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. 51.
    Men Don't Leave
    by Paul Brickman

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  2. 52.
    Days of Wine and Roses
    by Blake Edwards

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  3. 53.
    The Great Lie
    by Edmund Goulding

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  4. 54.
    Some Like It Hot
    by Billy Wilder

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  5. 55.
    Doctor Zhivago (1965)

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  6. 56.
    A Woman Under the Influence - Criterion Collection
    by John Cassavetes

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  7. 57.
    Splendor in the Grass
    by Elia Kazan

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  8. 58.
    Casablanca
    by Michael Curtiz

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  9. 59.
    I Remember Mama
    by George Stevens

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  10. 60.
    Fargo (Special Edition)
    by Joel Coen

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  11. 61.
    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    by Mike Nichols

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  12. 62.
    Harold And Maude
    by Hal Ashby

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  13. 63.
    Love Affair

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  14. 64.
    Chinatown

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  15. 65.
    Ninotchka
    by Ernst Lubitsch

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  16. 66.
    Gone With the Wind (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by George Cukor

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  17. 67.
    Ball of Fire (1941)
    by Howard Hawks

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  18. 68.
    Dinner at Eight
    by George Cukor

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  19. 69.
    The Hustler
    by Robert Rossen

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  20. 70.
    Mildred Pierce (Keepcase)
    by Michael Curtiz

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  21. 72.
    Witness
    by Peter Weir

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  22. 73.
    The Night of the Hunter
    by Charles Laughton

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  23. 74.
    Norma Rae

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  24. 75.
    One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
    by Milos Forman

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  25. 76.
    The Manchurian Candidate (Special Edition)
    by John Frankenheimer

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  26. 77.
    Alien
    by Ridley Scott

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  27. 78.
    The Graduate
    by Mike Nichols

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  28. 79.
    Rosemary's Baby

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  29. 80.
    Atlantic City
    by Louis Malle

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  30. 81.
    The African Queen
    by John Huston

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  31. 82.
    Leaving Las Vegas

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  32. 83.
    The Heiress
    by William Wyler

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  33. 84.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice
    by Tay Garnett

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  34. 85.
    The Silence of the Lambs (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Jonathan Demme

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  35. 86.
    Gun Crazy
    by Joseph H. Lewis

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  36. 87.
    Pretty Poison
    by Noel Black

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  37. 88.
    The Best Years of Our Lives
    by William Wyler

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  38. 89.
    To Catch a Thief

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  39. 90.
    The Miracle Worker
    by Arthur Penn

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  40. 91.
    Thelma & Louise
    by Ridley Scott

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  41. 92.
    Dark Victory
    by Edmund Goulding

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  42. 93.
    Basic Instinct
    by Paul Verhoeven

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  43. 94.
    The Big Sleep
    by Howard Hawks

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  44. 95.
    Body Heat
    by Lawrence Kasdan

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  45. 96.
    The Awful Truth
    by Leo McCarey

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  46. 97.
    A Raisin in the Sun
    by Daniel Petrie

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  47. 98.
    Sophie’s Choice
    by Alan J. Pakula

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