"I'm a victim of soi-com-stance!"
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
Hellmig.
"I'm a victim of soi-com-stance!"
“ Brainwashed for sure.
We are old and in the way
Blocking their Hedonist tendencies.”
I learned much of what I know from the people in my family two generations before me
I intend to try. Not give up
Here are two more screen legends: Charlton Heston and James Earl Jones.
“ A bit? looks like the youngest on that list died 50 years ago. And who compiles these idiotic lists?”
Why is it more true than not?
Compile a comparative list from baby boomers and younger
Sam Malone: Then the doctor was right, I’m a shallow guy. I mean, everything I do is to impress women or revolves around sex. I guess I’m nothing more than a hot, manly machine of love.
Coach: Sam, wait. What about the Stooges?
Sam Malone: They’re all right, they’re over at Cliff’s.
Coach: No, no, Sam. What about the Three Stooges?
Sam Malone: Oh, yeah, great. I like the Three Stooges. That helps a lot.
Coach: Wait a minute, Sam. Think about this.
Do women like the Three Stooges?
Sam Malone: No, they hate them.
Coach: All right.
Are women impressed that
you like the Three Stooges?
Sam Malone: No, some of them even think they’re stupid.
Coach: When you’re watching
the Three Stooges, do you think they’re sexy?
Sam Malone: No, when you watch the Three Stooges, nobody has time to think about sex or women.
Hey, wait a minute.
That means I do have another interest in my life.
I like the Stooges for themselves.
Hey, whoa, I’m okay.
Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!
I think Robert Mitchum is the coolest man who ever lived.
Fred McMurray
The Caine Mutiny. What a slimeball he was in that role. Jose Ferrer should have just decked him instead of just throwing the drink in his face.
Bette Davis? Not so much. No real glamour there. She belongs with working actresses Joan Crawford and Barbara Stanwick, not with legends like Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Greta Garbo, and Ingrid Bergman. Even actresses lower down on the list like Grace Kelly, Vivien Leigh, and Lauren Bacall have left more of an impression than Bette Davis or Joan Crawford.
Otherwise, the list is a good representation of “Old Hollywood.” It’s a list that could have been made 50 years ago. Everything was sorted out then and hasn’t changed since then.
Where’s Bob Hope and Bing Crosby?
Probably because the idea of a “legend” is someone from the past. There is the term “living legend” because legend usually does not denote someone living.
This isn’t just a best actor’s list. I think the term “legend” implies deceased. Gene Hackman just made the cut.
Where on earth did that come from?
Cheers.
No Lee Marvin or Jane Russell?
Not well known about that beauty was that she was also an electronics genius. She invented "spread spectrum" radio communications.
Also Basil Rathbone (Sherlock Holmes) and Laurel & Hardy.
And the beautiful, glamourous, and elegant Myrna Loy.
I got a gay Niece and spent a week with her last October...
It’s like that ‘ZIZ’ Cult seriously.
Especially with Asta the cute dog.
That’s a lot of ya
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