My Top 20 Favorite Actresses

Corresponding with my top 20 actors post, here are my top 20 favorite actresses. Again I lited my favorite role for each, and they're listed in random order after the first three. :)

1. Ginger Rogers

Favorite role: Penny Carrol in Swing Time, naturally.

2. Myrna Loy

Favorite role: Alice Higgins in Broadway Bill

3. Jean Harlow

Favorite role: Dolly Portland in China Seas

4. Barbara Stanwck

Favorite role: Sugarpuss O'Shea in Ball Of Fire

5. Katharine Hepburn

Favorite role: Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia Story

6. Carole Lombard

Favorite role: Ann Smith in Mr. & Mrs. Smith

7. Judy Garland

Favorite role: Alice Mayberry in The Clock

8. Grace Kelly

Favorite role: Lisa Freemont in Rear Window

9. Lauren Bacall

Favorite role: Vivian Rutledge in The Big Sleep

10. Kim Novak

Favorite role: Madeline/Judy in Vertigo

11. Ingrid Bergman

Favorite role: Sister Mary Benedict in The Bells Of St. Mary's

12. Jean Arthur

Favorite role: Paula Bradford in The Ex-Mrs. bradford

13. Margaret Sullavan

Favorite role: Klara Novak in The Shop Around The Corner

14. Donna Reed

Favorite role: Mary Bailey in It's A Wonderful Life

15. Marilyn Monroe

Favorite role: Sugar Kane in Some Like It Hot

16. Debbie Reynolds

Favorite role: Kathy Seldon in Singin' In The Rain

17. Rosalind Russell

Favorite role: Hildy Johnson in His Girl Friday

18. Joan Crawford

Favorite role: Sally Parker in Love On The Run

19. Anita Page

Favorite role: Jean St. Clair in I Have Lived

20. Irene Dunne

Favorite role: Lucy Warriner in The Awful Truth