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?

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. Ingrid Bergman — ranked #1212
    Ingrid Bergman
    Two-time Best Actress and one-time Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner, celebrated for Casablanca and Notorious.
    51pts
  13. 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
  14. 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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