Movieline's 100 Best Female Character Roles

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Movieline Magazine (in their April, 1997 issue), in an article written by Virginia Campbell and Stephen Rebello, published a list of the 100 Best Female Characters. They described the characters as:

"Loyal wives, loving mothers, lost lushes. Heroines, whores, homicidal hussies. They’re all here, with a few slick sisters, whip-smart working girls, a screwy septuagenarian, and other women concocted out of light, shadow and sound. "

note: Rebecca and Thelma & Louise each have two enteries on the list, so there are only 98 films.


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  1. 1.
    Hud
    by Martin Ritt

  2. 2.
    It Happened One Night
    by Frank Capra

  3. 3.

  4. 4.
    The King and I (50th Anniversary Edition)
    by Walter Lang

  5. 5.
    It's a Wonderful Life (60th Anniversary Edition)
    by Frank Capra

  6. 6.
    Vertigo (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  7. 7.
    Leave Her to Heaven
    by John M. Stahl

  8. 8.
    Letter from an Unknown Woman
    by Max Ophüls

  9. 9.
    Out of Africa
    by Sydney Pollack

  10. 10.
    A Star Is Born

  11. 11.
    Funny Girl
    by William Wyler

  12. 13.
    The Member of the Wedding (1952)
    by Fred Zinnemann

  13. 14.
    My Man Godfrey (The Criterion Collection)
    by Gregory La Cava

  14. 15.
    Broken Blossoms (Deluxe Edition)
    by D.W. Griffith

  15. 16.
    Carrie (Special Edition)
    by Brian De Palma

  16. 17.
    Batman Returns

  17. 18.
    All About Eve
    by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  18. 19.
    The Thin Man (Snap case)

  19. 20.
    Shadow of a Doubt

  20. 21.
    Point Blank
    by John Boorman

  21. 22.
    Queen Christina
    by Rouben Mamoulian

  22. 23.
    Black Narcissus (The Criterion Collection)
    by Emeric Pressburger

  23. 24.
    Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
    by Robert Mulligan

  24. 25.
    Broadcast News
    by James L. Brooks

  25. 26.
    Stella Dallas
    by King Vidor

  26. 27.
    Klute
    by Alan J. Pakula

  27. 28.
    Rebecca (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  28. 29.
    Born Yesterday
    by George Cukor

  29. 30.
    Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder

  30. 32.
    Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)
    by Billy Wilder

  31. 33.
    Dodsworth

  32. 34.
    A Streetcar Named Desire (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Elia Kazan

  33. 35.
    Isadora (1968)
    by Karel Reisz

  34. 36.
    To Kill a Mockingbird (Universal Legacy Series)
    by Robert Mulligan

  35. 37.
    Fatal Attraction (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Adrian Lyne

  36. 38.
    Rear Window (Universal Legacy Series)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  37. 39.
    Destry Rides Again

  38. 40.
    Twentieth Century
    by Howard Hawks

  39. 41.
    The Innocents
    by Jack Clayton

  40. 42.
    Breakfast at Tiffany's - Anniversary Edition
    by Blake Edwards

  41. 43.
    In a Lonely Place
    by Nicholas Ray

  42. 44.
    Written on the Wind (The Criterion Collection)
    by Douglas Sirk

  43. 45.
    Annie Hall
    by Woody Allen

  44. 46.
    Lolita
    by Stanley Kubrick

  45. 47.
    From Here to Eternity
    by Fred Zinnemann

  46. 48.
    Notorious (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  47. 49.
    What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
    by Robert Aldrich

  48. 50.
    The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Widescreen Edition)
    by Jim Sharman

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