Fun poll at the Rittenhouse Review, for the worst actress in the world:

Madonna Ciccone: 122 votes, or 29%
Melanie Griffith: 68 votes, 16%
Andie MacDowell: 49 votes, 12%
Demi Moore: 46 votes, 11%
Anne Heche: 31 votes, 7%
Julia Roberts: 31 votes, 7%
Other: 30 votes, 7%
Sandra Bullock: 29 votes, 7%
Candace Bergen: 12 votes, 3%
Jane Fonda: 4 votes, 1%

I realise there is a difference between being the worst actress and appearing in the worst films, but Melanie Griffiths has been in two of the worst films ever made - indeed, I would cite them as the two worst films ever made (then again, she was also in the wonderful Something Wild).

The first was called 'A Stranger Among Us', in which she played a tough NYPD cop who goes undercover in the Hassidic community to solve a murder and falls for the Rebbe's son. Truly - albeit unintentionally - hilarious.

Then there was the gloriously awful 'Shining Through', a Nazi thriller in which she played a double, triple, quadruple - I can't remember, I don't want to remember, who the hell cares? - agent, secretary to Michael Douglas' SS villain. The only memory I have of the film was that half an hour in, I suddenly realised I had left my oven on. I rushed home to turn it off (I lived 5 minutes from the cinema) and when I got back asked my friend what had happened. 'Nothing', she replied. 'Can I go and turn your oven back on? It'll keep me occupied'.

Even better, perhaps, is her website. It's beyond parody.