THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT

By: Owen Sound

THE GIRL CAN’T HELP IT twenty favourite actresses.

Lillian Gish (1893 – 1993)

Greta Garbo (1905 – 1990)

Myrna Loy (1905 – 1993)

Barbara Stanwyck (1907 – 1990)

Bette Davis (1908 – 1989)

Carole Lombard (1908 – 1942)

Jennifer Jones (1919 – 2009)

Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 1962)

Jeanne Moreau

Ellen Burstyn

Sandy Dennis (1937 – 1992)

Liv Ullmann

Diane Keaton

Dianne Wiest

Charlotte Rampling

Sissy Spacek

Isabelle Huppert

Patricia Clarkson

Julianne Moore

Tilda Swinton

Honorable mention (in no real order)

Ingrid Bergman / Katharine Hepburn / Joan Crawford / Olivia de Havilland / Joan Fontaine / Ida Lupino / Jean Arthur / Thelma Ritter / Joanne Woodward / Jean Harlow / Janet Gaynor / Marlene Dietrich / Glenda Jackson / Giulietta Masina / Judy Garland / Shirley MacLaine / Lauren Bacall / Gloria Swanson / Jane Fonda / Bibi Andersson / Mia Farrow / Laura Dern / Holly Hunter / Gena Rowlands / Samantha Morton / Jennifer Jason Leigh / Catherine Keener / Joan Blondell / Lee Remick / Piper Laurie / Shelley Duvall / Barbara Hershey / Jill Clayburgh / Catherine Deneuve / Julie Christie / Emily Watson / Rosalind Russell / Tallulah Bankhead / Lucille Ball / Louise Brooks / Mae West / Vivien Leigh / Shelley Winters / Eve Arden / Marie Dressler / Jane Wyman / Anne Bancroft / Vanessa Redgrave / Lynn Redgrave / Maggie Smith / Geraldine Page / Carol Kane / Jodie Foster / Elaine May / Laura Linney / Sarah Polley / Kristin Scott Thomas / Frances McDormand / Goldie Hawn / Sigourney Weaver / Geena Davis / Susan Sarandon / Cher / Michelle Pfeiffer / Katrin Cartlidge / Juliette Binoche / Kathy Bates / Isabella Rossellini / Jane Adams / Marisa Tomei / Marion Cotillard / Michelle Williams