A Bit of Movie Star Nostalgia

This all started when I recently heard Jeremy Irons narrate something on TV making me realize once again just how beautiful the English language can be.  Crisp consonants, exquisite vowels, perfect pacing between each word so that one word didn't tumble into the next and get all mushed up.  As I listened, I was reminded of Ronald Colman whose voice captured me when I was only six years old.  With that, my mind began to wander to others of that era.  Here's what I ended up with.  Of course, it's ancient history now.  But for me, these people are still with us in their way.

Most enchanting voices (all Brits):
1.  Ronald Colman
2.  Laurence Olivier
3.  Richard Burton
4.  Jeremy Irons (yes, a totally different generation)

Most deliciously stylish:
1.  Grace Kelly
2.  Audrey Hepburn
3.  Jackie Kennedy (the only non-movie star in the bunch)
4.  Fred Astaire

Most drop-dead gorgeous:
1.  Ava Gardner
2.  Vivien Leigh
3.  Elizabeth Taylor
4.  Hedy Lamarr
5.  Robert Taylor
6.  Cary Grant
7.  Tyrone Power

Nicest:
1.  Ingrid Bergman
2.  Jimmy Stewart

Best Mr. Tough Guy:
1.  Burt Lancaster
2.  Kirk Douglas
3.  Edward G. Robinson
4.  James Cagney

Best Villain:
1.  James Mason

Feistiest Female:
1.  Susan Hayward
2.  Maureen O'Hara
3.  Bette Davis

Best Charioteer:
1.  Charlton Heston

Best War Hero:
1.  John Wayne
2.  Robert Montgomery
3.  Robert Mitchum

Best Sword Fighter:
1.  Erroll Flynn
2.  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
3.  Basil Rathbone

Best Ingenue:
1.  Joan Fontaine

Most Self-Sacrificing All Around Nice Gal:
1.  Greer Garson
2.  Claudette Colbert

Perkiest All Around Nice Gal:
1.  Doris Day

Best Smile:
1.  William Holden

Sexiest:
1.  Ava Gardner
2.  Clark Gable
3.  William Holden

Best Comedienne:
1.  Marilyn Monroe

Best Dancers Who Weren't Dancers:
1.  Charlie Chaplin
2.  James Cagney

Best in Whatever They Did:
1.  Katharine Hepburn
2.  Wendy Hiller
3.  Humphrey Bogart
4.  Spencer Tracey

Funniest:
1.  Danny Kaye
2.  Charlie Chaplin
3.  W. C. Fields

Best Crooner:
1.  Bing Crosby
2.  Dean Martin
3.  okay, okay, Frank Sinatra

Most Wonderful and Beautiful at the Same Time:
1.  Deborah Kerr

Most Supreme Favorite:
1.  Gregory Peck

Award for Those Still Hanging in There, Now in Their 90s (except for #1):
1.  Luise Rainer (born 1910, won her first Oscar in 1936)
2.  Olivia de Havilland
3.  Kirk Douglas
4.  Zsa Zsa Gabor
5. Joan Fontaine
6.  Louis Jourdan
7.  Maureen O'Hara
8.  Mickey Rooney
9.  Doris Day
10.  Eleanor Parker
11.  Lizabeth Scott
12.  Rhonda Fleming
13.  Glynis Johns