Iconic beauties (Marilyn Monroe, Kirsten Dunst, etc.)

LAUREN BACALL
(born Betty Joan Perske)
Trademark looks: husky voice and “The Look” - chin down, eyes up

Most known for: "The Big Sleep", "How to Marry a Millionaire" (& famous lessons in whistling)

Husbands: Humphrey Bogart, Jason Robards
BETTE DAVIS
(Born Ruth Elizabeth Davis)
Trademark looks: those pretty peepers

Most known for: "Jezebel," "All About Eve," "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?," first female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Husbands: Ham Nelson, Arthur Farnsworth, William Grant Sherry, Gary Merrill
MARLENE DIETRICH
(Born Marie Magdalene Dietrich)
Trademark looks: blue eyes, arched eyebrows; her New York Times obituary observed that "Her masculinity appeals to women and her sexuality to men."

Most known for: "The Blue Angel" (German), "Morocco," (& penchant for donning menswear)

Husband: Rudolf Sieber

JEAN HARLOW
(Born Harlean Harlow Carpenter) - Jean Harlow was Marilyn Monroe's idol
Trademark looks: platinum-blond hair, she was the "original blond bombshell"

Most known for: "Hell's Angels", "Dinner at Eight"

Husbands: Charles McGrew, Paul Bern, Harold Rosson, William Powell (she died before they wed)


MARILYN MONROE
(Born Norma Jean Mortenson)
Trademark looks: Platinum blonde hair, voluptuous figure, breathless voice

Most known for: "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," "How to Marry a Millionaire," "Seven Year Itch," singing "Happy Birthday" (& doing other things) to JFK; dying young

Husbands: James Dougherty, Joe DiMaggio, Arthur Miller
Source: specials.msn.com

Michelle Williams and Kirsten Dunst in a poster of "Dick" (1999)
Marilyn Monroe
Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe in MY WEEK WITH MARILYN
Kirsten DunstMarilyn Monroe

Veronica Lake
Marilyn Monroe

Are Hollywood's female stars as beautiful as the immortal divas from the Golden Age? Tippi Hedren as Marnie Edgar in "Marnie" (1964) directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Naomi Watts as Tippi Hedren/Marnie

A few of them sure are gorgeous actresses, i.e. Kirsten Dunst with her high cheeks she always reminded her of Marlene Dietrich (below some pictures striking a vintage vibe):Kirsten Dunst in "Bastard" - Behind The Scenes (2010)
Scan of Kirsten Dunst and Jake Gyllenhaal in Elle magazine (2004)



All Good Things is an upcoming romantic drama/mystery film directed by Andrew Jarecki and written by Marcus Hinchey and Marc Smerling. Starring Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst and set in the 1980s, the film is about the heir to a New York real estate fortune whose wife disappears, inspired by the life of Robert Durst. All Good Things was filmed between April and July 2008 in Connecticut and New York. The film was originally scheduled for a July 24, 2009 release, but has further been delayed with an upcoming release of December 03, 2010.
Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst as David and Katie in "All Good Things" (2010)

PLOT : Set against the extravagance and excess of New York City in the 80s, David Marks (Gosling), the son of a powerful real estate tycoon, marries a beautiful working class student, Katie (Dunst). Together they flee the city for country life in Vermont - only to be lured back by David's father. Upon their return, Katie goes back to medical school and begins to make a life for herself. But as Katie becomes increasingly independent, David mysteriously turns more violent and controlling. Family secrets are slowly revealed, just as Katie disappears without a trace. Years later, when David's best friend turns up dead, the 20-year-old case is re-opened, with David as the main suspect, and the Marks family's dark secrets pave the way to a disturbing truth.

CAST: Ryan Gosling as David Marks and Kirsten Dunst as Katie McCarthy

Jake Gyllenhaal at Fundraiser Dinner Party For Edible Schoolyard

Jake Gyllenhaal at Fundraiser Dinner Party For Edible Schoolyard NYC on October 13, 2010

Q: What went into the casting decision of Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal?

EZ: Part of my job is to be aware of what actors are out there and what they're doing, look at their work. I'd seen Annie do Jonathan Demme's movie ("Rachel Getting Married") and I'd seen her do Shakespeare in the Park, and she was really fantastic and brave and ambitious artistically. And Jake had done this movie a friend of mine wrote called "Jarhead", and I'd seen his work before that. I got to know him a little bit and realized that to know him was to have (witnessed) something that movie audiences hadn't necessarily seen, which is the depth of his charm and his humor and this very attractive male romantic... and I felt, "Oh hey, you know what? I'm going to show that to people." Source: www.dailynorthwestern.com

Also, we learned a few other fun facts about Gyllenhaal:

• He’s masturbated “four or five times in four or five different movies.” In The Good Girl, he said, "I decided my character was going to masturbate with his left hand. That was my character choice."
• His early acting career mostly consisted of sitting in the background while his older sister Maggie sang and danced for dinner guests. “I did everything wrong, according to her. So I was always banished to the corner,” he said. “Les Mis, when she put that on, I was just a poor person sitting in the corner, begging for money, and she sang and danced all the songs. It’s never changed. It’s still like that to this day."
• He filmed Donnie Darko when he was having a hard time in college and didn’t know where he was going in life. (He dropped out.) After it screened at Sundance, he said, “My mother and father and sister came up to me afterwards, crying, sort of realizing that I had been trying to say something to them about how lost I was. Something about talking to that rabbit at the time comforted me.”
• He accidentally offended the entire crew of Brokeback Mountain when he showed off his first “bad acting” attempt to play Jack Twist at age 40. “We did the first take and I was doing all this bad acting, like, limping around and my back was achy and I picked up this saddle and I grunted, and half of the crew was 40. They were like, ‘We’re 40. We’re not 80! We do more work than you do, you wimp actor.” Also, looking back on his performance, he really regrets the mustache, though he thinks it helped his acting. “It was hard to eat with that mustache,” he said. “Ultimately, it’s the pain that brings great performances.”
• His dream list of collaborators: Paul Thomas Anderson, Ryan Gosling, and Michelle Williams, again.
• He said this about Love's love scenes: “There’s this weird sense of being watched. If you’ve ever made out with anybody and you know you’re being watched, you can’t help but watch yourself, and that just takes the sexiness out of the whole thing. But we’re performers, so you can make it work. Occasionally I’ve been into it. I won’t talk about with whom." And then he laughed a lot. But seriously, we need names. Source: nymag.com

Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson: Oscar contenders?

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005)

"Brangelina better watch out because Kristen Stewart, 20, and Robert Pattinson, 24, are hot on their heels when it comes to owning the Hollywood spotlight. The two have garnered a lot of praise for their recent film roles, Rob as Jacob Jankowski in Water For Elephants and Kristen as Mallory in Welcome to the Rileys, putting the Breaking Dawn co-stars and real-life couple in contention for Oscar gold!
Kristen has undoubtedly proven to skeptic critics that she has real acting chops.Kristen Stewart as Mallory in "Welcome to the Rileys" (2010)

Playing a believable 16-year old runaway turned prostitute is no easy feat and in a recent interview backstage at The Tonight Show, Kristen talked about her secret to bringing fictional characters to life.

“It’s always different. If you’re playing a fictional character they should be real in your head.”
Her boyfriend, Robert Pattinson, has also impressed movie critics with his role in Water For Elephants. Although Rob says he picks parts based on how they call out to him and not for potential Oscar gold, his portrayal of a college dropout who becomes a traveling circus veternarian could potentially place that little gold statue on his bookcase.

“It wouldn’t surprise me at all if he were to receive an Oscar nod for this role,” an insider from the set told HollywoodLife.com.
Plus, when Rob’s Elephants co-star, Christoph Waltz, was asked by fans where he kept his Oscar (he won the Supporting Actor trophy this year for Inglorious Basterds) on the Filmore, Calif. set, he responded, “It’s in my house, but the way things are looking, I might have to hand it off to Rob next year!”
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson as Bella and Edward in "Twilight" (2008)

Rob and Kristen wouldn’t be the first Hollywood couple to be nominated for Oscars during the same award season. Jake Gyllenhaal with Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams at BATFA's Awards in London, on 19th February, 2006

Michelle Williams and the late Heath Ledger were both nominated for their work in Brokeback Mountain and Brad Pitt was nominated for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button alongside is partner Angelina Jolie in Changeling". Source: www.hollywoodlife.com