So far I used Ngram to evaluate the fame of 72 actresses and actors.
Their fame levels ranged from 0.8 famons, for George Macready, to 60 famons for Bob Dylan (figure 1).
Figure 1. Fame of 72 actresses and actors (vertical axis, fame in famons). Fame was estimated using the Google Ngram tool (https://books.google.com/ngrams/).
Most actresses/actors have fame levels between 0 and 10 famons and between 10 and 20 famons. Only 10 actors/actresses have fame larger than 30 famons:
- Bob Dylan
- Elvis Presley
- Marylin Monroe
- John Wayne
- Frank Sinatra
- John Lennon
- Woody Allen
- Charlie Chaplin
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Orson Welles.
Figure 2. Frequency distribution of the fame of 72 actresses/actors. The vertical axis shows the number of actresses/actors.
I will regularly update these figures.
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