I *almost* typed Tracy for Bogart, getting them briefly confused, but then I stopped myself and correctly typed Bogart. But then I completely missed Tracy! DUH.
You should see it anyway. The iconic actors and lines, the shadows on the wall, and after many rewrites they finally came up with the only ending that could have worked. (But you do have to suspend belief at times for the plot to work - my only criticism of my favorite film.)
Katherine Hepburn at 3%?! Surely the name 'Hepburn' is known enough for more people to just guess at from this era? Wouldn't think she is so much more less known than the rest given that the second least guessed is Spencer Tracy at 30%
Got Hepburn because I LOVE old movies (more substance, better acting), but perhaps lots of of quiz takers remember her later works (On Golden Bond), rather than her earlier ones.
The acting on average is better in new movies, and it's not even close. Most of the acting in old movies is awful because the actors were trained for stage acting, where you need big, broad emotive gestures. Those do not translate to the screen, where subtlety is preferred. Jimmy Stewart's "Do you want the moon?" scene from It's A Wonderful Life still makes me wince. Yes, the modern big-budget movie has terrible acting because the leads are chosen for their looks and charisma rather than their acting chops, but the best actors from today are better than the best actors from the 40s.
From a couple of earlier comments, I think she was added to the quiz later. Maybe that's why she's still so comparatively low, because she literally wasn't an option for earlier quiz-takers. Because, yeah, she's one of the most easily identifiable actors on here.
Davis was one of only two that I missed because that picture looks least like her of what I've seen of her in many movies. That picture doesn't do her eyes justice.
I only missed 2. But I can't believe one of them was Judy Garland. I probably watched the Wizard of Oz 100 times as a child. Though to be fair she does not look like innocent simple Kansas farmgirl Dorothy Gale in that photo at all.