AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars

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, Elizabeth Taylor, Lauren Bacall, Sophia Loren, and Sidney Poitier are still alive, as of 2008.

AFI 100 Years... series

1998	100 Movies
1999	100 Stars
2000	100 Laughs
2001	100 Thrills
2002	100 Passions
2003	100 Heroes & Villains
2004	100 Songs
2005	100 Movie Quotes
2005	25 Scores
2006	100 Cheers
2006	25 Musicals
2007	100 Movies (Updated)
2008	AFI's 10 Top 10

	Men	Women
1.	Humphrey Bogart	Katharine Hepburn
2.	Cary Grant	Bette Davis
3.	James Stewart	Audrey Hepburn
4.	Marlon Brando	Ingrid Bergman
5.	Fred Astaire	Greta Garbo
6.	Henry Fonda	Marilyn Monroe
7.	Clark Gable	Elizabeth Taylor
8.	James Cagney	Judy Garland
9.	Spencer Tracy	Marlene Dietrich
10.	Charles Chaplin	Joan Crawford
11.	Gary Cooper	Barbara Stanwyck
12.	Gregory Peck	Claudette Colbert
13.	John Wayne	Grace Kelly
14.	Laurence Olivier	Ginger Rogers
15.	Gene Kelly	Mae West
16.	Orson Welles	Vivien Leigh
17.	Kirk Douglas	Lillian Gish
18.	Al Pacino	Shirley Temple
19.	Burt Lancaster	Rita Hayworth
20.	The Marx Brothers	Lauren Bacall
21.	Buster Keaton	Sophia Loren
22.	Sidney Poitier	Jean Harlow
23.	Robert Mitchum	Carole Lombard
24.	Edward G. Robinson	Mary Pickford
25.	Dean Martin	Ava Gardner

External links and references

• The list of stars at afi.com