7. The 10 Greatest Actresses of All
Time
10 Barbara
Stanwyck
From Double
Indemnity to The
Lady Eve,
Stanwyck was a
lean live wire
with an alluringly
husky voice.
8. 9 Kate Winslet
At 17, Winslet
wowed
moviegoers as a
sociopathic teen
in Heavenly
Creatures. She's
never shied away
from offbeat
characters.
9. 8 Audrey Hepburn
In a world of
pneumatic
blondes, Hepburn
made smart,
complicated
brunette sprites
sexy in Roman
Holiday and
Sabrina.
10. 7 Vivien Leigh
The Gone With
the Wind star
made fewer than
two dozen
movies, but the
combination of
icy beauty and
inner fire made
her unforgettable.
11. 6 Meryl Streep
Boss from hell,
Holocaust
survivor, and
frustrated
housewife -- is
there anyone
Streep can't play?
12. 5 Olivia de
Havilland
Gone With the
Wind made the
dark-haired
beauty a star, but
ten years later
she played a shy
spinster in The
Heiress.
13. 4 Ingrid Bergman
Soulful star
Bergman made
doomed romance
look good in
Casablanca and
self-loathing even
better in
Notorious.
14. 3 Katharine
Hepburn
She made casual
elegant and
relocated the seat
of sex appeal
from the bosom
to the brain in
Bringing Up Baby
and Adam's Rib.
15. 2 Bette Davis
She had offbeat
looks and a
quirky voice, but
when Davis was
onscreen
everyone else
disappeared.
16. 1 Marilyn Monroe
Gentlemen Prefer
Blondes, The
Seven Year Itch,
and Some Like it
Hot showcased
the buxom, blue-
eyed blonde's
comic gifts.
17. The 10 Greatest Actors of All Time
10 Al Pacino
A bundle of urban
energy, Pacino
embraced bravura
in such crowd-
pleasers as
Glengarry Glen
Ross and The
Devil's Advocate.
18. 9 Dustin Hoffman
Hoffman broke
Hollywood's
blond-macho-
leading-man mold
in the generation-
defining Graduate
and (in a different
way) Tootsie.
20. 7 Spencer Tracy
Practical about
the art of acting,
Tracy was an
unlikely leading
man in the
socially conscious
drama Bad Day at
Black Rock.
21. 6 Paul Newman
Newman defiantly
hitched his good
looks to one
slippery, startling
classic after
another, from The
Hustler to Hud.
22. 5 Laurence Olivier
Classically trained
and Hollywood
handsome, Olivier
approached
Shakespeare with
the same vigor he
brought to
Wuthering
Heights.
23. 4 James Stewart
Stereotyped as an
aw-shucks
Everyman,
Stewart brought
fierce intelligence
to The Man Who
Shot Liberty
Valance.
24. 3 Henry Fonda
For six decades --
in The Grapes of
Wrath and Fail-
Safe -- Fonda was
so good people
stopped
appreciating his
talent.
25. 2 Robert De Niro
De Niro is as
mesmerizing in
the low-rent
Bloody Mama as
he is in Taxi
Driver, Raging
Bull, and
Goodfellas.
26. 1 Tom Hanks
He loved a
mermaid (Splash)
and crossed paths
with history
(Forrest Gump)
but never lost his
boy-next-door
appeal.
