Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta

Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta

'Tell me about it, stud' - Olivia Newton-John's radical metamorphosis from preppy, girl-next-door student to leather-clad blonde bombshell in 1978's teen musical Grease has been voted the Best On-Screen Makeover by fashion loving film buffs.

To mark the start of London Fashion Week, LOVEFiLM asked over 1,500 film fans to choose their favourite on-screen style overhaul, with Sandy Olsen's good girl gone bad transformation racking up over a quarter of all votes (28 per cent). 

Next, strutting onto the film catwalk is Miss Congeniality's Gracie Hart, played by Sandra Bullock, who swaps her handgun for Haute Couture to go undercover at the Miss United States beauty pageant in the 2000 comedy.

Michael Cain's efforts as pageant coach Victor Melling upgraded Gracie's wardrobe as well as her position in the LOVEFiLM poll - awarding her 16 per cent and second place.

From streetwalker to style icon, Julia Roberts in 1990's box office smash Pretty Woman flies the flag for early 90s fashion when her character Vivian Ward embarks on a shopping trip down LA's famous Rodeo Drive.

Funded by businessman Edward Lewis (played by Richard Gere), Ward ups the fashion stakes - landing Julia Roberts in third place (12 per cent).

A classic at fourth place - 1964's My Fair Lady - which starred Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle, the cockney flower girl taken under the wing of professor Henry Higgins and transformed into a high society lady.

The opulent costumes of London's upper classes were created by Sir Cecil Beaton who won an academy award for the film's fashion design.

Working for a famous fashion magazine can be tough - especially if you are more poncho than Prada. That is exactly the case for America Ferrera's brace-faced aspiring journalist Betty Suarez in Ugly Betty, who finds her role at Mode magazine a challenge when she fails to match her co-workers in the style stakes.

Her glamorous makeover in season 4, however, means that Betty strides effortlessly into fifth place (eight per cent).

Tied in joint sixth place is one actress who experiences makeovers in two very different films. Anne Hathaway's first encounter with a stylist occurred in 2001's The Princess Diaries, when her geeky schoolgirl look is overhauled to match her new role as an aspiring royal.

In 2006's The Devil Wears Prada, Hathaway plays a dowdy journalist who enlists the help of the fashion cupboard at Runway magazine to impress her dragon-like boss, played by Meryl Streep and rumoured to have been based on Vogue's editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour. Both makeovers score Hathaway six per cent.

Eighth place (with four per cent) in the poll is taken by Laney Boggs (played by Rachel Leigh Cook) in She's All That. Boggs' transformation is taken on as a bet between two high school jocks, but her final makeover bowls over fellow pupils at her big prom reveal. In ninth place, Talulah Riley's character Annabelle Fritton also receives a makeover from her school friends in 2007's St. Trinian's (two per cent).

In tenth and final place is everyone's favourite mean girl, Cady Heron - played by Lindsay Lohan in 2004's Mean Girls. Lohan undergoes a slow and steady makeover across the duration of the film to fit in with 'The Plastics', although reverts to her original style when she realises who her true friends are at the end of the comedy flick.

Top ten on-screen makeovers:
1. Sandy Olsen (Olivia Newton-John) - Grease (28 per cent)
2. Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) - Miss Congeniality (16 per cent)
3. Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts) - Pretty Woman (12 per cent)
4. Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) - My Fair Lady (10 per cent)
5. Betty Suarez (America Ferrera) - Ugly Betty (eight per cent)
=6. Mia Thermopolis (Anne Hathaway) - The Princess Diaries (= six per cent)
=6. Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) - The Devil Wears Prada (= six per cent)
8. Laney Boggs (Rachel Leigh Cook) - She's All That (four per cent)
9. Annabelle Fritton (Talulah Riley) - St. Trinians (two per cent)
10. Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) - Mean Girls (one per cent)

Other - seven per cent

Helen Cowley, Editor of LOVEFiLM, commented: "Fashion has always been in the spotlight throughout film and television history, often making style icons out of the very actors who model the latest trends on-screen. 

"It is when our favourite characters receive glamorous, or unexpected makeovers however, that we really get to see the power of fashion to overhaul and enhance.