| MEN | WOMEN | ||
| 1 | Humphrey Bogart | 1 | Katharine Hepburn |
| 2 | Cary Grant | 2 | Bette Davis |
| 3 | James Stewart | 3 | Audrey Hepburn |
| 4 | Marlon Brando | 4 | Ingrid Bergman |
| 5 | Fred Astaire | 5 | Greta Garbo |
| 6 | Henry Fonda | 6 | Marilyn Monroe |
| 7 | Clark Gable | 7 | Elizabeth Taylor |
| 8 | James Cagney | 8 | Judy Garland |
| 9 | Spencer Tracy | 9 | Marlene Dietrich |
| 10 | Charlie Chaplin | 10 | Joan Crawford |
| 11 | Gary Cooper | 11 | Barbara Stanwyck |
| 12 | Gregory Peck | 12 | Claudette Colbert |
| 13 | John Wayne | 13 | Grace Kelly |
| 14 | Laurence Olivier | 14 | Ginger Rogers |
| 15 | Gene Kelly | 15 | Mae West |
| 16 | Orson Welles | 16 | Vivien Leigh |
| 17 | Kirk Douglas | 17 | Lillian Gish |
| 18 | James Dean | 18 | Shirley Temple |
| 19 | Burt Lancaster | 19 | Rita Hayworth |
| 20 | The Marx Brothers | 20 | Lauren Bacall |
| 21 | Buster Keaton | 21 | Sophia Loren |
| 22 | Sidney Poitier | 22 | Jean Harlow |
| 23 | Robert Mitchum | 23 | Carole Lombard |
| 24 | Edward G. Robinson | 24 | Mary Pickford |
| 25 | William Holden | 25 | Ava Gardner |
AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars
Facts about some of the 25 greatest men and 25 greatest women screen legends
- Lillian Gish has the longest screen career of any legend, male or female – 75 years.
- Laurence Olivier has the longest career span of any male legend – 59 years.
- There are four female living legends: Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley Temple, Lauren Bacall and Sophia Loren.
- There are two male living legends: Kirk Douglas and Sidney Poitier.
- Legends Marlon Brando, Sidney Poitier and Sophia Loren all had screen debuts in the cut-off year of 1950. Stars whose screen debuts occurred just after 1950, and therefore did not qualify as legends, include Jack Lemmon, Paul Newman, Shirley MacLaine and Clint Eastwood.
- Ten of the screen legends also comprised five legendary duos: Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. The Marx Brothers are the sole legendary team.
- There are 13 legends that made the transition from silent pictures to the “talkies.” They are: Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck, Lillian Gish, Carole Lombard, Mary Pickford, Clark Gable, Charlie Chaplin, Gary Cooper, John Wayne, the Marx Brothers, Buster Keaton and Edward G. Robinson.
- Thirteen screen legends were born outside the United States: Audrey Hepburn, Belgium; Elizabeth Taylor, England; Ingrid Bergman, Sweden; Greta Garbo, Sweden; Marlene Dietrich, Germany; Claudette Colbert, France; Vivian Leigh, India; Sophia Loren, Italy; Mary Pickford, Canada; Cary Grant, England; Charlie Chaplin, England; Laurence Olivier, England; and, Edward G. Robinson, Romania.
- Eight screen legends were born in New York City: Barbara Stanwyck, Mae West, Rita Hayworth, Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Burt Lancaster and the Marx Brothers.
- TALES OF MANHATTAN (1942) is the feature film that boasts the largest collection of screen legends: Henry Fonda, Ginger Rogers, Rita Hayworth and Edward G. Robinson. A 20-minute short film to benefit a Tuberculosis sanitarium entitled SLIPPERY PEARLS (or STOLEN JOOLS) from 1931 contains five AFI screen legends: Joan Crawford, Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Buster Keaton and Edward G. Robinson.
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