Audrey Hepburn and Sharon Stone respectively, achieved their sex appeal through extremely different acting styles. Hepburn established her sex appeal by projecting a mesmerizing image of elegance and beauty as a princess, in the 1953 film Roman Holiday, while Stone established her sex appeal through her extremely erotic portrayal of a novelist, in the 1992 movie Basic Instinct. Even though other actresses of these time periods created sex appeal through other successful acting techniques, Hepburn's lady like persona and Stone's provocativeness are acting styles that proved to be immensely effective ways to captivate a film audience.
             Film audiences of the '50's were mesmerized with the class and grace Audrey Hepburn possessed in Roman Holiday. Roman Holiday is a romantic comedy in which Audrey Hepburn gives a dazzling performance as the fictional princess Anne. Princess Anne is on a royal visit to Rome when she decides to escape the constrictions of royalty. As fate has it, the princess meets journalist Joe Bradley, who initially befriends her to get an exclusive scoop for work, but begins to fall in love with the intriguing princess. From Audrey Hepburn's introduction in the film as Princess Anne to the last scene in a conference with the media, Audrey Hepburn enraptures her audience with her classy image, soft-spoken eloquence, and her entrancing beauty. These characteristics contribute to the formation of Hepburn's sex appeal . Gregory Peck, who played the role of Joe Bradley, felt that Audrey Hepburn "lived her role in Roman Holiday. She took it as calmly and serenely as a real princess would."
             In contrast, Sharon Stone chose to establish her sex appeal in the film industry by shocking audiences with an extremely sensual performance in Basic Instinct. The plot of Basic Instinct revolves around the kinky murder of San Francisco club owner Johnny Boz. Detective Nick Corelli is assigned to the case, whose prime suspect is sexy an...