10 stunning book-to-movie beauty moments

Although fans of the book were outraged when Brit Vivien Leigh was cast as Scarlett O'Hara, the actress's looks perfectly suited the character, described here: Her eyes were pale green without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly lashes and slightly tilted at the ends. Above them, her thick black brows slanted upward, cutting a startling oblique line in her magnolia-white skin. SHOP NOW: Gone with the Wind

As the feisty but doomed Jenny, Ali MacGraw become both a fashion and beauty icon. Sure, Oliver (played by Ryan O'Neal) initially called her look a bit too Boho, but we still love everything about it. (And, as you know, love means never having to say you're sorry.) SHOP NOW: Love Story

After taking on the role of Tina Turner a few years before, Angela Bassett—still in Tina shape—played fancy-schmancy financial analyst Stella Payne, the older woman to island boy toy Taye Diggs. In the book Stella says, I look decent enough in my bathing suits considering I am forty-two, but we'd say Angela's Stella looked better than decent. SHOP NOW: How Stella Got Her Groove Back

In this love found, love lost, love found again film, Rachel McAdams' plays Allie, who inherited her mother’s high cheekbones, smooth skin and blond hair and had eyes like ocean waves. The plot may be slightly saccharine but that didn't temper our sobs. Tissue, anyone? SHOP NOW: The Notebook

Keira Knightley does Jane Austen proud as Elizabeth Bennett. After meeting the protagonist, Mr. Darcy describes her face as rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes, and though he had detected with a critical eye more than one failure of perfect symmetry in her form, he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and pleasing. SHOP NOW: Pride and Prejudice

With a grave expression and no makeup, Mia Wasikowska manages to pretty-down her looks as the 18th century governess who says of her own appearance, I sometimes regretted that I was not handsomer: I sometimes wished to have rosy cheeks, a straight nose, and small cherry mouth; I desired to be tall, stately and finely developed in figure; I felt it a misfortune that I was so little, so pale, and had features so irregular and so marked. SHOP NOW: Jane Eyre

To play mousy good girl Rachel, Ginnifer Goodwin donned a drab brown wig and wardrobe managed the rest. In Emily Giffin's bestseller, Rachel is a New York attorney who puts on her most comfortable black suit and low heels. But her sweet appearance belies the secret she's hiding. SHOP NOW: Something Borrowed

Will Emma Stone get an easy A as Eugenia (aka Skeeter) in The Help due out next month? Her character got her nickname for being real tall and skinny like a mosquito. She also has hair that's yellow and cut short above her shoulders cause she gets the frizz year round. Emma's hairstyle suits the '60s setting, but frizzy it is not. SHOP NOW: The Help

Both Mia Farrow and Mira Sorvino have taken on the role that Carey Mulligan will play in Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of the book. The English actress makes sense as the pretty, but damaged Daisy Buchanan who is described as having a face that was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth... SHOP NOW: The Great Gatsby