Female screen icons

Grace Kelly lived up to her name (IMHO)

She is; however, today's actresses don't seem to have the glamour that the old Hollywood stars had.

I don't think that there is any doubt that Meryl Streep is the most iconic big screen actress of our generation.

I didn't always think so because OH fancied her and I didn't like her because she's slimmer and prettier than me, but I have to accept that she is a very good actress, versatile and amazing in so many diverse roles over so many years. She's brilliant at accents, very prolific and as a person she does seem to have her head screwed on.

She's certainly versatile!

Newqay Maybe this will put him off. GA as Miss Haversham

...I SO want to be Katniss [sigh]....

gladiatorial
moved on a bit from Russell Crowe then?

Russell Crowe?

The Hunger Games are a trilogy of films about a young freedom fighter called Katniss who is up against a despotic dictatorship that makes it's subjects fight each in a gladiatorial sort of way.

I thought Katniss could be the name of the film that this Jennifer Whoever was in ....
oh dear

I don't watch American TV programmes , well I did watch The Waltons and Lost but think British tv much, much more enjoyable than American

Oh so that's how you cross through!

salivating

Oh Jalima you beat me to it-I said the same. . . who is Jennifer and Katniss??
It IS Sean Connery that they've chosen funnily enough.
DH is, as we speak, -salivating-looking for posters of Gillian Anderson. Not sure it's their time though. We sent them a poster of Tippi Hedren in The Birds and they asked who that was!

the voice is appealing and he looks OK, jut don't like the sound of the real person!
(not your DH, I am sure he is lovely)

I've never seen the Hunger Games, are they on Sky?

Jalima
I'm sure you do you just didn't want boast
Did I get the spelling correct?

Please don't stick pins in S.C
DH has a slight Connery look about him
(the aged mature version)

Jennifer Lawrence is Katniss [sp] in the Hunger Games.

I used to wish I looked like her

My Dad thought Alexandra Bastido (Sp?) had a lovely a sculpted face with high cheek bones.

Bond has to be Connery ,the original and best
Definitely not, I would be sticking pins into his image.

Obviously I don't go to the cinema enough - who is Jennifer and what is Katniss?

Katy Jurado in High Noon.

I’d forgotten that sketch, Fennel - so funny!

I suppose that, as it's to be drawn on a wall, it has to be instantly recognisable. So, Monro, Princess Leia and Jennifer as Katniss to me show the progression of iconic images of women over the years. Although I'd prefer Audrey Hepburn to Monro [as she was also a pretty amazing person in real life]...

What about Gillian Anderson? One of the best actors of her generation. The trouble is she is so good she looks different each time. Don't know how old your DD2 is, but for my DSs the X Files and Scully were part of them growing up.

I agree that present day film stars just don't have the glamour of the older ones. Perhaps they are too familiar? We see so many films now, of all genres. I don't see real star quality in any modern actress. Sorry - actor.

Meg Ryan
Reese Witherspoon
Jodie Foster

I never tire of Eileen Atkins or Maggie Smith but there is no glamour there!