Top 100 Female Actors of Hollywood's Golden Age

1. Katharine Hepburn

2. Bette Davis

3. Joan Crawford

4. Greta Garbo

5. Marlene Dietrich

6. Ingrid Bergman

7. Vivien Leigh

8. Rita Hayworth

9. Ava Gardner

10. Grace Kelly

11. Elizabeth Taylor

12. Audrey Hepburn

13. Marilyn Monroe

14. Lauren Bacall

15. Barbara Stanwyck

16. Judy Garland

17. Ginger Rogers

18. Mae West

19. Jean Harlow

20. Claudette Colbert

21. Joan Fontaine

22. Olivia de Havilland

23. Mary Pickford

24. Shirley Temple

25. Gene Tierney

26. Greer Garson

27. Deborah Kerr

28. Jennifer Jones

29. Dorothy Lamour

30. Betty Grable

31. Lana Turner

32. Veronica Lake

33. Jane Russell

34. Loretta Young

35. Joan Bennett

36. Alice Faye

37. Ann Sheridan

38. Susan Hayward

39. Jane Wyman

40. Maureen O'Hara

41. Rosalind Russell

42. Irene Dunne

43. Gloria Swanson

44. Janet Gaynor

45. Norma Shearer

46. Myrna Loy

47. Carole Lombard

48. Jean Arthur

49. Betty Hutton

50. Eleanor Powell

51. Ruby Keeler

52. Ann Miller

53. Cyd Charisse

54. Esther Williams

55. Jane Powell

56. Doris Day

57. Debbie Reynolds

58. Gloria Grahame

59. Paulette Goddard

60. Hedy Lamarr

61. Dorothy McGuire

62. June Allyson

63. Margaret Sullavan

64. Teresa Wright

65. Anne Baxter

66. Linda Darnell

67. Carmen Miranda

68. Dolores del Río

69. Maria Montez

70. Merle Oberon

71. Patricia Neal

72. Agnes Moorehead

73. Claire Trevor

74. Shelley Winters

75. Virginia Mayo

76. Celeste Holm

77. Ann Blyth

78. Donna Reed

79. Marie Dressler

80. Constance Bennett

81. Kay Francis

82. Clara Bow

83. Louise Brooks

84. Pola Negri

85. Mary Astor

86. Lillian Gish

87. Dorothy Gish

88. Alice Brady

89. Miriam Hopkins

90. Ruth Chatterton

91. Margaret O'Brien

92. Marjorie Main

93. Spring Byington

94. Billie Burke

95. Helen Hayes

96. Ethel Barrymore

97. Tallulah Bankhead

98. Gladys Cooper

99. Fay Bainter

100. May Robson