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Oliva DeHavillandstill with us.

don't forget Luise Rainer, born 1910, german actress who won academy award for THE GREAT ZIEGFELD and tHE GOOD EARTH

Sophia Loren, Louis Jourdan also make the list.
And in France, many wonderful leading ladies are still alive: Danielle Darrieux, Suzy Delair, Michelle Morgan, Micheline Presle, Bardot. I think Darrieux and Delair are almost 100 years old.
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Of the American Film Institute's 25 greatest women stars of all time, only Sophia Loren now survives. When the list was made back circa 1998, Bacall, Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley Temple were also still with us
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Not quite in Lauren's league? I can't let that go by without defending the greatness of Olivia de Havilland. Actually de Havilland is in a league all her own. Though Bacall is probably better known to the public today, due mainly to remaining in the spotlight and continuing working, Olivia had by far the greater career in the classic era. For a start she was in many classics of the 30s (Adventures of Robin Hood, GWTW) and had a career momentum like no other Hollywood star, winning her landmark court victory against Warner Brothers and then going from ingenue leads to playing the greatest roles of her career in her own starring vehicles and winning multiple awards. I imagine she is someone Bacall would have looked up to very much, though I've never heard either star speak of each other.
I couldn't agree more.

Not quite in Lauren's league? I can't let that go by without defending the greatness of Olivia de Havilland. Actually de Havilland is in a league all her own. Though Bacall is probably better known to the public today, due mainly to remaining in the spotlight and continuing working, Olivia had by far the greater career in the classic era. For a start she was in many classics of the 30s (Adventures of Robin Hood, GWTW) and had a career momentum like no other Hollywood star, winning her landmark court victory against Warner Brothers and then going from ingenue leads to playing the greatest roles of her career in her own starring vehicles and winning multiple awards. I imagine she is someone Bacall would have looked up to very much, though I've never heard either star speak of each other.
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Though not quite in Lauren's league, Olivia De Havilland is still alive (her sister Joan Fontaine died in December).

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Shirley MacLaine as well!!

Yes, we still have great actors (should i say legends) from the Golden Era who are still alive (Eva Marie Saint, Kirk Douglas, Maureen O'hara) but in terms of actual Legends, she was the last one. i think she was the only one still alive in Madonna's song Vogue, up until now

Olivia de Havilland, Luise Rainer and Debbie Reynolds are all still alive.

Olivia De Havilland from "Gone with the Wind" is still living.

Sophia Loren
And my favourite, the eternally beautiful & animal rights activist
Brigitte Bardot
who turns 80 on September 28.
Michael Caine
, who's 81, fit, healthy & still filming.
Shirley MacLaine
Olivia de Havilland
as so many else here have listed is 98. Probably the oldest Golden Era of Hollywood legend still alive.

Although they didn't hit the same heights as Ms. Bacall, we still have Mary Carlisle, who was a leading lady at MGM in the early to mid 1930', and the still lovely Marsha Hunt, who made her film debut in 1935.
Also: Diana Serra Cary, who was a star in silent films under the name, "Baby Peggy." And speaking of Child Stars, Jane Withers, who rivaled Shirley Temple in the 1930's.
They are few and far between, and like Ms. Bacall, will never be replaced.

I would like to include Barbara Eden! Great on I Dream Of Jeanie.
No offense and I have nothing against Ms. Eden but she is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a "classic movie star".
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I would like to include Barbara Eden! Great on I Dream Of Jeanie.

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but no, we still have Kirk Douglas, Olivia De Havilland, Maureen O'Hara and Zsa Zsa Gabor!
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Don't forget Brigitte Bardot (born 1934), who is also still alive.
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Liz was the last of the female mega ones, but Bacall was also a great, classic star.
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I not the biggest fan of hers, but you have to include Doris Day.

If we're counting leading ladies who weren't necessarily "stars," Joan Leslie, Lizabeth Scott, Rhonda Fleming, and Arlene Dahl 7ecare still around.

If Debbie Reynolds (born 1932) and Julie Andrew (born 1935) make the list, then Sidney Poitier (born 1927) should also.