni Anderson.

Thread Closed.

Grace Kelly

This is so much fun! I do think you have to make an objective pic, and people's preferences are revealed - probably because they look like our mothers. My mom looks like Michelle Pfeiffer so I'm biased, but I'm absolutely going to send her a screenshot of the takedowns here and ruin her day.

I was sold on Viv Leigh, and you've completely changed my mind, good arguing!

Angelina has a fat Czech face. She is stunning- amazing, shocking features. But her natural fat Czech face that she has to starve and chisel thin eliminates her for me.

I think it's Hedy Lamar. The blue eyed brunette always wins. And she might be the best.

Elizabeth Montgomery

Whoever cited Charlize Theron as a great beauty over Elizabeth Taylor needs a slap. She looks like bland government cheese. Seriously.

Julia Roberts is a stunning beauty whether you hateful fags agree or not.

Charlize has a pig nose

Salma Hayek, something tells me without the accent and two enormous silicone filled bags that sit under her chin those straight guys wouldn't find her nearly as "beautiful". First time I saw her I thought she was trans. Very manly in the face.

Halle Berry, cute. But she never really grew out of her Himalayan whistle kid looks.

Rita Hayworth, horse teeth and bad taste in men.

Makeup!

Truly beautiful means you can see their uniquely gorgeous face without tons of makeup. A lot of these actresses named on the list are products of makeup, surgery, and good photographers. Drop-dead beautiful doesn’t mean symmetrical, generic features either or else Kate Beckinsale is at the top of list.

Young Angelina Jolie and Monica Bellucci for instance, even without much makeup they were turning heads. Hedy Lamarr without much makeup before Hollywood, was a great beauty but you can’t say the same with her contemporaries like Rita Hayworth and the like, who had extensive plucking and needed makeup to complete the illusion.

[quote] Julia Roberts is a stunning beauty

If you're into race horses.

Brooke Shields at her peak beats everyone. She's still beautiful now but she owns the 80's.

Lassie was a great beauty.

Sara Ramirez

Jennifer Connelly deserves to be near the top of any list.

Madonna

Jennifer Esposito

The winner of this might very well be 15 year old Brooke Shields, which is all the more fascinating since she was well past her prime beauty by the time she was in her 20s. Never seen anything like it.

Saw "La Piscene" last night and Romy Schneider was truly gorgeous. Held her own against the ethereally beautiful (but totally odious) Alain Delon

Joan Fontaine.

The woman with the best smile ever - Marilyn.

I've seen high school photos of Julia Roberts and like her or not, she was way above the average high schooler.

Also see the YouTube video Angelina Jolie made following her cancer surgery; zero makeup, bad lighting, straight-on camera angle, but still very beautiful. And with flawless skin.

Angelina never had cancer, to split hairs and just saying.

Jessica

How can anyone argue against Viv?

The most beautiful actress of al time was Greta Garbo. She wasn't called "The Divine One" for nothing.

Not quite beautiful, but I'd say Barbara Stanwyck was one of the sexiest.

Garbo and Monroe are unique because, while they were not necessarily the most beautiful women in the world; there was something about them on camera that no other actresses have had, as least as far as I've seen. Both were just luminous on screen. Mary! I know...

OP very CLEARLY says "the most beautiful". So if you're starting your post with "not necessarily the most beautiful..." or "not quite beautiful, but..." you should NOT be posting.

Also, OP carefully set out a list to choose from. He didn't ask for names not on his list.

Please follow the rules Datalounge!

Maybe the OP should have stated who is the most beautiful between those on my list R204. The women on his list are attractive, but very few people live up to the standard of beautiful. I would imagine not very many people, including myself, could describe what beautiful is.

Of the 10 listed my top 4 would be Michele Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, Halle Berry, Elizabeth Taylor. In almost all cases, except Halle Berry who would qualify now, it was when they were acting in their mid-20s. As for the others I can think of many more beautiful such as Grace Kelly, Diana Rigg, Julie Andrews, Lee Remick, etc etc.

R174 I was going to mention Yvonne De Carlo. She was hot, and a beauty, but I think her sultriness and sex-symbol-osity overshadowed her beauty. I wonder if that's another class of movie star - even though she was gorgeous. She sang well, too. This was a number that was cut from the movie, Sombrero (1953), because it was considered too suggestive. (This was another movie where Cyd Charisse, a beauty in her own right, had to compete with a more voluptuous creature. Like she had to do with Ava Gardner and Esther Williams in other movies.) Vittorio Gassman, who was married to Shelley Winters at the time, is the costar in this scene.

Jane Russell was a beautiful girl, too.

R206, you really think Diana Rigg was more beautiful than Vivien Leigh and Carole Lombard?

"She's still beautiful now but she owns the 80's."

No, she's not. She looks like a tranny. She's looked that way a long time. Brooke Shield's beauty peaked early and went downhill fast.

Hildegarde Neff (Knef). Even if she did look a lot like Ginger Rogers.

[quote]R76 Cybill Shepherd

She was certainly in the top tier.

I thought Shelley Fabares was pretty beautiful when I was a kid watching reruns of "Donna Reed Show". Donna was quite lovely too, for a Mom.

Kim Basinger really is very alluring in a “whole package” kind of way.

Very, very few people look like this.

[quote]R161 Candice Bergen was beautiful when she was young.

Yes. Intimidatingly so.

[quote]R169 Unfortunately, what we perceive as beautiful tends to be conditioned by other traits that we find appealing, or what we project of ourselves on others.

Half of it is also about the way these women were photographed. Additionally, all of these women are unusually photogenic - they don’t walk around all day just naturally looking like that when they’re scrubbing their sink or whatever. What we’re seeing is a manipulated image of them that has involved many artists (including the photographer).

I met Jacqueline Bisset in the early 80s and she’s certainly a very attractive woman, but she doesn’t look like [italic]!! JACQUELINE BISSET !!

I don't find Cybill Shepard even the slightest bit attractive. On Moonlighting, Bruce Willis was way out of her league. He was so sexy in the 80's.

Most beautiful Elizabeth Taylor hands down! Burton lovingly referred to her as "that fat, saggy tit cunt!" Haha

219 posts and nobody has mentioned Pam Dawber? She was a Ford model!

[quote]R219 Most beautiful Elizabeth Taylor hands down! Burton lovingly referred to her as "that fat, saggy tit cunt!"

She had a beautiful face but also seemed pretty shallow and borderline tacky, so she’s not really that interesting. To me, anyway.

Additionally, Liz Taylor was a midget.

How could we forget the lovely Pam Dawber?

[quote]219 posts and nobody has mentioned Pam Dawber? She was a Ford model!

....

Liv Tyler in “Stealing Beauty” is startling.

Virna Lisi, here with Steve Reeves who had nicer tits.

Sharon Tate hands down...then and forever

Anita Ekberg was kind of amazing.

Virna Lise remained beautiful well into her old age. That was remarkable.

[quote]R228 Sharon Tate hands down...then and forever

Sharon Tate was utterly lovely, but also projected zero personality... which kind of renders her a black hole.

I watch her and think, “What possibly attracted her to being an ACTRESS?” But then, when someone is that pretty, careers kind of unfold instead of being pursued.

I think Cybill was much more beautiful in the r212 Moonlighting picture and that era in general.

Her looks were much more suited to 80s styles .

I know her's is not a name usually associated with this kind of a debate, but I'll take her over all those Lamarrs and Taylors.

I know who she is R233, but really, fucking just use her name so people that are unfamiliar with her would know who the hell you are talking about.

r234 If you can't tell who she is, on Data lounge of all places, then you don't deserve to be alive, IMHO.

[quote] I don't find Cybill Shepard even the slightest bit attractive.

Cybill Shepherd looked better in print ads than on the screen. I always thought she looked like she had allergies on Moonlighting.

Anyone under 40 won’t know who she is. Even on Datalounge.

The title of the fucking thread read "Who was the most beautiful actress of all time?" NOT - who's my favorite actress. Stop playin! You know the answer!

r237 Shut up, you idiot

r231 I think she would have grown as an actress if not murdered. Look at Jessica Lange..her acting debt was just awful but she got better and better with each role...I still go with Sharon as the most beautiful

R240, Jessica was delightful in King Kong, it's just that the role was a space cadet who said looney things.

"I watch her and think, “What possibly attracted her to being an ACTRESS?”

I suppose all her life people were telling her "Wow! You're beautiful enough to be a movie star or model!" With her looks what other path would she take? But if truth be told Sharon Tate was no actress. Nothing she ever did indicated she had any real talent as an actress. And the roles she got never even required much acting. She did do one thing very well, and that was to look beautiful. It's hard to imagine her being offered roles that required much more than that.

It's thought that if she had lived and had her baby she probably would have abandoned the acting career altogether. Her pregnancy made her "oblivious" to all else. I think that would have been her niche; to be a mother. If only Sharon Tate had no let herself get drawn into the Hollywood scene; she should have gone to college, gotten an education, met someone, married, had children. She should have had that kind of life. If she'd chosen that path, she'd be alive today.

R239 Did I trigger a decaying nerve?

Jeanne Crain is quite beautiful in this pic.

Jackie Bissett!!

[quote]R235 If you can't tell who she is, on Data lounge of all places, then you don't deserve to be alive, IMHO.

That crotchety old muff diver is indeed known to us.

It’s Miss Cuntburn.

[quote]R240 Look at Jessica Lange..her acting debt was just awful but she got better and better with each role.

Lange was not at all awful in her film debut. The top critic of the day, Pauline Kael, loved her in it.

The film itself wasn’t raved about but it made money.

Pauline Kael had very singular taste.

R249, is that Bianca Jagger?

Lupe Velez?

(Which reminds me - I’d like to name twins Lupe and Luke.)

(For some reason.)

Jessica

^^ from that article:

[quote] It is this innate self-confidence that not only fueled Lange but caused many to regard her as "an Ice Queen." "There was a haughtiness about Jessica, even then," recalls a frequent visitor to the Lion's Head, the New York saloon where Lange waited tables in the early seventies. "She may have been a waitress, but she acted like she was above it all, that she was doing you a favor to drop your hamburger on the table."

I knew a gay couple who used to go there back in the day, and I excitedly asked if Lange ever waited on them. They said yes, and that she was awful at it.

They were bitching at her once about her shoddy service and she said, “I’m not a waitress, I’m an ACTRESS.” And one of them said, “Well, can you ACT like a waitress??”

R255 hahaha! that's amazing. This Vanity Fair article is also amazing. I thought I couldn't admire her any more.

#langeloon

Even with the overgrown mustache that was nearly impossible to hide, Vivien Leigh was gorgeous. Heddy was a close second.

Vivien Leigh didn't have a mustache you troll. She was of Persian descent but she was feminine in every aspect.

R254 Thanks for sharing that article. Haven’t read it in ages.

R247 She was actually quite brilliant, emotive, and totally committed.

" She was actually quite brilliant, emotive, and totally committed."

Shut up, Jessica.

Jenny Seagrove

Inwardly, and outwardly it is Elizabeth Taylor. Without question. She was ALWAYS that person. From the beginning.

LA Liz

Liz was a fat whore. So she’s basically okay.

Such a shrill, grating voice, though.

Nancy Kulp

Emmanuelle Beart

Back in the late 1990s I asked a younger co-worker (she was about 25) if she had ever heard of a list of actresses. Included in that list was Geraldine Page, Marlene Dietrich & JESSICA LANGE amongst others I can't remember.

She hadn't heard of ANY of them and this was only about two years after Lange had won the Oscar for Best Actress. The MASSES don't give a FLYING FUCK of the TV/film industry. It is more niche than ever because there is just so much content now.

OMG, Kaley Cuoco is totally like the most gorgeous, stunning actress ever. My daughters Kaytlynn, Trampsyn, RaeCysst, Kymchyee, KomBueChyya, Courtesynn and Konkubynne all wanna be like her. Their all cheerleaders and blonde, just like their mom! I get asked like all the time if I'm the younger sister. Me and Kaley, were like twins. Stunning blonde beauties.

Obviously, Elizabeth Taylor, but a much younger Arielle Dombasle was also very beautiful

Millie Perkins

Another photo of Millie Perkins

Gladys Cooper

Lily Elsie

Marilyn Monroe for the mid-1950s to early 60s for the bleached blonde, sexy voice persona.

Jane Powell was quite lovely and really talented triple threat. Lovely ingenue. Her sometime co-star, Debbie Reynolds was pretty darn lovely, and I liked her type more than Elizabeth Taylor. Eddie Fisher was nuts to leave Debbie.

Aren’t we all a little sick of Liz Taylor by now? Her fanboys need to give it a rest.

Late Sixties early Seventies Faye.

Particularly in Thomas Crown Affair .The Arrangement, Puzzle of a Downfall Child, and The Deadly Trap.

R279 - Alice Faye, wasn't she a bit old by that time?

I think it would be easier to come up with a list of top 5, in no particular order, than select just one.

I’d maybe say: Ava Gardner, Liv Tyler, Brooke Shields, Grace Kelly.....and Candice Bergen?

(I won’t include Garbo, because she’s practically of another species.)

Maybe this pic will appear on the actual DL site and not be offsite

Faye in the Arrangement

R280 Ummm

that's why I listed THREE FILMS so the one name wouldn't be confused with any other Faye. (as if on DL)

[quote]Late Sixties early Seventies Faye. Particularly in Thomas Crown Affair, The Arrangement, [bold]Puzzle of a Downfall Child[/bold], and The Deadly Trap.

She does look fabulous in that.

I've always had a soft spot for Natalie Wood, so she would be my choice.

Also, Catherine Deneuve.

Elizabeth Banks is gorgeous.

Faye was really beautiful until the nose job.

Vivien Leigh is FUCKING gorgeous.

There's shots in Waterloo Bridge, That Hamilton Woman, and Caesar and Cleopatra that are stunning.

R288 When was the nose job?

It looks the same even in 1994 when she won the Emmy for Columbo.

Not saying you're wrong, just wondering when she had it done.

Amalia Fuentes

She didn’t have one. Stars usually have rhinoplasty BEFORE they’re well known... not after.

R290 when she changed her eyes (sometime in the early 90s I think) I think that ruined her. Her hooded eyes were a large part of her beauty and then she fucked with it.

Arielle Dombasle is a TERRIBLE actress. I like who she is however.

I don't think Alice Faye ever had a nose job!

Isabelle Huppert

Eva Marie Saint

Those posting who they think are the "most beautiful actress" say more about them than the actress. I can agree most of this actresses are attractive then are not beautiful. I stated up thread "beautiful" is elusive. As the old saying says, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Wow. Lesson learned, do not post after a few drinks because the "Oh dear" will come after you.

Those posting who they think are the "most beautiful actress" says more about them than the actress. Most of these actresses are attractive, not beautiful. Beauty is elusive and in the eye of the beholder.

Millie Perkins was dreadful as Anne Frank. Not only was she model pretty, which was totally wrong for the role, she couldn't act for shit. And she was toll old. Anne aged from 13 to 15 during her time in the annex; Perkins looked at least 18. She looked like a young woman and spoke like a baby voiced little girl. She made Anne seem kind of retarded.

Annette Funicello

Mia Sara

VIVIAN VANCE!!!!

JADA PINKETT SMITH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The cast of "To Wang Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar"

Debbie Reynolds was cute, at most. She was from the era of screen beauties like Rhonda Fleming, Hedy Lamarr, Ava Gardner, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, Deborah Kerr, etc.

Debbie was very pretty and seemed more attainable to the average person than some of those other goddesses or ice queens you mention.

Debbie Reynolds?? We are really scraping the bottom of the barrel, now.

She was attractive on her best day, but not a beauty.

She doesn't look really her best in "Singin' in the Rain". She looks quite lovely next year opposite Donald O'Connor in the underrated "I Love Melvin".

R308 plus she was 5 FEET TALL. Sorry but I think height and build count for something too. I do love her though, especially in her later years.

We should give one vote to poor Dorothy Stratten. She did make a few movies, and she was what straight guys wanted.

I will vote for her on their behalf, in absentia.

Ann-Margaret, Sophia Loren, Lee Remick. All gorgeous.

Ava Gardner

Hedy Lamarr was a fucking Goddess! Any of you watch the movie “Ecstasy?” She's luminescent.

May Britt, Swedish Blonde

Still living at age 88.

She had notable affair with Sammy Davis Jr.

So true r300...the weak link in the film that she was the lead in.

Kim Novak. Also age 88. Had relationship with Sammy Davis Jr. too.

Sammy and May were married

Gloria Swanson wasn't the most beautiful.

She did have a formidable acting persona going back to silent films.

Merle Oberon...five head notwithstanding.

R318, Appreciate the clarification. I wasn't certain about that.

She knew who the "most beautiful actress of all time" would be....

Like no other....

What is that dark coloring on her left cheek R323?

Reta Shaw was actually very attractive as a young woman.

Re: Julia Roberts. A film critic once said of her, “she’s a caricaturist’s idea of what beautiful is”, than being conventionally beautiful. She was stunning in PRETTY WOMAN. But not aging well at all.

[quote]Millie Perkins was dreadful as Anne Frank. Not only was she model pretty, which was totally wrong for the role, she couldn't act for shit. And she was toll old. Anne aged from 13 to 15 during her time in the annex; Perkins looked at least 18. She looked like a young woman and spoke like a baby voiced little girl. She made Anne seem kind of retarded.

I'm convinced that at least part of the reason she was cast was her slight resemblance to a young Elizabeth Taylor, director George Stevens' muse in "A Place in the Sun" and "Giant". I agree, Perkins was dull as dishwater.

Ona Munson

Belle Watling in GWTW. Mae West and Tallulah Bankhead turned the role down because it was too short.

Jolie in her most beautiful years, circa 2008, when she was 32-33, not many actresses past or present could top her. She had a face that would’ve set gotten old Hollywood attention and star-making machine rolling. It’s not just a generic, pretty face but more beguiling in that you know with or without makeup that is a truly stunning face. With the right glamorous makeup she was in another stratosphere.

Jolie has an exquisite face, but her body is tragic. Especially the booty. You could iron shirts on it.

Surprising that Marilyn Monroe has been little mentioned in this thread. She was considered the premier sex symbol of her day, a woman all men desired. But it was not a "natural" beauty that she had. It was very manufactured. It would take her two hours for her makeup man to do her face to get that "look" of hers.

Jean Harlow, not mentioned on this thread, was also considered the premier sex symbol of her day. Her "look" seems harsh now (that platinum hair, that dark eye makeup and lipstick) but back then she was considered a woman all men wanted, just like Monroe was. In photos she changes in appearance; sometimes she looks plain, sometimes very glamorous. But underneath all the makeup she was quite pretty and in a biography of her it was mentioned that people marveled at how an unprepossessing little man like Paul Bern could have ended up married to Harlow "the most gorgeous creature in Hollywood."

I'm going to be a little off topic here, but R331 mentions makeup Katey Sagal looks completely different with her onscreen makeup and her off screen makeup. I would say she looks very attractive with her off screen makeup.

Fanny Ardant

Elizabeth Hurley

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Emma Stone.

Ann Blythe

The glamorous Caitlyn.

Jean Tierney

"I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Emma Stone."

I'm not. I don't see that she possesses any great beauty.

R338, and Gene Simmons

R333, she looks a bit mannish in that photo.

what am i, fegato tritato?

Gina Lollobrigida

^.

Gwili Andre must have really stunk as an actress to have not made it... because her stills are good.

This thread is too long and I don’t like women enough to read through all of it, but has anyone said JOAN FONTAINE yet? My god, she has to be the most gorgeous woman Hitchcock ever directed. Even more so than Grace Kelly, who was obviously stunning in her own right.

I agree with Sharons Tate and Stone. I’d also add Ursula Andress and Kate Winslet if they haven’t been mentioned already.

...blonds

Joan Fontaine was clearly good looking. I don’t know that she was a raving beauty, though.

Elizabeth Taylor gave zilch of her legendary beauty to her daughter. Greedy cunt.

[quote]r329 A Woman in Full - Angelina Jolie is more than an outstanding actress. She's the ultimate avatar of fantasies (hers and ours), whose next movie, Wanted, taps into her pent-up need for action. As Jolie examines the effect of her own childhood on the unconventional family she and Pitt have created, Rich Cohen hears about the mother she lost last year, the father she’s estranged from, and why, in her second pregnancy, she feels so sexy.

Irrespective of Angelina Jolie, who the hell writes this kind of drivel?? Is it supposed to make us being in awe? It's just so fucking ridiculous.

The more the Liz Taylor fanboy keeps pushing her, the less I like the mediocre actress.

Calm down - her legendary status was long ago established.

I can't recall Marlene Dietrich being mentioned on this thread. She was once considered one of the most gorgeous Hollywood actresses in history, desired by all. She was also one of the most promiscuous. She was sleep with anybody, male or female, figuring that by doing so she was doing them a favor. When questioned about why she had so many sexual partners she reportedly said "Well, they ASKED."

where are all my fans? I was a fucking 10 and gave all the straight bros boners and i'm a right wing cunt and trump fellator

R345, Gwili was RKO's answer to Garbo and Dietrich, but she flopped as a lead actress, with one columnist dismissing her as a "stiff, colorless and completely talentless performer." She was then relegated to supporting roles, making her final film in 1942, before returning to her native Denmark.

[quote]R354 one columnist dismissing Gwili as a "stiff, colorless and completely talentless performer."

She should have married a studio head.

She’s more beautiful than Dietrich, but can’t act. Not that Dietrich was much of a technicality accomplished actress, but she had style and moved with purpose.

Poor Gwili seems to lack any of that.

Sarah Polley

No mention of Crawford? I really think she was the most gorgeous thing alive from 1932-1936. What a face she had.

And what faces she sat on!

[quote]No mention of Crawford? I really think she was the most gorgeous thing alive from 1932-1936. What a face she had.

Did she eventually get the face she deserved?

Uma Thurman

R358, 1930s Joanie was the most glamorous movie star of her day, but it was all smoke and mirrors. Hair, makeup, lighting, costumes by Adrian, etc. made her radiate beauty and glamour, but take all those away and she was pretty, not drop dead beautiful.

I don’t understand how Crawford’s face changed so much from her first bout of stardom in the 30s to her reinvention in the 40s. She looked totally different. I wouldn’t have guessed it was the same person.

1930s Joan looked like a lovely, fun-loving gal, but the 1940s version looked like she would cut your balls. I guess she was tired of all the shop girl roles and wanted to be taken seriously by going for a harder, tough broad look, like her bestie Barbara Stanwyck.

The truth is she was getting old.

R357...

The most

This thread went downhill really fast. Some times I think people are just throwing out names just for the hell of it.

The second most

Ava was the total package.

Came here from the Lee Remick thread to add my vote for her.

Here is a list of some of women who were said to be some of the most beautiful in Hollywood history:

Louise Brooks

Greta Garbo

Lana Turner

Ava Gardner

Elizabeth Taylor

Vivien Leigh

Grace Kelly

Marilyn Monroe

Catherine Deneuve

Sharon Tate

It comes down to "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Very few women or men are beautiful. Good looking, yes. Beauty has more to do with the "it" factor. Sharon Stone is a good example. A very attractive women, but not beautiful and yet a lot of men wanted to fuck her.

[quote] Sharon Stone is a good example. A very attractive women, but not beautiful and yet a lot of men wanted to fuck her.

WTF? What arbitrary criteria are you using to come to the conclusion that she’s “very attractive, but not beautiful”?

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder R374.

Sonja Henie -- according to Lee -- Lee Beraci.

R372 That's exactly how the list should look. Some of the suggestions in this thread are utterly absurd. Sarah Polley?! Emma Stone?!!!

Although she tended to have a plump little body I thought Clara Bow had a stunning face. She had such a face.

Meghan Markle, of course!

How about Uma?

HA! Let's try again.

Vivian Vance

A number of English actresses rank among the best of the best. Dana Wynter, Jean Simmons, Janet Munro, Shirley Eaton.

Elinor Donahue

I had a crush for Dana Wynter R383. She become more beautiful as she aged.

Uma looked much better in R380 than R381.

She has hands and feet like a man.

I thought Rene Russo was stunning when she was young. Mostly she modeled but also did some acting.

Most of the "most beautiful" faces here need make-up to be their iconic selves. No problem with that - some actresses are a blank canvas on which beauty is drawn. It's a skill or talent or quality of its own.

But I'm an ex-nature boy from the 60s and I think the face that "wins" should be a face that is beautiful on its own term... a lily without gilding. So I nominate Julie Christie (yes I know there is makeup in this pic)

Small snippet of Ava Gardner's MGM screen test - 1941 - age 18

R387, get off Datalounge, dad.

R381: Uma got her good looks from her more beautiful mother, a '60s fashion model. Uma's daughter is a plain-looking version of Uma, but her voice is similar.

It's like Tippi Hedren > Melanie Griffith > Dakota Johnson. Diminishing returns in 3 generations, Hollywood version.

Coming late to the game, here. This list includes Lucille Ball but leaves out Garbo? You specified "the most beautiful actress of all time". Not just a pretty face or sexy. Taylor and Pfeiffer belong, and some of the others suggested by DLers, do as well. Here is a picture of Greta at 50 years with no make up. Judge for yourself. It's my own personal opinion. Some selections need rethinking.

ALL TIME!

R392 Of course she has make-up in that photo. Eyebrow, lashes, lipstick at least. Not the architectural make-up of the old studios, but still...

And yes, it does show, at 50, an incredibly beautiful face that has been lived in. Similarly, I 'd submit Jeanne Moreau whose face, far from classic, is a face with a view....

Excuse me, did you all miss the comment above?? Meghan Markle, OF COURSE!

Inspired by this thread I just asked my sister (she’s 50) who she thought the most beautiful actress of all time was.

She said fucking Jennifer Aniston.

I told her I had to get off the phone.

there's been no one else like her

Thank God.

Truth R386...how does she finds shoes to fit over those THINGS?

The English rose, Dame Flora Robson.

Spanish lolita, Rossy de Palma.

Scarlett O'Hara. Please. No one comes close.

Belinda Carlisle. bone strucha is everything.

Was she an actress?

Swing Shift

Another vote for Viv.

Millie Perkins was George Stevens' choice after Audrey Hepburn turned him down (The Diary Of Anne Frank). Audrey Hepburn was 30. I don't know what he was thinking. Perkind was also too old. I don't think her performance was bad but her age was. Anne Frank was an adolescent. In the stage version she was played by Susan Strasberg, who was, I think, 16.

Vanessa Williams (former Miss America)

"I don't think her performance was bad but her age was."

Her performance was terrible. She made Anne seem like a retard. But I thought the whole play was terrible. If featured fictional scenes, like the one where Mr. Van Dann is caught stealing food (that did NOT happen). It portrayed "Albert Dussel (real name: Fritz Pfeffer)" as a doddering, rather senile old man but he was neither. Pfeffer was an athletic, attractive man , a dentist; he was definitely not dumb. His fiance was a 21 years younger woman who was devoted to him and he to her. He was the odd man out in the annex; all the others had family members with them, but he was alone. For some reason it was decided that he would share a room with Anne; terrible idea! He thought children should defer and be respectful to their elders; it wasn't easy for him to be in such close quarters with a rather spoiled, full of herself little girl. It was hard on her too; of course it would be, having to share a room with a man in his fifties. Anyway, the play really wasn't a good depiction of the characters in it, despite all the praise and awards that were heaped on it. The movie wasn't really good either, but it too of course won awards and praise. How could it not? How could a play and movie about Anne Frank NOT be praised and awarded?

Millie Perkins was so stiff as Anne.

And I do find Merle Oberon to be quite beautiful, if a bit zaftig. Really wide hips.

Growing up, I always hear my elder folks saying Elizabeth Taylor is the most beautiful, especially with her violet eyes. But I found her beauty safe and bland. I thought her contemporary Sophia Loren was my kind of beauty - alluring and exotic.

So Italians are unsafe and dangerous, compared to English-American wasps, I guess.

Violet eyes win every time.

It was more than the violet eyes, though. Her facial features were perfectly shaped, balanced, and proportioned. Uncommonly great symmetry.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn and that is not a vote for Scarlett O'Hara.

Plus Liz Taylor had a double set of eyelashes, which set of her peepers even more. I read somewhere that people with double eyelashes like that were prone to heart disease; eventually that is what killed Liz.

Liz was hairy, hence the double set of eyelashes. She was what they called "hirsute." Her buddy Montgomery Clift was the same way.

Yes, R415 - I mean the decades of over eating, cigarettes, sedentary lifestyle, and drugs had nothing to do with it....

Liz had more of different men's cum in her than your average gay man...and that is saying a lot! For her time, the woman was a real tramp! She really let herself go too. I think she had really low self esteem.

Katharine Isabelle

A few years ago, Vivien Leigh was judged the most beautiful English woman in history, over Elizabeth Taylor, Princess Diana, and Catherine Zeta Jones. I can't think of a woman from any other country who compares to her delicate, porcelain perfection.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Saoirse Ronan.

RuPaul

Gene Tierney should take Ball's (or Lange's) place on that list, OP.

Was Taylor technically British? Her parents were American born.

She was born in the U.K. so she had duo citizenship.

Interesting that these two people's DNA created Elizabeth Taylor (and her brother, who was also very good looking).

Romy Schneider IMO

Barbara Payton

Linda Darnell

R413 no cheekbones and weak chin. I put a lot of others ahead of her.

“I nearly died when I saw Elizabeth Taylor. I couldn’t believe my eyes. She had black hair all over her arms and was as hairy as a little ape.”

Only on DL would Lucille Ball be included as an option.

Right R432! Lucille Ball is only included because she was over the top with the lashes and overly dramatized clothing and trademark hairdo! So many gay boys wanna be her - and dress up as her for Halloween. But "most beautiful?" Hell no!

Angelina J

R433 She was a good looking girl. When she was younger (her MGM period) she was considered a sex symbol. She just wasn't one of the most beautiful actresses of all time.

Taylor, Lamar, Garbo, Kelly, Christie, Loren, Monroe.

…and Leigh!

It’s so strange that I used to have quite fond feelings for both Liz Taylor and Natalie Wood. But the aggressive, unrelenting fawning over them by their stan here has almost completely cooled me on them!

STFU asshole...Yeah, I see you

Nearly 500 posts and no mention of Victoria Principle? Stop being such elitists snobs, just because Principle wasn't in movies doesnt mean she wasn't gorgeous.

Why is Elardabeth Taylro winning this poll?

Margot Robbie

Definitely not Liz Taylard

Lucille Ball was beautiful. She just didn't know how to put on lipstick.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Kerry Washington.

You bitches seem to forget who has been on this cover a record FIVE times. MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

R14 is a terrible picture of Vivien Leigh.

R14 pic is the first time I’ve noticed her eyes were wonky.

You can't compare people of today with those of yesterday. Not only has are perception of beauty changed, but so have we. Would anyone in our generation be considered beautiful in the 30's, 40's or 50's. The only one I can think that transcends decades is Marilyn Monroe. Who I thought was beautiful years ago today I find average.

I do think the Hepburns, Vivian Leigh and Elizabeth Taylor were genuinely beautiful. Everyone else just looks glamorous because of our perception of that time. I love Greta Garbo but she was not some great beauty. She seems more beautiful than she was because of how I saw her.

*our perception

[quote] I love Greta Garbo but she was not some great beauty. She seems more beautiful than she was because of how I saw her.

Of course she was a great beauty.

Garbo just photographed well. Like Dietrich, a lot of it was cheekbones and makeup and lighting. She didn't have a great body, with thick wrists and ankles.

A Hollywood producer or director made the astonishing claim that Elizabeth Taylor was NOT photogenic - that she was far more beautiful in person than she appeared in pics and on film/movie screen.

Can we please shut up about fatass LIZ TAYLOR??

Yes, she was lovely. Move on!

Keira Knightley

R452 "She photographed well". When did you meet her in person? The thread is about beautiful actresses. Of course she photographed well. This is her after her movie career was long over, at age 46. The next reply will be a picture of her that's a candid from the early 30's.

Candid.

Vivien Leigh, by a Georgia mile.

It's funny to watch a bunch of old queens arguing over which whiney old "karen" (and we know they were ALL karens back then) was the best looking! LOL None of them look as good as today's stars who take much better care of themselves. Aren't your little gay dicks shriveling just thinking about these broads?

R434 is not Brad Pitt!

R434 is Billy Bob Thornton

Did r456 meet her either? Shut up.

Saying Greta Garbo wasn't beautiful shows ignorance.

Saying Greta Garbo wasn’t beautiful shows someone with an opinion different than your own and you’re too childish to accept that.

R440, Principal

R463 I hope you're being sarcastic and not suffering from a complete vision failure!

Greta Garbo was scrawny, frail, very pale and sickly looking, with itty bitty titties, no top lip, and a receding hairline. Beautiful? Nah. She definitely was nowhere near being the most beautiful actress of all time. I can think of 10 off the top of my head way more beautiful than her.

Hell, even over-hyped DL favorite Liz Taylor was a goddess compared to Garbo.

Sally Field.

Not only that r466, she had thick wrists and ankles. And a wide body frame that looked bad in tight dresses.

Oh, no! Thick wrists! I know the first thing I look at in an actress is her wrists. And then her ankles. And if she doesn't pass the wrist and ankle test, I never want to look at her face.

You don't have to like Garbo (and I don't give a shit) but her career as a silent film actress was based on the fact that she was a beauty and a sex symbol, and it continued into the sound era. Her beauty might not be your thing but she was considered the great beauty of her time, and is considered one of the immortal beauties of the screen. That's not disputable. What you personally think of her, you're welcome to think.

Garbo's face is (of course) amazing.

She makes all other women look merely pretty.

Beauty is subjective. Not everyone has to think Garbo is beautiful.

There's a nutcase trolling DL - well, I mean another one....a new one....

Stans are the worst.

With beauty and brains, Hedy puts them all in the dust...

Hedy had a boring presence on film, which kind of undercuts her looks.

Why am I not all over this thread? I leave my millennial peers in the dust.

CJZ is pretty but not beautiful. Plus, she’s got awful legs.

I suppose Mama June is not in the running.

Gladys Hurlbut

Penny Marshall

Madeleine Carroll

Madeleine Carroll was gorgeous. Another blonde, Virginia Bruce, was sometimes called the most beautiful actress, in those days.

The most beautiful ones tend to be brunettes.

Kim Novak

Nearly 500 posts and no mention of Jan Smithers!

Lassie

I'm surprised Hedy Lamarr is behind leigh.

Ok Eldergays, stop putting up pictures from the 1840s! Nobody knows who these broads are!

R488 won’t live long enough to be an eldergay.

Someone will kill him probably. One can hope.

French silent actress Musidora.

R490 Isn't that Madonna?

R489 Gurl, don't get your panties (or shall I say bloomers) in a bunch, it was tongue in cheek!

Vivien Leigh is the winner

Vivian Vance is the winner.

[quote] Kim Novak

I felt so bad for her the day after she presented at the Oscars not long ago and the next day everyone slammed her odd-looking plastic surgery. She hasn't left her home since.

Missing on the list: Madonna at the time of the "Justify my love" video. Not saying she's a great actress but this is about beauty. Monica Bellucci in her prime, Angelina Jolie and Anna Moffo, the opera singer (who also acted in mostly obscure movies). Anyway, she should count.

My facials deserve some type of recognition!

[quote] Missing on the list: Madonna at the time of the "Justify my love" video.

Madonna was never, at any time in her life, "beautiful." Sexy, maybe. But not beautiful.

...or an actress.

[quote] I felt so bad for her the day after she presented at the Oscars not long ago and the next day everyone slammed her odd-looking plastic surgery. She hasn't left her home since.

I hope whoever did that to Kim Novak's face will rot in hell.

The extreme lingering close up of Lee Remick in one of Roddy McDowell's home movies stands apart from anything I can remember. Even Grace Kelly's famous close-up in Rear Window falls short.

The Greta Garbo.

I actually think Kate Hepburn was a great beauty.

Surprised Michelle Pfeiffer almost winning even with her widely-set eyes.

R504 and duck lips.

Jane Greer deserves a mention

The Princess

Mama!

Emma Stone.

R501 I know exactly what youre referring to and I agree totally. Lee Remick is just staggeringly beautiful in that short clip from his home movies. I go back occasionally and watch it just to assure myself im not exaggerating.

Ava is certainly up there

Where is Ingrid Bergman?

Ava Gardner.

Rossy de Palma

Marilyn Monroe.

Natalie Portman is certainly beautiful.