Who's The Most Beautiful Woman You've Ever Seen?

I think Ava Gardner in her prime was the most beautiful, sexy woman Hollywood ever turned out.

Victoria Principal on Dallas was my ideal of a beautiful woman when I was growing up.

Ava Gardner is another one that could change my type.

Audrey Hepburn

Michelle Pfeiffer

Shirley Hemphill.

Sharon Stone.

Carly Simon?!?!?

In person - the late Phyllis George (former Miss America). Stunning.

You certainly have... eclectic taste, OP. Carly Simon???

Natalie Wood, Elizabeth Montgomery, Catherine Deneuve. I thought Sherilyn Fenn was gorgeous in her prime, but she's sadly lost her looks and her mind.

"In real life" should be the qualifier on this.

Madonna

OP is imitating the old joke about two gay guys walking down the street. They see Sophia Loren.

One says to the other, wistfully, "You know, sometimes I wish I was a lesbian."

OP's taste is in the tongue sandwich she had for lunch.

"In real life" -- Whitney Houston. I met her for an instant in an airport, she bummed a cigarette. She was wearing a baseball cap and no makeup but DAMN it was her and she was gorgeous.

If we're talking film ... Jane Greer in Out of the Past is near the top of my list.

Greta Garbo

My mama.

OP Carly Simon is not an ugly woman but if you travelled up to New England you would see many horse-faced, awkward women. But if you ar looking for beauty singers I would try these three: Connie Smith, Pat Benatar, Lena Horne- all beautiful singers.

I thought we had already agreed that Elizabeth Taylor was the best.

Isabelle Adjani in person looked like she stepped out of a painting; so beautiful in motion, she almost didn’t look real.

----ever seen. In that case, Angie Dickinson, who just GLOWED!

Princess Margaret was strikingly beautiful.

I first met Elizabeth Taylor on the night she made her one and only appearance on The Tonight Show.

It was the only time I was ever starstruck. She was stunning.

R24, Here she is.

Ca. 1975- Lynda Carter

Virna Lisi

Thanks r25. I watch it when I miss L.A.

She was still wearing all of that. A friend went to do her hair.

Monica Bellucci

Catherine Deneuve

Michelle Pfeiffer

Sharon Stone

Jaclyn Smith

Christie Brinkley

Paulina Porizkova

Elizabeth Taylor had pretty eyes but was short with stumpy legs and overweight most of her life…hard pass

I once had a friend who hung out with Lois Chiles, who, at the time, was best friends with Michelle Pfeiffer. On the screen Michelle was amazing, but in person, Lois was so much more beautiful. She was in fact the most beautiful human I had ever seen, but so much of it came from this kid of glow she had, this almost hypnotic aura that made Michelle, sitting next to her, look like a damp dishrag (in person, Michelle, with her bad skin and weird hair, really isn't much to look at. However, the camera absolutely adores her).

Farrah Fawcett in the 70s. That hair!

Monica Bellucci. For all time.

Monica -

Elizabeth Taylor

Isabella Rossellini

Catherine Deneuve

I also have a special place in my heart for Winona Ryder.

R30, you need glasses. Michelle Pfeiffer looks like Michael Jackson with those too far apart eyes, fake looking nose, wide mouth, square face, huge cheekbones, pursed lips, etc.

Isabella Rossellini

Sharon Tate.

Love Lois Chiles. She wasn’t the greatest actress but had so much presence like in “The Great Gatsby”.

Didn't Lois Chiles think she should play Daisy and was very bitter? And wasn't Ali first choice until she dumped Robert for Steve?

Donyale Luna was striking

Lucille Ball?????

Jenilee Harrison

Meg O'leary in 2nd grade.

It's a toss up between Ava Gardner and Hedy Lamarr.

In person. you will be surprised. I was surprised. It is Christie Brinkley in the late 1980s at a gala at the New York Public Library. Not a refined beauty. But 1000 watt spectacular radiance. and I have seen many legendary beauties, live, before my eyes.

I mean. I am cosmopolitan and a snob. So i was stunned. Its Christie Brinkley, the most gorgeous woman!? Well, I'll be damned. I also shared cig breaks with Jackie over several times and she was striking but not 1000 watt beauty flash. Jane Fonda I much prettier in person than on screen, in my. opinion. I worked several season photographing the fashion shows in Paris and New York. early 1990s. All the supermodels were total glamazons. Naomi was the most spectacular. the layer below the supermodels had more exotic beauties.

Olivia Hussey. Effortlessly gorgeous.

these three kind of capture it. I always thought of her as a flashy blond, a bit manic, and she is, and I thought she must be tacky, and she is, and she's not a demure beauty or a sophisticated beauty, but in person it was just radiance.

Taylor Dayne could have been a supermodel

Marlo Thomas

Diana Ross

Cybill Shepherd

Olivia Newton John

Beyonce Knowles

Diahann Carroll

Linda Ronstadt

Jennifer Connelly in her prime

Amal Clooney right now

Elena Anaya in her prime -- lesbian IRL, she was one who chose her ass over her face, and now looks very old

Audrey Hepburn, young, although her great bone structure saved her look as she aged

Diana Rigg in the Avengers

I could go on and on... I do love my dark-haired dark-eyed women!

Keanu Reeves. Oh, wait, you asked for a woman.

Marlo? Lucy? Omg.

Anyway… absolutely agree about Ava Gardner. But my vote is for Gene Tierney.

Nicole Kidman is the most youthful and beautiful performer the silver screen has ever seen.

Nicole has turned back the clock and is even younger than her first appearance on film. She still menstruates and continues to be carded at restaurants when ordering a glass of wine.

She’s unbelievable!

Just one more shot of her^^^

Joan Chen, at about the time of "The Last Emperor."

If we're going to nominate Lucille Ball and Marlo Thomas, what about other great sitcom beauties?

R53 / R55 stole my thunder. Gene Tierney was extraordinarily beautiful but I nearby nominate the late, great Veronica Lake as Ms. Tierney's runner up.

Marlo in her prime was a gorgeous, intellectual woman. A knockout.

Aishwarya Rai

Out of all the women considered beautiful, Rihanna is the only one whom I’ve seen in person. Absolutely regal. Statuesque and just pretty as fuck. She looked me dead in my eyes too.

Mid-1960s Sofia Loren was the most beautiful woman I've ever seen on screen. Early Elizabeth Taylor is up there too. But nothing compares to Sofia.

Actually I forgot I saw Anne Hathaway in person too but Rihanna still takes the cake.

I’ve also seen Nia Long, mad pretty, but I doubt most of DL knows who she is.

Kyra Knightley

Gloria Estefan

Eva Marie Saint

A young Joni Mitchell

R62, when do you think Elizabeth looked her best?

R59 true. A shame what she has done to herself in her later years.

I thought CZJ was breathtakingly beautiful in "The Mask of Zorro." When she first appeared on the screen, my jaw dropped at such a vision, and I thought, "Who is this exotic beauty?" I was equally transfixed with her with next film, "Entrapment." But for some reason, after a few years had passed, I was no longer as enamored. I can't really explain why.

Perhaps you appreciate more mature women now, R67.

R31 that's so funny because Lois Chiles is a non entity on screen and Michelle has so much charisma.

Whitney Blake

R67 = Michael Douglas.

R31 = Lois Chiles, posting from obscurity.

The most beautiful woman I ever saw IN PERSON was Annette Benning, at a random Starbucks in West LA. Absolutely stunning

Marilyn Monroe

Olivia Newton-John. Even battling cancer, she still looked beautiful and serene. Also, Donna Summer - she knew how to make the most of her attractive features.

[quote] The most beautiful woman I ever saw IN PERSON was Annette Benning, at a random Starbucks in West LA. Absolutely stunning

Were you on the way to a LensCrafters?

For me, Elizabeth Taylor was at the peak of her beauty in the mid- to late fifties. (Raintree County era)

She still looked lovely when she made Cleopatra. But after that her face started regularly showing a bit of puffiness, hardness.

Rihanna when styled well looks nice. But her head has an unfortunate shape.

ava gardner, no one more beautiful

Vicki Lawrence.

R76 😂. Lawd. He must have been on that Anne Hehe drug.

Grace Kelly had pretty much a perfect face.

Hedy Lamarr

R77 It's mind boggling that Elizabeth was already beautiful at the age of twelve in National Velvet.

Vanity, Jennifer Conley(before the weight loss), Elizabeth Taylor, Vanessa Williams, Marilyn Monroe, grace kelly

R67 fortunately that was just a few years ago and CZJ is still a young woman with many starring roles to come, and chances to win back your admiration. I'm sure she will.

I once worked with a woman who looked almost exactly like Lynda Carter. She was as nutty as a fruitcake, but had many admirers.

Another vote for Gene Tierney. Oleg Cassini (one of her husbands) said the camera didn't capture her beauty. She was even more beautiful in real life.

I used to think that nobody in the world looked like Isabelle Adjani. Then Monica Bellucci came along. I still think the young Adjani (who now seems to have frozen her face in time, like Christie Brinkley, and something looks very wrong) was the more striking of the two, maybe due to her eye color and mix of Bavarian and Algerian ancestry. She will be 70 years old next month.

I'll never understand why anyone thinks Joan Crawford was beautiful (please don't post photos to "prove" she was beautiful). Her looks never appealed to me.

[quote] at a random Starbucks in West LA.

Vs. the flagship Starbucks

IN person I think the most beautiful movie star I ever saw, at least, was Patricia Neal. Way past her prime, much more beautiful in real life than on TV.

Alida Valli at the time of “The Third Man”, not “Suspiria”.

Nastassja Kinski is quite beautiful.

She has a quality that Greta Garbo and Ava Garnder also possessed: a certain versatility in their beauty. They actually look almost like different women with different lighting and different styling, but they are always stunning: their beauty was dynamic. I think that's why they win "most beautiful" for me.

Valli was a knockout in Technicolor in The White Tower, even though she wore mostly hiking clothes.

I think Ingrid Bergman was gorgeous, btw.

And of course Greta Garbo.

*Ava Gardner at r94

I think Arlene Dahl was gorgeous back in the early 50s at MGM.

Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly in Mogambo were both really something. Both very natural-looking, too. Young Lana Turner was certainly not bad, either. I also think Joan Fontaine was beautiful.

Robert Osborne said Lucy told him she looked like a cigarette girl at the Mocambo.

There is only one correct answer.

I always thought Lara Parker who played "Angelique" in the gothic soap "Dark Shadows" was beautiful.

Lee Remick wasn't bad, either.

Maybe not a "great beauty," I don't know, but I always had a thing for Hope Lange.

In person? 1980s Faye Dunaway.

Hi Faye!!

I never got the big deal about Natalie Wood as a beauty. Loved her, thought she was very pretty, and cute, but when she's listed as being so incredibly beautiful, I don't see it. It's just me, I know.

R104 She was no great swimmer either.

^Esther Williams

Indian film star Aiswarya Rai

Michelle Pfeiffer and Charlize Theron

R103, her stunning beauty in person came as a surprise to me. Amazing bone structure.

Elizabeth Taylor.

Brigitte Bardot. Shame she’s turned into a raging far-right lunatic in her twilight years

Saw Cindy Crawford in person. Big head, stick body.

R112 But beautiful right. She is absolutely beautiful. Would love to have seen her in person during her prime.

The most beautiful woman I've ever seen in person was Vanessa Williams. Stunning. Hedy LaMarr or Gene Tierney not in person.

I saw her in person during her prime and she did not strike me as beautiful.

Anna Nicole Smith

On film - Elizabeth Taylor in A Place in the Sun

It’s a tossup between Gene Tierney and Linda Darnell.

R112/R113 We sat next to Cindy, Rande, and their kids about ten years ago when we had Easter dinner at the Hotel Crillon. She’s attractive but by no means the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen. Attractive but not gorgeous.

I can't believe no one mentioned Vivien Leigh

Maria Felix was a stunning woman as well.

Vivien Leigh during GWTW.

Paris Hilton

In person I'd say Angeline Jolie. I know it's easy to hate her crazy ass but I saw her at a film premiere and she is really stunning in person. Her face anyway. Her skinny legs looked like they could snap at any moment.

r116 & r122 need to get eye exams STAT

COOCHIE

Ok, I'll say it. I'd go hetero for Cate Blanchett.

Oleg Cassini said after being married to Tierney(she gets my vote) that an actress's greatest love is herself. I guess it's true of a number of actors as well.

Thinking of you Jon Hamm!

Maureen O'Hara!

She should probably be disqualified for ruining her face, but Priscilla Presley was stunning back in the day.

Sophia Loren to me looks like a bird with that beak of a nose. Her hair was always dated looking too….hard pass

Reading this thread is like flipping through a vintage TV Guide.

Farrah Fawcett? Marlo Thomas? Olivia Newton-John? JFC - did any DL’er make it to the 21st century?

It’s like no woman after 1982 has ever registered on your gaydar.

The most beautiful woman I’ve seen in person was Vanessa Williams. Christina Hendricks was a close second. Luminous skin

R131, please check your definition of gaydar.

Jessica Lange circa 1982.

Jessica Lange circa 1982.

Candice Bergen - late 60's and mid 70s. Natural beauty.

Not Princess Diana.

Gia Carangi

Kathleen Turner in “Body Heat”.

Back in the day (as the kids say) beautiful women were put under contract and groomed to become stars. This is probably why we're mentioning a lot of women from the studio era. On screen, they were made up and lit to look stunning. I don't really see too many women stars like that, now. Then in the 70s and 80s (mostly due to Aaron Spelling, I think) there was an emphasis on beauties on the small screen. It was also the era of the supermodels (into the 1990s).

These days, I don't see that many gorgeous women in show business or fashion any more.

An answer to R131^

Deneuve

Garbo

I had a classmate in drama school, a colombian girl, who was like a prettier version of Helena Christensen. Stunning. She was also really smart, a very good actress and super friendly. I swear some peopme are blessed with EVERYTHING.

Lana Turner

R145 I've read many comments on DL ragging Lana's looks as "doughy" and plain, and her beauty mostly reliant on makeup. I don't agree. I think she was a natural beauty. Her features were almost doll-like. Her daughter is also a very elegant-looking woman.

I met Sophia Loren, and u know that scene in Golden Girls where Blanche dolls Sophia up; she says, i made an 84 yr old woman look like a 64 yr old drag queen. Then Dorothy says, Ma, are u in there?....that's what Sophia was like; scaffolding, with her inside. But she stared right at me and smiled. My mom had just died and she loved Sophia Loren; especially how she came from nothing; so it was an incredible moment to be in het presence...but i just felt she deserved to be home with het feet up watching Murder she wrote.

It's Sofia with an F.

Young Lana was so cute.

Sidney Guilaroff was usually the hair stylist for the MGM female stars, for years, and most of his styles are simple and don't look dated. Not sure if he cut/styled Lana's hair, here, but a lot of the MGM lovelies had the most classic and beautiful hairstyles. Very flattering.