What is Afi's 100 Years... 100 Stars?

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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, Sidney Poitier, Elizabeth Taylor, Lauren Bacall, Sophia Loren and Shirley Temple are still alive, as of 2007.

AFI 100 Years... series
Non-television lists
MenWomen
1.Humphrey BogartKatharine Hepburn
2.Cary GrantBette Davis
3.James StewartAudrey Hepburn
4.Marlon BrandoIngrid Bergman
5.Fred AstaireGreta Garbo
6.Henry FondaMarilyn Monroe
7.Clark GableElizabeth Taylor
8.James CagneyJudy Garland
9.Spencer TracyMarlene Dietrich
10.Charles ChaplinJoan Crawford
11.Gary CooperBarbara Stanwyck
12.Gregory PeckClaudette Colbert
13.John WayneGrace Kelly
14.Laurence OlivierGinger Rogers
15.Gene KellyMae West
16.Orson WellesVivien Leigh
17.Kirk DouglasLillian Gish
18.James DeanShirley Temple
19.Burt LancasterRita Hayworth
20.The Marx BrothersLauren Bacall
21.Buster KeatonSophia Loren
22.Sidney PoitierJean Harlow
23.Robert MitchumCarole Lombard
24.Edward G. RobinsonMary Pickford
25.William HoldenAva Gardner

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The American Film Institute, celebrating the 100th anniversary of film, created several top 100 lists covering movies in American cinema.

The series are:
  • 1998: AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
  • 1999: AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars
  • 2000: AFI's 100 Years...

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The American Film Institute (AFI) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act.
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Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple in Glad Rags to Riches
Birth name Shirley Jane Temple
Born March 23 1928 (1928--) (age 79)
Santa Monica, California
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Classical Hollywood cinema or the classical Hollywood narrative[1], are terms used in film history which designates both a visual and sound style for making motion pictures and a mode of production that arose in the American film industry of the 1910s and 1920s.
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Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas in The Big Trees
Birth name Issur Danielovitch Demsky
Born November 9 1916 (1916--) (age 92)
Amsterdam, New York
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Sidney Poitier

Born January 20 1927 (1927--) (age 80)
at sea, recorded in Miami, Florida, but possibly born in Bahamas

Spouse(s) Juanita Hardy (1950-1965)
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Elizabeth Taylor

From the trailer of Giant, 1956
Birth name Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor
Born 27 January 1932 (1932--) (age 75)
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Lauren Bacall

Birth name Betty Joan Perske
Born September 16 1924 (1924--) (age 83)
New York City, New York, United States

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Sophia Loren

Birth name Sofia Villani Scicolone
Born September 20 1934 (1934--) (age 73)
Rome, Italy

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Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple in Glad Rags to Riches
Birth name Shirley Jane Temple
Born March 23 1928 (1928--) (age 79)
Santa Monica, California
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The American Film Institute, celebrating the 100th anniversary of film, created several top 100 lists covering movies in American cinema.

The series are:
  • 1998: AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
  • 1999: AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars
  • 2000: AFI's 100 Years...

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Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs is a list of the top 100 songs in American cinema. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute June 22, 2004 in a CBS special hosted by John Travolta, who appeared in two films honored by the list,
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Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes is a list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema. The American Film Institute revealed the list in 2005 in a three-hour television program on CBS.
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100 Years... 100 Cheers: America's Most Inspiring Movies is a list of the most inspiring movies as determined by the American Film Institute. It is part of the AFI 100 Years...
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    AFI’s 100 Years...100 Movies — 10th Anniversary Edition was the 2007 updated version of 100 Years… 100 Movies. The original list was first unveiled in 1998.
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    Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores is a list of the top 25 film scores in American cinema. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute in 2005.

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    Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years of Musicals is a list of the top musicals in American cinema. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute at the Hollywood Bowl on September 3, 2006.
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    Humphrey Bogart

    Photographed in 1946 by Yousuf Karsh
    Birth name Humphrey DeForest Bogart
    Born November 25 1899(1899--)
    New York City, New York, U.S.
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    Katharine Hepburn

    from the trailer for The Philadelphia Story (1940)
    Birth name Katharine Houghton Hepburn
    Born November 8 1906(1906--)
    Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
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    Cary Grant

    Cary Grant as seen in North by Northwest
    Birth name Archibald Alec Leach
    Born January 18 1904(1904--)
    Bristol, England
    Died November 29 1986 (aged 82)
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