89 Years of Hollywood Sweethearts

It’s awards season and celebrities have their fingers crossed that the Academy will recognize them for mastering their craft. We live in a culture that has obsessed over beauty, stardom, and all things celebrity for centuries, and these 27 actresses have the “it” factor that keeps the world spending $14 on movie tickets. Don’t get us wrong, these trend-setting, block-busting idols are not necessarily “it girls” — the term has been awarded to too many non-movers-and-shakers. They’re the ones you wish you could take to dinner and form an everlasting friendship with (though you might try to replicate their haircut and gawk over them a bit, too.) Take a look back at almost a century of Hollywood sweethearts. Who will make the cut in 2016?

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