Photoplay Award / Most Popular Female Star
Doris Day , winner of the Photoplay Awards in 1951 and 1959
Photoplay Award : Most Popular Female Star
Winner in the Most Popular Female Star category of the film years 1944 to 1968. From the first award in 1945 to 1953, the winner was determined by an opinion poll by Audience Research Inc. Later, readers of Photoplay magazine voted directly on the winners, who were honored at a ceremony in Los Angeles .
The years given below indicate the film years evaluated. The awards took place in the following year.
| year | Award winners | nationality |
|---|---|---|
| 1944 | Greer Garson | Great Britain |
| 1945 | Greer Garson | Great Britain |
| 1946 | Ingrid Bergman | Sweden |
| 1947 | Ingrid Bergman | Sweden |
| 1948 | Ingrid Bergman | Sweden |
| 1949 | Jane Wyman | United States |
| 1950 | Betty Hutton | United States |
| 1951 | Doris Day | United States |
| 1952 | Susan Hayward | United States |
| 1953 | Marilyn Monroe | United States |
| 1954 | June Allyson | United States |
| 1955 | Jennifer Jones | United States |
| 1956 | Kim Novak | United States |
| 1957 | Deborah Kerr | Great Britain |
| 1958 | Debbie Reynolds | United States |
| 1959 | Doris Day | United States |
| 1960 | Prize not awarded | |
| 1961 | Connie Stevens | United States |
| 1962 | Bette Davis | United States |
| 1963 | Connie Stevens | United States |
| 1964 | Ann-Margret | Sweden |
| 1965 | Dorothy Malone | United States |
| 1966 | Barbara Stanwyck | United States |
| 1967 | Barbara Stanwyck | United States |
| 1968 | Debbie Reynolds | United States |