1.   But when Meryl Streep tumbled off a plane at Heathrow yesterday, the screen goddess looked every inch a mortal.

2.   She was still a screen goddess at the pinnacle of her career.

3.   But when Stone arrived, there was no sign of the dazzling blonde screen goddess.

4.   Gloria Swanson certainly never had another role to rival fading silent screen goddess Norma Desmond, and she knew it, too.

5.   Her relationship with Vadim, a legendary lover and husband of one screen goddess after another, ended during the filming, although they continued to work together.

6.   What lifts it all into orbit is Julia Roberts, drawing on her own experience to play an American screen goddess with an irresistible mix of poise and vulnerability.

7.   In an era in which screen goddesses tended to stick to one persona, Rainer reinvented herself with the versatility of a Meryl Streep.

8.   Fans who have idolised and fantasised about the blonde screen goddess for years will have had nothing left to the imagination from the extracts shown on Tuesday.

9.   Former screen goddess Brigitte Bardot has threatened to organise a worldwide boycott of Japanese goods if Japan continues to hunt whales.