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Best Movie Performances from Classic Actresses

Audrey Hepburn – Roman Holiday

Barbara Stanwyck – Ball of Fire

Bette Davis – All About Eve

Carole Lombard – My Man Godfrey

Clara Bow – It

Claudette Colbert – Midnight

Deborah Kerr – Black Narsissus

Doris Day – Pillow Talk

Elizabeth Taylor – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Gene Tierney – The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Ginger Rogers – Top Hat

Gloria Swanson – Sunset Boulevard

Grace Kelly – Rear Window

Greta Garbo – Ninotchka

Greer Garson – Mrs. Miniver

Ingrid Bergman – Notorious

Janet Gaynor – Sunrise

Jean Arthur – The More the Merrier

Jean Fontaine – Rebecca

Joan Crawford – Mildred Pierce

Judy Garland – The Wizard of Oz

Julie Andrews – Mary Poppins

Katharine Hepburn – The Lion in Winter

Lillian Gish – Way Down East

Marie Dressler – Anna Christie

Marilyn Monroe – Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Marlene Dietrich – Judgment at Nuremberg

Mary Pickford – The Poor Little Rich Girl

Miriam Hopkins – Design for Living

Myrna Loy – The Thin Man

Norma Shearer – The Divorcee

Olivia de Havilland – The Snake Pit

Rita Hayworth – Separate Tables

Vivien Leigh – Gone with the Wind