Meet the 35 most beautiful women on screen
of all time. From Grace Kelly and Julia Roberts to Angelina Jolie, see
the actresses who’ve influenced Hollywood then and now. You can follow
the time line and see how the general taste and the idea of woman beauty
changed through time. Still some things are timeless like elegance,
grace, glossy lips and feminine expressive eyes. My absolute favorites
are the actresses from the 1950s, the so called classics and icons of
feminine beauty on screen. Do you agree with this list or do you have
some favorites of your own?
1930
1. Jean Harlow
Jean Harlow
(March 3, 1911 – June 7, 1937) was an American film actress and sex
symbol of the 1930s. Known as the “Blonde Bombshell” and the “Platinum
Blonde” (due to her platinum blonde hair), Harlow was ranked as one of
the greatest movie stars of all time by the American Film Institute.
Harlow starred in several films, mainly designed to showcase her
magnetic sex appeal and strong screen presence, before making the
transition to more developed roles and achieving massive fame under
contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Harlow’s enormous popularity and
“laughing vamp” image were in distinct contrast to her personal life,
which was marred by disappointment, tragedy, and ultimately her sudden
death from renal failure at age 26.
1940s
2. Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacall
(born Betty Joan Perske, September 16, 1924) is an American film and
stage actress and model, known for her distinctive husky voice and
sultry looks. She first emerged as leading lady in the film noir genre,
including appearances in The Big Sleep (1946) and Dark Passage (1947),
as well as a comedienne in How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) and
Designing Woman (1957). Bacall has also worked in the Broadway musical,
gaining Tony Awards for Applause in 1970 and Woman of the Year in 1981.
Her performance in the movie The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) earned her a
Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination. In 1999, Bacall was
ranked #20 of the 25 actresses on the AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Stars list
by the American Film Institute. In 2009, she was selected by the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to receive an Academy Honorary
Award at the inaugural Governors Awards.
1950s
3. Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren,
(born Sofia Villani Scicolone; 20 September 1934) is an Italian
actress. In 1962, Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her
role in Two Women, along with 21 awards, becoming the first actress to
win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance. Loren has
won 50 international awards, including an Oscar, seven Golden Globe
Awards, a Grammy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Laurel Award. Her other
films include: Houseboat (1958), El Cid (1961), Yesterday, Today and
Tomorrow (1963), Marriage Italian Style (1964), A Special Day (1977).
She has received critical and commercial success in movies for home
box-office such as Courage (1986) and in American blockbusters such as
Grumpier Old Men (1995), and Nine (2009). In 1994 she starred in Robert
Altman’s Ready to Wear, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination in
1995. The same year she received the Cecil B. de Mille award for
lifetime achievements.
4. Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe
(born Norma Jeane Mortenson but baptized and raised as Norma Jeane
Baker; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress, singer
and model. Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film
contract in 1946. Her early film appearances were minor, but her
performances in The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve (both 1950) were
well received. By 1953, Monroe had progressed to leading roles. Her
“dumb blonde” persona was used to comedic effect in such films as
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) and
The Seven Year Itch (1955). Limited by typecasting, Monroe studied at
the Actors Studio to broaden her range, and her dramatic performance in
Bus Stop (1956) was hailed by critics, and she received a Golden Globe
nomination.
The final years of Monroe’s life were
marked by illness, personal problems, and a reputation for being
unreliable and difficult to work with. The circumstances of her death,
from an overdose of barbiturates, have been the subject of conjecture.
Though officially classified as a “probable suicide”, the possibility of
an accidental overdose, as well as the possibility of homicide, have
not been ruled out. In 1999, Monroe was ranked as the sixth greatest
female star of all time by the American Film Institute. In the years and
decades following her death, Monroe has often been cited as a pop and
cultural icon as well as an eminent American sex symbol.
5. Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond “Liz” Taylor,
DBE (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a British-American
actress. From her early years as a child star with MGM, she became one
of the great screen actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age. As one of the
world’s most famous film stars, Taylor was recognized for her acting
ability and for her glamorous lifestyle, beauty and distinctive violet
eyes.
6. Grace Kelly
Grace Patricia Kelly
(November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) was an American actress who,
in April 1956, married Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, to become Princess
consort of Monaco, styled as Her Serene Highness The Princess of
Monaco, and commonly referred to as Princess Grace.
7. Dorothy Dandridge
Dorothy Jean Dandridge
(November 9, 1922 – September 8, 1965) was an American actress and
popular singer, and was the first African American to be nominated for
an Academy Award for Best Actress.
1960s
8. Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn
(born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a
British actress and humanitarian. Although modest about her acting
ability, Hepburn remains one of the world’s most famous actresses of all
time, remembered as a film and fashion icon of the twentieth century.
Redefining glamour with “elfin” features and a waif-like figure that
inspired designs by Hubert de Givenchy, she was inducted in the
International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame, and ranked, by the
American Film Institute, as the third greatest female screen legend in
the history of American cinema.
9. Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda
(born Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda; December 21, 1937) is an American
actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness
guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and
Cat Ballou. She has won two Academy Awards and received several other
movie awards and nominations during more than 50 years as an actress.
After 15 years of retirement she returned to film in 2005 with Monster
in Law, followed by Georgia Rule two years later. She also produced and
starred in over 20 exercise videos released between 1982 and 1995, and
once again in 2010.
10. Raquel Welch
1970s
11. Farrah Fawcett
12. Diana Ross
Diana Ernestine Earle Ross
(born March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress. Ross was lead
singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving
the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful
ventures into film and Broadway. She received a Best Actress Academy
Award nomination for her role as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues
(1972), for which she won a Golden Globe award. She won several American
Music Awards, garnered twelve Grammy Award nominations, and won a Tony
Award for her one-woman show, An Evening with Diana Ross, in 1977.
13. Faye Dunaway
14. Pam Grier
Pamela Suzette “Pam” Grier
(born May 26, 1949) is an American actress. She became famous in the
early 1970s, after starring in a string of moderately successful women
in prison and blaxploitation films such as 1974′s Foxy Brown. Her career
was revitalized in 1997 after her appearance in Quentin Tarantino’s
film Jackie Brown. She is one of a few African-American actresses to
receive a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress.
15. Ali Macgraw
16. Cybill Shepherd
Cybill Lynne Shepherd
(born February 18, 1950) is an American actress, singer and former
model. Her best known roles include starring as Jacy in The Last Picture
Show, as Betsy in Taxi Driver, as Madeleine Spencer in Psych, as Maddie
Hayes on Moonlighting, as Cybill Sheridan on Cybill, and as Phyllis
Kroll on The L Word.
17. Lauren Hutton
Lauren Hutton
(born November 17, 1943) is an American model and actress. She is
best-known for her starring roles in the movies American Gigolo and
Lassiter, and also for her fashion modeling career.
1980s
18. Michelle Pfeiffer
Michelle Marie Pfeiffer
(born April 29, 1958) is an American actress. She made her film debut
in 1980 in The Hollywood Knights, but first garnered mainstream
attention with her performance in Brian De Palma’s Scarface (1983).
Pfeiffer has won numerous awards for her work. She received six
consecutive Golden Globe Award nominations, winning the Best Actress in a
Motion Picture Drama award in 1990 for The Fabulous Baker Boys.
19. Brooke Shields
Brooke Christa Shields
(born May 31, 1965) is an American actress, author and model. Some of
her better-known movies include Pretty Baby and The Blue Lagoon, as well
as TV shows such as Suddenly Susan, That ’70s Show and Lipstick Jungle.
20. Kim Basinger
1990s
21. Meg Ryan
22. Julia Roberts
23. Demi Moore
24. Nicole Kidman
25. Winona Ryder
26. Cameron Diaz
27. Michelle Yeoh
28. Gwyneth Paltrow
2000s
29. Halle Berry
30. Jennifer Lopez
31. Drew Barrymore
32. Penelope Cruz
33. Charlize Theron
34. Angelina Jolie
35. Natalie Portman
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