AFI’s 100 years…100 stars
The American Film Institute defined an “American screen legend” as an actor or a team of actors with a significant screen presence in American feature-length (40 min) films whose screen debut occurred in or before 1950, or whose screen debut occurred after 1950 but whose death has marked a completed body of work.
(left to right)
ACTORS
Humphrey Bogart
Cary Grant
James Stewart
Marlon Brando
Fred Astaire
Henry Fonda
Clark Gable
James Cagney
Spencer Tracy
Charlie Chaplin
Gary Cooper
Gregory Peck
John Wayne
Laurence Olivier
Gene Kelly
Orson Welles
Kirk Douglas
James Dean
Burt Lancaster
The Marx Brothers
Buster Keaton
Sidney Poitier
Robert Mitchum
Edward G. Robinson
William Holden
ACTRESSES
Katharine Hepburn
Bette Davis
Audrey Hepburn
Ingrid Bergman
Greta Garbo
Marilyn Monroe
Elizabeth Taylor
Judy Garland
Marlene Dietrich
Joan Crawford
Barbara Stanwyck
Claudette Colbert
Grace Kelly
Ginger Rogers
Mae West
Vivien Leigh
Lillian Gish
Shirley Temple
Rita Hayworth
Lauren Bacall
Sophia Loren
Jean Harlow
Carole Lombard
Mary Pickford
Ava Gardner
