5 Greatest Screen Duos

Below, I have ranked the greatest screen duos in history (imo). Each of these actors was formidable on their own, but teamed up, they made magic! The first four have their filmography listed in chronological order. The fifth are all movies I have seen, so they are in my order of preference, best to worst.

1. Sophia Loren & Marcello Mastroianni (14 films together)

   1. Cuori sul Mare (1950)

   2. The Anatomy of Love (1954)

   3. Too Bad She’s Bad (1954)

   4. The Miller’s Beautiful Wife (1955)

   5. What a Woman! (1956)

   6. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)

   7. Marriage Italian Style (1964)

   8. Ghosts, Italian Style (1967)

   9. Sunflower (1970)

   10. The Priest’s Wife (1970)

   11. Gun Moll (1975)

   12. A Special Day (1977)

   13. Blood Feud (1978)

   14. Pret-a-Porter (1994)

       

2. William Powell & Myrna Loy (13 films together)

   1. Manhattan Melodrama (1934)

   2. The Thin Man (1934)

   3. Evelyn Prentice (1934)

   4. The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

   5. Libeled Lady (1936)

   6. After the Thin Man (1936)

   7. Double Wedding (1937)

   8. Another Thin Man (1939)

   9. I Love You Again (1940)

   10. Love Crazy (1941)

   11. Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)

   12. The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)

   13. Song of the Thin Man (1947)

   14. The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947)

       

3. Walter Matthau & Jack Lemmon (10 films together)

   1. The Fortune Cookie (1966)

   2. The Odd Couple (1968)

   3. The Front Page (1974)

   4. Buddy Buddy (1981)

   5. JFK (1991)

   6. Grumpy Old Men (1993)

   7. The Grass Harp (1995)

   8. Grumpier Old Men (1995)

   9. Out to Sea (1997)

   10. The Odd Couple II (1998)

       

4. Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor (11 films together)

   1. The V.I.P.s (1963)

   2. Cleopatra (1963)

   3. The Sandpiper (1965)

   4. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

   5. The Taming of the Shrew (1967)

   6. Doctor Faustus (1967)

   7. The Comedians (1967)

   8. Boom! (1968)

   9. Under Milk Wood (1971)

   10. Hammersmith Is Out (1972)

   11. Divorce His — Divorce Hers (1973)

       

5. Spencer Tracy & Katherine Hepburn (9 films together)

   1. Desk Set (1957)

   2. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)

   3. Woman of the Year (1942)

   4. Adam’s Rib (1949)

   5. Without Love (1945)

   6. Pat and Mike (1952)

   7. State of the Union (1948)

   8. Keeper of the Flame (1942)

   9. The Sea of Grass (1947)