Here's looking like you kid! Hollywood stars and their silver-screen doubles

11 April 2012
The Weekender

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The Golden Age of Hollywood glamour may be gone, but it's certainly not forgotten by today's celebrities who bear more than a passing resemblance to Tinseltown's bygone stars - as Brad Pitt proved in Cannes this week when he appeared looking startlingly similar to a young Robert Redford.

Here The Mail pays tribute to the silver screen icons and some of their modern-day lookalikes...

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My Fair Lady: Tom Cruise's wife Katie Holmes, and the original beauty Audrey Hepburn

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Gents-about-town: Withnail And I star Richard E. Grant and the urbane David Niven

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