Here The Mail pays tribute to the silver screen icons and some of their modern-day lookalikes...
Pouting girls with pearl earrings: Uber-blondes Scarlett Johansson and 20th-century icon Marilyn Monroe
Great Gatsbys: Brad Pitt and Robert Redford
Moving in High Society: The majestic Helen Mirren and actress Celeste Holm
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant: Oceans star George Clooney is the 21st-century version of the debonair movie icon
Clowning around: Robbie Williams and knockabout comedian Norman Wisdom
They'll always be Funny Girls: Friends star Jennifer Aniston and diva Barbra Streisand, who graduated to Funny Lady
Same Chanel: Present and past faces of Chanel No 5, Nicole Kidman and Catherine Deneuve
Classic beauties: Hollywood royalty Gwyneth Paltrow and real royalty, Princess Grace
My Fair Lady: Tom Cruise's wife Katie Holmes, and the original beauty Audrey Hepburn
Six degrees of separation: Who can link Mystic River star Kevin Bacon to actor Chuck Connors?
Gents-about-town: Withnail And I star Richard E. Grant and the urbane David Niven
Going platinum: Singer Christina Aguilera and vamp Jean Harlow, sex symbol of the 1930s
Hulk to Chelsea is '90 per cent done'
TV Baftas - in pictures
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Locked up and banned: The Tube drunk whose vile racist rant was caught on film (video)
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British housewife facing FIRING SQUAD over Bali drugs smuggling charge was 'neighbour from hell' -
London 2012 Olympics: Raising the bar and the Games haven't even started yet. Price of toasting Team GB is £6 a pint! -
Video: Intruder bursts into Leveson Inquiry to brand Tony Blair a war criminal -
British woman Lindsay Sandiford facing death penalty over Bali drugs haul is mother of violent robber who carried out raids in London
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First victory for campaign to save famous pie and mash shop -
'Normal' clothes inspire new designer at Central Saint Martins fashion show -
Usain Bolt is quick to tell fans he’ll be lightning fast again -
Invasion of the book snatchers: Brent Council sneaks into Kensal Rise library at 2am to strip it bare -
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