Who is the greatest classic Hollywood actress of all time?

By YPB Team

The golden age of Hollywood produced cinema's greatest female stars. Who stands above them all as the greatest classic Hollywood actress?

Katharine Hepburn — ranked #11
Katharine Hepburn
AFI's #1 female screen legend and four-time Academy Award winner, defining independent womanhood in Hollywood for five decades.
1000pts
Audrey Hepburn — ranked #22
Audrey 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.
504pts
Marilyn Monroe — ranked #33
Marilyn Monroe
The most iconic sex symbol of the 20th century, whose magnetic comedic timing and screen presence defined an era of Hollywood glamour.
480pts
Barbara Stanwyck — ranked #44
Barbara Stanwyck
AFI's #11 female legend whose mastery of noir and melodrama in Double Indemnity and Stella Dallas earned four Oscar nominations.
360pts
Jean Harlow — ranked #55
Jean Harlow
The original Platinum Blonde whose brash, comedic charisma in the early 1930s made her the decade's most electrifying sex symbol.
360pts
Grace Kelly — ranked #66
Grace Kelly
Oscar-winning actress who starred in three Hitchcock films before becoming Princess of Monaco and representing Hollywood royalty literally.
360pts
Bette Davis — ranked #77
Bette Davis
AFI's #2 female star and two-time Oscar winner who transformed American acting with raw intensity in films like All About Eve.
360pts
Vivien Leigh — ranked #88
Vivien Leigh
Two-time Oscar winner best remembered as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire.
180pts
Claudette Colbert — ranked #99
Claudette Colbert
Oscar-winning comedic actress whose screwball timing in It Happened One Night and The Palm Beach Story set the standard for the genre.
180pts
Greta Garbo — ranked #1010
Greta Garbo
Mysterious Swedish-born icon whose sphinx-like persona and luminous screen presence in Anna Karenina made her Hollywood's greatest enigma.
180pts
Rita Hayworth — ranked #1111
Rita Hayworth
The 'Love Goddess' of the 1940s whose dancing, beauty, and charisma in Gilda made her one of Hollywood's defining pin-up stars.
51pts
Ingrid Bergman — ranked #1212
Ingrid Bergman
Two-time Best Actress and one-time Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner, celebrated for Casablanca and Notorious.
51pts
Judy Garland — ranked #1313
Judy Garland
The inimitable star of The Wizard of Oz whose heartbreaking vulnerability and soaring voice made her one of Hollywood's most beloved figures.
1pts
Joan Crawford — ranked #1414
Joan Crawford
Ruthlessly ambitious Oscar winner who reinvented herself multiple times across four decades, peaking with her comeback in Mildred Pierce.
1pts

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