Who do you think is/was the most beautiful filmstar whose look/style you liked best?

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I think maybe the Austrian born Hedy Lamarr . You can't see in these black and white shots that she has green eyes but the contrast green eyes, black hair I think is lovely. Also despite the heavy dark lipstick they wore in those days I think there is something quite modern and natural about her, more so when she moves than in still shots.

[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8Xetw5uffU&feature=grec_index]Hedy Lamarr]

So: whose look do you like? Link to a photo you like of that person.

I was smitten with <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=www.livincool.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/adjani_ouverture1_reference-610x422.jpg&imgrefurl=www.livincool.com/cinema/isabelle-adjani&usg=__6e7hTAFgMTS7ulyWoKbtgvRNiY0=&h=422&w=610&sz=50&hl=en&start=20&zoom=1&tbnid=xKSaoWeAS9ZzUM:&tbnh=121&tbnw=161&ei=YfsbTtu7PNC28QOmytiuCA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Disabelle%2Badjani%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1085%26bih%3D580%26gbv%3D2%26tbm%3Disch&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=130&vpy=117&dur=231&hovh=187&hovw=270&tx=176&ty=91&page=2&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:6,s:20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Isabelle Adjani after watching La Reine Margot - she is luminous onscreen in a way that doesn't quite come across in photographs. Also just realised how much she looks like Kate Bush (my personal hero).

Jean Seberg, Breathless era.

Elizabeth Taylor. Just breathtakingly, timelessly beautiful.

Natalie Wood was teh hotness.

Brooke Shields in blue lagoon is probably the most beautiful but there are a lot of actresses who the camera seems to love and you cant take your eyes off them I would say Brigette Bardot, Natasha Kinksky,Penelope Cruz,Kiera Knightley .

Second Audrey. From stars my age, Gwyneth. Different, but both have found what works for them.

Vivien Leigh looked amazing. In GWTW she had such beauty and attitute.

Sophia Loren
Brigitte Bardot
Jane Birkin
Jane Asher (in the 60s)

Isabelle Huppert is a more modern actress who has much old fashioned glam about her.

Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde was luminous. Looks weird now, sadly

Audrey Tatou she is sophistication and beuty personified.

Audrey Hepburn. I love her.
She always looked utterly wonderful.
My wedding outfit was based on her but in ivory rather than black.

I recently saw a photo of Barbara Stanwyck who I think also has one of those starlet looks

Isabella Rosselini .

Audrey Hepburn. She was still amazingly beautiful in her 80s, too. Stunning woman.

Oh, oh, mine are all blondes - as am I, albeit the saggy and menopausal variety.

No, they're not all blondes! Elizabeth Taylor, Tippi Hedren and Uma Thurman absolutely mesmerise me.
The blondes:
Lauren Bacall - I tried to 'be' her for ages. She even looked great at 85.
Mae West - sex symbol, comic genius, feminist, engineer, physicist and charitable activist.
Another really bright, strong & influential beauty, Jane Fonda, also looking great at 70.
Brigitte Bardot and I loved the way her character showed up more as the beauty faded.
I think I'm in love with Michelle Pfeiffer ...
... or maybe Helen Hunt
... Jodie Foster
... or Patsy Kensit.
But apparently I remind people of Goldie Hawn. I think it's the comedy face!

the old hollywood actresses were totally in a different league to now, although i do think rachel mcadams is very pretty.

There's a programme on BBC4 tonight at 10pm looking at how the American film industry changed British culture in the 20s and 30sz

Predictable but Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly. Bit of trivia about Grace Kelly, she has the "geometrically perfect" face as her facial features match the golden ratio.

Ingrid Bergman/ Isabella Rosellini

Nastassia Kinski (who bears a striking resemblance to Ingrid Bergman and Isabella Rosellini)

More recently: Eva Green - Very enigmatic, those eyes.., Natalie Portman
Selma Blair - Not a great fan of her as an actress but she always manages to look good in anything, especially on the red carpet.

For different reasons, the stars/looks I appreciate the most are Audrey Hepburn, and Barbara Stanwyck. It wasn't just their looks, or sense of style, but the whole way they were as people - a whole presence. Both of them had a style of being that is intoxicating and lovable, though they are very different from each other. However, I also choose both of them for their style too. BS was crackling with physicality but also pulled together, feminine and authoritative too, and AH -what more can one say?

For sheer beautifulness - Ava Gardner, Sophia Lauren, Hedy Lamarr, Bridgitte Bardot. And the funny thing about Marilyn Monroe is that, when I look at her - I don't see exactly how it happens but she is just totally beautiful - but when you look at her features they are pretty but they are not super sculpted. It is not any one thing, but it all adds up to amazingness.

Can't think of a modern style favorite. I think the ladies of Bollywood seem to really be the modern equivalents for beauty of the old hollywood sirens.

I'm quite keen on Selena Gomez as an up-and-coming - she's beautiful but not overdone, and she has a fabulous smile.

Perhaps many of today's stars are too skinny? A lot of the olden-time stars were of course bigger, had a little more flesh on them (including their faces) which may be subconsciously more attractive? Just a thought. Except Audrey Hepburn of course - oops! bang goes that theory then!

Vivien Leigh for me - just stunning. You could grate carrots on those cheekbones.

Jane Russell as well - another brunette with chiselled features.

As for blondes, I agree - you just can't go past Marilyn. She is exquisite. And anyone that can wear fur and still look beautiful (i.e. not like a middle-aged New York dame) is just remarkable.

As for modern day beauties - very much agree with TantePiste and am surprised no-one has mentioned Aishwarya Rai - breathtakingly beautiful. I would give my right kidney to look like that.

I don't know about that necessarily, Thumbs - when you look at full length body shots of a lot of these women, they are so, so slim. As we all know, if you try to get into a (UK) size 10 dress from that era, you'll need to be a (UK) size 6 at the absolute most.

I realise a lot of women then wore corsets, but even so - their waists are tiny - much smaller than you'd come across now. Plus - look at that shot of Vivien Leigh that I posted. Look at the width of her shoulders and her upper arm. Very, very slim.

I mean, everyone goes on about how Marilyn was a size 16, but that's bollocks. She certainly wasn't a current, UK size 16. If anything, she would have been a US size 16, so a UK size 12, which in itself is absolutely no reflection of a size 12 from all those years ago - much more like a size 8.

They were just much more shapely - hourglass figures and tiny waists, accentuated by corsetry, but still very slim indeed. Although yes, I would perhaps agree that the hourglass figure is maybe subconsciously more attractive.

oo yes, she's rather lovely, isn't she? Aishwarya Raj, that is - fabulous eyes!

I think you may have overstated what I meant, tilly - I didn't mean they were plump, just that they had a little more flesh on their bones (and yes, hourglass figures helped) than the stick insects that some of the current stars are. Keira Knightley being an example - coathanger shoulders (or they would be if she ever held them straight!)

But essentially I agree with you - the hourglass figure is maybe more subconsciously attractive and it is apparently being lost, for whatever reason, and being replaced by the ironing board figure (with or without boobs!)

Current UK size 16 is huge in comparison with what it was back when I were a lass - back then, a size 12 waist was 26", so a 16 would have been a 30" waist. I currently have a 32" waist, and still fit into M&S size 12s!! but that's a whole other thread