AFI's 100 Years…100 Stars is a list of the 50 greatest screen legends — the top 25 women and top 25 men — of all time.
AFI defines an "American screen legend" as an actor or a team of actors with a significant screen presence in American feature-length 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.
These five movies are usually considered the actresses greatest.
1-5 Katharine Hepburn 6-10 Bette Davis
11-15 Audrey Hepburn 16-20 Ingrid Bergman
21-25 Greta Garbo 26-30 Marilyn Monroe
31-35 Elizabeth Taylor 36-40 Judy Garland
41-45 Marlene Dietrich 46-50 Joan Crawford
51-55 Barbara Stanwyck 56-60 Claudette Colbert
61-65 Grace Kelly 66-70 Ginger Rogers
71-75 Mae West 76-80 Vivien Leigh
81-85 Lillian Gish 86-90 Shirley Temple
91-95 Rita Hayworth 96-100 Lauren Bacall
101-105 Sophia Loren 106-110 Jean Harlow
111-115 Carole Lombard 116-120 Mary Pickford
121-125 Ava Gardner
