Two great actress for the same role. Two different style for the movie; two different blonde beauty. I like Dunaway and Turner but perhaps I love more Turner's Milady and You?
shareDunaway nailed it. So very evil. So very cold and alooft.
Turner's performance embodied the more recent 3 musketeers....fun, but not exactly art.
Turner was very good: she's a great actress: always perfect like the charming femme-fatale but Dunaway was simple the best Milady possible: icy, evil, decadente and very seductive.
shareLana Turner was better Milady: she's more elegant and beauty than Dunaway.
shareDunaway was dead solid perfect in this role...ice cold and positively venemous. One of her better and nearly forgotten performances. There's no contest here...Turner was a decorative Milady in '48 but I would hardly call her turn in that film a performance. The '48 version belonged to Gene Kelly.
shareFaye Dunaway was superb as Milady...she aced this portrayal! She BECAME Milady...Lana Turner WAS more beautiful, but Faye's acting was just the tops! She was awesome....hands down the ultimate Milady!
shareDunaway was perfect as Milady because she was hot and very wicked
sharebut lana was better more and more beautiful
shareDunaway was smashing in this role, but so was Turner. I would choose Dunaway, but Turner runs her a close second. In the, on all other accounts, dismal brat pack version from 1993 Rebecca De Mornay was the sole member of the cast to hold her end up and deliver a good performance, but, alas, to no use. My point being that all three were good in the part. Turner probably came closest to Dumas' description of Lady De Winter,and a more 'classic beauty', but Dunaway is the definitive one for me.I had a crush on her in that part when I was about 8 (a bit strange perhaps). Richard Lester's musketeers have been among my favorite films for 27 years now.
I have to add that, although I was disappointed with the overall movie, I think Cattrall was a logical choise as Dunaway's daughter. They have the same sort of build and the same cold but aluring sexual charisma.
1. Dunaway
2. Turner
3. De Mornay (only good point in that version).
Dunaway, by a nipple.
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