100 Greatest film stars.

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Did any of you see it. What are your views?
Personally I agred with most of them particularly in the top ten, but this list contained too many non-entities who have made very few films.

Where were the greats such as Lancaster, Guiness, Peck, Olivier, Flynn, Tracey, Cagney,Steiger,Henry Fonda and Kirk Douglas. Glenda Jackson won 2 oscars. Sophia Loern, whilst not a great actor was a very big star.

I could mention many more....
 
Dunno. It depenRAB on your take of what a star is, and whether or not it's different to being a great actor.

Personally I would say Jack Nicholson was more of a "star" than Hanks, Spacey and De Niro (I'd probably say he was a better actor as well), and so was a bit miffed at him being at #6 behind some of them.

Someone like Tom Cruise perhaps should have been higher, even though as an actor he perhaps could have been a little lower.
 
I only saw part of the first show but found that I disagreed with lots of it. The presence of Jude Law in that chart is IMO ridiculous and there were also a number of others who I don't think were worthy of their positions. I guess we can't all agree about everythin though.
 
The trouble with all these polls is that firstly newer stars get more votes, and secondly pressure groups or fan clubs can influence the results. Just look at Michael Crawford high up in the list of Great Britons (and Princess Di), or Robbie Williams coming above Mozart in Great Composers.
In this case I think the Godfather fans pushed Al Pacino and de Niro to the top. Pacino is a good actor, but surely not the best ever. Having said that I would be very hard pressed to name who I thought was the greatest.
 
I only saw the top ten or so, and the first thing that struck me was "Where are all the women?". The top ten was completely full of male actors. The highest placed woman was the wonderful Audrey Hepburn, at position 13.

This was the top 10:

1. Al Pacino
2. Robert De Niro
3. Tom Hanks
4. Kevin Spacey
5. Harrison Ford
6. Jack Nicholson
7. Anthony Hopkins
8. Sean Connery
9. Ewan McGregor
10. Cary Grant

What on earth are Tom Hanks, Harrison Ford and Ewan McGregor doing in there? Where's Olivier, for example? The only ones from that list I'd rank anywhere near the best would be Connery and Grant, and possibly Pacino, de Niro and Nicholson. Personally, I'd stick Audrey Hepburn in my top three, if not #1.

Unfortunately, polls like this are always the same. People think that movies began when they were born, which explains why Star Wars is always #1. People don't seem to have any awareness of fine actors and actresses from the past as they should do, such as James Dean, Gregory Peck and so on.
 
I thought the Top 10 was OK, but I don't agree with everything on it.

Firstly, why did Ewan McGregor get number 9? (He shouldn't have even been in the Top 20.)

Secondly why no women in the Top 10?

Thirdly, why Al Pacino in number 1? I would have put Tom Hanks or else De Niro as number 1. Also, was Joe Pesci in the top 100? I think he's a fantastic actor, especially in Casino and Goodfellas, he deserved a place somewhere, at least.

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My mother taped the show for me and I watched it yesterday to find out who was on the list.

Well I for one didn't agree with most of the 100 because I think people were voting for great actors when survey was about movie stars. If you voting for great actors then Al Pacino could be near the top, but it was not.

I couldn't believe the amount of movie stars missed, Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Sean Connery should have been nearer the top of the pile.

What happened to Errol Flynn (the wildest movie star of the lot) not to be included, or James Cagney, why include Micheal Douglas and forget about his father Kirk Douglas (who doesn't know of Spartacus) whom I believe was a bigger star. Although he hasn't had good press at the moment with his views of gun owner ship but Charlton Heston was a great movie star, he was in Ben Hurr, Moses, The Big Country the first planet of the apes to think Jude Law was in the line up and the above werent! The man beat Gregory Peck who wasn't in the list also!

They also included Jane Fonda but forgot about Henry Fonda who I thought was more famous.

Spencer Tracy (but is lover Katherine Hepburn was)was also forgotten, the most famous child movie star of them all was Shirley Temple who helped save a studio with all of her fame. Who doesn't know of her!

The screen goddesses of Rita Hayworth (Famous for Gilda) Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo and actor such as Gary Cooper, Robert Mitchim and although he is a singer he was still a movie star the one and only Frank Sinatra. I don't even think Debrorah Carr, famous for From Here to Enterity, King and I and many others was also ommitted. She was one of most famous British Actresses.

The movie stars of the silent area was not given there place in history and yet they started the movie star thing off, who has not heard of Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, in there time they were big stars.

I was also disappointed with choice of french movie stars, I would have had Bardot and Catherine Denuver. (I think I spelt her name wrong. I was also surprised they never included the most famous Egyptian star Omar Shariff, famous for movies such as Dr Zhavargo and Lawrence of Arabia.

I think what was worrying about this whole show was how stupid the British public are becoming when they don't know the difference between a great actor and a movie star. :eek:

To be honest although I think Tom Cruise and Harrison Ford as movie stars, I always believe those who were around in the golden age of movies when Gone with Wind was being made and Clark Gable strutted his stuff more of a legend, the movie stars are still remembered, they hold such a mystery and fascination even though some of been dead for years. It should have been them who made the top ten because they have been around longer, had lots of films made about them and books written about there lives.
 
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