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Best Female Performances (1900-1929)

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Average listal rating (188 ratings) 8  
1. Greta Garbo

#1

as Felicitas in "Flesh and the Devil" (1926)

#9

as Tania Fedorova in "The Mysterious Lady" (1927)

#15

as Elena in "The Temptress" (1926)

#23

as Marianne in "The Divine Woman" (1928)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (28 ratings) 9.1  
2. Maria Falconetti

#2

as Joan of Arc in "The Passion of Joan of Arc" (1928)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (74 ratings) 8.2  
3. Lillian Gish

#3

as Anna Moore in "Way Down East" (1920)

#11

as Else Stoneman in "The Birth of a Nation" (1915)

#16

as Lucy Burrows in "Broken Blossoms" (1919)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (35 ratings) 7.3  
4. Edna Purviance

#4

as Marie St. Clair in "A Woman of Paris" (1923)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (42 ratings) 7.4  
5. Mary Pickford

#5

as Gwendolyn in "Poor Little Rich Girl" (1917)

#8

as Cedric/Widow Errol in "Little Lord Fauntleroy" (1921)

#18

as Norma Besant in "Coquette" (1929)

#21

as Maggie Johnson in "My Best Girl" (1927)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (14 ratings) 6.6  
6. Mary Philbin

#6

as Christine Daae in "The Phantom of the Opera" (1925)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (61 ratings) 7.4  
7. Clara Bow

#7

as Mary Preston in "Wings" (1927)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (11 ratings) 7.5  
8. Anita Page

#10

as Queenie Mahoney in "The Broadway Melody" (1929)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (68 ratings) 7.6  
9. Gloria Swanson

#12

as Theodora Fitzgerald in "Beyond the Rocks" (1922)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (148 ratings) 8  
10. Joan Crawford

#13

as Betty Channing in "West Point" (1928)

#20

as Mrs. Fay Cheyney in "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (47 ratings) 7  
11. Norma Shearer

#14

as Kathleen in "Smilin' Through" (1922)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (7 ratings) 7.9  
12. Patsy Ruth Miller

#17

as Esmeralda in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1923)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (10 ratings) 7.2  
13. Mae Murray

#19

as Sally O'Hara in "The Merry Widow" (1925)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (7 ratings) 8.4  
14. Marie Prevost

#22

as Charlotte Braun in "The Marriage Circle" (1924)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (4 ratings) 8.3  
15. Dorothy Cumming

#24

as Mary, The Mother in "The King of Kings" (1927)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (17 ratings) 6.9  
16. Brigitte Helm

#25

as Maria/The Robot in "Metropolis" (1927)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (7 ratings) 9.3  
17. Renée Adorée

#26

as Melisande in "The Big Parade" (1925)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (6 ratings) 8.3  
18. Laura La Plante

#27

as Annabelle West in "The Cat and the Canary" (1927)
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My favorite female performances from the first 20 years of film.

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