"the 100 most alluring women in cinema"

[gh]

lotsa room for debate here from one of my favorite film critics

http://blog.sfgate.com/mlasalle/2011/12 ... ma/#2132-1

(his sexy dudes list is still under construction)

[jeremyp]

No Charlize Theron???? Sorry I'll have to come up with my own list........No frack it life's too short. As far as Marilyn Monroe there are three kinds of men, and I'm the 3d: she did nothing for me. Anne Francis? Please no!. Likeways for Scarlett Johanssen, the most over rated "beauty" of our age. I'd have to add: Sarah Wayne Callies (Walking Dead cutie pie); Julie Benz (Dexter's ex wife); Natalie Portman; Shelley Conn (wife in Terra Nova; also mistresses).

[lonewolf]

I agree with 90% of his list, including lot of foreign actresses i had not heard of.
I think an interesting list would be TV actresses, some of whom may not have been in cinema.

[Pego]

No Giuletta Masina, no Gina Lolobrigida, no Jean Moreau, no Capucine, no Bernadette Peters .

[dj]

Not too big on older films. He did include Hayworth, Gardner, Lamarr, Garbo and Dietrich.

But where are Carole Lombard, Lauren Bacall, Barbara Stanwyck, Claudette Colbert or Audrey Hepburn?

And no mention of the original "It Girl," Clara Bow? There was a reason she was given the moniker. Nor mention of Mae West?

[dj]

I agree with 90% of his list, including lot of foreign actresses i had not heard of.
I think an interesting list would be TV actresses, some of whom may not have been in cinema.

TV actresses? They all line up behind Diana Rigg!

[bad hammy]

For the distaff side: http://blog.sfgate.com/mlasalle/2011/12 ... in-cinema/

[Marlow]

Best-looking, head-to-toe, has to be Raquel Welch, but for most alluring, look no further than the original Bond Girl, Ursula Andress, once accurately described as the finest piece of Swiss architecture since the Alps.

http://mimg.ugo.com/201105/9/5/9/192959 ... ndress.jpg

For the distaff side

My mom couldn't pick between Butch and Sundance, but knew it was one of those two . . .

[Conor Dary]

Not too big on older films. He did include Hayworth, Gardner, Lamarr, Garbo and Dietrich.

But where are Carole Lombard, Lauren Bacall, Barbara Stanwyck, Claudette Colbert or Audrey Hepburn?

And no mention of the original "It Girl," Clara Bow? There was a reason she was given the moniker. Nor mention of Mae West?

Agreed, especially Carole Lombard, and what about Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright? Plus Julie Andrews, who even at 65 when I met her was still something....

And ditto on Diana Rigg. Those Avengers shows are a treat.

[Marlow]

And no mention of the original "It Girl," Clara Bow? There was a reason she was given the moniker.

Yes, she rose to fame in a movie called It.

[dj]

And no mention of the original "It Girl," Clara Bow? There was a reason she was given the moniker.

Yes, she rose to fame in a movie called It.

As Dorothy Parker wrote: "It, hell: she had those!"

[Per Andersen]

Catherine Deneuve
Julie Christie
Sophia Loren
Jeanne Moreau
Kim Novak
Angie Dickinson
Hedy Lamarr
Liz Taylor ( Cat on a hot Tin roof)
Jessica Lange (Postman always rings twice)

[tandfman]

Nobody has yet mentioned Karen Black, so I'll add her name to the lists.

[Marlow]

Nobody has yet mentioned Karen Black, so I'll add her name to the lists.

In the 'to-each-his-own' category, I always found her unappealing in the extreme. In the Redford version of Great Gatsby, she was miscast as Myrtle Wilson.

[catson52]

Catherine Deneuve
Julie Christie
Sophia Loren
Jeanne Moreau
Kim Novak
Angie Dickinson
Hedy Lamarr
Liz Taylor ( Cat on a hot Tin roof)
Jessica Lange (Postman always rings twice)

Great list, Per.

[dj]

Angie Dickinson

I happened to watch "Rio Bravo" over the T'giving weekend. It was the first time seeing it since 1970.

I was amazed at how bad Angie Dickinson was as an actress at the time. Very wooden, and almost every mannerism was a direct steal from Lauren Bacall in "To Have and Have Not."

[kuha]

One more vote for Lauren Bacall: in her prime, she was the smartest, toughest, and sexiest of all.

[Master Po]

Catherine Deneuve
Julie Christie
Sophia Loren
Jeanne Moreau
Kim Novak
Angie Dickinson
Hedy Lamarr
Liz Taylor ( Cat on a hot Tin roof)
Jessica Lange (Postman always rings twice)

Could not agree more w the top 2 names on the list, Per. And add to it kuha's mention of Lauren Bacall.

Cannot seem to think clearly enough on this subject to create a list of my own...too much allure from too many sources, I guess.

[jeremyp]

Nobody has yet mentioned Karen Black, so I'll add her name to the lists.

Crossed eyes don't too much for me. Or where they just too close together?

[jeremyp]

One more vote for Lauren Bacall: in her prime, she was the smartest, toughest, and sexiest of all.

And she knew how to.....whistle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MheNUWyROv8

[tandfman]

Catherine Deneuve
Julie Christie
Sophia Loren
Jeanne Moreau
Kim Novak
Angie Dickinson
Hedy Lamarr
Liz Taylor ( Cat on a hot Tin roof)
Jessica Lange (Postman always rings twice)

No Scandinavians on your list? Interesting.

I can't imagine a top 10 list of most alluring women in cinema without Ingrid Bergman.

[gh]

yeah, my top 10 list has Bergman in places 1-11. (Curtiz's use of soft lighting in Casablanca was cheating, sure, but nobody ever looked greater than her in the attempted-reconciliation scene in Rick's office.)

[bambam]

Catherine Deneuve
Julie Christie
Sophia Loren
Jeanne Moreau
Kim Novak
Angie Dickinson
Hedy Lamarr
Liz Taylor ( Cat on a hot Tin roof)
Jessica Lange (Postman always rings twice)

With the New Year upon us, I might give Per post-of-the-year for this list. But I would start it with Kim Novak.