The most beautiful classic actress of all time?

Lens Dungham of course!

This thread again?

Is it that time of the month?

Norma Shearer

Gene Tierney.

Ava, Always.

Hedley Lamarr.

Audrey Hepburn in "Roman Holiday", Grace Kelly in "Rear Window", and Barbara Stanwyck in her earliest films was stunning!

What do you define as classical era? I assume until 1965-1967ish, when New Hollywood took over.

That being said, Ava Gardner and Hedy Lamarr. Honorable mentions to Sophia Loren and Elizabeth Taylor.

Greta Garbo

Louise Brooks

Audrey Hepburn. Though I watched "The Ghost & Mrs. Muir" last night and Gene Tierney is absolutely beautiful.

I also have always had a soft spot for Greer Garson. I like her nose.

English Rose Madeleine Carroll.

Colleen Moore

Angie.

Brooke Shields. Angelina Jolie. Penelope Cruz.

Hunter Tylo, before the plastic surgery

OP, are you happy now you've organized your thoughts over this?

Joan

Liz

It'll always be La Liz.

Yvan lendel

Honorable mention to Jane Greer

Another vote for Ava Gardner.

Marjorie Main

Vivien Leigh.

Vivien Leigh will forever be the most beautiful actress of all time for me with Elizabeth Taylor a close second.

No love for May Robson?

R21 Yvan Craig

Rula Lenska even after a hard day on the set

Vivien, Hedy

It's always fascinating to see how some of the biggest sex symbols in the history of Hollywood: Jean Harlow, Lana Turner and Marilyn Monroe never make these lists.

Also, how actresses like Loretta Young, who was truly gorgeous but never played overtly sexy roles, rarely make the list.

Madonna is the only modern celebrity as beautiful as the classic celebrities.

No she's not, r32

When you say classical actress, are you referring to those from the Golden Age of Hollywood? Because Hunter Tylo and Laura Harring are not from that era…

Yvonne DeCarlo, beautiful and sexy.

r34 I wasn't implying that Laura Harring was from the Golden Age of Hollywood. I was simply countering r32's dubious claim that "Madonna is the only modern celebrity as beautiful as the classic celebrities."

Ok r36.

I never understood the Audrey Hepburn love. She's attractive but not a classic beauty. I think the most beautiful woman is Brooke Shields.

Ava, Hedy, Merle, Kay Kendall, Liz. The brunette actresses were always hot and beautiful.

Elizabitch Taylor

I'd invert R26.... as a beauty, Taylor could pull it off when she showed up. Leigh's beauty benefited from lighting and camera angles.

Cathy

Definitely Marie Dressler.

Eva Dahlbeck, with Mai Zetterling a close second.

Sarah Bernhardt: 1844-1923

a guaranteed boner

Marlene Dietrich

Bea Arthur in Mame

Eldergays unable to rub one out of their withered dicks, so this thread, again.

The most beautiful British actress.

Certainly not G.

Blonde = Grace Kelly.

Brunette/Raven = Elizabeth Taylor.

Brunette/Brown = Gene Tierney.

Redhead = Rita Hayworth.

Auburn = Ava Gardner.

Someone tell that woodpecker faced M that I was NEVER rejected for a role because I wasn’t pretty enough…Dino di Laurentiis coughcough.

I've always felt that Jean Simmons sometimes looked like Vivien Leigh and sometimes like Elizabeth Taylor, but never quite stood out on her own as a drop dead beauty.

I have a classic asshole

Yvonne De Carlo

Another vote for Gene Tierney.

Vote for my ass

I never thought Liz Taylor was a beauty even in her prime. She looked like any basic frau with youth and and makeup

Vivian Leigh

Brigitte Bardot wins

Sarah Jessica Parker.

LMAO!

R61 + Lassie

Madchen Amick

I wonder why Cyd Charisse never gets mentioned in these conversations. She was pretty.

Eleanor Parker.

Another vote for Liz

R64, Cyd? I guess she was okay.

R58. Who is a beauty to you?

Shelley Hack

Ava Gardner, Liz Taylor or Candace Bergen In their prime, they all looked even better without makeup.

Elizabeth Taylor hands down!!!

Greer Garson

Grace Kelly

What the hell is a "classic" actress? Old timey? And then why way "classic" but "of all time"?

[quote] Vivian Leigh

No, R59, it's Vivien Leigh.

Me, of course.

Vivian Lee and her competition, Betty Davis.

Norma Shearer, of course.

Lucille LaVerne!

Grace Kelly. Icy perfection.

Elizabeth Taylor. Raven haired, violet eyed classic beauty.

Greta Garbo. I dont think one could sculpt a more perfect human face. Beyond sex.

Ava Gardner- sex bomb.

I think it's probably one of these ladies, but I dont know which. For me, Diana Rigg as Tracy Bond is up there as well.

R58, Please see an ophthalmologist*, if you seriously believe Elizabeth Taylor looked like "any basic frau" just with "youth and makeup"!

First of all, she (and Tyrone Power) was born with a double row of black eyelashes framing gorgeous eyes of a rare violet hue.

Secondly, with or without lipstick, Elizabeth had an ideally shaped mouth.

Thirdly, and rumors of surgery notwithstanding, her nose was perfection.

The very shape of her face. Her widow's peak and full black hair. Her lush hourglass figure.

Cleopatra could only wish.

*Or a shrink!

I always thought Ingrid Bergman was beautiful. Even in a nun's habit, she glowed in The Bells of St. Mary's.

Valli.

Aquanetta.

I'll match your Acquabetta and raise it with Maria Montez, in Technicolor!

Why no Natalie Wood?

R86, If you think she is tops, then say so. Don't challenge the rest of us.

Top 5

Vivien Leigh Audrey Hepburn Gene Tierney Hedy Lammar Jane Greer

Sarita Montiel

Sheena Easton

Joan Crawford

Gene Tierney

I have only seen a couple of their films, but I’d say…

Gene Tierney

…Rita Hayworth..

…and Veronica Lake.

They weren’t supermodel pretty (but had the bodies for it) or known for being pinups, but I loved the looks of Katharine Hepburn and Rosalind Russell.

Masculine "handsome" women, r96. Hmmmm.

Will thread resolve itself?

Will it come to conclusion or compromise?

[quote]I have only seen a couple of their films, but I’d say…Gene Tierney

Gene Tierney was a "their"? She must have been the first Hollywood star to state her pronouns.

Any love for Garbo?

[quote]I always thought Ingrid Bergman was beautiful. Even in a nun's habit, she glowed in The Bells of St. Mary's.

Her voice really added to her the feel of her seeming luminescent. When she walked into Rick's cafe as WWII's best dressed refugee, you could see how she would attract both Rick and Lazlo and help drive the story.

The thing that struck me about this article is that Pia is 81 and Isabella and Ingrid Jr. are 67 (her age when she died), and the article is two years old. Time flies - it does not seem that long ago when Isabella was trying to break into movies with White Knights (can't get more 80's than that movie). I am sure Pia probably has a few more negative memories than she lets on, but she and her sisters always seem to genuinely have fond feelings towards her in interviews. Roberto seems to stay more out of the public eye, but in the few older pics of him as a young man, he seemed handsome. Roberto Sr. did not seem to be an overly handsome man, but his genes combined with Ingrid's produced some good looking kids.

Irene Worth.

R101 I'm sorry to say that Isabella is now old, wrinkled and portly. She waddles.

She makes an unfortunate appearance as a 'spider lady' in this painfully-bad recent movie.

Alida Valli

Alida with Raf and a new perm in '68.

Isabella is closing in on 70. At least she is not all botoxed and trying to look 30. In that article above in the recent pic of the four kids, Ingrid Jr. looks like she might be aging better at this point. Pia looks good for being over 80.

The most beautiful.

^ Is that Martita Hunt?

Elizabeth Taylor

Ingrid Bergman (sp?)

Hedy Lamar

Anouk Aimée

Grace Kelly

R112 She had a messy rise to stardom.

She appeared in the early 50s and British used her because they wanted French sexpot (which she obviously isn't). And she was given a one-name fake name of "Anouk". And then they later added an additional fake name which means 'Beloved'.

R102 Perhaps, back in 1949.

Thanks for the interesting info, R114. I've only seen her in "La Dolce Vita" and in Altman's "Ready to Wear" when she was older.

Mme Deneuve

Anita Ekberg

Audrey had no sex appeal . She was too thin and more like a doctor’s wife