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The list American silent film actresses includes Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Tallulah Bankhead, Greta Garbo and Myrna Loy. The list consists of 1,163 members.

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  • 1.

    Marlene Dietrich
    German, Actress
    Marlene Dietrich
    Overview: Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich (, 27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German and American actress and singer whose career spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s.
    Date of birth: 27 December 1901
    Date of death: 6 May 1992
    Age: 90 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
     1    0
    Deaths from kidney failure in France 5T
    German women autobiographers 19T
    German bisexual actors 13T
  • 2.

    Joan Crawford
    American actress (190?–1977)
    Joan Crawford
    Overview: Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, c. 1904–1908 – May 10, 1977) was an American actress. Starting as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway, Crawford was ...
    Date of birth: 23 March 1905
    Date of death: 10 May 1977
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)
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    20th-century American memoirists 592T
    20th-century memoirists 889T
    20th-century American businesswomen 706T
  • 3.

    Tallulah Bankhead
    American, Actress
    Tallulah Bankhead
    Overview: Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968) was an American actress of the stage and screen. Bankhead was a member of the Brockman Bankhead family, a prominent Alabama political ...
    Date of birth: 31 January 1902
    Date of death: 12 December 1968
    Age: 66 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)
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    American bisexual actresses 158T
    American bisexual women 291T
    American women autobiographers 199T
  • 4.

    Greta Garbo
    Swedish-American actress (1905–1990)
    Greta Garbo
    Overview: Greta Garbo (born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson; 18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990) was a Swedish-American actress. Generally regarded as one of the greatest screen actresses of all time, Garbo was known for ...
    Date of birth: 18 September 1905
    Date of death: 15 April 1990
    Age: 84 (age at death)
    Nationality: Swedish
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)
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    Deaths from pneumonia in New York City 280T
    Recipients of the Illis quorum 162T
    Deaths from pneumonia in New York (state) 407T
  • 5.

    Myrna Loy
    American actress (1905–1993)
    Myrna Loy
    Overview: Myrna Loy (born Myrna Adele Williams; August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993) was an American film, television and stage actress. Trained as a dancer, Loy devoted herself fully to an acting career following ...
    Date of birth: 2 August 1905
    Date of death: 14 December 1993
    Age: 88 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
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    Methodists from California 21T
    Methodists from Montana 7T
    20th-century American memoirists 507T
  • 6.

    Louise Brooks
    American actress (1906–1985)
    Louise Brooks
    Overview: Mary Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985), known professionally as Louise Brooks, was an American film actress and dancer during the 1920s and 1930s. She is regarded today as a Jazz Age icon ...
    Date of birth: 14 November 1906
    Date of death: 8 August 1985
    Age: 78 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)
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    20th-century American LGBT people 1,654T
    20th-century LGBT people 3,342T
    20th-century American memoirists 507T
  • 7.

    Jean Harlow
    Actress
    Jean Harlow
    Overview: Jean Harlow (born Harlean Harlow Carpenter; March 3, 1911 – June 7, 1937) was an American actress and sex symbol. Often nicknamed the "Blonde Bombshell" and the "Platinum Blonde", she was popular for her ...
    Date of birth: 3 March 1911
    Date of death: 7 June 1937
    Age: 26 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)
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    Hollywood Walk of Fame 371T
    Actresses from Kansas City, Missouri 77T
    American former Christians 169T
  • 8.

    Jean Arthur
    Actress
    Jean Arthur
    Overview: Jean Arthur (born Gladys Georgianna Greene; October 17, 1900 – June 19, 1991) was an American Broadway and film actress whose career began in silent films in the 1920s and lasted until the early 1950s ...
    Date of birth: 17 October 1900
    Date of death: 19 June 1991
    Age: 90 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)
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    WAMPAS Baby Stars 141T
    Hollywood Walk of Fame 354T
    Actresses of British descent 497T
  • 9.

    Clara Bow
    American actress (1905–1965)
    Clara Bow
    Overview: Clara Gordon Bow (July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965) was an American actress who rose to stardom in silent film during the 1920s and successfully made the transition to "talkies" in 1929. Her appearance ...
    Date of birth: 29 July 1905
    Date of death: 27 September 1965
    Age: 60 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)
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    People from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn 16T
    WAMPAS Baby Stars 142T
    Hollywood Walk of Fame 370T
  • 10.

    Loretta Young
    American actress (1913–2000)
    Loretta Young
    Overview: Loretta Young (born Gretchen Young; January 6, 1913 – August 12, 2000) was an American actress. Starting as a child actress, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953. She won the Academy ...
    Date of birth: 6 January 1913
    Date of death: 12 August 2000
    Age: 87 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
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    Catholics from Utah 10T
    WAMPAS Baby Stars 142T
    Catholics from California 327T
  • 11.

    Carole Lombard
    American, Actress
    Carole Lombard
    Overview: Carole Lombard (born Jane Alice Peters; October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942) was an American actress, particularly noted for her energetic, often off-beat roles in screwball comedies. In 1999, the American ...
    Date of birth: 6 October 1908
    Date of death: 16 January 1942
    Age: 33 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)
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    United Service Organizations entertainers 148T
    Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1942 44T
    Actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood 492T
  • 12.

    Thelma Todd
    American actress (1906–1935)
    Thelma Todd
    Overview: Thelma Alice Todd (July 29, 1906 – December 16, 1935) was an American actress and businesswoman often referred to by the nickname "The Ice Cream Blonde", as well as "Hot Toddy". Appearing in around 120 ...
    Date of birth: 29 July 1906
    Date of death: 16 December 1935
    Age: 29 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)
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    Unsolved deaths in the United States 67T
    1935 suicides 25T
    Actresses of Irish descent 598T
  • 13.

    Theda Bara
    American actress (1885–1955)
    Theda Bara
    Overview: Theda Bara ( THEE-də BARE-ə; born Theodosia Burr Goodman; July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American silent film and stage actress.
    Date of birth: 29 July 1885
    Date of death: 7 April 1955
    Age: 69 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
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    Actresses from Cincinnati, Ohio 60T
    Jewish American actresses 742T
    20th-century American actresses 7,657T
  • 14.

    Lillian Gish
    American actress (1893–1993)
    Lillian Gish
    Overview: Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993) was an American pioneering actress of the screen and stage, and a director and writer. Her film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 ...
    Date of birth: 14 October 1893
    Date of death: 27 February 1993
    Age: 99 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
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    American women television presenters 141T
    Broadway actors 482T
    Actresses from New Rochelle, New York 30T
  • 15.

    Anna May Wong
    American actress (1905–1961)
    Anna May Wong
    Overview: Anna May Wong (born Wong Liu Tsong; January 3, 1905 – February 3, 1961) was an American actress, considered to be the first Chinese American Hollywood movie star, as well as the first Chinese American ...
    Date of birth: 3 January 1905
    Date of death: 3 February 1961
    Age: 56 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
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    American people of Taishan descent 26T
    Hollywood Walk of Fame 370T
    Converts to Christian Science from Presbyterianism 6T
  • 16.

    Sally Rand
    American actor and dancer
    Sally Rand
    Overview: Sally Rand (born Helen Gould Beck; April 3, 1904 – August 31, 1979) was an American burlesque dancer, vedette, and actress, most noted for her ostrich feather fan dance and balloon bubble dance ...
    Date of birth: 3 April 1904
    Date of death: 31 August 1979
    Age: 75 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Dancer
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 1" (155 cm)
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    Columbia College (Missouri) alumni 22T
    WAMPAS Baby Stars 141T
    People from Hickory County, Missouri 4T
  • 17.

    Norma Shearer
    Actress
    Norma Shearer
    Overview: Edith Norma Shearer (August 11, 1902 – June 12, 1983) was a Canadian-American actress who was active on film from 1919 through 1942. Shearer often played spunky, sexually liberated ingénues. She ...
    Date of birth: 11 August 1902
    Date of death: 12 June 1983
    Age: 80 (age at death)
    Nationality: Canadian
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 1" (155 cm)
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    Deaths from pneumonia in California 445T
    20th-century American Jews 3,039T
    Models from Montreal 21T
  • 18.

    Mary Pickford
    Canadian actress and producer (1892–1979)
    Mary Pickford
    Overview: Gladys Louise Smith (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979), known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian-American film actress and producer with a career that spanned five decades. A pioneer in the A ...
    Date of birth: 8 April 1892
    Date of death: 29 May 1979
    Age: 87 (age at death)
    Nationality: Canadian
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 1" (155 cm)
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    20th-century American screenwriters 2,110T
    Actresses of Irish descent 598T
    Actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood 10T
  • 19.

    Mary Astor
    American actress (1906–1987)
    Mary Astor
    Overview: Mary Astor (born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke; May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987) was an American actress. She may be best remembered for her performance as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon ...
    Date of birth: 3 May 1906
    Date of death: 25 September 1987
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
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    Respiratory disease deaths in California 44T
    20th-century American memoirists 469T
    20th-century memoirists 862T
  • 20.

    Marion Davies
    American, Actress
    Marion Davies
    Overview: Marion Davies (born Marion Cecilia Douras; January 3, 1897 – September 22, 1961) was an American actress, producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist. Educated in a religious convent, Davies fled the school ...
    Date of birth: 3 January 1897
    Date of death: 22 September 1961
    Age: 64 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)
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    American vaudeville performers 119T
    Polio survivors 208T
    Actresses from Brooklyn 363T
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