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Critical Response - AFI
25 Greatest Female Stars
This list features the most legendary female movie stars in film history as rated by the American Film Institute.
RANK | ACTOR | NOTABLE FILM | LIFESPAN |
1 | Katharine Hepburn | The Philadelphia Story (1939) | 1907–2003 |
2 | Bette Davis | All About Eve (1950) | 1908–1989 |
3 | Audrey Hepburn | Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) | 1929–1993 |
4 | Ingrid Bergman | Casablanca (1942) | 1915–1982 |
5 | Greta Garbo | Ninotchka (1939) | 1905–1990 |
6 | Marilyn Monroe | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) | 1926–1962 |
7 | Elizabeth Taylor | Cleopatra (1963) | 1932–2011 |
8 | Judy Garland | The Wizard of Oz (1939) | 1922–1969 |
9 | Marlene Dietrich | Witness for the Prosecution (1957) | 1901–1992 |
10 | Joan Crawford | Mildred Pierce (1945) | 190?–1977 |
11 | Barbara Stanwyck | Double Indemnity (1944) | 1907–1990 |
12 | Claudette Colbert | It Happened One Night (1934) | 1903–1996 |
13 | Grace Kelly | Rear Window (1954) | 1929–1982 |
14 | Ginger Rogers | Top Hat (1935) | 1911–1995 |
15 | Mae West | She Done Him Wrong (1933) | 1893–1980 |
16 | Vivien Leigh | Gone with the Wind (1939) | 1913–1967 |
17 | Lillian Gish | Birth of a Nation (1915) | 1893–1993 |
18 | Shirley Temple | Bright Eyes (1934) | 1928–2014 |
19 | Rita Hayworth | The Lady from Shanghai (1947) | 1918–1987 |
20 | Lauren Bacall | The Big Sleep (1946) | 1924–2014 |
21 | Sophia Loren | Two Women (1960) | 1934– |
22 | Jean Harlow | Hell’s Angels (1930) | 1911–1937 |
23 | Carole Lombard | To Be or Not to Be (1942) | 1908–1942 |
24 | Mary Pickford | My Best Girl (1927) | 1892–1979 |
25 | Ava Gardner | The Killers (1946) | 1922–1990 |
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