Name your three favourite actors/actresses

[moustache]

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


JD

 

[Harp]

Screen Gems

Ingrid Bergman
Susan Hayward
Gina Lollabrigida

Richard Todd
Gregory Peck
Clark Gable

 

[MissHuff]

Moustache we think alike...

Men:
1. Cary Grant ::sigh::
2. Jimmy Stewart
3. Gregory Peck

Women:
1. Katherine Hepburn
2. Audrey Hepburn
3. Mae West

 

[GOK]

Male:

James Stewart
Humphrey Bogart
Gregory Peck (tied with) James Mason

Female:

Bette Davis
Diana Dors (slightly later)
Katharine Hepburn

 

[Novella]

Guys:
Dick Powell
Jimmy Stewart
Joel McCrea

Gals:
Rosalind Russell
Barbara Stanwyck
Myrna Loy

 

[Fletch]

James Stewart
William Holden
Richard Widmark

Ingrid Bergman
Audrey Hepburn
Rosalind Russell

 

[Avalon]

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]

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

 

[Simon82]

Jimmy Stewart
William Powell
Alan Ladd

Carole Lombard
Myrna Loy
Joan Leslie

 

[drafttek]

John Wayne
William Bendix
Danny Kaye
Bonus--Shemp Howard

Katherine Hepburn
Maureen O'Hara
Lucille Ball

 

[Hemingway Jones]

An excellent question

Humphrey Bogart
Cary Grant
Orson Welles

And for the ladies:

Grace Kelly
Katherine Hepburn
Ingrid Bergman

 

[LadyDeWinter]

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

 

[Dixon's Dame]

Men:
Dana Andrews
William Holden
Glenn Ford

Women:
Myrna Loy
Barbara Stanwyck
Grace Kelly

 

[Jack Scorpion]

Robert Mitchum
Jimmy Stewart
Elliot Gould
Mickey Rourke

Gene Tierney
Ella Raines
Audrey Hepburn
Isabelle Adjani

 

[katiemakeup]

It's so hard to narrow it down!!

WALLACE BEERY!!
Curly Howard
Cary Grant

Joan...

can't think... I love so many...

 

[Sefton]

Groucho Marx
Toshiro Mifune
Humphrey Bogart



Ingrid Bergman
Giuletta Masina
Margaret Dumont

 

[imoldfashioned]

Actors
William Powell
James Mason
Joseph Cotton

Actresses
Myrna Loy
Carole Lombard/Ingrid Bergman
Barbara Stanwyck

 

[GOK]

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!

 

[Fletch]

Couldn't they get Bill Holden past No. 25? I'd put him ahead of Jimmy Dean.

 

[GOK]

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]