1. John Wayne
Because when you think of all that’s best about America, you think of what was best about John Wayne.
2. James Stewart
Because he not only fought for his country in WWII, but he came out of the experience a different man; stronger, darker, dangerous, and more interesting than when he went in.
3. Humphrey Bogart
Because he taught us that if your above-it-all cynicism isn’t a lie covering up the nobility of your humanity, you’re not really a man.
4. James Cagney
Because there wasn’t anything he couldn’t do, any scene he couldn’t steal.
5. Errol Flynn
Because he could do more with the gleam in his eye than James Cameron can do with all the computer power in the world.
6. Fred Astaire
Because he understood that the magic formula for allowing his audience to escape form their reality could only be found in the difficult art of making perfection look spontaneous.
7. Clint Eastwood
Because John Wayne handed him all his delegates and Eastwood never stops proving he was worthy.
8. Cary Grant
Because even Tony Curtis wanted to be Cary Grant.
9. Paul Newman
Because he was the handsomest man who ever stood before a movie camera and his greatest performance was pretending he didn’t know that.
10. Jack Lemmon
Because his characters always reflected so much of what we see in ourselves and through their survival never failed to reassure.
11. Charles Bronson
Because his sense of justice was as righteous and relenteless as it was quietly noble and dangerously competent, and what a thing that was to watch.
12. Bob Hope
Because someone somewhere has kept score and at the top of a list sits Bob Hope, the man who made more people laugh than anyone else in human history.
13. Clark Gable
Because he taught us that real men have to put up with an awful lot before they’ve earned the right not to give a damn.
14. Gene Kelly
Because he was the most inventive performer in the history of motion pictures and made it look so easy that people tend to forget that.
15. Spencer Tracy
Because he reminded us that simple human decency really is the key to inner peace and happiness.
16. Henry Fonda
Because Abe Lincoln. Because Tom Joad. Because Wyatt Earp.
17. Gene Hackman
Because of the “Hackman chuckle.” How I miss the Hackman chuckle.
18. Robert Mitchum
Because even after he was done stealing your girl, you’d still seek his approval.
19. Kirk Douglas
Because the feeling that a dangerous wounded animal lurked just below that larger-than-life surface made it impossible to look away.
20. Charlton Heston
Because he was a great actor and an even greater man.
21. Burt Lancaster
Because that smile was somehow bigger than his persnality
22. Edward G. Robinson
23. Bing Crosby
Gary Cooper
Marlon Brando
Montgomery Clift
Frank Sinatra
William Holden
Paul Muni
The Marx Brothers
William Powell
John Garfield
Mickey Rooney
Lee Marvin
Charlie Chaplin
Gregory Peck
Michael Caine
Robert Duvall
Sean Connery
Abbott and Costello
Boris Karloff
Steve McQueen
Randolph Scott
Dana Andrews
Tony Curtis
Rock Hudson
Tyrone Power
Claude Rains
Joel McCrea
Glenn Ford
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