The AFI’s 50 greatest screen legends
| No. | Female legends | Male legends |
| 1 | Katharine Hepburn | Humphrey Bogart |
| (12 May 1907 – 29 June 2003) | (25 December 1899 – 14 January 1957) | |
| 2 | Bette Davis | Cary Grant |
| (5 April 1908 – 6 October 1989) | (18 January 1904 – 29 November 1986) | |
| 3 | Audrey Hepburn | James Stewart |
| (4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) | (20 May 1908 – 2 July 1997) | |
| 4 | Ingrid Bergman | Marlon Brando |
| (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) | (3 April 1924 – 1 July 2004) | |
| 5 | Greta Garbo | Fred Astaire |
| (18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990) | (10 May 1899 – 22 June 1987) | |
| 6 | Marilyn Monroe | Henry Fonda |
| (1 June 1926 – 4 August 1962) | (16 May 1905 – 12 August 1982) | |
| 7 | Elizabeth Taylor | Clark Gable |
| (27 February 1932 – 23 March 2011) | (1 February 1901 – 16 November 1960) | |
| 8 | Judy Garland | James Cagney |
| (10 June 1922 – 22 June 1969) | (17 July 1899 – 30 March 1986) | |
| 9 | Marlene Dietrich | Spencer Tracy |
| (27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) | (5 April 1900 – 10 June 1967) | |
| 10 | Joan Crawford | Charlie Chaplin |
| (23 March 190? – 10 May 1977) | (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) | |
| 11 | Barbara Stanwyck | Gary Cooper |
| (16 July 1907 – 20 January 1990) | (7 May 1901 – 13 May 1961) | |
| 12 | Claudette Colbert | Gregory Peck |
| (13 September 1903 – 30 July 1996) | (5 April 1916 – 12 June 2003) | |
| 13 | Grace Kelly | John Wayne |
| (12 November 1929 – 14 September 1982) | (26 May 1907 – 11 June 1979) | |
| 14 | Ginger Rogers | Laurence Olivier |
| (16 July 1911 – 25 April 1995) | (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) | |
| 15 | Mae West | Gene Kelly |
| (17 August 1893 – 22 November 1980) | (23 August 1912 – 2 February 1996) | |
| 16 | Vivien Leigh | Orson Welles |
| (5 November 1913 – 8 July 1967) | (6 May 1915 – 10 October 1985) | |
| 17 | Lillian Gish | Kirk Douglas |
| (14 October 1893 – 27 February 1993) | (9 December 1916 – 5 February 2020) | |
| 18 | Shirley Temple | James Dean |
| (23 April 1928 – 10 February 2014) | (8 February 1931 – 30 September 1955) | |
| 19 | Rita Hayworth | Burt Lancaster |
| (17 October 1918 – 14 May 1987) | (2 November 1913 – 20 October 1994) | |
| 20 | Lauren Bacall | Marx Brothers |
| (16 September 1924 – 12 August 2014) | Chico (22 March 1887 – 11 October 1961) | |
| Harpo (23 November 1888 – 28 September 1964) | ||
| Groucho (2 October 1890 – 19 August 1977) | ||
| 21 | Sophia Loren | Buster Keaton |
| (born 20 September 1934) | (4 October 1895 – 1 February 1966) | |
| 22 | Jean Harlow | Sidney Poitier |
| (3 March 1911 – 7 June 1937) | (20 February 1927 – 6 January 2022) | |
| 23 | Carole Lombard | Robert Mitchum |
| (6 October 1908 – 16 January 1942) | (6 August 1917 – 1 July 1997) | |
| 24 | Mary Pickford | Edward G. Robinson |
| (8 April 1892 – 29 May 1979) | (12 December 1893 – 26 January 1973) | |
| 25 | Ava Gardner | William Holden |
| (24 December 1922 – 25 January 1990) | (17 April 1918 – 12 November 1981) |
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