Film where an actor/actress looked at their best.

Elizabeth Taylor in A Place in the Sun

Vivien Leigh, That Hamilton Woman

Post examples with pictures or videos please. Thanks.

Barbra Streisand, What's Up, Doc?

Madonna, Desperately Seeking Susan

Cher, Moonstruck

Meryl Streep, Manhattan

Jessica Lange, King Kong

Natalie Wood, Sex and the Single Girl

Diana Ross, Mahogany

Vivien in That Hamilton Woman

Joan Crawford, in Sadie McKee Bette Davis, in Now Voyager

Albert Finney in "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"

Brad Pitt in Seven Years in Tibet

KIm Bassinger - LA Confidential

James Spader -- Sex Lies and Videotape

Jeff Bridges - Against All Odds

Namoi Watts - The Ring.

Lindsay Crouse - Slap Shot

Glenn in Albert Nobbs.

Tommy Lee Jones - The Betsy

Just watched "Moulin Rouge!" again last night and forgot how stunning Nicole Kidman was.

Jane Greer, Out of the Past

Marilyn Monroe in “Niagara”

Jude Law and possibly Gwyneth Paltrow in The Talented Mr. Ripley

I think Judy looks better in Presenting Lily Mars than in St. Louis, and I wouldn't say this anywhere else but DL, but I think she looks really lovely in the tropical number in Zeigfeld Girl where everyone is in Max Factor "Light Egyptian."

Joel edgerton in Warrior

Angeline in Mr and Mrs Smith?

David Naughton in that film about a werewolf.

Mel Gibson in Gallipoli

R22 Angelina AND Brad in Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

Brad in white boxers was the sexypot. Were they Calvins?

Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys.

Tommy Lee Jones in "Coal Miner's Daughter." Hubba. Hubba.

Beverly D'Angelo in "Sweet Dreams."

Not that James Garner ever looked bad, but Holy Moley!, he was gorgeous in "The Americanization of Emily."

R11 Perfect choice. Jeff Bridges was so fucking sexy in that.

Steve McQueen in “The Great Escape.”

In my all-male prep school in the mid-60’s, a lot of guys had posters of him from this on their walls. Big man-crush.

[quote] Beverly D'Angelo in "Sweet Dreams."

Oh, dear. The Lange Loon will retaliate.

Gene Tierney, Leave Her To Heaven

My favorite movie!

Brando in STREETCAR, of course.

Sharon and Arnold in “Total Recall”

Jessica Lange in Tootsie

Keanu. Point Break. Troppo bello.

Alexander Skarsgard

Face - True Blood

Body - The Legend of Tarzan

[quote]Marilyn Monroe in “Niagara”

I'd choose "How to Marry a Millionaire."

Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor in "A Place In The Sun"

Judy Garland in "Meet Me In ST. Louis"

Charlton Heston in "Ben Hur"

Paul Neman in "Cool Hand Luke"

Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey in "Romeo and Juliet"

Marilyn Monroe in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"

Lana Turner in "The Postman Always Rings Twice"

Ralph Fiennes in "The English Patient"

Debra Winger and Theresa Russell in "Black Widow" (1987).

Faye Dunaway, Puzzle of a Downfall Child

What a salve after hearing Frank Sinatra’s disgusting “hang a shining star…” bullshit all holiday season. Air out my musty caftan, Judy!

Ryan P in Cruel Intentions.

DiCaprio in Romeo.

Tilda Swinton in "Edward II"

Jarman was able to capture her essence on multiple occasions, but this film is my favorite. She is a ruthless beauty here.

Mel Gibson

Leonardo DiCaprio in The Departed

James Spader in Supernova.

Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury in Mississippi Masala

I prefer Brando in The Men because he is younger and there are lot of scenes with him working out.

Sidney Poitier and Diahann Carroll in Paris Blues

Jon Seda in I Like It Like That

Joaquin Phoenix in Walk the Line

Amy Adams in American Hustle

Lela Rochon in Waiting to Exhale

G in Hillbilly Elegy

Joan Crawford in Humoresque

Kathleen Turner in Body Heat. Jude Law in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

Julie Christie in Darling.

Monty and Liz in Place in the Sun

Robert Redford in “The Way We Were”

Christian Bale in American Psycho

Jane Fonda in “Barbarella”

Rita Hayworth as “Gilda”

Warren Beatty in Splendor in the Grass

Warren Beatty and Natalie Wood in Splendor in the Grass

Newman and Redford in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”

Queen Bette in Now Voyager

Lots of makeup

R63 Good one

Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung - In the Mood for Love

Richard Gere and Julia Roberts in “Pretty Women”

Elizabeth Taylor in Giant

Gene tierney. The ghost and mrs Muir

Peter O’Toole “Lawrence of Arabia” -1962

Martin Sheen in Badlands

Dyan Cannon and Natalie Wood -“Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice”

Faye Dunaway, Thomas Crown Affair, chess scene.

Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn in “The Philadelphia Story”

Grace Kelly “High Society” -1956

Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo “Thomas Crown Affair”

Conflicted Merle Oberon in Wuthering Heights.

Sophia Loren “Arabesque” -1966

Audrey Hepburn “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”

Alain Delon in Purple Noon

Kevin Costner “No Way Out”

[Quote] Barbra Streisand, What's Up, Doc?

Now there's a cunty post if ever there was one. Well done!

Kate Winslet in Titanic

Joseph Gordon Levitt in (500) Days of Summer

Sean Connery “Goldfinger”-1965

Sorry that link didn’t work. Here’s Sean in “Goldfinger”

Michelle Pfeiffer in “Married to the Mob.”

Daniel Day Lewis in Last of the Mohicans

Ava Gardner “Showboat”

Johnny Depp “Chocolat”

Dame Flora Robson, "Fire Over England"

Denzel Washington in Devil in a Blue Dress

Barbra Streisand, What's up, Doc?

Shelley Winters in A Double Life

Ryan and Ali “Love Story”

Jessica, "How To Beat the High Cost of Living"

Christopher Reeve - Superman II

Brad Pitt - Legends of the Fall

Charlton Heston - Ben Hur

Yeah, Kevin Costner was really good-looking in the '90s. People forget. I saw him once, in person. He was handsome and had a nice, polite demeanor.

Gabriel Byrne - Miller's Crossing

Gregg Kinear playing the gay neighbor in "As Good As It Gets"

Maureen O’Hara, “Miracle on 34th Street”

M in Into the Woods

Brooke Shields "Endless Love" (1981)

Ingrid Bergman, Casablanca

Bo Derek "Tarzan: The Ape Man" (1981)

A recent one:

Helena Bonham Carter as Elizabeth Taylor circa 1980s

Hart Bochner in Apartment Zero, of course.

Robert Redford, The Twilight Zone.

Margot Kidder in Sisters.

Both Mel and Sigourney in The Year of Living Dangerously.

Robert De Niro in Meet the Fockers.

Tom Hardy in Band of Brothers (though that's a miniseries)

Wendy Hughes, Newsfront. (At 1:37:18).

[quote]Yeah, Kevin Costner was really good-looking in the '90s. People forget. I saw him once, in person. He was handsome and had a nice, polite demeanor.

Incidentally, the name 'Kevin' became popular in Germany throughout the '90s because of Kevin Costner's popularity (he was one of the biggest movie stars at the time) and the behemoth success of the HOME ALONE movies. Lots of '90s German babies named Kevin.

Glad to hear he was a decent man in the apex of his career.

Joaquin Phoenix in QUILLS

(Kickstarted my priest fetish as a teen 😂)

Faye Dunaway in BONNIE AND CLYDE

Cary Grant in North by Northwest. Nobody ever looked better in a suit, even standing in an Indiana cornfield.

Paul Newman in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof....

And his character was gay!

I take it back! BOTH Joaquin Phoenix and Kate Winslet in QUILLS.

The following video does a great job of showcasing their beauty in this film.

Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu

Russell Crowe, Gladiator

Winona Ryder, Heathers.

Jane Fonda and Robert Redford in Barefoot In The Park.

Richard Gere on American Gigolo- or any movie! (Honestly tried to post but it didn't take..sorry!)

Jake's butt was at its peak in Jarhead!

I remember that JARHEAD and BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN both came out at the end of 2005, within a month of each other. Both films had Oscar buzz. Needless to say, Jake Gyllenhaal was a hot topic of conversation in these here parts during that time.

Madonna in Desperately Seeking Susan, she was cute back then.

Demi and Patrick in “Ghost”

Demi was very pretty in Ghost. Patrick's best was Dirty Dancing.

Elizabeth Taylor - Elephant Walk

Grace Kelly - Rear Window

Audrey Hepburn - Funny Face

Rupert Everett in THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS (1990)

Joan Crawford- The Bride Wore Red Bette Davis - Ex Lady (1933) - love her blonde Mel Gibson - Mrs. Soffel James Spader - Pretty in Pink James Dean - Giant (finally, a film where he doesn't cry or whine!) Judy Garland - The Harvey Girls Babs - Funny Girl Natalie Wood - This Property is Condemned La Liz- Butterfield 8 Clark Gable - Dancing Lady (Joan looks great here too) Paul Newman- Cool Hand Luke Burt Reynolds - Deliverance (he was never hotter!) Cary Grant- The Bishop's Wife Audrey Hepburn- Two for the Road

I had such a crush on Colin Firth in Another Country

Charlize Theron - all of them except Monster.

Handsome young Robin Williams in The World According to Garp.

R124: I think Russell was hotter in L.A. Confidential. A beefy guy in a wifebeater – YUM!

Hugh Grant in Notting Hll

George Peppard - Breakfast At Tiffany's

Liz Taylor - Butterfield 8

Warren Beatty - Splendor In The Grass

Robert Redford - The Way We Were

Catherine Deneuve - The Hunger

I wanted to have a threesome with Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator!!!

Julie Christie

Goldie Hawn

Warren Beatty

Shampoo

Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Liaisons.

Robert Downey Jr. in Weird Science.

John Wayne in The Big Trail.

It’s hard to compete with Jean Harlow in dinner at eight. She had the full range of 1930s MGM behind her, including Adrian doing costumes and George Cukor directing her.

Gary Cooper and Clara Bow In Children of Divorce

Joan Crawford in Grand Hotel

R138 their hair looks so '80s. LOL! Doesn't it take place in the '30s? Their hair should be pomaded, combed and parted to the side.

R132. Agree

Ryan Gosling in CSL

Ward Bond in "Gentleman Jim" (1942).

Cary Elwes and Robin Wright in The Princess Bride.

James McAvoy in Atonement.

Keira Knightley in the first Pirates movie. She was still young enough to pull off the extreme thinness without looking gaunt in the face.

Cumberbatch in the Star Trek movie he did. The movie was shit, but he looked great.

Charlize Theron with her real nose I'm 2 Days In The Valley.

James Spader is an added bonus

Theron with her original nose looks like a blonde Angelina Jolie with HER real nose.

Barbara Stanwyck, THE LADY EVE.

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This was the picture

Minnelli made Judy look so good in Meet Me in St. Louis that she fell in love with him despite the fact that he was obviously a screaming queen (or perhaps that was part of the attraction given her history with Daddy Gumm).

That said, she did photograph better in black and white. Her natural coloring was nice, so it's not clear why she looked better in B/W, but she did.

Harrison Ford in professor drag in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK…

Meet Me in St. Louis wasn't in black and white.

Yes, I noted that in my post. She looked good in MMiSL but in general, she looked her best in B/W.

Kate Hepburn in THE PHILADELPHIA STORY. Thanks to Adrian and Sidney Guilaroff.

[quote]Her natural coloring was nice, so it's not clear why she looked better in B/W, but she did.

I think everyone looks better in black & white, R164.

Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature “Samson and Delilah “

R158: ITA. Orlando Bloom was beautiful in the first POC also.

The "girls" in 'To Wong Foo...'

Sarah Jessica Parker in Black Beauty. Stunning with a black mane.

R49 huh? Brando was literally one year older in Streetcar than he was in The Men...and his character in the men a whiny paraplegic...Kowalski is quite literally the sexiest male role created.

If anything I would nominate as a close second Brando in One eyed Jacks

Sophie Marceau in Braveheart

Tyrone Power in "Second Honeymoon"

Ava Gardner in "The Little Hut"

Susan Sarandon Bull Durham

Ethan Hawke in Gattaca.

Lad the Collie and Roddy McDowell in Lassie Come Home!

Clint Eastwood “Paint Your Wagon” -1969

No wonder Jean Seberg fucked the daylights out of Eastwood when they did Paint Your Wagon together. She was nuts but she wasn't stupid.

Inger Stevens had a piece of Clint while making "Hang 'Em High."

Jessica Lange in Blue Sky

Lauren Bacall in The Big Sleep.

I think most would say "To Have and Have Not" but she seems on surer footing here in terms of owning "the look".

Another vote for Joan in Grand Hotel and my vote for the most glamorous film publicity still ever created.

Kim Rossi Stuart / The Keys to the House (2004)

IMO Demi Moore looked her best in About Last Night. Also, excellent use of 80s Big Hair to be actually flattering without looking like a caricature.

Admittedly I haven’t seen many CZJ movies but thought she was stunning in Intolerable Cruelty.

Joanne Woodward in FROM THE TERRACE.

CZJ in just about anything late 90's /early 00's. She was gorgeous in Entrapment with Sean Connery as well

Why does CZJ look so swarthy and exotic for a Welsh?

She's black Irish on her mother's side.

CZJ was absolutely breathtaking in "The Mask Zorro." I remember when she first showed up on the big screen, their were audible gasps from the audience.

/there

Sean Connery in "Marnie"

Better Davis in "Dark Victory"

Rita Hayworth in "Cover Girl"

Cary Grant in "The Awful Truth"

Diana Rigg as Emma Peel in "The Avengers"

Meant to say Pal, not Lad, in Lassie Come Home!

Richard Gere in "Days of Heaven." I couldn't take my eyes off him.

Guy Madison was always a beautiful man, but he was never more stunning than when he was in "'Till the End of Time."

Jude Law - The Talented Mr. Ripley

Catherine Zeta Jones in Chicago

Ava Gardner and James Mason in Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

Jane Russell in The Revolt of Mamie Stover

Thomas Meighan was a big hunk o' stuff in the silent era but never looked better than in "Conrad in His Quest for Youth"

* "Conrad in Quest of His Youth"

I'm sure you were all absolutely livid about me getting the title wrong, especially since you saw it when it was first released.

George O'Brien in "Sunset." Simply gorgeous.

R145 I found Julie Christie's hairdo to be distracting in Shampoo because it was so obviously a wig.

I was watching Boomerang recently, and it's hard to believe there was a time Robin Givens made Halle Berry seem homely.

Everyone's hair in Shampoo was a wig and they all looked terrible. Their hair on the poster is natural though and looks great. It's bizarre.

Even when her hard living caught up with her, Ava still radiated beauty and sensuality. Like a classic Maserati. Troublesome but so gorgeous. Even in EARTHQUAKE, she still had it.

Julie looks so different on that poster.

Meryl was gorgeous and willowy in Manhattan.

Goldie and Julie had great hair when they were young. I wonder why they used those awful wigs in Shampoo.

Not probably a popular opinion, but I thought Shelley Duvall in Popeye had a certain piquant charm.

R214 Good God!

Duvall was quirky-pretty when she was very young. That sure didn't last.

Nicole kidman, Cold Mountain

R215, oh come off it. She looked the part, played the role for what it was and I thought she was quite cute.

R218 I will admit the look matched the role, but I don't think Shelley Duvall ever looked good.

The movie was dumb, but Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor both looked great in Down With Love.

Greta Garbo in As You Desire Me

Also used for her postage stamp

Whitney Houston in THE BODYGUARD...terrible acting, but the camera loved her. Especially when she was singing "I Have Nothing" at that hotel. Flawless.

Clive Owen in Closer. Arguably Natalie Portman for that one as well.

Richard Arlen & Charles Rogers in WINGS (1928)

I recently watched this silent classic that won the first Best Picture Oscar. It was actually pretty good. I had never before watched a silent film (except for short YouTube clips of everyday life at the turn of the 20th century) and didn't know what to expect. It kept me engaged throughout (beautifully shot, as well), but oh what beautiful leading men! I don't know what else they did, but Charles Rogers and Richard Arlen were absolutely gorgeous in this. I was completely mesmerized by their beauty on my laptop screen. I can only imagine what it was like on the big screen. I bet they gained a ton of admirers after the movie came out.

Clark Gable in Red Dust

George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez in Out of sight

Blade Thompson in "Score 10".

R212, I'm so pleased that you mentioned Merle Streep in Manhattan. It was the first time I'd ever seen her in a film and I thought she was completely stunning. Ethereal.

It was the hair, r228.

Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in "Red Dust.'

Tony Leung (Ka-fai) from The Lover.

Maureen O’Hara “The Quiet Man” -1952

Doris Day and Rock Hudson “Lover Come Back” -1961

James Garner and Doris Day “The Thrill of it All”-1962

Julie Andrews and Paul Newman in Hitchcock’s “Torn Curtain” -1966

Julie Roberts in Pretty Woman 1990

Brigitte Bardot “And God Created Woman”-1956

Debbie Reynolds “The Unsinkable Molly Brown”- 1964

Keanu Reeves in 1995's A Walk In The Clouds

Julia Roberts in Mary Reilly

Mary Reilly is the ONLY good Julia Roberts film.

R241, she was horrible in it, too.

Still, her best work....

I know his acting, and the prequels, are of a dubious quality, but I always thought Hayden looked hot as Anakin Skywalker in Revenge of the Sith...

I can never get past Julia Roberts eyebrows. They are too heavy, too close together, and miss-shapen. Plus, she walks like she was sitting on a horse for a month. Why do so many find her beautiful?

r245 Julia Roberts was gorgeous, you moron. Actually, she still is, for her age, blind idiot.

R246, that's YOUR opinion. She was never a very pretty woman. Pun intended.

Julia was very pretty when she did Mystic Pizza, Pretty Woman, Sleeping with the Enemy. She got more gaunt as she got older, and her nasty personality began to show in her haggard, bitter face. You really do get the face you deserve at 50.

Bette in Mr. Skeffington...

I never got why Joan Crawford was considered so much more beautiful than Bette. Maybe by 1930s standards, but to my 21st Century eyes, they are fairly equally attractive.

Colin Farrell in Phone booth.

From the Peter Bogdanovich thread; Streisand in WHAT'S UP, DOC?

Actually, I'd vote for Ryan O'Neil in that film as well.

Mia Farrow, The Great Gatsby

The performance was questionable, but ooh-la-la!

Brad Pitt in A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT

Carrie Fisher, Return of the Jedi.

And it was more than just the slave girl costume.

Keith Gordon, my first film crush, in Dressed to Kill.

Jean-Paul Belmondo in Breathless. That body drives me crazy!

Pierrot le Fou is a close second for hotness.

Glenn Close, in Fatal Attraction.

Judy looked best in bangs and long hair.

Tippi Hedren, The Birds.

Say what you will about Hitchcock, but he knew how to make his women look good.

Julia Roberts was striking for about 5 years. You don't become the most famous actress on the planet by being ordinary. She actually looked quite lovely in Steel Magnolias.

Ruth Gordon in Rosemary's Baby

R262, Julia became famous through a stroke of luck and her connections. She's average looking and hardly a beauty compared to Louise Brooks or Vivien Leigh or Elizabeth Taylor or Sharon Stone. She's starred in more awful movies than anyone who is still making movies.

Meryl Streep did well for herself late but is there another actress who ever brought an audience? I'm an old gay, respect not like Julia Roberts but never in my lifetime has a woman ever had a box office following like Julia Roberts. It was just not there in my lifetime.

More importantly can we get Julia Roberts and Debra Winger on the same set? I would just like to watch.

"Everyone knows she's not a very nice person."

Kevin Bacon - Apollo 13

Exactly how is America's Sweetheart always fucking someone else? How did this bitch ever convince anyone she was so pure and demure?

Whats up the Julia Roberts hate? I thought the gays loved larger than life movie stars who are allies? Isn't Julia the biggest star of our lifetime along with Tom Cruise?

Julia has always been striking and her movies are pretty good. Don’t get the hate.

The gays love female stars. Especially at that level.

Bigger female box office stars than Julia Roberts: Mary Pickford, Shirley Temple, Bette Davis, Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, Kim Novak, Elizabeth Taylor Doris Day, Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand...

Hon you know thats not true. No woman will ever again command a box office following like Julia Roberts, It's not gonna happen. Her and Tom Cruise are the last movie stars, Which one of them exactly ever commanded 25 million into the equation? Both will get paid that way. FYI Jennifer Lawrence got @5 million for Don't Look Up.

i like Jennifer but she got 25 mil? wow

R274, you're all mixed up. Adjust for inflation and you'll see Roberts is far from the top female star. Heck, even today, the female with the highest box office gross is Scarlett Johansson.

R276 really you know of another actress that has ever put butts in seats before?? tell us all what you know

Julia Roberts changed box office for women. If you don't get it no one can explain it to you

Today or yesteryear? There have been plenty. Check out the box office returns for Funny Girl, a roadshow musical about a Jewish comic-singer (!!). It was the number one film of the year. Barbra Streisand put those butts in seats, not the story. Today, audiences flock to films with Sandra Bullock and Scarlett Johansson. Julia Roberts? Not so much. Pretty Woman hasn't aged well at all and it was released 30 years ago.

I thought the gays love female divas and a cuntress de jour. Julia Roberts is every bit the cunt a star should be

Julia Roberts changed nada! Are you serious? She had some success, then she went bonkers and there were rumors of heroin abuse. She's considered a very unpleasant person in real life, in addition to being not more than an adequate actor at best. Her Oscar win for Erin Brockovich is one of the least deserved ever.

oh hun, in our lifetime there is only one star. Julia and Tom Cruise are the biggest stars of our lifetime

R282, Oh hun, you don't seem very bright or observant so this conversation is pointless since you don't believe facts. Are you a Q follower, too?

Aside from Jennifer Lawrence ,Julia Roberts is still the biggest female voice in Hollywood.

R284, Roberts has starred in more terrible films than anyone I can think of, male or female or non-binary. Look at her filmography. Only two or three titles stand out.

R283 disclose actresses other than Jennifer Lawrence and Julia Roberts that advanced women

R285 you do get people loved her like no other for 10 years? thats what were taking about

How did either of those advance women? Streisand was ethnic and unconventional looking and was a box office phenomenon. I'd say she advanced the broad appeal of female entertainers more than any other woman. Christ! How thick-headed are you??

J Law got 25 million for DLU. Just because she's the most famous millennial

R287, No they didn't. I'll type this slowly since you seem retarded. No. They. Didn't. Roberts had a fan base but people didn't love her like no one else. Read up on film history. Elizabeth Taylor was denounced by the Pope yet was the top female box office attraction and basically created the paparazzi. Stop spewing nonsense and absorb the truth.

Julia Roberts in My Best Friend's Wedding. (This pic has not been altered.)

R290 please back up your facts. Because in my lifetime and Im an old fag I've never seen a female movie star like Julia Roberts in my lifetime

Im the biggest fag in the world but i never saw a bigger frau base for Julia Roberts in my lifetime

In the modern world only Meryl Streep is a bigger star than Julia Roberts

Here, this is for you moronic Julia Roberts fans

Seriously you're so fucking stupid. Please explain how Julia means nothing. Idiot aside from Marylin no woman in the history of cinema has disrupted what you don't understand She may not be a great actress but she's a movie star in every way.

As Gary Marshell claimed Men, women, babies and children Everyone loves Julia Roberts."

R292 because old fags and young girls were her FANS!!!!. Straight men had no interest in Steel Magnolias, Pretty Woman, Mystic Pizza, My Best Friend's Wedding, Runaway Bride, Stepmom, Slepping with the Enemy . . .

R298 every straight man worships her> Jennifer Law is a good actress in my view. bad actors don't get iy

I like J law. I think she's a good actor

Yeah R299 all the straight men I worked with never mentioned, Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones, The Sopranos, the NFL, NBA. . .it was all Mona Lisa Smile and Notting Hill!

I could never understand all the love for uma Thurman when I was growing up. Lately having watched back some of her movies I can kind of see it now.

Marylin was no sallyAnn How’s! I should know I saw them both when We were you g

Why are some people doubting that Julia Roberts was one of the biggest movie stars of all time?

For one hundred years (1910s-2010s), Quigley's Publishing, which determined the bankability of screen actors, used to release an annual list of the Top 10 Box Office Stars..

The Top 5 actresses who made the list the most were: Mary Pickford (13 ), Betty Grable (10), Doris Day (10), Barbra Streisand (10), Julia Roberts (10).

The only women ever to top the list were: Shirley Temple (4), Doris Day (4), Mary Pickford (2), Clara Bow (2), Marie Dressler (2), Julie Andrews (2), Julia Roberts (1), Sandra Bullock (1), Jennifer Lawrence (1).

As for Tom Cruise (20), he is the third most ranked movie star (male or female) of all time, after John Wayne (25) and Clint Eastwood (21). However, Cruise holds the record for the most at #1 (7).

Therefore, Tom Cruise is the most successful movie star ever and Julia Roberts is among the most successful actresses. Definitely the biggest female film star of the late 20th century. If you weren't alive in the '80s/'90s, then you have NO idea how huge those two were! Both were often touted as the last genuine box office stars.

Uma Thurman was fine with a good director. She also could look luminously beautiful. She's underrated in Dangerous Liaisons. Her foolishness is entirely convincing without being a drag on the story or lessening the fact that she is victimized.

If we all agree that Julia is a perfect goddess, will the stans STFU and let us get back to judging celebrities on their looks?

R304 - in which movie do we think Marie Dressler looked her best?

Johhny Depp. 'Ed Wood.' 1995.

My God. What do you consider a "pretty" woman then? Women are just the feminised version of men. In terms of appearance, the skin is softer. The features softer. That's literally it.

[quote]If we all agree that Julia is a perfect goddess, will the stans STFU and let us get back to judging celebrities on their looks?

Why are you stubbornly in denial? The fact is, Julia Roberts was the biggest female movie star of the '90s and early 2000s and was considered gorgeous by many. I don't understand why that fact irritates some people.

Julia did look lovely in the red ball gown in PRETTY WOMAN.

R310 weren't Eddie Murphy and Will Smith big BO as well and weren't their performances one note and the films dreck? No one will be having a festival of Roberts, Smith or Murphy's movies. They were well-sold to a particular audience who like TV audiences like the familiar and dependably mediocre.

Marlee Matlin, Children of A Lesser God

Halle Berry, Bulworth

Angela Bassett, Strange Days

John Travolta 'Get Shorty'

I've always thought Reese Witherspoon looked best in Walk the Line. The brown hair worked for her.

Rex Chandler around this time - and the other guy's hot, too.

Uma Thurman in The Producers. Gorgeous, hilarious and what a body!

Judy is singing “Man That Got Away” in “A Star is Born” right now on TCM. She was quite pretty in this film and her singing is incredible,

Judy singing “Melancholy Baby” in “A Star is Born”

Another still of Judy. She was really pretty in this film.

Julia Roberts > Barbra + Meryl + Doris + ......so on. Suck it up toots. She's undoubtedly the biggest female movie star in the last 50 years.

R321, says you. You're wrong, plus Julia can't act her way out of a wet paper sack and moviegoing audiences have changed over the decades, as has advertising. Audiences of your had to seek out their favorite actresses, since the '80s and '90s they've had actors shoved down their throats, which is how Roberts has thrived.

Jesus, all I said was that her eyebrows are so weird that every time I look at her I can't get past them. Those eyebrows are all I see now. She has changed their look over the years, but they remain ugly. Just an opinion.

R321 wasn't Adam Sandler a huge BO star? From 2001-2019 he was pulling in $20M-$25M per picture which is more than Julia in the same period. Little Nicky (2001), 50 First Dates, Anger Management, Mr. Deeds, Grown Ups and Murder Mystery (2019)

LOL! We were hungry. It as there without a wait. So...🍝

Woops! Wrong thread!

[quote] She was quite pretty in this film and her singing is incredible,

In ASIB Judy Garland was only 33 years old but looked ten years older. She was matronly looking. She looked her best in 'Meet Me In St. Louise."

Pardon me, make that "Meet Me In St. Louis."

Sorry, I'm closed to the general public.

Rencontrer Moi a St. Louise

I don’t know her.

I loved the way that Judy looked in THE CLOCK. Very womanly and mature.

Judy never looked young again after her serious mental breakdown in 1947. It was brought on by years of overwork, drug abuse, post-partum depression, and a troubled marriage. She was never the same after that.

Johnny Depp in his prime was beautiful. The camera loved him.

Dennis Quaid in Breaking Away

[quote]Doris Day and Rock Hudson “Lover Come Back” -1961

He looked so good with a beard in this.