American Film Institute's 50 Greatest American Screen Legends

Guess the 25 male and 25 female actors the American Film Institute deemed the greatest.

This is only for the "Golden Age" of Hollywood, so the actor's film debut must have been in or before 1950, or their death (by 1999) has marked a completed body of work.

One of each actor's most famous movies is given as a hint.

Some actors were not born American, but appeared in many American movies and lived in the US.

You can use just last names for all except the two pairs of actors who share the same surname.

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#	Hint	Actor/Actress
1	The Maltese Falcon	Humphrey Bogart
2	North by Northwest	Cary Grant
3	It's a Wonderful Life	James Stewart
4	On the Waterfront	Marlon Brando
5	Top Hat	Fred Astaire
6	12 Angry Men	Henry Fonda
7	Gone with the Wind	Clark Gable
8	The Public Enemy	James Cagney
9	Adam's Rib	Spencer Tracy
10	City Lights	Charlie Chaplin
11	Mr. Deeds Goes to Town	Gary Cooper
12	To Kill a Mockingbird	Gregory Peck
13	True Grit	John Wayne
14	Hamlet	Laurence Olivier
15	Singin' in the Rain	Gene Kelly
16	Citizen Kane	Orson Welles
17	Spartacus	Kirk Douglas
18	Rebel Without a Cause	James Dean
19	Elmer Gantry	Burt Lancaster
20	Duck Soup	The Marx Brothers
21	The General	Buster Keaton
22	Lilies of the Field	Sidney Poitier
23	Cape Fear	Robert Mitchum
24	Little Caesar	Edward G. Robinson
25	Stalag 17	William Holden

#	Hint	Actor/Actress
1	The Philadelphia Story	Katharine Hepburn
2	All About Eve	Bette Davis
3	Roman Holiday	Audrey Hepburn
4	Casablanca	Ingrid Bergman
5	Ninotchka	Greta Garbo
6	Some Like It Hot	Marilyn Monroe
7	Cleopatra	Elizabeth Taylor
8	The Wizard of Oz	Judy Garland
9	Shanghai Express	Marlene Dietrich
10	Mildred Pierce	Joan Crawford
11	Double Indemnity	Barbara Stanwyck
12	It Happened One Night	Claudette Colbert
13	High Noon	Grace Kelly
14	Swing Time	Ginger Rogers
15	She Done Him Wrong	Mae West
16	A Streetcar Named Desire	Vivien Leigh
17	The Birth of a Nation	Lillian Gish
18	Bright Eyes	Shirley Temple
19	Gilda	Rita Hayworth
20	The Big Sleep	Lauren Bacall
21	Two Women	Sophia Loren
22	Hell's Angels	Jean Harlow
23	My Man Godfrey	Carole Lombard
24	Coquette	Mary Pickford
25	Mogambo	Ava Gardner

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