Voting begins this morning in the March Madness tournament over at All Good Things. 64 of the best actresses in movie history paired off in single-elimination competition. Today is the Silent/1930s Era bracket with some tough first round action—Jean Harlow versus Myrna Loy, Carole Lombard versus Ginger Rogers, and number one seed Greta Garbo against Norma Desmond herself, Gloria Swanson.
Get on over there and vote. It's fun, it's free and it lasts all month.
Named for Katie-Bar-The-Door, the Katies are "alternate Oscars"—who should have been nominated, who should have won—but really they're just an excuse to write a history of the movies from the Silent Era to the present day.
To see a list of nominees and winners by decade, as well as links to my essays about them, click the highlighted links:
Remember: There are no wrong answers, only movies you haven't seen yet.
The Silent Oscars
And don't forget to check out the Silent Oscars—my year-by-year choices for best picture, director and all four acting categories for the pre-Oscar years, 1902-1927.
Look at me—Joe College, with a touch of arthritis. Are my eyes really brown? Uh, no, they're green. Would we have the nerve to dive into the icy water and save a person from drowning? That's a key question. I, of course, can't swim, so I never have to face it. Say, haven't you anything better to do than to keep popping in here early every morning and asking a lot of fool questions?
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