Claudette Colbert I think, for the roles she had. Gorgeous costumes(Cleopatra, The Way of the Cross), the comedy(It Happened One Night) and so on.
Damn - the OP took mine. sulks She is just so - dominant - in everything she does. With a smile underneath it all.
Susan
Humphrey Bogart…'cause he gets to smooch Lauren Bacall in Key Largo. And besides, he was cool.
Except I wouldn’t care for the throat cancer, thank you.
Sartorially, I try to let Fred MacMurray rule as many of my moves as possible. I’m thinking Double Indemnity. Otherwise, I’m Sterling Hayden in The Killing.
Groucho Marx is easily number one, and my friends who know the Marxes know what a debt my personal style owes to his. After that, by probably just as wide a margin, it’s Cary Grant. Pretty much the ideal guy, if you ask me. He’s suave but sincere, funny, and sophisticated. Cary Grant famously said he wanted to be Cary Grant, James Bond was supposed to be Cary Grant… obviously I’m not alone here. 
Sums it up for me too. Archie Leach could do comedy, drama, and romance and do it like no other.
Who on earth would say no to Louise Brooks? sigh
Add me to the list of people who would like to be Cary Grant.
Unless I could be George Preston Marshall…then Louise Brooks wouldn’t say no to me. sigh sigh
James Dean, if you could do away with the early death. I mean, the guy was cool, and he got to kiss Natalie Wood in Rebel Without a Cause.
If I could have kissed Natalie Wood like that…
Jimmy Cagney. Ten pounds of tough in a five-pound bag.
I always wanted to be Ginger Rogers. Smart, wise-cracking, impossibly slender and can keep up with Fred Astaire. Then I read her autobiography and was put of by her self-righteousness and prigishness. But I still want to be the girl in the movies…
Really?! I’m the FIRST to claim Gregory Peck? Cool - a great example of tall, dark and handsome with integrity and a self-deprecating touch. I’m there.
Cary Grant was my other choice as well - for obvious reasons.
Vivien Leigh, mostly to play Scarlatt O’Hara and be married to Lawrence Oliviar.