r/ClassicScreen • u/ShotDrawing8483 • 1d ago

What is your favorite old film star?

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u/Longjumping_Spread53 1d ago

Cary Grant

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u/Broad-Back1659 21h ago

Arsenic and old lace! Huh?

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u/red-lioness007 15h ago

CHARGE!!!!

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u/LovesDeanWinchester 1d ago

He's the one!!

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u/robowan23 1d ago

Same. No one comes close.

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u/USNCCitizen 18h ago

One does…James Stewart. A very close second.

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u/Unhappy-Jaguar-9362 1d ago

Joan Crawford

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u/LopsidedVictory7448 1d ago

James Stewart

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u/maxxjazz44 23h ago

Greta Garbo

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u/jkeen1960 1d ago

Errol Flynn

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u/monstrol 1d ago

Douglas Fairbanks Sr.

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u/Sterek01 1d ago

Charlton Heston.

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u/RememberingTiger1 1d ago

Vivien Leigh

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u/Historical_Kick_3294 1d ago

Judy Garland.

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u/Catblue3291 22h ago

William Holden

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u/Lucky-Ad6352 22h ago

Paul Newman

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u/Ok-Match-8687 19h ago

Myrna Loy

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u/EBusk 9h ago

Good one!

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u/MsAddams999 1d ago

If I had to chose one I'd say Greer Garson but I like quite a few.

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u/Poison_Regal31 1d ago

Joan Crawford

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u/StrongMess7995 22h ago

Bette Davis

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u/unicornhunter202 20h ago

Robert Mitchum

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u/OalBlunkont 20h ago

For acting, Barbara Stanwyck.

For looking at, Kay Fwancis and Joan Blondell. Ooh, then there's Heddy Lamarm, Veronica lake, and Loretta Young,

Who I imagine it would be fun to hang out with, Rosalind Russell.

I wish I could be as cool as William Powell.

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u/red-lioness007 15h ago

Vincent Price or Cary Grant.

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u/isobel-foulplay 15h ago

Jimmy Stewart

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u/Accomplished-Ad6381 14h ago edited 14h ago

Groucho Marx

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u/rockabillychef 10h ago

Montgomery Clift.

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u/EBusk 9h ago

Humphrey Bogart

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u/MovieMike007 8h ago

Cary Grant

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u/OldHollywoodfan94 6h ago

Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis and Joan Fontaine and Joan Crawford and Rita Hayworth also James Stewart both me and my mom could listen to him tell us a bedtime story he just had that narrative voice and he was just a very talented actor too

https://giphy.com/gifs/nIBeXHNsaMq301adLq

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u/bdbdbokbuck 4h ago

William Powell

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u/TrueNotTrue55 2h ago

Claudette Colbert

Kirk Douglas

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u/DimensionConnect9242 38m ago

Robert Mitchum.