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
Rudolph Valentino.....
Gina Lollobrigida....
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I’m related to Marlene Dietrich through my Mom’s side of the family. Don’t applaud - Just throw US currency, please…
Sean Connery...
As usual a pretty subjective list. I would not have had Katherine Hepburn 1st at all.
What, no Traci Lords?
Made more movies than most of them.
Like you don’t know who she is . . .
John Wayne is way too far down.
I was wondering the same. Are the Marx brothers so legendary that they deserve to take up three spots on the list? Really?
There can be only one #1!
The kids here know a percentage of people on the list. And love them
Please take Sunday and settle in for a flick with them
They’re still great. Classic
The reason they’re all up there and the list stops, is that in the late sixties when the evil one really moved in, the ratings system entered. This allowed sex onto the screen. It doesn’t belong in any classic flick you would want to see with your family and discuss it. There’s always the image in your collective mind. It destroys
The ones we’ve seen with the people on the list:
Oklahoma
All the Marx Bros
American in Paris
On the town and all the Sinatra/Munchen/kelly s
Grand Hotel
On the waterfront
Julius Caesar
Rear Window and most Hitchcock
Most Katherine Hepburn - esp bringing up baby, Philadelphia story, holiday,
Sabrina- Audrey H not the new one - which is fine but what is she wearing
Which brings its to Edith head. The costume designers and also the musical scores are underrated
All Rogers and Hammerstein- Julie Andrews, jones
Sound of music, king and I
The good musicals:
The above and then Mercer, leowe, Wilson-
The music Man (Robert Preston), seven Brides for Seven Brothers (any grandparent who hasn’t set their granddaughter in for that -)
His Girl Friday -saving the best for last here
Judy garland - wizard of oz, meet me in St. Louis
Don’t wait for TCM. Get out the firestick and do a search
Check out the local theaters. Here in my town they do revivals
This is not a waste of time. Kids will ask about these characters then you start figuring out why literature is so vital. Why do people do things. Great literary characters are drives from people the authors knew. They’re predictable and when unpredictable they can be figured out or it’s fun trying to figure them out
All old Disney. Is great. Pre 68
Could make another list all together , Comedy Teams
Yes, I watched them just last night. Not too many actors who worked 70-90 years ago are still as popular and easily recognized. That’s not taking away from anyone on the list. I would watch any of them if their work was offered more often on TV.
No one from this century? Meryl Streep? Brad Pitt?
You might not like them, but they carry films.
John Holmes
Yul Brynner was at least as good as the men on that list. Heck, so was Frank Sinatra.
LOL!
There can be personal replacements.....
The Marx brothers? I love their movies, but they always play themselves. 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.
I mentioned some of these names to my adult daughters. They had no idea who I was talking about.
poor man’s Marilyn Monroe they say
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