I love your list, Bright Eyes!

Thank you. That's not to say I don't love more modern actors, of course I do, I just love the legends, and underrated forgotten gems, more.

I see what you mean, BE. I, myself, have Bill Holden on my list; and if I could add several others from the "Golden Age" of Hollywood, I'd probably add Fredric March (also on your list), Walter Brennan, Thomas Mitchell, Lionel Barrymore and Lee J. Cobb.

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I see what you mean, BE. I, myself, have Bill Holden on my list; and if I could add several others from the "Golden Age" of Hollywood, I'd probably add Fredric March (also on your list), Walter Brennan, Thomas Mitchell, Lionel Barrymore and maybe Monty Woolley?

Holden and Loy. One of the best pairings of all time. It truly could be a never ending list.

Wasn't she on BEVERLY HILLS, 90210?

Your shady ass!

Yes, she was! The year before she won her FIRST Oscar!

When she got fired....ooops...runs and hides Her character was the problem, though, not the actress

Oh my god, so many....

Lauren Bacall

Jessica Lange

Vanessa Redgrave

Katharine Hepburn

Anne Bancroft

Joanne Woodward

Ingrid Bergman

Meryl Streep

Nicole Kidman

Jessica Tandy

Jessica Chastain

Barbara Stanwyck

Myrna Loy (so glad to see others love her too!)

Cate Blanchett

Bette Davis

Carole Lombard

Greta Garbo

Maureen O'Hara

Greer Garson

Jane Fonda

Maggie Smith

Sissy Spacek

Judy Davis

Gwyneth Paltrow (haters to the left)

Renee Zellweger

Laura Linney

Annette Bening

Diane Keaton

Julie Christie

Vivien Leigh

Ava Gardner

Patricia Clarkson

Anjelica Huston

Catherine Deneuve

Cary Grant

Paul Newman

George Clooney

Jimmy Stewart

Gregory Peck

Jason Robards

Roy Scheider

Christopher Plummer

Jack Nicholson

George C. Scott

Christoph Waltz

Peter O'Toole

Richard Burton

Warren Beatty

Albert Finney

Henry Fonda

Humphrey Bogart

Spencer Tracy

Burt Lancaster

Laurence Olivier

Kevin Kline

Clark Gable

Leslie Howard

Edward Norton

Michael Fassbender

Mark Ruffalo

Bill Murray

Tommy Lee Jones

Ill have to do another list for my tv and theatre people.

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Wow, Katharine Hepburn would slit my throat if she knew I had forgotten her. Her performance in Morning Glory is one of my favourite things that exists.

Wow, Katharine Hepburn would slit my throat if she knew I had forgotten her. Her performance in Morning Glory is one of my favourite things that exists.

Yesssss. My favourite of her's after The Lion in Winter.

SFK- my 11 year old sister is *obsessed* with Geraldine Page. You're the only other person I've ever "met" who also loves her.

And now, without further ado, here are the ladies...

Elizabeth Ashley

Jill Clayburgh

Bette Davis

Faye Dunaway

Sally Field

Jane Fonda

Lee Grant

Julie Harris

Eileen Heckart

Katharine Hepburn

Julie Kavner

Diane Keaton

Louise Lasser

Mary Kay Place

Ginger Rogers

Barbara Stanwyck

Meryl Streep

Lily Tomlin

Nancy Walker

Sigourney Weaver

I agonized over including several of these names -- Ashley, Grant, Julie Harris, Heckart, especially Clayburgh and Weaver -- on account of their work in soaps. Apart from Clayburgh and Weaver, however, these women came to the genre after enjoying storied careers in theatre, films and prime time television. So, yes, Vix, you CAN include Julianne Moore.

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Yesssss. My favourite of her's after The Lion in Winter.

SFK- my 11 year old sister is *obsessed* with Geraldine Page. You're the only other person I've ever "met" who also loves her.

She was phenomenal. I'm an actor and the first few times I saw her, I was so riveted because she was behaving like me onstage years before I'd ever acted... she beat me to my own punch, I wasn't so much an original as a kindred spirit. I love her, probably because I see myself in her, as vain as it sounds.

Yesssss. My favourite of her's after The Lion in Winter.

SFK- my 11 year old sister is *obsessed* with Geraldine Page. You're the only other person I've ever "met" who also loves her.

I've only seen Geraldine Page in The Trip To Bountiful, which got her her only Oscar. The end of that movie is heartbreaking.

Well, she's also in Woody Allen's movie Interiors, so I've seen her in that, too. That movie is depressing as hell.

I can't believe I forgot to put Cate Blanchett on my list!