Pick your movie of the week: Most Famous Actors! (Apr 22-28/16)

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has created what they call the “Pantheon Project.” It seeks to rank the most famous people of all time—all of them! That’s any person who has had any degree of fame whatsoever from 4000 BC to 2010. Everyone from philosophers to politicians to athletes to entertainers are rated on a number of different data sources.

It’s a fascinating project, and this week’s picks come from the top 3 most famous actors of all time worldwide according to the list: Marilyn Monroe (#143), Bruce Lee (#233) and Charles Chaplin (#243). The following movies are the highest rated from each actor’s filmography on IMDb. Which one do you think deserves movie of the week?

1.Some Like It Hot(1959, 8.3 rating)

2.City Lights (1931, 8.6 rating)

3. Enter the Dragon(1973, 7.7 rating)

Source:Yu, A. Z., et al. (2016). Pantheon 1.0, a manually verified dataset of globally famous biographies. Scientific Data2:150075. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2015.75

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