| Preface | 11 |
| Lillian Gish in Way Down East (1920) | 15 |
| Buster Keaton in Sherlock Jr. (1924) | 19 |
| Lon Chaney in He Who Gets Slapped (1924) | 23 |
| John Gilbert in The Big Parade (1925) | 27 |
| Greta Garbo in A Woman of Affairs (1928) | 31 |
| Edward G. Robinson in Five Star Final (1931) | 35 |
| James Cagney in Jimmy the Gent (1934) | 39 |
| Frank Morgan in The Affairs of Cellini (1934) | 43 |
| W. C. Fields in It's a Gift (1934) | 47 |
| Margaret Sullavan in The Good Fairy (1935) | 51 |
| Charles Laughton in Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) | 55 |
| Jeanette MacDonald in Naughty Marietta (1935) | 59 |
| Boris Karloff in The Black Room (1935) | 63 |
| Carole Lombard in Hands Across the Table (1935) | 67 |
| Gary Cooper in Desire (1936) | 71 |
| William Powell in Libeled Lady (1936) | 75 |
| Irene Dunne in Theodora Goes Wild (1936) | 79 |
| Humphrey Bogart in Black Legion (1937) | 83 |
| Spencer Tracy in Test Pilot (1938) | 87 |
| Claudette Colbert in Midnight (1939) | 91 |
| Ginger Rogers in Bachelor Mother (1939) | 95 |
| Bette Davis in The Old Maid (1939) | 99 |
| Myrna Loy in The Rains Came (1939) | 103 |
| Barbara Stanwyck in Remember the Night (1940) | 107 |
| Vivien Leigh in Waterloo Bridge (1940) | 111 |
| Lucille Ball in Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) | 115 |
| Charles Boyer in Hold Back the Dawn (1941) | 119 |
| Cary Grant in Suspicion (1941) | 123 |
| Joel McCrea in Sullivan's Travels (1941) | 127 |
| Ann Sheridan in Kings Row (1942) | 131 |
| Ronald Colman in The Talk of the Town (1942) | 135 |
| Joseph Cotten in Shadow of a Doubt (1943) | 139 |
| Jean Arthur in The More the Merrier (1943) | 143 |
| Tallulah Bankhead in A Royal Scandal (1945) | 147 |
| Ingrid Bergman in Saratoga Trunk (1945) | 151 |
| Dorothy McGuire in The Spiral Staircase (1946) | 155 |
| Ida Lupino in Deep Valley (1947) | 159 |
| Mary Astor in Desert Fury (1947) | 163 |
| Tyrone Power in Nightmare Alley (1947) | 167 |
| Judy Garland in The Pirate (1948) | 171 |
| Linda Darnell in A Letter to Three Wives (1949) | 175 |
| Betty Hutton in Annie Get Your Gun (1950) | 179 |
| Gregory Peck in The Gunfighter (1950) | 183 |
| John Garfield in The Breaking Point (1950) | 187 |
| Jan Sterling in Ace in the Hole (1951) | 191 |
| Thelma Ritter in The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951) | 195 |
| James Mason in 5 Fingers (1952) | 199 |
| Eleanor Parker in Scaramouche (1952) | 203 |
| Laurence Olivier in Carrie (1952) | 207 |
| James Stewart in The Naked Spur (1953) | 211 |
| Fred Astaire in The Band Wagon (1953) | 215 |
| Jean Simmons in The Actress (1953) | 219 |
| Gene Kelly in It's Always Fair Weather (1955) | 223 |
| Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter (1955) | 227 |
| Alec Guinness in The Swan (1956) | 231 |
| Marilyn Monroe in Bus Stop (1956) | 235 |
| Edmond O'Brien in The Girl Can't Help It (1956) | 239 |
| Anthony Perkins in Fear Strikes Out (1957) | 243 |
| Doris Day in The Pajama Game (1957) | 247 |
| Michael Redgrave in The Quiet American (1958) | 251 |
| Shirley Booth in The Matchmaker (1958) | 255 |
| Kay Kendall in The Reluctant Debutante (1958) | 259 |
| Audrey Hepburn in The Nun's Story (1959) | 263 |
| Frank Sinatra in A Hole in the Head (1959) | 267 |
| Ava Gardner in On the Beach (1959) | 271 |
| Anna Magnani in The Fugitive Kind (1960) | 275 |
| Clark Gable in The Misfits (1961) | 279 |
| Maurice Chevalier in Fanny (1961) | 283 |
| Deborah Kerr in The Innocents (1961) | 287 |
| Olivia de Havilland in Light in the Piazza (1962) | 291 |
| Katharine Hepburn in Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) | 295 |
| Julie Andrews in The Americanization of Emily (1964) | 299 |
| Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) | 303 |
| Natalie Wood in This Property Is Condemned (1966) | 307 |
| Vanessa Redgrave in Isadora (1968) | 311 |
| Gene Hackman in I Never Sang for My Father (1970) | 315 |
| Robert Duvall in Tomorrow (1972) | 319 |
| Robert Redford in The Candidate (1972) | 323 |
| Jon Voight in Conrack (1974) | 327 |
| Cliff Robertson in Obsession (1976) | 331 |
| Art Carney in The Late Show (1977) | 335 |
| Steve Martin in Pennies from Heaven (1981) | 339 |
| Mia Farrow in Broadway Danny Rose (1984) | 343 |
| Robin Williams in Moscow on the Hudson (1984) | 347 |
| Diane Keaton in Mrs. Soffel (1984) | 351 |
| Jeff Daniels in The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) | 355 |
| Nick Nolte in New York Stories (1989) | 359 |
| Michelle Pfeiffer in Frankie and Johnny (1991) | 363 |
| Robert Downey, Jr., in Chaplin (1992) | 367 |
| Jeff Bridges in Fearless (1993) | 371 |
| Johnny Depp in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) | 375 |
| Shirley MacLaine in Guarding Tess (1994) | 379 |
| Denzel Washington in Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) | 383 |
| Laura Dern in Citizen Ruth (1996) | 387 |
| Debbie Reynolds in Mother (1996) | 391 |
| Al Pacino in Donnie Brasco (1997) | 395 |
| John Hurt in Love and Death on Long Island (1998) | 399 |
| Lisa Kudrow in The Opposite of Sex (1998) | 403 |
| Diane Lane in A Walk on the Moon (1999) | 407 |
| Renee Zellweger in Nurse Betty (2000) | 411 |
| Video Availability Guide | 415 |
