Posted on 03/02/2025 7:46:11 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
WOMEN
1. Katharine Hepburn
2. Bette Davis
3. Audrey Hepburn
4. Ingrid Bergman
5. Greta Garbo
6. Marilyn Monroe
7. Elizabeth Taylor
8. Judy Garland
9. Marlene Dietrich
10. Joan Crawford
11. Barbara Stanwyck
12. Claudette Colbert
13. Grace Kelly
14. Ginger Rogers
15. Mae West
16. Vivien Leigh
17. Lillian Gish
18. Shirley Temple
19. Rita Hayworth
20. Lauren Bacall
21. Sophia Loren
22. Jean Harlow
23. Carole Lombard
24. Mary Pickford
25. Ava Gardner
MEN
1. Humphrey Bogart
2. Cary Grant
3. James Stewart
4. Marlon Brando
5. Fred Astaire
6. Henry Fonda
7. Clark Gable
8. James Cagney
9. Spencer Tracy
10. Charles Chaplin
11. Gary Cooper
12. Gregory Peck
13. John Wayne
14. Laurence Olivier
15. Gene Kelly
16. Orson Welles
17. Kirk Douglas
18. James Dean
19. Burt Lancaster
20. Chico Marx
20. Groucho Marx
20. Harpo Marx
21. Buster Keaton
22. Sidney Poitier
23. Robert Mitchum
24. Edward G. Robinson
25. William Holden
“Especially with Asta the cute dog.”
Ugh. So great.
He’s speeding across the golden gate On the way to the tracks. Nora-
The great and hilarious Myrna Loy says dear don’t you think u ought to slow down
Gets pulled over
‘Thank goodness neither of us was driving’
Cop says well if it ain’t the great detective Nick Charles. It it the wife?’
‘Well that’s what we say when we check at the hotel’ wink
‘Oh I get ya. Are you working on a case now, Mr Charles? Can you let me in on it?’
‘Well right now I’m trying to fix a speeding ticket’
‘Oh well if anyone can do it you can, Mr Charles’
Ryan Reynolds’s aut to do a remake but he’d have to bring disgusting humor into it. Too bad his wife had to make such a scene out of that weird deal she had working a sleazy movie with a sleazy actor
Well the greats are in the past unless
These losers step it up and quit leaning on sex and poop
A group of friends and I were once talking about famous people we had met. Someone met a vice president. Someone else met a major league baseball player.
But everyone agreed I had the best story. Because I once met and had a brief conversation with Moe Howard.
I am no cinemaphile but I would think maybe Jack Nicholson, Alan Rickman and Angela Lansbury might be more prominent than some of these. Perhaps James Earl Jones?
“AFI defines an “American screen legend” as an actor or a team of actors with a significant screen presence in American feature-length films whose screen debut occurred in or before 1950, or whose screen debut occurred after 1950 but whose death has marked a completed body of work.“
Mansfield was a smart man's Monroe.
I agree with them.
Oh. Thank you for the clarification.
Now I am intensely jealous!!
Tell us about it, please, please, please.
The closest I have come to famous people is one handshake away from Adolph Hitler. I kid you not.
Hedy Lamarr also sued Mel Brooks for making a play on her name...Hedley Lamarr, in Blazing Saddles. They settled out of court.
Yes, she was a genius and inventor. Pioneered technology that led to cell phone signals.
See also her trivia here:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001443/?ref_=ext_shr
I’ll certainly go for Virginia Mayo, one of my all time favorites.
A legendary actor should be so good that I forget who he is during the movie because he becomes the character for those two hours.
That’s Billy Bob Thornton.
> The closest I have come to famous people is one handshake away from Adolph Hitler. I kid you not. <
I’m trying to guess how that could happen. Perhaps you were a small child at the 1936 Olympics. Or perhaps you grew up up in a German town he was visiting.
Please don’t tell me you ran into him in Argentina long after the war ended!
Obviously wasn’t Jesse Owens.
She explained that every morning before breakfast everyone would line up, and Hitler would pass down the line and greet each one by name. She remembered it vividly. When the bombing started the extra families were removed to stay elsewhere. She remembered playing with the Goebbels children.
Ah, thanks for the reply. So it was a “six degrees of separation” thing. But in your case it was only two degrees of separation.
Or 2 MOA .
Ha!
Abbott & Costello deserve a mention, too.
Also I second Clint Eastwood, plus Paul Giamatti, Russell Crowe and Mel Gibson.
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