To see my running list of the hundred greatest movie stars in American film history, click here We’ve reached the top 10! At this point, every star gets their own post. 1) James Stewart When I started this list a while back (see above), I came up with a hilariously long list of qualifiers for what… Read More Better than AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars: 1
To see my running list of the hundred greatest movie stars in American film history, click here We’ve reached the top 10! At this point, every star gets their own post. 2) Bette Davis It’s fair to say that pretty much any year between 1938 and 1946 was the year of Bette Davis, but for me… Read More Better than AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars: 2
To see my running list of the hundred greatest movie stars in American film history, click here We’ve reached the top 10! At this point, every star gets their own post. 3) Katharine Hepburn The greatest movie stars tend to have some bodily quality which makes them stand out from the merely great ones. It is… Read More Better than AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars: 3
To see my running list of the hundred greatest movie stars in American film history, click here We’ve reached the top 10! At this point, every star gets their own post. 4) Jack Nicholson Anger Management, which I watched for the first time in order to supplement my early aughts Nicholson education (About Schmidt, Something’s Gotta… Read More Better than AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars: 4
To see my running list of the hundred greatest movie stars in American film history, click here We’ve reached the top 10! At this point, every star gets their own post. 5) Meryl Streep What’s lost in the Meryl Streep hagiography—the twenty-one nominations and three Oscar wins over thirty-nine years, the “greatest actor of her generation”… Read More Better than AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars: 5
To see my running list of the hundred greatest movie stars in American film history, click here We’ve reached the top 10! At this point, every star gets their own post. 6) Cary Grant On the Mount Rushmore of Hitchcock movies, there are four pictures which would have their faces inscribed in the rocky mountains of… Read More Better than AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars: 6
To see my running list of the hundred greatest movie stars in American film history, click here We’ve reached the top 10! At this point, every star gets their own post. 7) Charlie Chaplin I’m afraid that this is shamefully low for Chaplin. There’s a very good case to be made that in terms of peaks,… Read More Better than AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars: 7
To see my running list of the hundred greatest movie stars in American film history, click here We’ve reached the top 10! At this point, every star gets their own post. 8) Tom Hanks From 1993 to 2000, Tom Hanks was nominated for Best Actor four times, winning twice. He was the lead in at least… Read More Better than AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars: 8
To see my running list of the hundred greatest movie stars in American film history, click here We’ve reached the top 10! At this point, every star gets their own post. 9) Robert De Niro The greatest roles of Robert De Niro’s career are generally considered to be the ones he played between 1973 and 1984,… Read More Better than AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars: 9
To see my running list of the hundred greatest movie stars in American film history, click here We’ve reached the top 10! At this point, every star gets their own post. 10) Marlon Brando He made his mark in a role playing Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire, a man who is more missing link… Read More Better than AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars: 10
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