Hollywood’s top 30 screen goddesses

Our critic’s favourites ...but do you agree?

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HER rise to global stardom was based on her consummate grace, elfin beauty, sweet vulnerability, comic timing and aspirational elegance. In Breakfast At Tiffany’s she’s pure Hollywood glamour.

ZIEGFELD chorus girl turned screwball comedy star became the highestpaid woman in the US in 1944, the year of her greatest role as a femme fatale in classic thriller, Double Indemnity.

IN the second part of our series on Hollywood’s greatest stars, Mirror film editor Chris Hunneysett reveals his pick of the Top 30 female greats.

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HER influence often overlooked, she redefined beauty, sexuality, and womanhood when she became the first Africanamerican female to headline an action movie in early 1970’s blaxploitation thrillers.

WHETHER on trapeze in The Greatest Showman, or swinging around as Spider-man’s girlfriend, the Californian star radiates charisma and is the face and future of 21st century cinematic cool.

GLAMOROUS siren was signed by MGM as an 18-year-old starlet, and made her breakthrough in 1946’s The Killers, as the sultry Kitty Collins. Oscar nominated for 1953’s Mogambo.

AUTHORITATIVE, intelligent, comic, sexy and statuesque, the undisputed groundbreaking queen of sci-fi action anchored her own blockbuster franchise before it was even a term.

THE world’s highest-paid actress and Oscar nominee has a strong emotional range, and a highly developed sense of irony. Is a Spandex-clad Marvel superhero and a reluctant sex symbol.

A MASTER of using the close-up, her spontaneity and warmth made her an Oscar nominee before 1990’s Pretty Woman gave her a leg up to being the world’s highestpaid actress.

VOLUPTUOUS singer, dancer and sex symbol of the 40s and 50s for whom eccentric billionaire producer Howard Hughes felt it necessary to design her a push-up bra for her debut, The Outlaw.

ILLNESS prevented the career her talent deserved, but the quality of her early work scorched the screen in roles such as femme fatales in 1981’s Body Heat and 1985’s Prizzi’s Honour.

SMART, cynical, vulnerable and mocking, starring in Grease 2 was a low point, but her piano-top performance of “Makin’ Whoopee” in 1989’s The Fabulous Baker Boys, is spectacular.

AN outrageous beauty whose celebrity outstripped her showstopping talent, she earned a $1million as Cleopatra, while off-set bedded her married co-star Richard Burton. A SILENT movie star whose talkies accentuated her mystique thanks to her Swedish accent. The three times Oscar nominee said, “I want to be let alone”, then retired, aged 35. IT’S often difficult to distinguish between the screen persona and real life of the wild child turned Oscar winner, who recently starred as Maleficent, a powerful and sexy earth mother.

THE fiercely competitive actor famously instructed us to “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night” in 1950’s classic comedy, All About Eve, one of her 10 Oscar nominations.

THOUGH initially derided for her acting, audiences loved her “floozy” persona and natural comic talent, but the career of the Platinum Bombshell ended with her tragic death aged 26. BEAUTIFUL and outspoken with a great line in innuendo, she was a brazen presence with a bawdy sense of humour which the Depression -era audience adored but the censors didn’t.