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Name your three favourite actors/actresses

moustache

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Name your three favourite actors and actresses of the Golden Age +/- 20 years
Three men,three women.

Here are mine:

Men:
Cary Grant
Gregory Peck
Jimmy Stewart

Ladies:
Audrey Hepburn(Not really Golden Age but close)
Ingrid Bergman
Grace Kelly


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Avalon

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I can pick three women easy:

Louise Brooks (surprise)
Clara Bow
Jean Harlow

But the only man I can think of is Cary Grant! I need to watch more movies :(
 

Daisy Buchanan

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Just Three!!!! That's a tough one

Men: I really can't do just three!
Cary Grant
Jimmy Stewart
Fred Astaire
Humphrey Bogart
Gregory Peck

Ladies: Again, I really can't think of just three, but 5's not too bad
Grace Kelley
Audrey Hepburn
Katherine Hepburn
Ingrid Bergman
Mae West
 
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drafttek

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John Wayne
William Bendix
Danny Kaye
Bonus--Shemp Howard

Katherine Hepburn
Maureen O'Hara
Lucille Ball
 

LadyDeWinter

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Favourite actors/actresses

These are my favourites:

Cary Grant (of course)
James Stewart
Gregory Peck

Katherine Hepburn
Rosalind Russell
Myrna Loy
Joan Crawford
Marlene Dietrich
 

katiemakeup

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It's so hard to narrow it down!!

WALLACE BEERY!!
Curly Howard
Cary Grant

Joan...

can't think... I love so many...
 

imoldfashioned

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Actors
William Powell
James Mason
Joseph Cotton

Actresses
Myrna Loy
Carole Lombard/Ingrid Bergman
Barbara Stanwyck
 

GOK

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The Top List!

According to the BBC, the following are the top 50 screen legends (in order):

The men

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

The women

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

Clearly with the Marx Brothers, it's a case of buy one get three free! :D
 

GOK

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I'd put them all above James Dean, TBH. I don't think he was that good and let's face it, he only made three films! It's not as though he was outstanding in any of them. [huh]
 

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