Poll: Old Ladies Are Charming... Or Are They?

Results of 3,322 votes:

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   Robin Williams in Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)

    

   Mrs Doubtfire - it's not only a question of her being charmig, it's also a question of her being a lady... in any sense of the word
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   Helen Mirren in RED 2 (2013)

    

   Victoria - a British agent, not your average old lady, that's for sure...
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   Estelle Getty, Rue McClanahan, Bea Arthur, and Betty White in The Golden Girls (1985)

    

   The Golden Girls - all four of them...
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   Edward Everett Horton, Jean Adair, and Josephine Hull in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

    

   The sisters Abby and Martha Brewster - charming ladies with a few skeletons in the cupboard...
5. 5.
   

   "Harold and Maude" Ruth Gordon 1971 Paramount

    

   Maude - unforgettable free spirited lady, and object of adoration of twenty year old Harold...
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   Katie Johnson in The Ladykillers (1955)

    

   Miss Wilberforce - somewhat garrulous lady who lets a couple rooms in her house to a charming musician who has his equally charming friends over for rehearsals...
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   Maggie Smith in Keeping Mum (2005)

    

   Grace Hawkins - a lady with a past, who will stop at nothing to protect those whom she loves, not even... no, that would be telling!
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   #4

    

   Miss Daisy Werthan (Jessica Tandy) - the elderly Jewish lady in the American South who isn't fond of change..
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   Judi Dench in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)

    

   Evelyn Greenslade - the upbeat English lady who reinvents herself after retiring to India for financial reasons...
10. 10.
    

    #5

     

    Miss Marple - fluffy old lady and sharp witted sleuth of the Agatha Christie mysteries. Played by (Margaret Rutherford, Joan Hickson, Angela Lansbury and others over the years)
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    Judi Dench and Steve Coogan in Philomena (2013)

     

    Philomena - an Irish lady with a past...
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    5735-23 Katharine Hepburn in "The Lion In Winter" 1968 Avco/Embassy

     

    Eleanor of Aquitane - the queen who, let out of prison for the holidays by her husband, the king, plots and schemes with and against him and their three sons
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    Betty White in Betty White's Off Their Rockers (2012)

     

    Betty White - this lady is quite possibly off her rocker...
14. 14.
    

    Maggie Smith in Nanny McPhee Returns (2010)

     

    Mrs. Docherty - a slightly senile old lady...
15. 15.
    

    3631-9 Katharine Hepburn in "On Golden Pond"

     

    Ethel Thayer - the pracitcal ageing lady and anchor of a family that's not without its problems...
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    Judi Dench, Natascha McElhone, Maggie Smith, and Daniel Brühl in Ladies in Lavender (2004)

     

    Janet (Maggie Smith) and Ursula (Judi Dench) - two Cornish spinsters who rescue and nurse to back to health a young lad washed up on the local beach
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    #20

     

    Agnes Brown (Brendan O'Carroll) - meddling Irish mother of a motley bunch of grown up children
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    Angela Lansbury in Nanny McPhee (2005)

     

    Aunt Adelaide - an austere old lady this...
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    Maggie Smith and Pauline Collins in Quartet (2012)

     

    Cissy Robson and, because an old lady seldom comes alone, Jean Horton - one of these retired musicians is cheerful, the other a bit less...
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    Judi Dench and Joan Plowright in Tea with Mussolini (1999)

     

    Arabella and Mary - a free spirited artist and a motherly soul, two ex-pat English ladies in Italy
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    Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, Vincent Price, and Ann Sothern in The Whales of August (1987)

     

    Libby Strong (Bette Davis) and Sarah Webber (Lillian Gish) - two elderly sisters, one is charming enough, the other rather not...
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    Lauren Bacall in The Walker (2007)

     

    Natalie Van Miter - a card playing society lady...
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    Celeste Holm and Barry Humphries

     

    Dame Edna Everage - "Well, possums..."
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    Vanessa Redgrave in Unfinished Song (2012)

     

    Marion - a rather inspirational old lady...
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    #22

     

    Cissy Colpitts 1 (Joan Plowright) - the matriarch of a dynasty of murdering ladies
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    Elisabeth Flickenschildt in Der Besuch der alten Dame (1959)

     

    Claire Zachanassian - the old lady who offers to bail out an entire town if somebody will kill the man who once jilted her...