Prettiest actress ever

[Bossy Monkey]

Poll question: Prettiest actress ever

Feel free to flame me for omissions, or for picking a skin-deep topic. I know Other would win, but it was hard enough cutting to 10; I wasn't going to try to cut one more. (Taking Natalie Wood off was quite hard enough.) Just respond below with your Other choice, please.

[Lefty48197]

1. You forgot Rita Hayworth

She gets my vote.

[MrScorpio]

4. OHH GAWD YESS!!!

When she was Rita Cansino:



Then Hayworth:

[Lindacooks]

25. Absolutely!!!

She was unbelievably gorgeous.

[-..__...]

35. Goldie Hawn, Sissy Spacek.

I can't stand the glamor look. I prefer the girl next door.... simple and sweet.

[tom_paine]

37. Yep. Rita Hayworth

Hands down.

[Dookus]

2. there are many women

who are physically beautiful.

Audrey Hepburn was beautiful through and through.

on edit: and you left our Marilyn Monroe who was stunning.

[Liberal Veteran]

3. Go Audrey! Not only were you a beautiful young woman...

....you aged extremely well.

[Dookus]

7. didn't she?

I can't think of any actress who had her grace.

[flamingyouth]

8. Beauty on the inside is the best kind

:D

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

5. mary pickford

[Syrinx]

6. I'm pretty sure Ingrid Bergman was prettier than Julia Roberts

[dwckabal]

23. Thank You Very Much!

Horse-faced Julia Roberts shouldn't even be on the list!

[TrustingDog]

26. agreed!

she's not oogly by any means, but no way in the ranking of most beautiful, imho.

[smirkymonkey]

39. Same with Cameron Diaz...

It's a crime to put the two of them on the same list as Hepburn, Kelly et al.

[Bossy Monkey]

43. Well, you'll have to report me to the Hot Babe police then

It'll be a change of pace from the Fashion Police who are usually hassling me!:D

[MuseRider]

29. And her daughter

Isabella Rosalini. I have always thought she was beautiful.

[Syrinx]

40. Dave Letterman always seems in awe,

When she's on his show.

[MissMillie]

82. Bergman gets my vote

followed by Julieanne Moore

[MrsMatt]

9. No Nicole Kidman?

she's much prettier than Cameron Diaz.

[TrustingDog]

yes, Nicole.

she is really very beautiful not only in structure, but her shyness and demeanour add to it.

I used to not like her, but have changed my mind.

[Dookus]

19. good for you

I used to dislike her, too, but now I adore her. She's the best Movie Star alive.

[kcwayne]

10. Katherine Hepburn

[AbbeyRoad]

11. Sophia Loren

is often considered to be one of the most beautiful. Gong Li would also be on my list of most beautiful actresses.

[jpgray]

12. Lena Horne? (nt)

[mede8er]

13. Lassie..........

All of them..........

[oxymoron]

14. No Halle Berry?

she is pretty stunning.

[Beaverhausen]

108. I saw Halle Berry in person a few weeks ago. Just gorgeous!

[Bake]

15. My goodness -- where's Marilyn??

How can we take you seriously if you include Phoebe Cates (who was hot, to be sure) but leave off Marilyn Monroe? The classic icon of all times? And a drop-dead gorgeous woman?

Bake

[Bossy Monkey]

32. If anybody starts taking me seriously, I'll be very worried for them n/t

[xultar]

16. You missed Lena Horne, Halle Barry, Dorothy Dandridge, Dianne Carroll

Dorothy Dandridge


More Dandridge here...
http://home.hiwaay.net/~oliver/dandridgegallery.html

[kanrok]

17. Ummm,,,Veronica Lake?

She's first. Natalie Wood is second.

[Syrinx]

57. ooh, I forgot about her

She was my grandpa's favorite.



Myrna Loy, from the same period, was very pretty too. This isn't the best picture of her, but the best I can find right now.

[TrustingDog]

18. Anne Margarat and Katherine DuNeuve....

were missed.

[Dookus]

21. I'll half-agree

I love Ann Margret, bet she's not a classic beauty. She was a bombshell when young, but didn't age all that well.

however, Deneuve is gorgeous, as well as classy.

[TrustingDog]

24. Ann Margret...

what I remember of her beauty was her carriage... how she walked, how those stems carried that beautiful her around. She floatedly danced when she walked. she was a bit too sultry kitteny for my tastes, but back in the day that was what the recipe was.

[Dookus]

30. exactly right...

I don't want to diss her - I'm a big fan. But kittenish is not a quality that ages well.

[TrustingDog]

36. not on screen...

a 'kittenish' role on screen for her would be out of the question, but I'll bet there are aging tomcats about that would die for that aged purr of hurrs.

[Syrinx]

58. I thought Ann Margaret looked great last time I saw her

But that's been awhile. In Grumpy Old Men, I think.

[TrustingDog]

20. Vivian Leigh and Elizabeth Taylor

[AlCzervik]

22. No Julie Chrisite?

[MikeG]

27. Virginia Bell

[Gloria]

28. Vivien Leigh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

eom

[TrustingDog]

31. I like Audrey, but...

can't think of her as most beautiful at all... she's like an alicia silverstone look of today, nice but not too exceptional. Auds exception was being in the right movies at the right time and being a right kind of person. Not trying to take anything away from her, but for eye candy perfection of womanly beauty, nah.

[TrustingDog]

33. Natalie Wood...

http://www.altocelebs.com/w/natalie-wood/

[Demeter]

34. Susanna York and Diana Rigg

Classic English roses

[SarahB]

38. Ann Margret, Raquel Welch, Drew Barrymore according to the male here.

He just left for work, but his final comment when I asked him what he thought here was "Where's the boobs?" Some men seem to find the curviness thing attractive. :shrug:

[Dogmudgeon]

54. I thought I was the only Drew Barrymore fan around these parts

And it ain't just the bod. I can't wait for Drew to discover serious drama again. Her acting "chops" are as good as anyone's have been since her illustrious forebears drank themselves to death.

She could easily reach the status of either of the Hepburns.

--bkl

[SarahB]

55. Mr Belle thinks she's just the cats meow.

She's his modern day favorite, but he likes many from an earlier era as well.

[baldguy]

41. Lauren Bacall

[Cyrano]

42. The potrait of Gene Tierney in the film "Laura."

[mvd]

44. I'll say Audrey Hepburn

I totally disagree with the poster who said she's not stunning. She has exactly the right amount of grace and beauty. I think she's clearly better than some of the ones talked about today, like Halle Berry, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Nicole Kidman.

BTW, kudos for including Katie Holmes in the poll. She's one of my favs.

[Bombtrack]

45. Of those it's definetly Cameron Diaz. Audrey Hepburn winning disturbs me

about the state of DU's taste, very horrid indeed.

Katie Holmes is a close second of them but none of them have the kind of bodies that would warrent top 10 consideration.

I think either Rebecca Romijn Stamos or Angelina Jolie(before she got so many tattoos) or Hally Berry should be in there fo sure

[mvd]

46. I don't see how her winning is disturbing

A majority on this subject is always good. I'd disagree if Cameron Diaz was winning, personally. :shrug: Not bad, but a bit artificial.

[Bombtrack]

51. Audrey Hepburn's top half of her head was way to big for her body

she was like a 7 at her peak.

[mvd]

52. I don't think so

No way.

Here are things actresses are really overrated for IMO:

Julia Roberts - just not very proportional

Halle Berry - has pretty perfect features, but falls a bit flat. Nothing makes her truly stand out

Cameron Diaz - not great skin

Nicole Kidman - looks a little harsh

Catherine Zeta-Jones - not much grace

Now Halle and Catherine are definitely beautiful, but they are even less sexy IMO.

[mitchum]

50. Cameon Diaz looks like a highly fuckable lizard

Highly fuckable, yes.
But she really does have a lizard aspect to her.

[Wapsie B]

56. Yeah Cameron's my dream girl.

She's got that devilish look that just turns me on.

[Spider Jerusalem]

68. Taste is highly subjective.

Your choices of Cameron Diaz and Katie Holmes disturb me...I can see how either of them might be considered "sexy", but neither would be anywhere near the top of my list when it comes to looks...hell, they wouldn't even be ON my list.

To each his own...

[CO Liberal]

47. Vanessa Marcil

Another nominee from my wife.



Source: http://www.wapers.com/

[mitchum]

48. Tippi Hedren

[Nevernose]

49. Prettiest would be Audrey Hepburn; Sexiest would be Cameron Diaz

Personally, I have a thing for Catherine-Zeta Jones. Mmmmm, brunettes.

[Brahma Bull]

53. The only attractive one on your list is Katie Holmes.

The prettiest actress ever...I don't know...I'd have to say right now Lindsay Lohan. :wow:

[mvd]

59. Lindsay is a great choice, too

Though I'm waiting until she's 18 to list her.

[Brahma Bull]

64. Pfft....16 is legal here in MN.

:)

[Bombtrack]

60. Lindsay Lohan is the most overhyped overrated undeserving sex object

since I can ever remember. She's got an ugly fake rack, an average/stubby body and she's orange all over. Not only that everything indicates she's a conceited warped bitch who only got ahead because her father is a big wig in the business. And we now know even her nipples are not attractive.

[Brahma Bull]

61. Uh...yeah...sure...

whatever. :eyes:

Who cares what her attitude is like...this is based on looks! She's hot dude!

[Bombtrack]

66. she's not any hotter than most chicks you see walking through the mall

or on any college campus. I'm not calling her gross or ugly or anything, I'm calling her insanely overhyped and overrated. Undeserving of all the adulation she's getting. It truely is a manufactured tizzy partially because she's a hot 17 year old with a big rack. But it's just marketing. And when she's 25 she isn't going to crack 1 top 100 list.

[Brahma Bull]

67. Yeah...right...

I'd like to see you get a chick as hot as her.

[mvd]

62. Response

I don't notice that about her "rack," but that's not the part I focus most on anyway. Give me a nice face anyday.

I think that Hilary Duff may have been at fault on things and not Lindsay.

Her body isn't super thin, and that's good.

[Brahma Bull]

69. Yeah...

I don't know what Bombtrack is talking about.

[Syrinx]

63. You think Katie Holmes is prettier than Grace Kelly?

Well, to each their own, I guess. :thumbsup:

[mvd]

65. Well..

We're talking prettiest ever, so if Katie isn't my #1 in looks, that doesn't mean much. I think she's SEXIER than Grace. There's more than just looks involved in sexiness IMO.

[Syrinx]

71. We're talking prettiest ever

If you believe Katie Holmes is prettier than Grace Kelly, that's fine. I just don't understand what led you to that conclusion.

And if we're talking "sexier," I think style and "grace" count for a lot.

[mvd]

72. I think that picture you showed isn't her best

Katie's one of the most attractively cute out there - nothing more appealing than that IMO. That's my reasoning.

BTW, Grace would definitely be near the top, along with Katie.

[Syrinx]

74. ok, truce

I definitely think Katie is very cute.

I chose the two pictures because they were both in the water, and as such were very similar pictures.

:hi:

[FizzFuzz]

102. judging from those two pics, Katie Holmes

has the fuckable 6 year old thang goin on.

Some men like that, yes

[Brahma Bull]

70. Uh...hell yeah!

[Justitia]

73. 2 stunningly beautiful Frenchwomen...(Deneuve & Adjani)

Catherine Deneuve



& Isabelle Adjani

[JSJ]

75. Liz (nt)

[last_texas_dem]

76. Of the choices, I voted

Audrey Hepburn, though my all-time favorite is Natalie Wood. She's totally beautiful. Others I think are very attractive are Winona Ryder, Cara Buono, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Eliza Dushku, but I must admit ignorance when it comes to judging a lot of the stars from older movies. Being only twenty myself, there's a lot I haven't seen...

[Selwynn]

77. None of the above.

[VOX]

78. Grace Kelly, Grace Kelly and Grace Kelly.

She had class, sophistication, and that bit-of-naughtiness that gave the whole game away.

[Bonhomme Richard]

79. Maureen O'Hara...............

I was totally in love with her as a kid.

[LynneSin]

80. Julianne Moore

Beautiful, graceful and the most talented actress in Hollywood today!!

[Skittles]

81. Sharon Tate

not much of an actress but she was very beautiful:

[Kolesar]

83. I see women every day that are prettier than those actresses

If you are judging "prettiest actress", you might as well be judging "best guitar player, ever". There are many women who are just beautiful. I guess what makes my every day women better is that I can get a smile out of them. There is a dimension you cannot get on celluloid.

[mvd]

85. This part I agree with

"There are many women who are just beautiful." Yes, in real life, there are many that I like as much or more than ANY actress or singer I've seen. But I disagree with the rest. I don't think celebs have something missing.

[XNASA]

84. Jean Simmons

I voted for AH, but.....Jean was my idea of pretty.

[WI_DEM]

86. Audrey Hepburn--those big brown eyes

just make me melt. I could watch "Sabrina" every day if I had to.

[oxymoron]

87. Ava Gardner

[Insider]

114. Ava Gardner

Ava LAVINIA Gardner. say it with me...

[MattNC]

88. Keira Knightley - Natalie Portman

[Bossy Monkey]

89. Natalie Portman is the one I meant to put on but somehow forgot

and can't believe that it took this long for someone to mention her.

Keira is extraordinarily pretty sometimes, and sometimes just isn't. Harshness around the eyes or something; helps her become a fine actress, but kept her off this list.

[mvd]

91. No I think it's just that Keira uses eye-shadow a lot

Her eyes are actually pretty warm. Anyway, Natalie and Keira are both great choices.

[phillybri]

90. Sela Ward

I dare you to tell me otherwise...

[Speck Tater]

92. Last time this subject came up a few weeks ago...

Audrey Hepburn won hands down.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=1237700

[Beaverhausen]

93. No one mentioned Marilyn Monroe yet?

Shame on you!

[Commendatori]

94. Julia Roberts beat out Natalie Wood to make your list?

We definitely don't have the same taste. I wouldn't have Roberts in my top 100. Diaz wouldn't have made the top 100, either.

My "other" choice would Racquel Welch.

[Speck Tater]

95. Alyson Hannigan

[Wickerman]

96. Many great beauties - I'll add Ewa Aulin

couldn't act to save her life, but she was shore purty

[5thGenDemocrat]

97. Lee Remick

She was a fine, staunch liberal, too.
John
With Ann-Margret running a sizzling second.

[Beer Snob-50]

98. Phobe Cates

Fast times at Ridgemont High. The pool scene. I think I have to take a shower.

[JCMach1]

99. YOUNG Elizabeth Taylor

she was HOT!!!!

[russian33]

100. Liz Taylor, Nicole Kidman, Sophia Loren...

..Gina Lolobrigida (spell?), Raquel Welch, Lauren Bacall, Anjelica Huston

Cameron Diaz? no way....

[NewJeffCT]

101. How about some Asian flavor?

Pretty white list so far for over 100 posts... some Asian flavor: how about the late Wong Mei Ling (Barbara Yung) or Gong Li, Shu Qi, or Chen Hong?

[geniph]

104. Or Zhang Ziyi

she is utterly breathtaking.

[geniph]

103. Where in the hell is Catherine Deneuve?

No one ever had a more flawless face in the history of cinema. She is still lovely.

[Bossy Monkey]

105. Well the thing has 100 replies; somebody get it locked and start another

Of the people suggested above, apart from Natalie Portman, I'm also embarrassed that I didn't think of Isabelle Adjani and Gong Li. Others mentioned whom I thought worthwhile included Veronica Lake and Maureen O'Hara. Others I can't believe weren't mentioned include Sarah Miles and Olivia Hussey (What can I say? I'm a pushover for the English rose) as well as Alison Lohman, who played the young Jessica Lange in Big Fish. In general, I think a lot of people are unclear on the meaning of the word "pretty"; I mean it to connote facial features, which is why Ingrid Bergman, who was insanely beautiful but not actually pretty, didn't make the list, and why Natalie Wood, who started to go all Russian on us as she got older, fell off.

Anyway, hope everybody had fun with it. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't on everyone's Ignore list. I guess I'm not (or at least I wasn't).:D

[smirkymonkey]

106. Actually, I think the variation has to

do a lot with the generation one is in. Maybe a poll by era or decade or something like that.

[CBHagman]

107. Well, at least you went international.

But you forgot Catherine Deneuve, Lena Olin, Gong Li and Sophia Loren. :-)

[Laughing Mirror]

109. Capucine

[HornBuckler]

110. Whoa! No Marilyn? No Bettie Page?

Thems My Favorites

[argyl]

111. Emmanuelle Beart.

[mvd]

112. I think the original board deserves one kick

It seems like Salma is the most popular at DU, and it would have been nice to see how she stacks up against the older favorites. Otherwise, it's been an interesting topic.

Not knocking anyone's taste, but it does seem like Halle Berry and Catherine Zeta-Jones are losing interest in magazines and even on Big Daddy Graham's annual Miss America poll. Big Daddy Graham is on sports radio here. Meanwhile, Salma and Katie and others are growing in recognition. But it's not just them - I feel that everyone from my whole crush list to Gwen Stefani to Janeane Garafolo to Ashanti to Karenna Gore are better than Halle and Catherine. And Audrey Hepburn has certainly endured.

[livinginphotographs]

113. I want to say Natalie Wood (West Side Story)....

but I must always stay faithful to my one true love Dana Sculley (aka Gillian Anderson).

And yes, I know I'm a geek.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

115. Pretty

[Bossy Monkey]

116. Next time please just post a link, rather than the gigantic picture

Some of us have dialup and do not have an hour available to wait for the download.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

117. No.

It is a 42.5 kilobyte image, hardly a 'gigantic' picture.

[Bossy Monkey]

119. Hmm, must be one of those things where the site refused to deliver

because of too many hits. Trust me, I waited at least five minutes three times before getting fed up each time. A 42K picture, even on Earthlink dialup, takes maybe 10 seconds. As a general rule, it's not a good idea to link to external sites unless it's your own bandwidth. Regardless, sorry to have falsely accused you.

[jmowreader]

118. Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr was also an inventor. She invented the frequency-hopping radio--if your cordless phone has the letters "DSS" (digital spread spectrum) on it, thank Hedy Lamarr every time you pick it up.