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Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, 'AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars' is a list of the top 50 stars of American cinema. They were presented by 50 "stars of today", adding up to the total of 100 stars. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 16 1999.
The list was revealed on a CBS special hosted by Shirley Temple Black.
According to the AFI's rules, the stars on the list had to have made their film debuts in or before 1950, or have died prior to the creation of the list. The list is thus heavily weighted toward actors of Classical Hollywood cinema, and many more recent stars are not included. Of the 50 stars listed below, only Kirk Douglas, Sidney Poitier, Elizabeth Taylor, Lauren Bacall, Sophia Loren and Shirley Temple are still alive, as of 2007.

Contents

Men

Women

External links and references

Men

# Humphrey Bogart
# Cary Grant
# James Stewart
# Marlon Brando
# Fred Astaire
# Henry Fonda
# Clark Gable
# James Cagney
# Spencer Tracy
# Charles Chaplin
# Gary Cooper
# Gregory Peck
# John Wayne
# Laurence Olivier
# Gene Kelly
# Orson Welles
# Kirk Douglas
# James Dean
# Burt Lancaster
# The Marx Brothers
# Buster Keaton
# Sidney Poitier
# Robert Mitchum
# Edward G. Robinson
# William Holden

Women

# Katharine Hepburn
# Bette Davis
# Audrey Hepburn
# Ingrid Bergman
# Greta Garbo
# Marilyn Monroe
# Elizabeth Taylor
# Judy Garland
# Marlene Dietrich
# Joan Crawford
# Barbara Stanwyck
# Claudette Colbert
# Grace Kelly
# Ginger Rogers
# Mae West
# Vivien Leigh
# Lillian Gish
# Shirley Temple
# Rita Hayworth
# Lauren Bacall
# Sophia Loren
# Jean Harlow
# Carole Lombard
# Mary Pickford
# Ava Gardner

External links and references

★ The list of stars at afi.com