WHO ARE YOUR TOP 50 FAVORITES?

[Vecchiolarry]

Hi,

I think you have many, many good people on here, especially Roy Rogers. He's the first person I ever thought of as a "movie star"..... Still love him.

Just a few personal exceptions of mine:
1) never was crazy about Ginger Rogers
2) don't know who Lorraine Bracco nor Wendy Crewson are
3) absolutely detest Frank Sinatra (it's very personal) - he's ugly & has no talent & was a vile bully....

Other than that, you and I agree pretty much.

Larry

[ken123]

Ms Bracco is on the Sopranos and was married to Harvey Keitel and she has appearred in such films as GoodFellas. Canadian born Wendy Crewson, who is also one of my favorites,has been in Air Force One, as Harrison Ford's wife,Corrina, Corrina,and a series of made for TV films as Joanne Kilbourne, a former cop turned TV reporter, who solves murders. Ms Crewson, over fifty in real life, is VERY HOT IMHO.

[Vecchiolarry]

Hi,

Thanks to both for informing me about Lorraine and Wendy. I've never seen any of those shows, but I'm sure they're good actresses and deserving of your praise.

Yes, just because we differ about anyone or anything doesn't mean we can't still be friends, and we are!!

Larry

[ken123]

Wendy Crewson played a lady with Bi - Sexual tendencies in " Mercy " starring Ellen Barkin as a cop investigating a murder. The movie is not that good, but Ms Crewson looks great.

[pktrekgirl]

I concur on Lorainne Bracco. I can't speak about the 'hot' part...but I do think she is a good actress and was fabulous in MEDICINE MAN.

And in THE SOPRANOS as well.

BTW, guys - she was guest programmer last month, IIRC.

[ken123]

OK - My top Fifty
1. Maureen O' Hara ( surprise )
2. Linda Darnell
3.Joan Bennett
4. Barbara Stanwyck
5. Barbara Hershey
6.Ina Balin
7.Wendy Crewson
8.Claire Trevor
9. Marie Windsor
10. Cathy O' Donnell
11.Joan Blondell
12.Ann Sheridan
13.Vera Miles
14.Merle Oberon
15.Greer Garson
16.Marsha Hunt
17.Rita Johnson
18.Ella Raines
19.Helen Walker
20.Eleanor Parker
21.Jan Sterling
22.Gina Gershon
23.Jane Greer
24.Ruth Roman
25.Lola Albright
25.Linda Cristal
26.Lilli Palmer
27.Kim Hunter
28.Janet Margolin
29.Katharin Hepburn
30.Irene Dunne
31.Anne Bancroft
32.Dorothy Dandridge
33.Lynn Whitfield
34.Carole Lombard
35.Lauren Bacall
36.Lena Horne
37.Lonette McKee
38.Hillary Brooke
39.Dorothy Lamour
40.Paulette Goddard
41.Jane Seymour
42.Rita Moreno
43.Gale Sondergaard
44.Cyd Charisse
45.Agnes Moorhead
46.Diane Baker
47.Martha Scott
48.Thelma Ritter
49.Eve Arden
50.Jeanne Crain

As for the ladies after # 1 they are not in any order. As for men I will have to think about it.

[pktrekgirl]

Here is mine, just for fun. I love making lists. It's so...organizational!

Really, however, only the top 10 in each category are fairly well 'set in stone' (although order may vary slightly outside of the top 5). Everyone else is in roughly the right order, but below #20 or so, the list is very much more fluid, depending upon what I'm in the mood for, the last performance I saw, etc.

1. Gary Cooper
2. Errol Flynn
3. Rudolph Valentino
4. Charlie Chaplin
5. Ronald Colman
6. Clark Gable
7. William Powell
8. Gregory Peck
9. Humphrey Bogart
10. Spencer Tracy

11. Montgomery Clift
12. Charles Boyer
13. James Cagney
14. Cary Grant
15. Omar Sharif
16. Joel McCrea
17. Richard Burton
18. Franchot Tone
19. Burt Lancaster
20. Van Heflin
21. Leslie Howard
22. Melvyn Douglas
23. Laurence Olivier
24. William Holden
25. Basil Rathbone
26. Rock Hudson
27. Tyrone Power
28. George Sanders
29. Dana Andrews
30. Buster Keaton
31. Gene Kelly
32. Richard Barthelmess
33. Glenn Ford
34. Robert Montgomery
35. Fred Astaire
36. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
37. Paul Henreid
38. Chester Morris
39. Eric Blore
40. Warren William
41. Victor Mature
42. John Garfield
43. Fred MacMurray
44. Edward G. Robinson
45. Lee Bowman
46. John Gilbert
47. Ramon Novarro
48. Walter Brennan
49. Stewart Granger
60. Lew Ayres





1. Barbara Stanwyck
2. Myrna Loy
3. Kay Francis
4. Olivia deHavilland
5. Jean Arthur
6. Irene Dunne
7. Marlene Dietrich
8. Ann Harding
9. Lauren Bacall
10. Ingrid Bergman

11. Audrey Hepburn
12. Carole Lombard
13. Jean Harlow
14. Bette Davis
15. Deborah Kerr
16. Ann Sheridan
17. Norma Shearer
18. Mary Pickford
19. Greer Garson
20. Gloria Swanson
21. Claudette Colbert
22. Elizabeth Taylor
23. Greta Garbo
24. Edna Purviance
25. Ginger Rogers
26. Bebe Daniels
27. Paulette Goddard
28. Vivien Leigh
29. Rita Hayworth
30. Patricia Neal
31. Clara Bow
32. Mary Astor
33. Alexis Smith
34. Loretta Young
35. Rosalind Russell
36. Lana Turner
37. Jane Wyman
38. Ava Gardner
39. Gene Tierney
40. Vilma Banky
41. Hedy Lamarr
42. Miriam Hopkins
43. Lillian Gish
44. Lucille Ball
45. Doris Day
46. Dorothy Malone
47. Nazimova
48. Agnes Ayres
49. Angela Lansbury
50. Ruth Warrick


The only 'modern' actors/actresses I really care about are:

1. Johnny Depp
2. Hugh Grant

And in no particular order at all:
3. Julia Roberts
4. Angelina Jolie
5. Ethan Hawke
6. Orlando Bloom
7. Emma Thompson
8. Kristin Scott Thomas
9. Meryl Streep
10. Anthony Hopkins
11. Antonio Bandaras
12. Meg Ryan
13. Tom Hanks
14. Andie McDowell
15. Robert Redford

[mrsl]

Man, you don't realize how many there are until you start to make a list like this. Being a woman, I had no trouble with the men, names came flying at me, but the women gave me time to think a little.

MEN

1. Robert Mitchum
2. John Wayne
3. Jimmy Stewart
4. Richard Widmark
5. Gregory Peck
6. Sean Connery
7. Howard Keel
8. Cary Grant
9. Robert Redford
10. Clint Eastwood
11. Hugh Grant
12. George Clooney
13. Humphrey Bogart
14. Tom Hanks
15. Van Johnson
16. Walter Brennan
17. Ben Johnson
18. Joel McCrea
19. Alan Ladd
20. Randolph Scott
21. Hugh Jackman
22. Joseph Cotten
23. Spencer Tracey
24. Ward Bond
25. Dennis Quaid
26. Paul Newman
27. Sean Penn
28. George Murphy
29. Fred Astaire
30. John Carroll
31. Hector Elizondo
32. Tommy Lee Jones
33. Gary Cooper
34. Denzel Washington
35. Lloyd Bridges
36. Dan Dailey
37. George Kennedy
38. Harrison Ford
39. Jim Garner
40. Chuck Connors
41. Henry Fonda
42. Sidney Poitier
43. Donald O'Connor
44. Charlton Heston
45. George Peppard
46. Arthur Kennedy
47. Tyrone Power
48. Richard Egan
49. Fred MacMurray
50. Jeff Bridges

WOMEN

1. Ann Sheridan
2. Ann Sothern
3. Jan Russell
4. Claudette Colbert
5. Greer Garson
6. Susan Hayward
7. Jeanne Crain
8. Debbie Reynolds
9. Angela Lansbury
10. Judy Garland
11. Joan Blondell
12. Barbara Stanwyck
13. Loretta Young
14. Shirley Temple
15. Patsy Kelley
16. Una Merkel
17. Marjorie Main
18. Merle Oberon
19. Norma Shearer
20. Mary Wickes
21. Deborah Kerr
22. Julia Roberts
23. Sandra Bullock
24. Ingrid Bergman
25. Olivia de Havilland
26. Glenn Close
27. Cyd Charise
28. Charlise Theron
29. Caterine Zeta Jones
30. Reese Witherspoon
31. Agnes Moorhead
32. Eve Arden
33. Jane Darwell
34. Lauren Bacall
35. Audrey Hepburn
36. Gene Tierney
37. Lucille Ball
38. Esther Williams
39. Hattie McDaniel
40. Sally Field
41. Louise Beavers
42. Thelma Ritter
43. Jane Greer
44. Linda Darnell
45. Maureen O'Hara
46. Kirsten Dunst
47. Joan Cusack
48. Rita Wilson
49. Susan Sarandon
50. Joanne Woodward

Anne

[traceyk]

Wow. 50? Of each?

Well, I can combine them into one list of 50, I guess.

Here goes:

Top Ten:

1. Marlene Dietrich
2. Bette Davis
3. William Powell
4. Myrna Loy
5. Cary Grant
6. Katharine Hepburn
7. Johnny Depp
8. Will Smith
9. Sean Connery
10. Ginger Rogers

The rest (no particular order):

11. Carole Lombard
12. Robin Williams
13. Clark Gable
14. Gene Kelly
15. Fred Astaire
16. Spencer Tracy
17. Irene Dunne
18. Thelma Ritter
19. Eugene Pallette
20. Gail Patrick
21. Jean Harlow
22. Bogey and Bacall
23. Aline MacMahon
24. Barbara Stanwyck
25. Jean Dixon
26. Edward Everett Horton
27. Mischa Auer
28. Marie Dressler
29. Mae Robson
30. John Barrymore
31. Margaret Sullavan
32. Joan Cusack
33. Eve Arden
34. Joan Blondell
35. James Cagney
36. Alan Rickman
37. Olympia Dukakis
38. Angelica Huston
39. Frank Morgan
40. Mae West
41. Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon
42. Orson Welles
43. Agnes Moorehead
44. Robert Montgomery
45. Fred MacMurray
46. Michelle Pfieffer
47. Reese Witherspoon
48. Susan Sarandon
49. Claudette Colbert
50. Charles Laughton

Cher and Meg Ryan in some things

[bobhopefan1940]

My tastes are sorta limited (as is my knowledge ), so I gave 25 spots to the men and the same to the ladies. I apologize if I happened to repeat any or mispell any! And all are in order of importance...

Men:

1. Buster Keaton
2. William Powell
3. Robert Montgomery
4. Lew Ayres
5. Bob Hope
6. Bing Crosby
7. Fred Astaire
8. Gene Kelly
9. Charlie Chaplin
10. Franchot Tone
11. Cary Grant
12. Gary Cooper
13. Edward Everett Horton
14. Van Johnson
15. Donald O'Connor
16. Frank Sinatra
17. Tony Curtis
18. Sidney Poitier
19. Gene Wilder
20. Peter Lorre
21. Joseph Cotten
22. Jimmy Stewart
23. Dana Andrews
24. Harold Lloyd
25. Sterling Holloway

Women:

1. Judy Garland
2. Virginia O'Brien
3. Claudette Colbert
4. Ingrid Bergman
5. Eleanor Powell
6. Jean Arthur
7. Esther Williams
8. Audrey Hepburn
9. Maureen O'Sullivan
10. Kay Francis
11. Kathryn Grayson
12. Jean Harlow
13. Myrna Loy
14. June Allyson
15. Shirley Temple
16. Mae West
17. Katharine Hepburn
18. Barbara Stanwyck
19. Carole Lombard
20. Ginger Rogers
21. Marion Davies
22. Paulette Goddard
23. Joan Crawford
24. Ann Miller
25. Norma Shearer

[MissGoddess]

This has been fun and challenging. Except for the top two in each, my lists are subject to minor fluctuation.

(takes a deep breath) here we go!

MEN

1. Gary Cooper
2. Clark Gable
3. William Powell
4. Robert Montgomery
5. Spencer Tracy
6. Frank Sinatra
6. Errol Flynn
7. John Barrymore
8.Robert Mitchum
9. Yul Brynner
10. Ronald Colman
11. Brian Keith
12. Humphrey Bogart
13. Jimmy Durante
14.John Wayne
15. James Stewart
16. Charles Boyer
17. Sean Connery
18. Robert Ryan
19. George Sanders
20. Cary Grant
21.Tyrone Power
22. Gregory Peck
23. Dana Andrews
24.Robert Taylor
25. Fred Astaire
26. John Payne
27. Orson Welles
28. George Brent
29. James Cagney
30. Edward G. Robinson
31.David Niven
32. William Holden
33. Anthony Quinn
34. Edward Arnold
35. Herbert Marshall
36. Donald Crisp
37. Clifton Webb
38. Burl Ives
39. Walter Brennan
40. Rex Harrison
41. Mischa Auer
42. Joel McRea
43. Reginald Gardiner
44. Monty Wooley
45. Ward Bond
46. Finlay Currie
47. Louis Calherne
48. James Gleason
49. Randolph Scott
50. Harry Carey (sr.)

LADIES
1. Vivien Leigh
2. Carole Lombard
3. Myrna Loy
4. Ava Gardner
5. Marilyn Monroe
6. Gene Tierney
7. Marlene Dietrich
8. Lana Turner
9. Rita Hayworth
10. Bette Davis
11. Audrey Hepburn
12. Grace Kelly
13. Greta Garbo
12. Joan Crawford
13. Joan Blondell
14. Linda Darnell
15. Kay Francis
16. Barbara Stanwyck
17. Sophia Loren
18. Alice Brady
19. Greer Garson
20. Ingrid Berman
21. Norma Shearer
22. Ann Sothern
23.Thelma Ritter
24. Natalie Wood
25. Lauren Bacall
26. Olivia de Havilland
27. Eve Arden
28. Maureen O'Hara
29. Edna Mae Oliver
30. Deborah Kerr
31. Mildred Natwick
32. Maureen O'Sullivan
33. Paulette Goddard
34. Joan Fontaine
35. Ann Sheridan
36. Constance Bennett
37. Hedy Lamarr
38. Sara Allgood
39. Claudette Colbert
40. Viginia Grey
41. Claudia Cardinale
42. Gina Lollabrigida
43. Gail Russell
44. Capucine
45. Ginger Rogers
46. Kay Kendall
47. Isabell Jewel
48. Dorothy MacGuire
49. Una Merkel
50. Una O'Connor

*Edited to include Edward G. Robinson, Jimmy Cagney and Gail Russell. Can't believe I forgot them.

** Edited again to include William Holden!