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Here's how often the top 25 actors and actresses in the American Film Institute's rankings have appeared: *Actors* 1. Humphrey Bogart, 4 (03, 04, 05, 11) 2. Cary Grant, 6 (03, 04, 05, 06, 09, 11) 3. James Stewart, 6 (03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 11) 4. Marlon Brando, 3 (05, 08, 11) 5. Fred Astaire, 3 (03, 05, 08) 6. Henry Fonda, 4 (04, 08, 09, 10) 7. Clark Gable, 2 (03, 09) 8. James Cagney, 2 (03, 05) 9. Spencer Tracy, 4 (03, 05, 07, 08) 10. Charlie Chaplin, 2 (04, 08) 11. Gary Cooper, 3 (03, 04, 07) 12. Gregory Peck, 3 (03, 06, 08) 13. John Wayne, 5 (03, 04, 05, 06, 09) 14. Laurence Olivier, 1 (04) 15. Gene Kelly, 2 (03, 08) 16. Orson Welles, 1 (11) 17. Kirk Douglas, 4 (03, 04, 05, 07) 18. James Dean, 0 19. Burt Lancaster, 3 (04, 06, 11) 20. The Marx Brothers, 1 (04 for Groucho) 21. Buster Keaton, 1 (07) 22. Sidney Poitier, 3 (04, 06, 09) 23. Robert Mitchum, 2 (03, 07) 24. Edward G. Robinson, 2 (04, 08) 25. William Holden, 2 (03, 07) *Actresses* 1. Katharine Hepburn, 6 (03, 04, 05, 06, 08, 10) 2. Bette Davis, 4 (03, 04, 09, 11) 3. Audrey Hepburn, 2 (06, 09) 4. Ingrid Bergman, 3 (06, 08, 10) 5. Greta Garbo, 2 (03, 08) 6. Marilyn Monroe, 0 7. Elizabeth Taylor, 4 (03, 04, 07, 10) 8. Judy Garland, 3 (03, 05, 09) 9. Marlene Dietrich, 2 (03, 11) 10. Joan Crawford, 4 (03, 05, 07, 11) 11. Barbara Stanwyck, 3 (04, 06, 08) 12. Claudette Colbert, 2 (04, 11) 13. Grace Kelly, 0 14. Ginger Rogers, 1 (04) 15. Mae West, 0 16. Vivien Leigh, 0 17. Lillian Gish, 0 18. Shirley Temple, 0 19. Rita Hayworth, 2 (06, 08) 20. Lauren Bacall, 2 (05, 10) 21. Sophia Loren, 1 (05) 22. Jean Harlow, 1 (04) 23. Carole Lombard, 2 (06, 11) 24. Mary Pickford, 0 25. Ava Gardner, 2 (04, 08)

Here's the list: *August 2003* James Stewart, Clint Eastwood, Peter O'Toole, Joan Crawford, Fred Astaire, Robert Mitchum, James Cagney, Elizabeth Taylor, Cary Grant, Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Greta Garbo, Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston, Katherine Hepburn, Steve McQueen, Gene Kelly, Marlene Dietrich, Gregory Peck, Humphrey Bogart, Judy Garland, Clark Gable, John Wayne, Myrna Loy, Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Bette Davis, Spencer Tracy, Paul Newman, Doris Day, William Holden *August 2004* John Wayne, Barbara Stanwyck, Bob Hope, Debbie Reynolds, Sidney Poitier, Lucille Ball, Katherine Hepburn, Clint Eastwood, Ava Gardner, Henry Fonda, Jean Harlow, Laurence Olivier, Doris Day, Humphrey Bogart, Burt Lancaster, Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor, Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Peter Sellers, James Stewart, Olivia de Havilland, Ginger Rogers, Charles Chaplin, Shirley MacLaine, Claudette Colbert, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, Gregory Peck, Esther Williams, Kirk Douglas *August 2005* Lauren Bacall, James Cagney, Joel McCrea, Alec Guinness, Katharine Hepburn, John Wayne, Judy Garland, Shelley Winters, Ray Milland, Lena Horne, Kirk Douglas, Jane Wyman, Cary Grant, Glenn Ford, Fred Astaire, Donna Reed, James Garner, Irene Dunne, Marlon Brando, James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Joan Crawford, Basil Rathbone, Sophia Loren, Norma Shearer, Randolph Scott, Spencer Tracy, William Holden, Constance Bennett, Deborah Kerr, Humphrey Bogart *August 2006* Angela Lansbury, Groucho Marx, Susan Hayward, Gregory Peck, Humphrey Bogart, Doris Day, Burt Lancaster, Claire Trevor, Jane Powell, John Garfield, Katherine Hepburn, Rock Hudson, Walter Matthau, Lana Turner, Richard Dix, Joseph Cotten, Carole Lombard, Bela Lugosi, Audrey Hepburn, Lee Marvin, David Niven, Rita Hayworth, Van Johnson, Ann Sothern, James Stewart, Cary Grant, John Wayne, Hedy Lamarr, Ingrid Bergman, Sidney Poitier, Barbara Stanwyck *August 2007* Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O’Toole, Joan Crawford, William Holden, James Stewart, Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy, Vincent Price, Doris Day, Alan Ladd, June Allyson, Ernest Borgnine, Joan Bennett, Elvis Presley, Maureen O’Hara, Spencer Tracy, Errol Flynn, Rosalind Russell, Gary Cooper, Ann Miller, Jane Fonda, Ronald Reagan, Broderick Crawford, Kirk Douglas, Loretta Young, Roy Rogers, Mary Astor, Buster Keaton, Sean Connery *August 2008* Michael Caine, Charlie Chaplin, Gregory Peck, Marie Dressler, Claude Rains, Anne Bancroft, Greta Garbo, James Garner, Fred MacMurray, Doris Day, Richard Widmark, Kim Novak, Peter Lorre, Greer Garson, Rita Hayworth, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Jack Palance, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Ava Gardner, Trevor Howard, Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, Henry Fonda, Ingrid Bergman, Janet Leigh, Tony Curtis, Charlton Heston, Marlon Brando, Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy *August 2009* Henry Fonda, James Mason, Marion Davies, James Coburn, Harold Lloyd, Judy Garland, Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Cary Grant, Dirk Bogarde, Audrey Hepburn, Clark Gable, Gloria Grahame, Sidney Poitier, Deborah Kerr, Elvis Presley, Jennifer Jones, John Wayne, Red Skelton, Miriam Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Sterling Hayden, Angela Lansbury, Fredric March, Merle Oberon, Yul Brynner, Ida Lupino, Frank Sinatra, Peter Sellers, Jean Arthur, Claire Bloom *August 2010* Basil Rathbone, Julie Christie, Steve McQueen, Ethel Barrymore,. Woody Strode, Ingrid Bergman, Errol Flynn, Bob Hope, Warren Beatty, Kathryn Grayson, Walter Matthau, Norma Shearer, Robert Ryan, Gene Tierney, Margaret O'Brien, Robert Stack, Maureen O'Hara, Ann Sheridan, Walter Pidgeon, Katharine Hepburn, Paul Newman, John Mills, Elizabeth Taylor, John Gilbert, Lauren Bacall, Lee Remick, Olivia de Havilland, Peter O'Toole, Henry Fonda, Thelma Todd, Clint Eastwood *August 2011* Marlon Brando, Paulette Goddard, Bette Davis, Ronald Colman, John Garfield, Lucille Ball, Charles Laughton, Orson Welles, Ann Dvorak, Shirley MacLaine, Ben Johnson, Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Ralph Bellamy, Lon Chaney, Joanne Woodward, Humphrey Bogart, Jean Gabin, Debbie Reynolds, Montgomery Clift, Cary Grant, Joan Crawford, Conrad Veidt, Joan Blondell, Burt Lancaster, Peter Lawford, Linda Darnell, Carole Lombard, Anne Francis, Howard Keel, Marlene Dietrich Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart tie for most SUTS appearances with six; John Wayne has received the honor five times.

But could [Claudette Colbert] sing? (LOL) Your answers...

Versatility, thy name is Barbara Stanwyck. From pre-Codes to film noirs to Westerns to screwballs, she could do it all.

Also, here's some news from Darrell Rooney, curator of the successful "Harlow At 100" exhibit that today celebrated its first anniversary at The Hollywood Museum (and will be there for a while longer): I've asked the owner if she'd like a Lombard exhibit. She jumped at the opportunity. Since I am not personally a Lombard collector, I am turning to all of you for help. If I can get collectors to lend personal artifacts, clothing and/or movie costumes you will all make this an enormous success. What I'm looking for are Lombard items with accompanying photos, or personal correspondence, letters, items, etc. that illuminate who this wonderful person was, and highlights her brilliant career. Anything that anyone thinks might be a profound addition to a Lombard exhibit is most welcome. I will assist in curating the exhibit along with Steve Nycklemoe, who is the general manager of The Hollywood Museum. I can guarantee the utmost safety and care with each item, so don't let that worry you. It will be done with taste and class. Please let me know if there is anything you would be willing to loan for a period of at least 6 months. Details will be ironed out in the next week or so. Please feel free to contact me at darrellrooney@sbcglobal.net with any questions or scans of items you have that you'd be open to loan for the exhibit. I should add that I expect to be helping this exhibit, providing a timeline and other information. You can learn more at http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/490067.html.

There was a 1930 version of "Holiday" with Ann Harding in the role Hepburn played on stage (and in film eight years later). This version gets overlooked, but is also very good -- only now is Harding being realized as one of the fine actresses of her era.

I'm not sure you would describe him as "lucky" after learning about his death. From Wikipedia: Ill with cancer and a bad heart, he directed one last film: [Journey for Margaret|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_for_Margaret|Journey for Margaret], it was a heart-rending movie that made five-year old Margaret O'Brien an overnight star. A devout [Christian Scientist|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Scientist|Christian Scientist], Van Dyke refused most medical care during his last years. After finishing his last film he said his goodbyes to his wife, children and studio boss [Louis B. Mayer|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_B._Mayer|Louis B. Mayer], and committed [suicide|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide|Suicide] on February 5, 1943.^[suicide|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._S._Van_Dyke#cite_note-obit-0] ^in [brentwood, Los Angeles, California|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brentwood,_Los_Angeles,_California|Brentwood, Los Angeles, California]. At his request, [Jeanette MacDonald|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanette_MacDonald|Jeanette MacDonald] and [Nelson Eddy|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Eddy|Nelson Eddy] both sang and officiated at his funeral.

"Hands Across The Table" -- Carole Lombard is my all-time favorite actress, and this comedy with Fred MacMurray remains relatively unknown. "Libeled Lady" -- William Powell, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow, Spencer Tracy, newspaper intrigue, heiress, fishing scene! Need I say more? "The Smiling Lieutenant" -- the Lubitsch touch. Jazz up your lingerie! "A Hard Day's Night" -- Richard Lester captures the quintessence of the Beatles, and indeed the 1960s.

Good luck with the campaign; I've been trying to get a Carole Lombard stamp issued for years.

I've read pulp novels from the 1920s where it was used as an equivalent to "said," and I too thought it odd. So I suppose talking out of turn could be construed as "premature...

(But I did enjoy the makeover scene itself ; and when they parted, it almost looked like Anna and Franzi had not only become friends, but that they were thinking of something more...) In other words, we could have had a sequel a la "Design For Living," only this time, Hopkins is Chevalier?

TCM will show this clever Ernst Lubitsch comedy from 1931 at 8 p.m. (ET) Monday (Feb. 20) to kick off a salute to Austria. If you've never seen this Best Picture nominee, by all means do so. Maurice Chevalier is his usual suave self, but instead of Jeanette MacDonald as his leading lady, he has two -- Claudette Colbert (with darker hair than the better-known Claudette of later in the '30s) as the leader of an all-female orchestra who Maurice loves, and Miriam Hopkins as a rather prim princess who through a mistaken wink thinks he's in love with her, and thus they must marry. Eventually things are resolved, thanks in part to a wonderfully outrageous song called "Jazz Up Your Lingerie," where Claudette explains to Miriam is that the way to a man's heart is through her underthings. (This came a few decades before Cole Porter expressed similar thoughts in writing "Satin And Silk" for "Silk Stockings.") A lot of fun Another Claudette film, the 1934 "Cleopatra" with Warren William, is on at 9 a.m. (ET) during a salute to Rome.

Which part of that phrase are you being more facetious about -- "rarely seen" or "classic"?

I started using a Carole Lombard pic as my huge Facebook cover photo. People have asked me, "who's that?". Get into a little explanation and next thing I know a couple of friends are telling me they've picked up Lombard dvd's to check her out. Maybe there's hope for the youth of America yet Just checked it out...and Lombard indeed registers with later generations. She's timeless.

Time for me to revisit the Carole Lombard thread after watching a few more movies featuring her. The great thing about having never seen any Lombard movies is that everything is new to me. Two things about her jump out. 1. She was very funny. Top notch comedic actress. 2. That was one beautiful woman. Welcome to the Lombard army, which recruits new members every day. She was amazing in so many ways. If you want to learn even more about her, please visit my site dedicated to Lombard, her life and times, and people she knew and worked with: http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/

I think Hawks have these women do this balancing act, especially in the begining of the films, as a way to create sexual tension. The lead man at first reacts negatively to them but once the women show they have venerable side, the guy is hooked, and the tension eases. Once you see Angie Dickinson in "Rio Bravo," you certainly want to venerate her.

If Tyrone Power is the most popular classic Hollywood actor on Vulcan (must be the ears!), does that mean Loretta Young is the most popular actress? Or, like many earthlings, do they prefer her pre-Code work? (Perhaps Darryl F. Zanuck was engaging in secret interplanetary marketing, just to get the edge on Louis B. Mayer's "more stars than there are in heaven" angle.)

If "The Artist" merely serves as a conduit for people to discover silent film and its many charms, it will have served a purpose. Thankfully, it is far more than that, and I hope it wins best picture and several other awards to go with it.

I care this year, because I saw "The Artist" earlier this week -- and loved it. I wrote a bit more on the film at http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/483696.html.

Carole Lombard and Myrna Loy were both staunch FDR supporters, while Barbara Stanwyck was known for her Republican leanings. Of course, the parties were substantially different in composition in 1940 compared to today, as the South was solidly Democratic (it was the Dems that had the uneasy task of blending the segregationist southern bloc with its ethnic northern urban core), while the GOP was the business/Wall Street party, without the cultural conservatism that marks today's Republicans.

Nice idea. Or we could honor two historians by naming it "The Osborne-Brownlow Theater." (Of course, since AMPAS is mulling a new site for the awards, this might all be moot.)

You've got nine months and a few thousand miles to go before you can meet up with Marty McFly, so enjoy the Twin Cities for a while. When the weather warms come April, take in some baseball with the St. Paul Saints or their American Association archrivals, the Minneapolis Millers, who are playing their final season in Nicollet Park. Come next year, they'll be playing not in Minneapolis at all, but in a new stadium in some little suburb south of town called Bloomington. Who'd want to do anything there?

On Feb. 8, Anthony Slide, author of "Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine: A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers," will give a presentation on fan magazines at the Hollywood Heritage Museum (located at the relocated Lasky-De Mille barn across from the Hollywood Bowl) at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 8. Learn more at http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/481196.html.

mrroberts, I appreciate the plug -- and here's the url: http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com We pride ourselves on having a new entry virtually every day, covering Lombard's life and times and people she knew and worked with, memorabilia, media coverage and more. We've been up since June 2007, and have several hundred members. I think most movie buffs will enjoy the site.

Interesting to see the story "The Ku Klux makes a movie" from the Oct. 6, 1923 issue. While the Klan's revival in this period arose largely from "Birth Of A Nation," this version wasn't so much anti-black as it was white, Protestant and promoting "Americanism" (aka white Protestant values -- its principal targets were Catholics, Jews and Prohibition opponents). The revived Klan, unlike its predecessor or successors, was popular outside the South and actually wielded some power for a brief time in Indiana and other states before scandals did in the organization. There are photos of Klan rallies along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington in the mid-1920s that boggle the mind today. *Movie Weekly September 29th-1923* A few years later, Edwin Bower Hesser took a similar pose of a 19-year-old Carole Lombard while she was working for Mack Sennett: