Battle of the sexes rages over screen sirens

While women opted for Audrey Hepburn's charm in Breakfast At Tiffany's, men voted Ursula Andress their favourite female movie icon, a Radio Times poll found.

Bond girl Andress memorably emerged from the sea in a white bikini during the 1962 film Dr No.

Hepburn came fifth in the men's poll behind three popular female sci-fi sirens.

Sigourney Weaver in the Alien saga took second place, ahead of Carrie Fisher in Star Wars and Jane Fonda in Barbarella.

In contrast, the top five as voted by women was dominated by musical legends, with Julie Andrews in The Sound Of Music in second place, followed by her Mary Poppins role in third and Judy Garland's performance in The Wizard Of Oz in fourth.

Julia Roberts took fifth place for her memorable role in Pretty Woman.

Movie guru Barry Norman told Radio Times readers: "You seem to have a penchant for naughty girls, women who play hookers: Catherine Deneuve in Belle de Jour, Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman and, of course – top of the heap – Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast At Tiffany's, although in the demure age in which it was made... the nature of her profession couldn't be specified."

Film editor of the Radio Times Andrew Collins added: "It comes as little surprise that male voters put Ursula Andress's definitive Bond girl in Dr No at number one, while she failed to make the female voters' top ten.

"However, the men also fancied The Graduate's seductive older woman Mrs Robinson (Anne Bancroft ) which at least exonerates them from ageism."