Premiere Magazine's 50 Greatest Movie Stars

[BeyondTheGrave]

1. Cary Grant
2. Marilyn Monroe
3. Tom Cruise
4. John Wayne
5. Ingrid Bergman
6. Paul Newman
7. Julia Roberts
8. Greta Garbo
9. James Stewart
10. Henry Fonda
11. James Cagney
12. Grace Kelly
13. Humphrey Bogart
14. Katharine Hepburn
15. Marlon Brando
16. Jack Nicholson
17. Robert Redford
18. Audrey Hepburn
19. Spencer Tracy
20. Sidney Poitier
21. Clark Gable
22. Judy Garland
23. Fred Astaire
24. Doris Day
25. Bette Davis
26. Errol Flynn
27. Gregory Peck
28. Tom Hanks
29. Warren Beatty
30. James Dean
31. Steve McQueen
32. Jane Fonda
33. Shirley Temple
34. Rita Hayworth
35. Harrison Ford
36. Sean Connery
37. Al Pacino
38. Robert De Niro
39. Denzel Washington
40. Elizabeth Taylor
41. Peter Sellers
42. Gary Cooper
43. Clint Eastwood
44. Will Smith
45. Jack Lemmon
46. Meryl Streep
47. Johnny Depp
48. Nicole Kidman
49. Russell Crowe
50. Brad Pitt

I don't know about anyone else I find this list questionable. Julia Roberts is way to high on the list and Will Smith should not even be on the list.

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You can’t give it, you can't buy it, and you just don't get it!-Aeon Flux

[odinn7]

Clint Eastwood is right there with Will Smith? Who came up with this list? Oh, and for sure Tom Cruise has to be at #3...certainly. Ah, people and their opinions, what can you do about it?

[BeyondTheGrave]

I forgot to add it took Premiere Magazine two years to come up with this list. Its like they mixed up popular actors that people just know, with actors that have real talent and have won awards.


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You can’t give it, you can't buy it, and you just don't get it!-Aeon Flux



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[Gerry]

This is the reason I don't ever read Premiere magazine and it's ilk.  Utter nonsense.

[Mr Hockstatter]

Tom Cruise at #3 just kills me :)  

Oh, if only Sean Connery could command such majestic screen presence as Tom.

[trekgeezer]

What a hilarious load of s**t!!  Tom Cruise isn't a gnat on John Wayne's ass!

I notice this is the top 50 movie stars, evidently the criteria for rankings on the list had nothing to do with talent.


Tom Cruise!!! snicker, snicker HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! !!!!!!!



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[ulthar]

Ditto the other comments.  Tom Cruise at #3 was the FIRST thing I noticed.  Then, I had to search for Tom Hanks, way down at #28.  Say what you want about Hanks, but the boy can act.  Pacino and DeNiro down in the 30's and Cruise at #3.  NUTS.

And Julia Roberts?  What?  In the top 10?  Barely beaten by Ingrid Bergman and ahead of Katharine Hepburn?  Come On.

[Scott H.]

I didn't even pick it up to read it when I saw it. Any magazine that has "Greatest Movie Stars of All-Time" and Tom Cruise on the same cover is waaaaay wrong. You'll notice that Woody Allen wasn't even on the list. Now, who can you produce that personifies the movies he stars in better than Woody Allen? No Groucho Marx, no Charlie Chaplin, not even Jerry Lewis. I think the only foreign actor/actress in the whole list is Ingrid Bergman, and the only reason she appears is because of her work in American cinema. Why don't they just rename the magazine "Hollywood's A-List" and stop raising people's hopes of a fair world market of stars?

[ulthar]

Even if the list was titled "Top 50 American Actors," it's still a hokey list.

[saintmort]

Johnny Depp should be a little higher, I really think he goes all out of every role even if the movie is bad you know his performance will be great.

Also...WHERE'S CHRISTOPHER WALKEN!

[odinn7]

"Also...WHERE'S CHRISTOPHER WALKEN!"

Yeah, and Lance and the Bruce?

[Vermin Boy]

Hell, apart from Peter Sellers and Jack Lemmon, comic actors are absent completely.

[toycanon]

You are right about Will Smith and yes Julia Roberts is too high..
Let's be glad they left off Burt Reynolds.
My question is why did they forget Charlie Chaplin.
I am real sure is Will Smith is a bigger movie star than Chaplin.
We will see whose name is remembered in 50 years.
What about Jane Fonda or Jodie Foster? Maybe not enought work...

[Ed]

And just WHERE Is John Carridine? or Roddy Piper  heh heh
-Ed

[AndyC]

How did they arrive at this list? A poll that any idiot could participate in, or a poll of people who could claim some expertise? Did they look at the history of movies as a whole, or decide that each generation must be represented more or less equally? There just seems to be something wrong with the process that produced this list. Much of it is reasonable, but I agree that some parts of it are really out of whack.