AUDREY HEPBURN vs NATALIE WOOD

Haven't seen enough of Hepburn's work to compare them acting wise, but I find Wood much more attractive.

Talent to Hepburn and looks to Wood, but it's close and I'm a big fan of both.

The Russian doll princess x2. 

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Well more attractive is Wood - Hepburn was a lovely type, Wood broke the type. Wood could look like your friend, a nice girl, a bad girl, a plain Jane, a glam knockout, sexy as all get out too - she could look average but not at all with a slight change of expression or her hair. She is a pivotal fine actress too - prior to the late 50s/early 60s (with the emergence of Wood, Page, Woodward and soon Fonda) - there were very few actresses talked about as actresses at all men were actors, females were stars first and foremost.

The Wood generation changed that - and the scene in the tub in Splendor in the Grass is the pivotal one - that changed acting I'd say in a way, it was a whole different level of what was expected and open to actresses - directed by the great director of actors - watch the way the camera goes back to Wood from the mother - with each of the camera cuts - the scene is re-starting, the pain re-starting, the loss of control deepening.

You wouldn't even see this influence until later in the decade - I don't mean to reduce her (or Kazan) to a single scene - but it's that major a scene to female acting.

I like and appreciate AH but she belongs to a cinematic and world in general past - she seems antique compared to Wood.