American Film Institute's 50 Greatest Screen Legends

The American Film Institute 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.”

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

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