Who were the best of the best?
Here's our ten.

1) Bette Davis
2) Judy Garland
3) Joan Crawford
4) Barbra Stanwyck
5) Hattie McDaniel
6) Carole Lombard
7) Loretta Young
8) Katharine Hepburn
9) Rita Hayworth
10) Jean Arthur
The Third Estate Sunday Review focuses on politics and culture. We're an online magazine. We don't play nice and we don't kiss butt. In the words of Tuesday Weld: "I do not ever want to be a huge star. Do you think I want a success? I refused "Bonnie and Clyde" because I was nursing at the time but also because deep down I knew that it was going to be a huge success. The same was true of "Bob and Carol and Fred and Sue" or whatever it was called. It reeked of success."