Elizabeth Taylor (London, February 27, 1932-Los Angeles, California, March 23, 2011)
Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, also known as Liz Taylor, was a British-American film, stage, and television actress. She developed an artistic career in the United States that spanned more than sixty years, in which she gained popularity mainly as an actress in Hollywood movies.
Her role as Cleopatra in the eventful and controversial 1963 film of the same name was highly praised, as was her collaboration with Mike Nichols on Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), directed by Mike Nichols. She won three Oscars (one of them honorary). She was recognized for her spectacular and dazzling beauty, with eyes of a rare violet color. Since the 1950s, she has established herself as one of the myths of the Seventh Art. She was also extremely popular for her stormy private life and her passion for jewelry.
2. Lana Turner (Wallace, Idaho, February 8, 1921 – Los Angeles, June 29, 1995)
Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner known as Lana Turner, was an American actress, a symbol of the 1940s when she achieved leading roles and fame in major titles such as Victor Fleming's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll (1940), where she worked alongside Spencer Tracy. In those years she rubbed shoulders with other prominent actors. Her performance as her femme fatale in The Postman Always Rings Twice launched her to ultimate stardom. For her role in Wuthering Lives, Lana Turner earned her only Oscar nomination.
3. Ava Gardner (Brogden, December 24, 1922-Westminster, England, January 25, 1990)
Ava Lavinia Gardner, known as Ava Gardner, was an Oscar-nominated American film actress, considered one of the great stars of the 20th century and one of the myths of the Seventh Art. She is known for her exuberant and photogenic beauty. Her third husband was the legendary singer and actor Frank Sinatra, who separated from her wife for her sake, and to whom she was married for six stormy years, between 1951 and 1957; their relationship caused rivers of ink to flow in newspapers and entertainment magazines. Sinatra nicknamed him "the most beautiful animal in the world," and he was surely the love of her life, as she was of him.
4. Jean Simmons (London, January 31, 1929-Santa Monica, California, January 22, 2010)
Jean Merilyn Simmons was a British actress who was nominated twice for an Oscar. Her films include Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, William Wyler's Horizons of Greatness, Mervyn LeRoy's After Darkness, Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus, and Richard Brooks' Fire and the Word.
5. Rita Hayworth (Brooklyn October 17, 1918-Manhattan May 14, 1987)
Rita Hayworth, birth name Margarita Carmen Cansino, was one of the most iconic and glamorous actresses of the golden age of American cinema and Hollywood's greatest diva of the 1940s. She ranks 19th on the American Film Institute's list of the great stars of the Seventh Art and was nicknamed "the goddess of love" by the tabloids of her time due to her extraordinary beauty and the enormous attraction she exerted on the male public.
6. Loretta Young (January 6, 1913–August 12, 2000)
Loretta Young real name was Gretchen Michaela Young. She won the Best Actress Oscar in 1947 for her performance in The Farmer's Daughter. In 1949, Young had another Oscar nomination for her performance in Come to the Stable, and in 1953 she starred in her last film, It Happens Every Thursday. Moving to television, she hosted and starred in the half-hour series The Loretta Young Show. Her show remained in prime time on NBC for eight years, something not achieved by any other show of the time hosted by a woman, also winning three Emmys.
7. Kim Novak (Chicago, February 13, 1933)
Marilyn Pauline Novak, better known by her stage name Kim Novak, is an American actress currently retired. Considered one of the symbols of the golden age of Hollywood, she regained validity in her maturity by participating in the popular television series Falcon Crest. She was one of director Alfred Hitchcock's divas.
8. Debora Kerr (Scotland, September 30, 1921 – Suffolk, October 16, 2007)
She was a British actress, one of the best-known faces of Hollywood cinema in the 1950s, She is also one of the female myths of the seventh art.
9. Maureen O'Hara (Dublin, Ireland, August 17, 1920-Boise, Idaho, October 24, 2015)
Maureen FitzSimons, stage name Maureen O'Hara, was an Irish-American actress of classic Hollywood cinema, who frequently played beautiful women with character; she was known as The Queen of Technicolor.
