Celebrities and their discount counterpart

Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield

"Discount counterpart" ?

You mean cheap version?

Barbra Streisand and Bette Midler

Michelle Pfeiffer and Jessica Lange

Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Collins

Bea Arthur and Elaine Stritch.

Clark Gable / James Craig

Craig was tall, robust and drop dead gorgeous. He did stints at various studios and on Broadway during the 1930s. By the early 40s he was a contract player at MGM and ended up starring in a few films that had been intended for Gable after Gable went off to war. Tobacco and alcohol took an eventual toll on his looks and life and he ended up a king of the B list. Lots of TV in the 50s and 60s.

Lauren Bacall and Kathleen Turner

No, you're NOT the new me, forfuckssake!

Me and Ted Cruz

Jacqueline Kennedy & her bargain basement counterpart Melania.

Me & JLo

Jodie Foster -> Helen Hunt

Sophia Loren -> Gina Lolobrigida

Madonna and Kylie

Carey Mulligan --> Felicity Jones --> Claire Foy (this one is a bargain basement)

Me and G (the type of discount that's been discounted so many times it's shop soiled, decades old and no one wants it)

Emma Stone vs Lindsay Lohan

Yoko Ono and May Pang

Angela Lansbury and Bea Arthur

Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel

Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope

I love Vivica Fox, but I think she said herself that she's the discount version of Angela Bassett.

Giovanni Boccaccio and Geoffrey Chaucer

William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson

R11 - I am sorry but Gina was a far more beautiful woman.

Helen Kane and Mae Questel

The Chastain, Lange, Kylie and Arthur comments don't make any sense

[quote] Angela Lansbury and Bea Arthur

You misspelled "Julie Andrews" there at the end.

R23 - but Gina was a far inferior actress.

I just know Disney asked Jessica Chastain for [italic]Unpete's Undragon[/italic] first before they settled for Opie, Jr.

[Quote] [R11] - I am sorry but Gina was a far more beautiful woman

And she knew it too. "I am like a peacock, to the crow that is Sophia", she said, more or less.

Vivian Vance and Gale Gordon (in relation to Lucille Ball)

Betty Grable and June Haver

Gene Kelly and Dan Dailey

Fred Astaire and George Murphy

Liz Taylor / Natalie Wood.

Deb Messing is the clearance bin of Lucille Ball.

Teri Garr->Lisa Kudrow

Tom Hardy and Logan-Marshall Green.

Rock Hudson and John Gavin

Michael Jackson - Bruno Mars

Madonna - Lady Gaga

Missy Elliot - Cardi B

Renée Zellweger --> Joey Lauren Adams or Malin Akerman

Jennifer Aniston --> Kaley Cuoco

Richard Nixon and Donny Two Scoops.

Jayne Mansfield and Liz Renay

Jayne Mansfield and Mamie Van Doren.

Renay is the bargain basement Mamie.

OP, Adams and Chastain are pretty much at the same level.

R41: Adams is infinitely more likeable and talented than Chastain.

Jayne Mansfield and Loni Anderson already look cheap, IMO. I can't imagine any woman being a cheap knock-off of either.

Timothee Chalamet - Tom Holland

Me > Jennifer Lawrence. I inherited her career.

Julia Roberts = Sandra Bullock

Renee Zellweger and Jennifer Lawrence look very much alike to me, but I don't know who is the discount counterpart.

Kim Carnes > Bonnie Tyler

Ava Gardener ------- Yvonne DeCarlo

Spencer Tracey ------ Wilford Brimley

Montgomery Clift ------ James Dean

Marilyn Monroe > Diana Dors, Cleo Moore, Sheree North, Jayne Mansfield, Mamie Van Doren, Barbara Nichols, Barbara Lang, Kathleen Hughes. . .

Early in their careers, Jon Cryer was who you hired when Matthew Broderick wasn't available.

Alexander Skarsgård > Teddy Sears

Wallis Simpson and Meghan Markle.

Abel and Cain.

Honey Boo Boo > JonBenet Ramsey

I think that Isla Fisher is Amy Adams' cheap discount counterpart, not Jessica Chastain.

Jessica Chastain's cheap discount counterpart is Bryce Dallas Howard.

Gene Kelly > Gene Nelson

Tom Hardy/Logan Marshall-Greene

Lola Falana/Leslie Uggams can't come close to the late Diahann Carroll

In another time:

John Travolta >> Richard Gere

And Richard was more than thrilled to oblige and step into Kohn’s rejected roles.

Jane Levy is the discount Emma Stone. But as discounts go, she's a pretty good deal.

Haley Bennett is the discount Jennifer Lawrence. They could easily play sisters.

Brad Pitt >> Mcbongo, didn't some Oscars host crack a mean joke about this?

Eleanor Powell - Ruby Keeler

Henry Fielding - Jane Austen

Johannes Brahms - Max Bruch

Maria Callas - Renata Scotto

Susan Hayward > Helen Lawson

Lola Heatherton > Joey Heatherton

Ilene Graff > Alley Mills

Chita Rivera -Rita Moreno

Is that you, Chita?

Rosie O'Donnell -----> Lea DeLaria

Ellen Degeneres -----> Paula Poundstone

Beyoncé ------> Solange

Bruce Willis -------> Mickey Rourke

Holy hit, Jane Levy looks exactly like Emma Stone. It must suck to be an actor and have another actor who looks just like you become a huge star. You just know your career is doomed after that.

In this vein, Tom Hiddleston and his lesser known doppelganger, J. J. Feild. Also, Benedict Cumberbatch and his less successful counterpart, James D'Arcy.

Kim Novak-Stella Stevens

Dollar Tree Babs, aka Julie Budd.

Spencer Tracy - James Whitmore

Audrey Hepburn - Maggie McNamara

Ellen Burstyn - Louise Fletcher

Elizabeth Taylor - Jean Simmons

Woody Allen - Austin Pendleton

Leslie Caron was the discount Audrey Hepburn

And Joan Collins was the discount Elizabeth Taylor, R73.

In his misspent youth, Warren Beatty was engaged to both Caron and Collins.

Judy Garland-Liza Minnelli

Liza Minnelli-Lorna Luft

Barbra Streisand - Lana Cantrell

Tom Jones - Englebert Humperdink

Green Day - Blink-182

C&C Music Factory - Technotronic

Richard Pryor- Eddie Murphy

[quote]R43 Jayne Mansfield and Loni Anderson already look cheap, IMO. I can't imagine any woman being a cheap knock-off of either.

It can get even cheaper.

How about Loni AS Jayne?

Natalie Portman / Keira Knightley

Keira is more like the discount Helena Bonham Carter

Jodie Foster / Hilary Swank.

Charlton Heston and James Franciscus

Charlize Theron - Katherine Heigl

Kate Bush / Björk

David Niven was the poor man's Cary Grant (though I like him)

Richard Greene was the poor man's Tyrone Power

Meryl - Glenn

Jessica Lange - Caitlyn Jenner

Marty Feldman - Rami Malek

Daniel Day Lewis - Mark Rylance

Dustin Hoffman - Timotay Chalomay

Jane Fonda - Rose McGowan

Joni Mitchell > All female singer-songwriters after her, other than possibly Carole King

Gabourey Sidibe - Chrissy Metz

More like Gabourey Sidibe - Lady Rerun

Alfred Hitchcock / Brian De Palma

Spencer Tracy/James Whitmore

Ernest Borgnine/Kirstie Alley

Peggie Castle was considered the poor man's Rita Hayworth at one point

Anna Sten was the poor man's Marlene Dietrich

Vampira/Elvira

Jerry Goldsmith/Leonard Rosenman

R21, Chaucer transformed the English literature of the day! He is nobody's cut-rate counterpart!

I've read both Boccaccio and Chaucer, and I get what you're implying. But Chaucer, though he was intentionally influenced by the language, structure, and style of The Decameron, did not slavishly imitate; rather, he focused on his observations of the breadth of English society.

Mario Cuomo > Andrew and Chris.

Nichols and May > Stiller and Meara.

D.C. > Marvel.

American Idol > The Voice.

Sean Connery > The Rest.

Jack Lord > Alex O'Laughlin.

Miss Marple > Jessica Fletcher.

Gene Krupa > Buddy Rich > Keith Moon.

Friends—> How I met your mother

Freddie Mercury > Adam Lambert

r96 I did it first, I did it better, and I saw it through until the last tale.

R98 Inspired by "Friends", "Coupling" from BBC is better than "Friends", then NBC tried to remake "Coupling" on NBC, it turned out to be shit.

Renée Zellweger - Ellen Pompeo

In several of these cases the general public prefers the discount brand over the name brand!

Khloe Kardashian - Trisha Paytas

Anne Hathaway - Lacey Chabert

Pam Anderson - Julie Strain

Jenilee Harrison——> dl icon/whipping-post Suzanne.

Farah Fawcett....Cheryl Ladd

Phil Donahe/Oprah....Rolanda Watts...

Ricki Lake...Carni Wilson...Tempest Bledsoe..

Geraldo Rivera...Jerry Springer...Maury Povitch...

Sally Jesse Raphael...Jenny Jones...Marilu Henner..

There were so many talk shows amd each was a worse carbon copy of the next one.

Dick York..Dick Sargent

Aunt Clara (Marion Lorne)....Esmeralda (Alice Ghostley)

Samantha...Jenie

[quote]Samantha...Jenie

Oh, dear!

Janet Jackson/LaToya Jackson

Doris Day-Dorothy Provine

Faye Dunaway-Cornelia Sharpe

Grace Kelly-Tippi Hedren

Joan Blondell-Ann Southern

Billie Holiday - Ella Fitzgerald

Frank Sinatra - Michael Buble

Morticia Addams - Lily Munster

Stiller and Meara > Renée Taylor and Joseph Bologna

Teri Garr > Lisa Kudrow

Lindsay Lohan > Jennifer Lawrence

Lindsay Lohan > Jennifer Lawrence- Bwahhahahhahahhahaha. Sure Lindz

Helen Hunt > Leelee Sobieski

Martin Luther King > Obama

Glenda Jackson > Judi Dench (pre-Bond/Weinstein)

Hitler - Mussolini

Trump is the discount Nixon

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band

Vanity - Apollonia

Madonna ca. 1985 - Regina

U2 - Big Country

The Beatles - Oasis

Beatles - Beach Boys

Kate Bush - Tori Amos

Lily Collins is the discount Pia Zadora

Kate Bush - All other rock chicks

Samuel L. Jackson and Avery Brooks

Chiwetel Ejiofor and David Oyolewo

Margot Robbie and Jaime Pressley.

Help me out DLers. Is Cardi B the discount Nicki Minaj, or vice versa?

Rosalind Russell and Eve Arden

Japan > Duran Duran

The resemblance between Margot and Jamie is really uncanny.

Leonardo DiCaprio - Michael Pitt

Lucille Ball and Joan Davis

Me and Ted Cruz

OP here.

Margo Martindale --> Ann Dowd

Alanis Morisette > Meredith Brooks > Avril Levine

Thelma Ritter-Nancy Walker

Brad Pitt --- Chris Pine

Nicole Kidman > Naomi Watts

Sean Hannity - Jesse Watters

Jodie Foster > Hilary Swank

Amy Adams are nothing alike, except that they’re both actresses.

If this is about lookalikes, then CNN’s Erin Burnett is the economy version of Amy Adams. Those two could be twins.

Morticia Adams ——- Lily Munster

Wow, the poster who mentioned JJ Feild is right about the resmemblance to Tom Hiddleston. He looks like the love child of Hiddleston and Jude Law.

Billie Eilish —— Elliot Sumner (spawn of Sting)

Shailene Woodley —— Sophie Turner

Jennifer Lawrence > Shailene Rodgers

Esther Rolle and Tyler Perry

In terms of acting or bearding, R145?

Mick Jagger: Steven Tyler.

Elizabeth Montgomery (as Samantha): Barbara Eden (as Genie).

Romola Garai —— Ludivine Saignier

Divine and Christina Aguilera

Cindy Crawford ——Niki Taylor

Roger Taylor (Queen) ——— Benjamin Orr

Jamey Sheridan and Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey)

Although other blondes copied from Marilyn Monroe, she wasn't exactly an original herself. Marilyn was a bootleg copy of Betty Grable, Jean Harlow and Mae West. Mae West started the whole archetype of The Blonde Bombshell.

Shailene Woodley is the bargain basement Jennifer Lawrence

Orlando Bloom > Rupert Friend (both are hot, though)

Julia Roberts -> (a 10-15% discount) Meg Ryan ------------> Claire Forlani ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> Monica Potter

Reese Witherspoon -> Kate Hudson --------------------> Katherine Heigl

Salma Hayek -> Eva Longoria -----> America Ferrera ------------> Gina Rodriguez

Op.

Its not being alike, it's basically doing the same, but in a discount way, thing.

R159 isn't it more like Roberts > Ryan > Bullock at their peak?

John Ritter - Jim Carrey (Jim stole his over animated facial expressions and wacky physical comedy).

Martha Stewart-Rachel Ray

James Dean-Michael Parks

Barbara Eden-EJ Peaker

Johnny Depp and Skeet Ulrich

Adam Sandler-Andy Samberg

Jonah Hill-Seth Rogen

Chris Farley - John Belushi

Walker Evans - Robert Frank

Jay-Z > Kanye

Joan Rivers > Chelsea Handler

R100, Backwards and in high heels!

Matthew Perry > Tyler Hynes.

Le Sentatrice > Matt Gaytz

Naomi Campbell - Tyra Banks

Alexandra Isles/Betsy Durkin

Mitch Ryan/Anthony George

Susan Sontag/Camille Paglia

Or alternatively, Harold Bloom/Camille Paglia

Bette Davis -- Ida Lupino

Grrer Garson -- Deborah Kerr

Judy Garland -- June Allyson

John Garfield -- Dane Clark