Golden Age

Satchmo, jazz trumpet and voice

Marlene Dietrich

The Blue Angel and Shanghai Express star

Clark Gable

Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind

Bing Crosby

Crooner of White Christmas and first multimedia star

Cary Grant

Epitome of the debonair leading man

Henry Fonda

Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath

Greta Garbo

Screen legend of the silent and early sound era

Katharine Hepburn

Record four Best Actress Academy Awards

Laurence Olivier

StageGolden Age

Twentieth century Shakespearean actor and director

James Stewart

Everyman star of Its a Wonderful Life

Bette Davis

Ten time Oscar nominated screen force

Ginger Rogers

Astaire dance partner and Oscar winner

Lucille Ball

I Love Lucy and the sitcom blueprint

Gene Kelly

Singin in the Rain dancer and choreographer

Vivien Leigh

Scarlett in Gone with the Wind

Ingrid Bergman

Casablanca star and three time Oscar winner

Frank Sinatra

The Voice of twentieth century popular song

Billie Holiday

Lady Day, architect of jazz singing

Edith Piaf

The Little Sparrow of French chanson

Orson Welles

Citizen Kane director at twenty five

Nat King Cole

Unforgettable singer and jazz pianist

Maria Callas

Soprano who defined modern opera

Judy Garland

Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz

Marlon Brando

Stanley Kowalski and the new screen naturalism

Audrey Hepburn

Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffanys

Paul Newman

Cool Hand Luke and The Hustler star

Angela Lansbury

Jessica Fletcher in Murder She Wrote

Johnny Carson

Thirty year host of The Tonight Show

Marilyn Monroe

Some Like It Hot and 1950s stardom

David Attenborough

Natural history broadcaster across eight decades

Sidney Poitier

First Black winner of the Best Actor Oscar

Ella Fitzgerald