Asides - The Twenty Favorite Actresses Meme

Or, more specifically, twenty actresses you will watch, the quality of the film be damned. Not that these women made many clunkers, but I'm easy anyway. This post comes from again being tagged by The Siren (thanks, I think), with whom my list and no doubt several others share some names. I mean, what list doesn't include Edna May Oliver. My criteria is they make me laugh or cry or think or take a cold shower ( a couple fill all those in one "package"). So in no particular order, and with apologies to the few hundred other actresses I also admire or adore, here goes:

Marion Davies

Anita Page

Bette Davis

Claire Trevor

Gene Tierney

I must add here that this frame is from Leave Her To Heaven and the Technicolor in this scene on the train is stunning.

Edna May Oliver

Ida Lupino

Gloria Graham

Barbara Stanwyck

Marie Dressler

Anna May Wong

Kay Francis

Joan Crawford

Note that I kept Joan and Bette separated - its just safer that way.

Toby Wing

Elsa Lanchester

Bebe Daniels

Katherine Hepburn

Greta Garbo

Myrna Loy

Ann Sheridan

and number 21...

All the uncredited bathing beauties, chorus girls, and dancers of silver screen.

PS - The meme originated at The Film Experience.