AFI’s top 250 greatest female screen legends

The American Film Institute ranked the top 25 female greatest screen legends of American film history from the following shortlist of 250 nominees.

AFI defines an American screen legend as “an actor or a team of actors with a significant screen presence in American feature-length films (films of 40 minutes or more) 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.”

250 Femle Legends – Nominees

1. GRACIE ALLEN
2. JUNE ALLYSON
3. DAME JUDITH ANDERSON
4. ANNABELLA
5. EVE ARDEN
6. JEAN ARTHUR
7. MARY ASTOR
8. LAUREN BACALL
9. PEARL BAILEY
10. LUCILLE BALL
11. TALLULAH BANKHEAD
12. VILMA BÁNKY
13. THEDA BARA
14. ETHEL BARRYMORE
15. ANNE BAXTER
16. LOUISE BEAVERS
17. BARBARA BEL GEDDES
18. CONSTANCE BENNETT
19. JOAN BENNETT
20. INGRID BERGMAN
21. JOAN BLONDELL
22. CLAIRE BLOOM
23. ANN BLYTH
24. BEULAH BONDI
25. SHIRLEY BOOTH
26. CLARA BOW
27. ALICE BRADY
28. HELEN BRODERICK
29. BETTY BRONSON
30. LOUISE BROOKS
31. VIRGINIA BRUCE
32. BILLIE BURKE
33. SPRING BYINGTON
34. KITTY CARLISLE
35. MADELEINE CARROLL
36. CYD CHARISSE
37. RUTH CHATTERTON
38. MAE CLARKE
39. CLAUDETTE COLBERT
40. DOLORES COSTELLO
41. JEANNE CRAIN
42. JOAN CRAWFORD
43. VIOLA DANA
44. DOROTHY DANDRIDGE
45. BEBE DANIELS
46. LINDA DARNELL
47. DANIELLE DARRIEUX
48. JANE DARWELL
49. MARION DAVIES
50. BETTE DAVIS
51. JOAN DAVIS
52. DORIS DAY
53. LARAINE DAY
54. YVONNE DE CARLO
55. RUBY DEE
56. GLORIA DeHAVEN
57. OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
58. DOLORES DEL RIO
59. MARLENE DIETRICH
60. LOUISE DRESSER
61. MARIE DRESSLER
62. MARGARET DUMONT
63. IRENE DUNNE
64. DEANNA DURBIN
65. JEANNE EAGELS
66. DALE EVANS
67. FRANCES FARMER
68. GLENDA FARRELL
69. ALICE FAYE
70. BETTY FIELD
71. GRACIE FIELDS
72. GERALDINE FITZGERALD
73. RHONDA FLEMING
74. NINA FOCH
75. JOAN FONTAINE
76. KAY FRANCIS
77. GRETA GARBO
78. AVA GARDNER
79. JUDY GARLAND
80. PEGGY ANN GARNER
81. BETTY GARRETT
82. GREER GARSON
83. JANET GAYNOR
84. MITZI GAYNOR
85. HERMIONE GINGOLD
86. DOROTHY GISH
87. LILLIAN GISH
88. PAULETTE GODDARD
89. RUTH GORDON
90. BETTY GRABLE
91. GLORIA GRAHAME
92. BONITA GRANVILLE
93. KATHRYN GRAYSON
94. JANE GREER
95. CORINNE GRIFFITH
96. JEAN HAGEN
97. BARBARA HALE
98. MARGARET HAMILTON
99. ANN HARDING
100. JEAN HARLOW
101. JUNE HAVER
102. HELEN HAYES
103. SUSAN HAYWARD
104. RITA HAYWORTH
105. SONJA HENIE
106. AUDREY HEPBURN
107. KATHARINE HEPBURN
108. JUDY HOLLIDAY
109. CELESTE HOLM
110. MIRIAM HOPKINS
111. LENA HORNE
112. MARSHA HUNT
113. KIM HUNTER
114. RUTH HUSSEY
115. BETTY HUTTON
116. JENNIFER JONES
117. RUBY KEELER
118. GRACE KELLY
119. MADGE KENNEDY
120. DEBORAH KERR
121. VERONICA LAKE
122. HEDY LAMARR
123. DOROTHY LAMOUR
124. ELSA LANCHESTER
125. PRISCILLA LANE
126. ANGELA LANSBURY
127. PIPER LAURIE
128. FLORENCE LAWRENCE
129. JANET LEIGH
130. VIVIEN LEIGH
131. JOAN LESLIE
132. VIVECA LINDFORS
133. GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA
134. CAROLE LOMBARD
135. SOPHIA LOREN
136. BESSIE LOVE
137. MYRNA LOY
138. IDA LUPINO
139. JEANETTE MacDONALD
140. ANNA MAGNANI
141. MARJORIE MAIN
142. DOROTHY MALONE
143. JAYNE MANSFIELD
144. MAE MARSH
145. MARY MARTIN
146. VIRGINIA MAYO
147. MAY McAVOY
148. MERCEDES McCAMBRIDGE
149. HATTIE McDANIEL
150. DOROTHY McGUIRE
151. NINA MAE McKINNEY
152. BUTTERFLY McQUEEN
153. UNA MERKEL
154. ETHEL MERMAN
155. ANN MILLER
156. CARMEN MIRANDA
157. MARILYN MONROE
158. MARIA MONTEZ
159. COLLEEN MOORE
160. AGNES MOOREHEAD
161. RITA MORENO
162. MAE MURRAY
163. MILDRED NATWICK
164. ALLA NAZIMOVA
165. DAME ANNA NEAGLE
166. PATRICIA NEAL
167. POLA NEGRI
168. ANNA Q. NILSSON
169. MABEL NORMAND
170. MARGARET O’BRIEN
171. MAUREEN O’HARA
172. MAUREEN O’SULLIVAN
173. MERLE OBERON
174. SEENA OWEN
175. GERALDINE PAGE
176. LILLI PALMER
177. ELEANOR PARKER
178. GAIL PATRICK
179. MARY PICKFORD
180. ZASU PITTS
181. ELEANOR POWELL
182. JANE POWELL
183. MARIE PREVOST
184. EDNA PURVIANCE
185. LUISE RAINER
186. VERA HRUBA RALSTON
187. MARTHA RAYE
188. DONNA REED
189. LEE REMICK
190. ANNE REVERE
191. DEBBIE REYNOLDS
192. THELMA RITTER
193. DAME FLORA ROBSON
194. GINGER ROGERS
195. RUTH ROMAN
196. GAIL RUSSELL
197. JANE RUSSELL
198. ROSALIND RUSSELL
199. ANN RUTHERFORD
200. LIZABETH SCOTT
201. MARTHA SCOTT
202. JEAN SEBERG
203. NORMA SHEARER
204. ANN SHERIDAN
205. DINAH SHORE
206. SYLVIA SIDNEY
207. JEAN SIMMONS
208. SIMONE SIMON
209. PENNY SINGLETON
210. ALEXIS SMITH
211. GALE SONDERGAARD
212. ANN SOTHERN
213. BARBARA STANWYCK
214. GLORIA STUART
215. MARGARET SULLAVAN
216. GLORIA SWANSON
217. BLANCHE SWEET
218. CONSTANCE TALMADGE
219. NORMA TALMADGE
220. JESSICA TANDY
221. ELIZABETH TAYLOR
222. SHIRLEY TEMPLE
223. GENE TIERNEY
224. ANN TODD
225. THELMA TODD
226. CLAIRE TREVOR
227. LANA TURNER
228. HELEN TWELVETREES
229. LUPE VELEZ
230. EVELYN VENABLE
231. VERA-ELLEN
232. ETHEL WATERS
233. MAE WEST
234. PEARL WHITE
235. ESTHER WILLIAMS
236. LOIS WILSON
237. MARIE WILSON
238. MARIE WINDSOR
239. SHELLEY WINTERS
240. ESTELLE WINWOOD
241. JANE WITHERS
242. ANNA MAY WONG
243. NATALIE WOOD
244. IRENE WORTH
245. FAY WRAY
246. TERESA WRIGHT
247. JANE WYATT
248. JANE WYMAN
249. CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG
250. LORETTA YOUNG