Fame of actors and actresses
In previous posts I used the Ngram tool to identify the fame level of several actors and actresses.
The unit of fame is the famon:
- with 1 famon = 1/1 000 000 relative % Ngram frequency.
Marylin Monroe and John Wayne are still at the top
The use of the Ngram tool showed that the fame levels of the following actors and actresses are:
whereas
Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant and Marlon Brando
have fame levels between:
10 (Bergman) and 20 famons (Brando, Grant).
James Dean, Henry Fonda, Samuel L. Jackson
Here I use Ngram to identify the fame of another three iconic, talented movie icons:
- James Dean
- Henry Fonda
- Samuel L. Jackson.
All three of them have played in classic movies. Henry Fonda was the protagonist of The Grapes of Wrath, The Wrong Man and the masterpiece Twelve Angry Men, among more than other 110 movies.
James Dean, who died very young, played the leading role for instance in East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause and the Giant.
Samuel L. Jackson, who has participated in more than 200 movies, has played in classic movies such as Pulp Fiction, Die Hard 3, The Negotiator, A Time to Kill, The long Kiss Goodnight, Jackie Brown, The Hateful Eight, and the Unbreakable .
The results show that:
- James Dean enjoys a fame level somewhat higher than Brando’s, 22 famons.
- Henry Fonda’s fame is similar to that of Bruce Willis.
- Samuel L. Jackson’s fame is half that of Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone, about 5 famons.
Thus, Marylin Monroe and John Wayne still top the fame list.
Will they keep their top place compared to other stars such as, e.g., Al Pacino, Robert de Niro, Sharon Stone, Angelina Jolie?
We will see.
0 Comments