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Best Female Performances - 1930s

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Average listal rating (63 ratings) 7.8  
1. Jean Arthur

#1

as Alice Sycamore in "You Can't Take it with You" (1937)

#10

as Carissa Saunders in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (80 ratings) 7.9  
2. Claudette Colbert

#2

as Cleopatra in "Cleopatra" (1934)

#18

as Ellie in "It Happened One Night" (1934)

#22

as Bea Pullman in "Imitation of Life" (1934)
Stehako's rating:

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

#3

as Nina Yakushova 'Ninotchka' Ivanoff in "Ninotchka" (1939)

#21

as Grusinskaya, the Dancer in "Grand Hotel" (1932)

#27

as Marguerite Gautier in "Camille" (1937)

#45

as Anna Christie in "Anna Christie" (1930)

#49

as Zara aka Maria in "As You Desire Me" (1932)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (173 ratings) 8  
4. Marlene Dietrich

#4

as Shanghai Lily aka Magdalen in "Shanghai Express" (1932)

#19

as Frenchy in "Destry Rides Again" (1939)

#38

as Mademoiselle Amy Jolly in "Morocco" (1930)

Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (81 ratings) 8.1  
5. Myrna Loy

#5

as Billie Burke in "The Great Ziegfeld" (1936)

#29

as Nora in "The Thin Man" (1934)

#40

as Eleanor Packer in "Manhattan Melodrama" (1934)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (260 ratings) 8  
6. Judy Garland

#6

as Dorothy Gale in "Wizard of Oz" (1939)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (265 ratings) 8.2  
7. Bette Davis

#7

as Judith Traherne in "Dark Victory" (1939)

#34

as Joyce Heath in "Dangerous" (1935)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (31 ratings) 7.8  
8. Irene Dunne

#8

as Magnolia Hawks in "Show Boat" (1936)

#41

as Stephanie in "Roberta" (1935)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (125 ratings) 8  
9. Ginger Rogers

#9

as Francey in "Vivacious Lady" (1938)

#16

as Penny Carroll in "Swing Time" (1936)

#26

as Dale Tremont in "Top Hat" (1935)

#42

as Linda Keene in "Shall We Dance" (1937)

#47

as Comtesse Scharwenka in "Roberta" (1935)

#52

as Mimi Glossop in "The Gay Divorcee" (1934)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (130 ratings) 8.2  
10. Barbara Stanwyck

#11

as Lily Powers in "Baby Face" (1933)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (313 ratings) 8.5  
11. Katharine Hepburn

#12

as Linda Seton in "Holiday" (1938)

#24

as Jo in "Little Women" (1933)

#31

as Susan Vance in "Bringing Up Baby" (1938)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (264 ratings) 8.2  
12. Vivien Leigh

#13

as Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone with the Wind" (1939)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (95 ratings) 7.6  
13. Jean Harlow

#14

as Anne Schuyler in "Platinum Blonde" (1931)

#20

as Gwen Allen in "The Public Enemy" (1931)

#37

as Carol Clayton in "Saratoga" (1937)

#46

as Helen in "Hell's Angels" (1930)

#54

as Vantine in "Red Dust" (1932)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (25 ratings) 7.7  
14. Sylvia Sidney

#15

as Mrs. Sylvia Verloc in "Sabatoge" (1936)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (91 ratings) 8.1  
15. Carole Lombard

#17

as Irene Bullock in "My Man Godfrey" (1936)
Stehako's rating:

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

#23

as Kathleen in "Smilin' Through" (1932)

#30

as Jerry Martin in "The Divorcee" (1930)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (12 ratings) 7.3  
17. Margaret Lockwood

#25

as Iris Henderson in "The Lady Vanishes" (1938)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (39 ratings) 8  
18. Merle Oberon

#28

as Cathy in "Wuthering Heights" in (1939)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (67 ratings) 7.2  
19. Mae West

#32

as Tira in "I'm No Angel" (1933)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (42 ratings) 7.6  
20. Fay Wray

#33

as Ann Darrow in "King Kong" (1932)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (23 ratings) 7.5  
21. Janet Gaynor

#35

as Esther Blodgett/Vicki Lester in "A Star is Born" (1937)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (65 ratings) 7.9  
22. Shirley Temple

#36

as Heidi Kramer in "Heidi" (1937)

#53

as Barbara Barry in "Poor Little Rich Girl" (1936)
Stehako's rating:

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

#39

as Crystal Allen in "The Women" (1939)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (10 ratings) 6.6  
24. Una Merkel

#43

as Lorraine Fleming in "42nd Street" (1933)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (14 ratings) 7.6  
25. Virginia Cherrill

#44

as The Blind Girl in "City Lights" (1931)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (16 ratings) 8.4  
26. Jeanette MacDonald

#48

as Madame Sonia/Fifi in "The Merry Widow" (1934)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (43 ratings) 7.1  
27. Margaret Hamilton

#50

as The Wicked Witch of the West/Elmira Gulch in "The Wizard of Oz" (1939)
Stehako's rating:

Average listal rating (50 ratings) 7.3  
28. Loretta Young

#51

as Gallagher in "Platinum Blonde" (1931)
Stehako's rating:



The classic Hollywood beauties/greats! From newcomers like Judy Garland & Ginger Rogers to the ladies in their glory years like Jean Harlow & Katherine Hepburn to the old-timers (which were women in their early 30s) like Greta Garbo & Norma Shearer.

It was a vivacious time for these ladies, so enjoy the list!

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Comments

Posted: 1 year, 5 months ago at Nov 28 3:18
ohh.. you mean the time of true beautiful actress !!
Today it is only botox-ful, plastic dolls !!

very good list.
regards,
Posted: 2 months, 1 week ago at Mar 8 23:32
Great list man, I love Jean Harlow in those films too.

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