AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars

AFI 100 Years... series
1998 100 Movies
1999 100 Stars
2000 100 Laughs
2001 100 Thrills
2002 100 Passions
2003 100 Heroes & Villains
2004 100 Songs
2005 100 Movie Quotes
2005 25 Scores
2006 100 Cheers
2006 25 Musicals
2007 100 Movies (Updated)
2008 AFI's 10 Top 10

Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars is a list of the top 25 male and 25 female greatest screen legends of American film history. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 15, 1999, in a CBS special hosted by Shirley Temple, with 50 current actors making the presentations.

The American Film Institute defined an "American screen legend" as an actor or a team of actors during the Classical Hollywood cinema era with a significant screen presence in American feature-length (40 min or more) 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.

The top stars of their respective gender are Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. They starred together in the classic adventure 1951 film The African Queen, for which Bogart won his only Academy Award.

List of 50 greatest screen legends: Top 25 Male and Top 25 Female stars

No Male legends Female legends
1 Humphrey Bogart
(1899–1957)		 Katharine Hepburn
(1907–2003)
2 Cary Grant
(1904–1986)		 Bette Davis
(1908–1989)
3 James Stewart
(1908–1997)		 Audrey Hepburn
(1929–1993)
4 Marlon Brando
(1924–2004)		 Ingrid Bergman
(1915–1982)
5 Fred Astaire
(1899–1987)		 Greta Garbo
(1905–1990)
6 Henry Fonda
(1905–1982)		 Marilyn Monroe
(1926–1962)
7 Clark Gable
(1901–1960)		 Elizabeth Taylor
(1932–2011)
8 James Cagney
(1899–1986)		 Judy Garland
(1922–1969)
9 Spencer Tracy
(1900–1967)		 Marlene Dietrich
(1901–1992)
10 Charlie Chaplin
(1889–1977)		 Joan Crawford
(1905–1977)
11 Gary Cooper
(1901–1961)		 Barbara Stanwyck
(1907–1990)
12 Gregory Peck
(1916–2003)		 Claudette Colbert
(1903–1996)
13 John Wayne
(1907–1979)		 Grace Kelly
(1929–1982)
14 Laurence Olivier
(1907–1989)		 Ginger Rogers
(1911–1995)
15 Gene Kelly
(1912–1996)		 Mae West
(1893–1980)
16 Orson Welles
(1915–1985)		 Vivien Leigh
(1913–1967)
17 Kirk Douglas
(born 1916)		 Lillian Gish
(1893–1993)
18 James Dean
(1931–1955)		 Shirley Temple
(1928–2014)
19 Burt Lancaster
(1913–1994)		 Rita Hayworth
(1918–1987)
20 Marx Brothers
Chico (1887–1961)
Harpo (1888–1964)
Groucho (1890–1977)		 Lauren Bacall
(1924–2014)
21 Buster Keaton
(1895–1966)		 Sophia Loren
(born 1934)
22 Sidney Poitier
(born 1927)		 Jean Harlow
(1911–1937)
23 Robert Mitchum
(1917–1997)		 Carole Lombard
(1908–1942)
24 Edward G. Robinson
(1893–1973)		 Mary Pickford
(1892–1979)
25 William Holden
(1918–1981)		 Ava Gardner
(1922–1990)

References

    • "AFI Recognizes the 50 Greatest American Screen Legends" (Press release). American Film Institute. June 16, 1999. Archived from the original on January 13, 2013. Retrieved August 31, 2013.
    • List of the 500 nominated star legends
    • List of the 50 winning legends
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