Vivien Leigh [Photo/Agencies]

10. Vivien Leigh

China is the country most heavily influenced by the film and novel Gone with the Wind. In Shanghai suring the 1940's, a city that was most modern and stylish in China at the time, Gone with the Wind was a work that everyone talked about. In the late 1980's, the film swept China again. Leigh's portrait of Scarlett O'Hara was seen as sustenance to most Chinese women's secret fantasies. Leigh's "cat-like" face spoke of desire and a strong self, different from Monroe's out-in-the-open sexiness. Her portrait of heroines on screen reflect her character well, and perhaps that's why she can always struck and break people's hearts.