AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars

The American Film Institute's AFI 100 Years... series includes AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars ranking their selections for the top 25 male and 25 female greatest screen legends of American film history. On June 15, 1999, a CBS special hosted by Shirley Temple unveiled the list with fifty current actors making the presentations.

AFI 100 Years... series
1998100 Movies
1999100 Stars
2000100 Laughs
2001100 Thrills
2002100 Passions
2003100 Heroes & Villains
2004100 Songs
2005100 Movie Quotes
200525 Scores
2006100 Cheers
200625 Musicals
2007100 Movies (Updated)
2008AFI's 10 Top 10

AFI defined an "American screen legend" as an actor or a team of actors during the Classical Hollywood cinema era with a significant screen presence in American feature-length (40 min or more) 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, i.e., actors recognized for their contributions to classical Hollywood American cinema.

The top stars of their respective gender are Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. They starred together in the classic adventure 1951 film The African Queen, for which Bogart won his only Academy Award. Sidney Poitier and Sophia Loren are the list's only living honorees.[1] Of the Males Humphrey Bogart, Fred Astaire, James Cagney, Charlie Chaplin, all four Marx Brothers, Buster Keaton and Edward G. Robinson were born in the 19th Century, and the females Mae West, Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford. All the rest were born in the 20th century; among them, Gish was the last survivor. The earliest female death was Jean Harlow in 1938, and earliest male death was James Dean in 1955. The most recent was Kirk Douglas in 2020 and as of 2021 is the longest living legend. (Poitier would have to live until at least 2030 and Loren 2037 to surpass Douglas).

List of 50 greatest screen legends: Top 25 Male and Top 25 Female stars
No Female legends Male legends
1 Katharine Hepburn
(1907–2003)		 Humphrey Bogart
(1899–1957)
2 Bette Davis
(1908–1989)		 Cary Grant
(1904–1986)
3 Audrey Hepburn
(1929–1993)		 James Stewart
(1908–1997)
4 Ingrid Bergman
(1915–1982)		 Marlon Brando
(1924–2004)
5 Greta Garbo
(1905–1990)		 Fred Astaire
(1899–1987)
6 Marilyn Monroe
(1926–1962)		 Henry Fonda
(1905–1982)
7 Elizabeth Taylor
(1932–2011)		 Clark Gable
(1901–1960)
8 Judy Garland
(1922–1969)		 James Cagney
(1899–1986)
9 Marlene Dietrich
(1901–1992)		 Spencer Tracy
(1900–1967)
10 Joan Crawford
(190?–1977)		 Charlie Chaplin
(1889–1977)
11 Barbara Stanwyck
(1907–1990)		 Gary Cooper
(1901–1961)
12 Claudette Colbert
(1903–1996)		 Gregory Peck
(1916–2003)
13 Grace Kelly
(1929–1982)		 John Wayne
(1907–1979)
14 Ginger Rogers
(1911–1995)		 Laurence Olivier
(1907–1989)
15 Mae West
(1893–1980)		 Gene Kelly
(1912–1996)
16 Vivien Leigh
(1913–1967)		 Orson Welles
(1915–1985)
17 Lillian Gish
(1893–1993)		 Kirk Douglas
(1916–2020)
18 Shirley Temple
(1928–2014)		 James Dean
(1931–1955)
19 Rita Hayworth
(1918–1987)		 Burt Lancaster
(1913–1994)
20 Lauren Bacall
(1924–2014)		 Marx Brothers
Chico (1887–1961)
Harpo (1888–1964)
Groucho (1890–1977)
21 Sophia Loren
(born 1934)		 Buster Keaton
(1895–1966)
22 Jean Harlow
(1911–1937)		 Sidney Poitier
(born 1927)
23 Carole Lombard
(1908–1942)		 Robert Mitchum
(1917–1997)
24 Mary Pickford
(1892–1979)		 Edward G. Robinson
(1893–1973)
25 Ava Gardner
(1922–1990)		 William Holden
(1918–1981)

References
  1. "AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars: The 50 Greatest American Screen Legends". American Film Institute. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
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