Daily Mirror - 04.03.2020

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Hollywood

Hey! list...

Readers were outraged at stars missing

from our film critic’s choice of movie

greats last week.. here you get your say

Where was Charlton

Heston? He is one of the

greatest Hollywood males

of all time when you

consider his performance

in everything from Ben

Hur to Planet of the Apes.

Alan Joyce, Liverpool

I agreed with a number of

your choices but where

was James Dean?

Admittedly, he only made

three films but his acting

in breakthrough film East

of Eden was excellent.

Joe Humphreys, Liverpool

One obvious big name

actor was missing from

your list of Top 30

greats. How could you

forget the star of From

Here to Eternity and The

Birdman of Alcatraz?

Raymond Lovett, P’smouth

James Dean Burt Lancaster

I’d like to have seen

William Holden included.

With his looks and voice

he was captivating in

Love is a Many Splendid

Thing, Stalag 17 and

Sunset Boulevard.

Janet Pearson, Lincs

He was slight in build and

most of his films were

Westerns but he was

a real life hero and was a

highly decorated soldier

in the Second World War.

Surely he deserves a

place on any list?

T O Higgs, Stourbridge

I don’t entirely disagree

with your selections, but

in my view the beautiful

Italian actress Gina

Lollobrigida is one of the

greatest Hollywood

goddesses.

Paul Goodes, Essex

I was shocked two-time

Oscar winner Jodie was

missing. From her role as

a child prostitute in Taxi

Driver to Clarice Starling

in Silence of the Lambs,

Jodie has real star quality.

Sue Ingle, Brighton

I was surprised Russell

Crowe didn’t appear on

the list. He’s handsome

and a brilliant actor in

films like Gladiator, A

Beautiful Mind and LA

Confidential.

E Cromwell, Dagenham

A good list but a glaring

absentee is Michael

Douglas who made great

films including Fatal

Attraction & Wall Street.

Timothee Chalamet

hasn’t earned his place.

Daran Philipson, Solihull

William Holden Audie Murphy

Gina Lollobrigida

Jodie Foster

Russell Crowe

Michael Douglas

Reading your rundown of

screen goddesses, I wond-

ered where Anita Ekberg

of La Dolce Vita fame

was? Also Gina Lollob-

rigida, Sophia Loren and

Claudia Cardinale.

E R Thwaites, Cumbria

Anita Ekberg

I couldn’t believe that

Chris failed to mention

Natalie Wood and

Deborah Kerr. They were

both beautiful and great

actresses and surely

deserve a place in any list.

John P Logan, B’ham

Where was Forest? He’s

made some excepti-

onal films from The

Last King of Scotland

to The Crying Game

and also directs and

produces.

Alan Gray, Cambs

Silent film star Louise

Brooks should be in

the Top 30 because

she epitomised the

Roaring 20s and is one

of the most influential

style icons of all time.

Carl Skelton, N’hampton

I think Jack Lemon

should get a mention. He

appeared in more than

60 films, including hits

like Some Like It Hot

with Marilyn Monroe and

Glengarry Glen Ross.

Marlene Bridger, N London

Louise Brooks

Sophia Loren

Forest Whitaker

Charlton Heston

Surely, there’s room for

Sir Alec Guinness in any

list of greats? And for

Sean Connery to be

placed ahead of Paul

Newman... the mind

boggles!

Nigel Brown, Suffolk

Sir Alec Guinness

How can Peck not be on

your list while Schwarze-

negger and Timothee

Chalamet are? An icon, he

was in great films – Roman

Holiday, To Kill A Mockin-

gbird, The Omen etc.

Joanna Jones, Liverpool

Gregory Peck

Where was Robert

Redford in your Top 30

male stars? From Butch

Cassidy and the Sundance

Kid to The Old Man and

the Gun, he has given us

dozens of mesmerising big

screen performances.

Jill Walsh, Bolton

No list of screen

goddesses can be

complete without the

No1 actress of all

time – the gorgeous,

beautiful and

talented Sophia

Loren.

Ask most men to

look at this list and

they would be sure

to point out this

glaring omission.

Roger Francis,

Gravesend, Kent

Jack Lemmon

Robert Redford

Natalie Wood June Allyson

It would be difficult not to

agree with Chris’s choice

of the 30 top female film

stars but my favourite is

June Allyson for whom, in

my youth, I’d have walked

over hot coals!

Brian Davies, Suffolk

Ou R film critic Chris

Hunneysett sparked a

heated debate

among Mirror

movie buffs

when he

revealed his Top

30 pick of Holly-

wood actors

and screen

goddesses.

Scores of you

wrote to say you

disagreed with his

choice of greats, which

failed to mention the

likes of James Stewart,

Meryl Streep, Robert

Redford or Sophia Loren.

Here, in no particular

order, are your selections

of the greatest stars of

the silver screen...

By Fiona Parker