AFI Top 25 Women Actresses before the 1950's

WOMEN
1. Katharine Hepburn 
2. Bette Davis 
3. Audrey Hepburn 
4. Ingrid Bergman 
5. Greta Garbo 
6. Marilyn Monroe 
7. Elizabeth Taylor 
8. Judy Garland 
9. Marlene Dietrich 
10. Joan Crawford 
11. Barbara Stanwyck 
12. Claudette Colbert 
13. Grace Kelly 
14. Ginger Rogers 
15. Mae West 
16. Vivien Leigh 
17. Lillian Gish 
18. Shirley Temple 
19. Rita Hayworth 
20. Lauren Bacall 
21. Sophia Loren 
22. Jean Harlow 
23. Carole Lombard 
24. Mary Pickford 
25. Ava Gardner 

Temple, who placed 18, also laughingly said, ``I was No. 13 on the San Francisco Chronicle poll!''