Who is the greatest classic Hollywood actress of all time?
The golden age of Hollywood produced cinema's greatest female stars. Who stands above them all as the greatest classic Hollywood actress?
1Katharine Hepburn
AFI's #1 female screen legend and four-time Academy Award winner, defining independent womanhood in Hollywood for five decades.
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2Audrey Hepburn
Oscar, Tony, Emmy, and Grammy winner whose elegance in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Roman Holiday made her a timeless style and screen icon.
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3Marilyn Monroe
The most iconic sex symbol of the 20th century, whose magnetic comedic timing and screen presence defined an era of Hollywood glamour.
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4Bette Davis
AFI's #2 female star and two-time Oscar winner who transformed American acting with raw intensity in films like All About Eve.
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5Grace Kelly
Oscar-winning actress who starred in three Hitchcock films before becoming Princess of Monaco and representing Hollywood royalty literally.
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6Barbara Stanwyck
AFI's #11 female legend whose mastery of noir and melodrama in Double Indemnity and Stella Dallas earned four Oscar nominations.
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7Jean Harlow
The original Platinum Blonde whose brash, comedic charisma in the early 1930s made her the decade's most electrifying sex symbol.
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8Greta Garbo
Mysterious Swedish-born icon whose sphinx-like persona and luminous screen presence in Anna Karenina made her Hollywood's greatest enigma.
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9Vivien Leigh
Two-time Oscar winner best remembered as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire.
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10Claudette Colbert
Oscar-winning comedic actress whose screwball timing in It Happened One Night and The Palm Beach Story set the standard for the genre.
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11Ingrid Bergman
Two-time Best Actress and one-time Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner, celebrated for Casablanca and Notorious.
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12Rita Hayworth
The 'Love Goddess' of the 1940s whose dancing, beauty, and charisma in Gilda made her one of Hollywood's defining pin-up stars.
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13Judy Garland
The inimitable star of The Wizard of Oz whose heartbreaking vulnerability and soaring voice made her one of Hollywood's most beloved figures.
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14Joan Crawford
Ruthlessly ambitious Oscar winner who reinvented herself multiple times across four decades, peaking with her comeback in Mildred Pierce.
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