50 Greatest Screen Legends

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. Charlie 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. The Marx Brothers 
  21. Buster Keaton 
  22. Sidney Poitier 
  23. Robert Mitchum 
  24. Edward G. Robinson 
  25. William Holden 


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

By American Film Institute (AFI), 1999

Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn are undoubtedly greatest stars of Hollywood.  I agree with the top 3... just a little bit disagree with the order after top 5... but who really cares?  The result for top 3, or the top 5 or 10 are good enough, why they had to extend the list to 25?  Are the audience too bored or AFI people are too bored?

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