A thread over at IMDB on favourite actresses, got me thinking on just who are my favourite actresses and how would I rank them ..... This then is my top 25 (or so) ... but we like so many more --- so there's also a second tier. I must have forgot some .... (left: Remick & Hepburn in A DELIATE BALANCE).
Sophia Loren
Monica Vitti
Lee Remick
Romy Schneider
Marilyn Monroe
Susan Hayward
Kay Kendall
Katharine Hepburn
Bette Davis
Garbo
Dietrich
Anouk Aimee
Julie Christie
Faye Dunaway
Deborah Kerr
Jean Simmons
Elizabeth Taylor
Julie Harris
Joan Fontaine
Janet Leigh
Anne Baxter
Ruth Roman
Catherine Deneuve
Frncoise Dorleac
Silvana Mangano
Barbara Stanwyck.
5 more:
Audrey Hepburn
Simone Signoret
Maggie Smith
Judi Dench
Lauren Bacall !
Plus: Geraldine Page, Sarah Miles, Vanessa Redgrave, Belinda Lee, Lilli Palmer, Claudia Cardinale, Gina Lollobrigida,
Jeanne Moreau, Melina Mercouri, Joan Greenwood, Claire Bloom, Ava Gardner, Kim Novak, Jean Seberg, Irene Papas, Irene Dunne,
Margaret Sullavan, Loretta Young, 
We will have to tackle Actors and Directors next, or soon ...
That's a great list! An almost impossible task!! The first five or so are easy but then winnowing down the others becomes the real challenge. I'll try though. I'm sure I'll have to include an addendum too. I did notice our list shared some of the same ladies albeit in different spots.
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Linda Darnell
Julie Christie
Susan Hayward
Ida Lupino
Margaret Sullavan
Thelma Ritter
Suzanne Pleshette
Gloria Grahame
Bette Davis
Emma Thompson
Eve Arden
Jane Fonda
Barbara Stanwyck
Joan Crawford
Doris Day
Judy Garland
Marilyn Monroe
Diana Rigg
Vanessa Redgrave
Jean Simmons
Sally Field
Diane Lane
Veronica Lake
Priscilla Lane
Lee Remick
With apologies to: Ruth Roman (I love her dark intensity-if it was a list of top 26 she'd be in that slot), Gena Rowlands, Joan Plowright, Vivien Leigh, Joan Bennett, Anne Bancroft, Kay Kendall, Kate Winslet, Christine Lahti, Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Debbie Reynolds, Judy Holliday, Rosalind Russell, Ann Sheridan, Inger Stevens, Mary Wickes, Lee Grant, Spring Byington, Glynis Johns, Ann Sothern, Fay Bainter, Julie Harris, Alfre Woodard, Claire Trevor, Lucile Watson, Helen Mirren, Geraldine Page, Sissy Spacek, Agnes Moorehead, Madeline Kahn, Glenda Jackson, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Angelica Huston, Maggie Smith, Simone Signoret, Bonnie Bedelia, Julianne Moore, Ellen Burstyn, Carole Lombard, Audrey Hepburn, Rachel Weisz, Sigourney Weaver, Gladys Cooper, Colleen Dewhurst, Natalie Wood, Juliet Stevenson, Polly Walker, Stella Stevens, Catherine Deneuve, Gail Russell, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Jane Wyman and Ann Dvorak. I'm positive I've left a few off that I love and admire but really the list could be twice as long and still not get everyone!
I know ! - its impossible to list every actress one like - how could I have forgot Linda Darnell or Gene Tierney? I tried to keep mine to leading ladies, otherwise would have had to include Thelma, Agnes, Eve Arden and so many more ...
ReplyDeleteYours is a terrific list too. Actors and Directors should be easier !
Directors will be a snap I think. Actors will be easier than the actresses but I'm sure my list will exceed 25!
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