Top Ten Romantic Comedy Heroes

Disney's hit film Enchanted boasts a fairy princess, cooperative cockroaches and a one-legged pigeon but best of all, it has Patrick Dempsey of Grey's Anatomy fame, as the romantic lead the likes of which have not been seen in many a year. And the film's success shows just how much the traditional hunky male lead has been missed.

So who are the top ten romantic comedy heroes?

Mel Gibson in WHAT WOMEN WANT

Mr Gibson puts in a surprisingly virile turn as Nick Marshall, a chauvinistic ad boss who has the tables turned on him when a freak accident means he can hear what women think. Who knew he could dance, too?

Tom Hanks in SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE

Sleepless could be considered the mother of all chick flicks - it certainly spawned a succession of poor imitations. Hanks and Meg Ryan were the golden couple here, Hanks playing widowed father Sam Baldwin who finds love again with Ryan's journalist Annie.

Richard Gere in PRETTY WOMAN

Gere and Roberts struck gold in this 20th-century reworking of the Cinderella story as the jaded businessman Edward and the hooker with a heart of gold Vivian. Gere showed he could still be as sexy as he was in American Gigolo.

Hugh Grant in FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL

Grant made his name as the floppy-haired Brit Charles who falls for Andie McDowell's American tourist Carrie. He's been playing variations of the same role ever since...

Tom Cruise in JERRY MAGUIRE

One of Cruise's finest roles sees him play the eponymous sports agent who has a crisis and winds up in the arms of single mom Dorothy, a scene-stealing Renee Zellweger, then a relative newcomer.

Henry Fonda in THE LADY EVE

In probably the best romantic comedy of all time, Fonda plays the hopelessly academic and wealthy Charles Pike who is led a merry dance by Barbara Stanwyck's chancer Jean.

Clark Gable in IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT

Gable's sardonic virility and lighthearted charm appealed to men as well as women and he was never better than as caddish reporter Peter Warne who by Ellie, a spoilt rich girl on the run played by Claudette Colbert. He really triumphed in this movie winning the Academy Award in 1934.

Humphrey Bogart in SABRINA