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WHO IS / WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FILM ACTRESS EVER?

andrew hoeller​ing

about 4 years ago

Beauty is not enough -as an actress she also has to be able to act! That rules out Catherine Zeta Jones for starters.My personal favourites are Marlene Dietrich in Blue Angel, Maria Cesares in Les Enfants du Paradis and Orpheus, Catherene Deneuve in Belle de Jour and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca and For Whom the Bell Tolls.I also challenge any hot-blooded male with an aesthetic sense not to fall in love with Emanuelle Beart in Un Coeur en Hiver.

Sumner Forbes

about 4 years ago

Claudia Cardinale was absolutley stunning. And regardless what you think of Slumdog Millionaire, Frieda Pinto is gorgeous.

Cello Galipin​e

about 4 years ago

Catherine Deneuve et Anouk Aimée.

Nessa L.

about 4 years ago

Hiam Abbass

Michael Sajkowi​cz

about 4 years ago

Ingrid Bergman

Tan Zen Wan

about 4 years ago

Anna Karina

Dalton R.

about 4 years ago

ANNA KARINA, Chantal Goya, Christine Noonan (from if…)

Rossone​ri Ultra

about 4 years ago

Vera Miles and Tippi Hedren (Looked beautiful in The Birds).

Wildfir​e

about 4 years ago

If I were a guy, I’d probably go for Gillian Hills in “Beat Girl”, or Brigitte Bardot in “And God Created Woman”.

Also, as others have said: Anna Karina, Isabelle Adjani, Monica Bellucci, Jean Seberg, Ava Gardner, Vivien Leigh, Elizabeth Taylor, Gene Tierney, Rita Hayworth. Oh, and Linda Darnell in “Forever Amber”. Maybe Liv Tyler and Rocketeer-era Jennifer Connelly before she lost half of her body weight?

And HEDY LAMARR, surely. If I could look like anyone in the world, God – I’d look like Hedy Lamarr. Also, she was a scientific genius who helped to invent wireless communication. AND she escaped from her Nazi husband’s castle by climbing out the window on a rope made of bedsheets! Most beautiful, most adventurous, and most smartest. :-) Go Hedy!

Now let’s talk about some male beauty… (:cough: Leslie Howard. :cough:)

V Jain

about 4 years ago

Ingrid Bergman…

Ken Hayes

about 4 years ago

Natalie Portman
Ingrid Bergman
Sophia Loren

Rossone​ri Ultra

about 4 years ago

Also, Grace Kelly and Eva-Marie Saint.

Francis​co J. Torres

about 4 years ago

Vitty and Welch.

Alley PB

about 4 years ago

I just saw Sleeper, and it reminded me of how beautiful Diane Keaton is. Her smile and her laugh, and even though she makes mostly silly movies now, I think she’s maturing gracefully.

Also, I would definitely switch teams for Penelope Cruz.

ralch

about 4 years ago

Claudia Cardinale
Halle Berry
Jennifer Connelly
Ava Gardner
Marilyn Monroe
Anouk Aimee
María Félix
Rachel Weisz
Elle Macpherson
Naomi Watts

the girl who plays the cashier at the liquor store in SUPERBAD stroke me as very beautiful the other day.

Tanya

about 4 years ago

Isabel Adjani, Irene Jacob, Greta Garbo, Anna Karina

Paul Marsh

about 4 years ago

Sophia Loren is the most beautiful woman who ever lived…inside and out. Don’t disagree if you haven’t seen her movies.

Miasma

about 4 years ago

Emmanuelle Beart was constructed rather perfectly…

Armando Roque

about 4 years ago

Top 6 (that I can think of now… and in no particular order):
Lauren Bacall
Audrey Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn
Rita Hayworth
Michelle Pfeiffer
and Sophia Loren

MC

about 4 years ago

Irene Jacob in Double Life of Veronique.

Doruk Yağmur Yavuz

about 4 years ago

Catherine Deneuve

ritchie cunning​ham

about 4 years ago

Claude Jade

Cormac Aristid​e

about 4 years ago

Katharine Ross in The Graduate
Haydee Politoff in La Collectionneuse
Eva Green in The Dreamers
Cate Blanchett in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Harold López Garroz

about 4 years ago

Zhang Ziyi

Patapon

-moderator-
about 4 years ago

@Harold

YEEEESSSS

Perfumed Dandy

about 4 years ago

Cloris Leachman.

Perfumed Dandy

about 4 years ago

Cloris Leachman.

gino

about 4 years ago

Mia Farrow
Ingrid Bergman
Keira Knightley

gino

about 4 years ago

Cloris Leachman by the way is not, was not, nor ever will be attractive..not even slightly.

Bob Stutsman

about 4 years ago

Margaret Hamilton

Edna May Oliver

Beauty is only skin deep.