Best old-time Actress

[Dookus]

Poll question: Best old-time Actress

Not just beauty - which actress really commanded your attention? Like the other poll, it's limited to women from the 30's and 40's.

In this one, I'm voting for Garbo. She was astoundingly beautiful and alluring. I love every woman listed below, but Garbo just did it for me. Bergman would be a very close second.

Growing up as a gay boy in the 60's, I adored old movies. I fell in love with every actress in this poll. It's so hard to choose....

[TrustingDog]

1. How could you miss Lauren Bacall?

[Dookus]

3. I think of Bacall

as a second-generation actress. Late 40's, early 50's. But I adore her.

[jpgray]

2. Bergman was cute, but Hepburn was a force to be reckoned with

Loved her in Lion in Winter.

[King Of Paperboys]

4. Agreed

Her cousin was beautiful, but in a fragile, untouchable way. Kate just oozed sexuality. And what a talent!

[Dookus]

7. As far as I know

Kate and Audrey were unrelated.

Kate was born in Connecticut... Audrey was from Belgium.

[King Of Paperboys]

11. True

But, as Cousin Brucie says, aren't we all cousins?

[oxymoron]

5. No Zasu Pitts?

sheesh!

[Dookus]

9. heheh

Zasu rocks.

[Laughing Mirror]

6. How would you like to be stuck in an elevator with these two?

[Dookus]

8. It'd be heaven for me

[Laughing Mirror]

13. They were fabulous for days, for decades, weren't they?

Don't make 'em like that anymore, do they?

[Rowdyboy]

10. Each of these artists (sans Shirley Temple) are wonderful in their own

right. How sad to consider the caliber of their replacements on-screen today.

[King Of Paperboys]

12. I beg to differ.

Shirley may be a Pug, but she was immensely talented, and grew up to be a looker.

[Dookus]

16. agreed...

Shirley was the top box-office draw for a decade. She was immensely talented, and ended up having a productive and useful life. She's on old-time Republican, and I can respect that. She also lives near me.

[Rowdyboy]

26. Really? I'm surprised

My only memories of her acting were those horrendous things she did as an infant child with an irritating voice. I really can't give you a single serious role Shirley Temple ever played.

I must admit, however, my knowledge of Hollywood and movies is VERY limited.

[dolo amber]

14. Bette Davis kicked major ass

She wasn't all refined and proper like a *lady* was supposed to be...she was hell on wheels. I respect that. :D

[Spider Jerusalem]

15. Katherine Hepburn...

my favourite Hepburn films are the comedies she did with Cary Grant, but her other work is excellent, too. I think she had far more range and sheer talent than anyone else on the list, except perhaps for Garbo, who comes in second for me...

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17. Mae West.

As much as I dislike the glamor thing (and everything was about glamor back then), there's something to be said about 'girls that you wouldn't take back home to meet your moher'.

[Dookus]

18. I almost included her...

but I knew she wouldn't get many votes. But she was an amazing talent.

[LiviaOlivia]

19. Bette Davis in The Little Foxes,

that is her masterpiece. She should have won an Oscar.

[Dookus]

22. well

she DID win for Jezebel. She lost to Joan Fontaine in "Suspicion" the year she was nominated for The Little Foxes.

[LiviaOlivia]

25. Joan Fontaine was wimpy in Suspicion and Rebecca

If it wasn't for Cary Grant and Laurence Olivier I wouldn't watch
those movies.

I like Olivia de Havilland.

[Kat45]

20. Bette Davis

I vaguely remember that I loved her when I was little. I suppose that was a good woman to admire.

(As an adult) I enjoyed her in "The Petrified Forest."

[flamingyouth]

21. Gif me visky, and don't be stingy, baby

Have to stand up for my fellow Swede Greta! :D

[Dookus]

23. right on....

Garbo's first on-screen spoken words.

[flamingyouth]

24. And I think I uttered them earlier tonight at the bar

(just kidding):evilgrin:

[jobycom]

27. Hepburn-- why are there others on this list?

They may have been cute, or sexy, or whatever the gender ideals were at the time, but Hepburn was a genuine personality. She could play something other than the love/sex interest. Beauty is boring with a bit of character.

[Selwynn]

28. Total toss up between Davis and Hepburn.

[Nevernose]

29. African Queen? The Lion in Winter?

Can you guess how I voted?

[Dookus]

30. ahh...

but have you seen Ninotchka and Grand Hotel?

[devilgrrl]

31. These chicks are losers! Barbara Stanwyck!

BARBARA STANWYCK

'Double Indemnity'??? What's the matter with you people? :silly:

[VOX]

32. Myrna Loy was exquisite, witty, sly and sexy...

From the Thin Man series (with William Powell), to Best Years of Our Lives, she gave many terrific performances.

Every name on the list is a winner, but Myrna just has my heart!

[tishaLA]

33. I voted Bergman

even though I love Davis and Hepburn. I love Bergman's aloof, quiet dignity. Then again, I love her madness and her sometimes manic eyes.