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CranfordScones · 25/04/2024 21:11

It's much more interesting to examine the hold she had over very powerful men. And what she found in her marriage to Arthur Miller.

Trainersocksandbootsarenotagoodcombo · 25/04/2024 21:09

Mothership4two · 25/04/2024 15:29

Yes Fateha is pretty @Blackcats7. I think one of the Asian sisters in Gogglebox has a naturally beautiful face.

Agree totally! I say it every time they come on.

boobot1 · 25/04/2024 21:09

Mothership4two · 25/04/2024 15:25

Was she considered the most beautiful? She was known for being sexy and acting a bit dippy and faux naive. She was also a pretty mediocre actor IMO.

Off the top of my head, from the same era, I would say Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn were stunningly beautiful (much more so than MM). Beauty is in the eye of the beholder though isn't it?

It is, as I think Audrey hepburn was very plain.

SeanBeansMealDeal · 25/04/2024 21:06

'Most beautiful' is sometimes a sexist shorthand for people who want to say that they admire a woman or her stardom/presence; and because 'most beautiful' is seen as the pinnacle of what a woman can aspire to, that's the descriptor that's used. Even for somebody like Rachel Riley - who is undoubtedly very physically attractive - her beauty tends to be the go-to descriptor rather than her remarkable intelligence or highly-recognised campaigning work.

Even for woman like Diana, who may (or may not, depending on your pov) have coped admirably with her fame and position and used it for a lot of good - but going by common objective standards of beauty, she was naturally quite average, albeit very well-dressed and immaculately presented.

I agree that it's 'interesting' how the 'most beautiful woman in the world' invariably tends to be white. In fact, when you consider the overwhelming proportion of women in the world who are NOT in any way famous, the overwhelming likelihood is that the actual MBWITW - if this can be categorically assigned - is going to be somebody, like most women, whom nobody really knows except her family, friends and colleagues.

AnSionnachGlic · 25/04/2024 21:05

As some of you say beauty is subjective. Some people are 'classically' good looking with symmetrical features etc ..but some people do have that extra something that sparks off the camera, and I do agree Marilyn had that.

JudgeJ · 25/04/2024 21:04

BMW6 · 25/04/2024 15:13

Who says she was? Is this a poll result taken by everyone alive and she came out #1?

By the standards of her time, 1950s, she was probably the first very sexy actress who projected her sexuality. There was other actress who were beautiful but in a more subdued way.

MrsTerryPratchett · 25/04/2024 21:00

Booooooo.

Hoooooray.

Literally no point to discussions of beauty. It is completely subjective.

Newuser75 · 25/04/2024 20:57

ViaMargutta · 25/04/2024 19:02

Nah. Marilyn was stunning. And iconic. She's been dead for what, 60-ish years now, and she's still iconic, everyone everywhere knows who she is, instantly recognizable.

What I truly don't understand is Diana. She's not beautiful. At all. Tall and great figure, but her face is absolutely ordinary, put her head on some average unremarkable figure and no one would give her a second glance when out and about. Both Kate and Meghan are better looking than her.

Ah see I'd say Diana was way prettier than both Kate and meghan.
Although I have to say I find Kate actually quite plain looking. I think meghan is really pretty.

Whatsmyusername1235 · 25/04/2024 20:46

Changingplace · 25/04/2024 15:18

I find it so weird that Diana is always included in these lists, she was very ordinary looking imo (obvs had the money for nice clothes but apart from that?)

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she was a beautiful person on the inside and that made her very attractive. She was a beautiful person

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RecruitmentGuru · 25/04/2024 20:42

Aishwariya Rai was stunning in her youth, but it’s a similar beauty to Sophia Loren the same Features

There have been plenty before and after Marilyn Monroe!

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RecruitmentGuru · 25/04/2024 20:39

As a PP said maybe it’s the ‘it’ then it’s like when you talk to someone I guess you don’t initially find attractive but you get to know them and you’re like wow! Although MM would not have to work so hard.

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bfsham · 25/04/2024 20:35

Princess Diana in person was stunning aesthetically; her photos didn't capture the reality.

Enko · 25/04/2024 19:36

If you Google "most beautiful woman in the world " you get told its Bella Hadid

BlackCat007 · 25/04/2024 19:29

Princess Diana was just well styled.

Remoteaccess · 25/04/2024 19:20

coxesorangepippin · 25/04/2024 15:55

I really don't get the fuss

She wasn't that beautiful

I agree!

neilyoungismyhero · 25/04/2024 19:17

Vivien Leigh for me

ViaMargutta · 25/04/2024 19:02

Nah. Marilyn was stunning. And iconic. She's been dead for what, 60-ish years now, and she's still iconic, everyone everywhere knows who she is, instantly recognizable.

What I truly don't understand is Diana. She's not beautiful. At all. Tall and great figure, but her face is absolutely ordinary, put her head on some average unremarkable figure and no one would give her a second glance when out and about. Both Kate and Meghan are better looking than her.

HoneyButterPopcorn · 25/04/2024 19:02

I guess because she died young keeps the aura going. Same with Jayne Mansfield, Jean Harlow, James Dean (let’s not forget the chaps)…

She has a persona that was promoted like hell and the studios knew that they’d make mega bucks from this ‘ditzy, cutesy blonde’. Can’t say I was a fan but I get the impression she didn’t believe her own hype.

Isabella Rossellini was incredibly beautiful when she was young (she still looks lovely), Sophia Loren, Brigitte Bardot - ones who made it to older age don’t quite have the ‘mystique’ of those who died young.

Heddy Lamar - not only beautiful but very smart too - committed the ‘crime’ of aging, and then became a laughing stock (and more famously know for) having multiple plastic surgery which was botched.

IvorTheEngineDriver · 25/04/2024 18:55

Oh and the most beautiful woman in the world is Sophia Loren.

toomanyy · 25/04/2024 18:55

It’s really odd how people state categorically that ‘x’ white woman is the most beautiful woman in the world, without any reference to cultural norms.

IvorTheEngineDriver · 25/04/2024 18:53

Hont1986 · 25/04/2024 16:07

Even at the time she wasn't considered the 'most beautiful', she was a sex symbol. Nowadays it would be someone like Sydney Sweeney.

No, she was an amazingly gifted film actress - especially in comedy. Even Laurence Olivier said so when he worked with her. The camera just loved her.

ApricotsAndPlums · 25/04/2024 18:42

Beauty (good skin, even features, good bone structure, etc) isn’t always accompanied by charisma, which IMO is the thing that makes someone really attractive. The old Hollywood beauties had both, which is vanishingly rare.

SchoolQuestionnaire · 25/04/2024 18:25

stormywhethers321 · 25/04/2024 15:45

I think she has a lovely smile and a kind of fresh-faced beauty when she was young. But if she hadn't been the presumed future queen of England I doubt she would have stood out from a crowd of other women. Like I said, limelight is at least half the equation!

Interestingly, she was the first woman I ever heard my mother describe as beautiful though.

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Her eyes though.

FuckoffeeBeforeCoffee · 25/04/2024 18:22

Hedy Lamarr or Rachel Weisz for me.

User1979289 · 25/04/2024 18:18

She was sexy in a time when it was bold and daring to be sexy. She was a change maker and a powerful image. But also very very vulnerable and abused horrifically. She was a lot of things and to some she was the most beautiful but I think a 25 yo Naomi Campbell was the greatest of all time. That face!