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
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- 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
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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
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- 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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