The Most Iconic Red Lips in Film
By Megan Cahn
We've been obsessing over Angelina Jolie in the Maleficent trailer all week. She looks so stunning and we're allowed to hate her just a little bit for it, because you know, she's an evil witch. But instead, we've decided to pay tribute to her beauty and that perfect blood red pout with a roundup of the movie characters throughout history with the sexiest crimson lips.
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Gone With the Wind, 1939
Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara
Meet Me in St. Louis, 1944
Judy Garland as Esther Smith
Some Like it Hot, 1959
Marilyn Monroe as Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
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Mary Poppins, 1964
Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins
Cabaret, 1972
Liza Minnelli as Sally Bowles
Chinatown, 1974
Faye Dunaway as Evelyn Mulwray
The Rocky Horror Picture Show, 1975
Tim Curry as Dr. Frank-N-Furter
Who Framed Roger Rabbit, 1988
Jessica Rabbit
The Little Mermaid, 1989
Ursula
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Cry-Baby, 1990
Traci Lords as Wanda Woodward
Dick Tracy, 1990
Madonna as Breathless Mahoney
Thelma & Louise, 1991
Susan Sarandon as Louise Sawyer
The Addams Family, 1991
Anjelica Huston as Morticia Addams
Death Becomes Her, 1992
Goldie Hawn as Helen Sharp
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Batman Returns, 1992
Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman
True Romance, 1993
Patricia Arquette as Alabama Whitman
Pulp Fiction, 1994
Uma Thurman as Mia Wallace
L.A. Confidential, 1997
Kim Basinger as Lynn Bracken
American Beauty, 1999
Mena Suvari as Angela Hayes
Moulin Rouge, 2001
Nicole Kidman as Satine
The Notebook, 2004
Rachel McAdams as Allie Calhoun
The Aviator, 2004
Cate Blanchet as Katharine Hepburn
Memoirs of a Geisha, 2005
Ziyi Zhang as Sayuri
Alice in Wonderland, 2010
Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen
Maleficent, 2014
Angelina Jolie as Maleficent
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