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Best Actors of the 1940s
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Total # of Movies Career Span Top 4 Movies
1
Ingrid Bergman

3.4196
48
1930s - 11
1940s - 16
1950s - 10
1960s - 5
1970s - 6
  1. Casablanca (1942)
  2. Notorious (1946)
  3. Bells of St. Mary's, The (1945)
  4. Cactus Flower (1969)
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2
Lauren Bacall

3.3353
50
1940s - 6
1950s - 10
1960s - 3
1970s - 2
1980s - 6
1990s - 14
2000s - 9
  1. Big Sleep, The (1946)
  2. Key Largo (1948)
  3. Howl's Moving Castle (2005)
  4. To Have and Have Not (1944)
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3
Jean Arthur

3.3294
78
1920s - 37
1930s - 32
1940s - 8
1950s - 1
  1. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
  2. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
  3. You Can't Take It with You (1938)
  4. Talk of the Town, The (1942)
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4
Irene Dunne

3.2990
45
1930s - 29
1940s - 12
1950s - 4
  1. Show Boat (1936)
  2. Awful Truth, The (1937)
  3. Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
  4. Life with Father (1947)
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5
Cary Grant

3.2924
72
1930s - 34
1940s - 20
1950s - 13
1960s - 5
  1. Notorious (1946)
  2. North by Northwest (1959)
  3. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
  4. Philadelphia Story, The (1940)
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6
Teresa Wright

3.2768
27
1940s - 10
1950s - 11
1960s - 2
1970s - 1
1980s - 2
1990s - 1
  1. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
  2. Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)
  3. Pride of the Yankees, The (1942)
  4. Somewhere in Time (1980)
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7
Myrna Loy

3.2456
112
1920s - 31
1930s - 58
1940s - 13
1950s - 4
1960s - 3
1970s - 2
1980s - 1
  1. Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)
  2. Thin Man, The (1934)
  3. Love Crazy (1941)
  4. Libeled Lady (1936)
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8
Judy Garland

3.2339
39
1930s - 9
1940s - 22
1950s - 3
1960s - 5
  1. Wizard of Oz, The (1939)
  2. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
  3. Clock, The (1945)
  4. Star Is Born, A (1954)
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9
Humphrey Bogart

3.2301
79
1920s - 1
1930s - 35
1940s - 27
1950s - 16
  1. Casablanca (1942)
  2. Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
  3. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
  4. Big Sleep, The (1946)
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10
James Stewart

3.1967
81
1930s - 21
1940s - 16
1950s - 22
1960s - 13
1970s - 7
1980s - 1
1990s - 1
  1. Rear Window (1954)
  2. Vertigo (1958)
  3. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
  4. Philadelphia Story, The (1940)
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