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Had enough yet?

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Looking Ahead: Monty's March Madness Favorite Actress Tournament #6

A look ahead at the Monty's March Madness Favorite Actress Tournament, part of which we'll be hosting here at the Monkey.

Voting begins March 5.

Myrna Loy
Birth Name: Myrna Adele Williams
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "Funny Ladies" #2
Birth Date: August 2, 1905
Birthplace: Radersburg, Montana
Height: 5' 6"
Film Debut: What Price Beauty? (1925)
Academy Awards: none
Katie Awards: Best Actress (Comedy/Musical) (1934) (The Thin Man) and Best Supporting Actress (1946) (The Best Years of Our Lives)
Three More To See: After the Thin Man, Libeled Lady, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

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Margaret Dumont
Birth Name: Daisy Juliette Baker
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "Funny Ladies" #7
Birth Date: October 20, 1882
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York
Height: 5' 9"
Film Debut: A Tale of Two Cities (1917)
Academy Awards: none
Katie Awards: Best Supporting Actress (1932-33) (Duck Soup)
Three More To See: Animal Crackers, A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races

The winner of this match-up will face the winner of:

Jean Harlow
Birth Name: Harlean Harlow Carpenter
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "Funny Ladies" #3
Birth Date: March 3, 1911
Birthplace: Kansas City, Missouri
Height: 5' 1½"
Film Debut: Moran of the Marines (1928)
Academy Awards: none
Katie Awards: Best Actress (Comedy/Musical) (1932-33) (Red Dust, Dinner at Eight, Bombshell)
Three More To See: Red-Headed Woman, China Seas, Libeled Lady

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Marie Dressler
Birth Name: Leila Marie Koerber
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "Funny Ladies" #6
Birth Date: November 9, 1868
Birthplace: Cobourg, Ontario
Height: 5' 7"
Film Debut: Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
Academy Awards: 2 nominations, 1 win (Best Actress, 1930-31) (Min and Bill)
Katie Awards: Best Supporting Actress (1929-30) (Anna Christie)
Three More To See: The Patsy, Emma, Dinner at Eight

Shirley Temple Banner

Stop, Monkey, stop!

Clara Bow Banner

If you don't use every single one of these, it's all over between us.

Well, okay, maybe not ...

Douglas Fairbanks Sez ...

Katie-Bar-The-Door and I met Mister Muleboy and Michele at the AFI Silver Saturday afternoon to see Douglas Fairbanks in The Black Pirate. For those of you who loved The Artist, which won the Oscar as best picture of the year last night, The Black Pirate is a must-see—Jean Dujardin's George Valentin is very clearly modeled on the swashbuckling Fairbanks. They even have the same moustache!

In that spirit, another promotional banner ...

Looking Ahead: Monty's March Madness Favorite Actress Tournament #5

A look ahead at the Monty's March Madness Favorite Actress Tournament, part of which we'll be hosting here at the Monkey.

Voting begins March 5.

Carole Lombard
Birth Name: Jane Alice Peters
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "Funny Ladies" #1
Birth Date: October 6, 1908
Birthplace: Fort Wayne, Indiana
Height: 5' 2"
Film Debut: A Perfect Crime (1921)
Academy Awards: 1 nomination, 0 wins
Katie Awards: Best Actress (Comedy/Musical) (1942) (To Be Or Not To Be)
Three More To See: Twentieth Century, My Man Godfrey, Nothing Sacred

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Gail Patrick
Birth Name: Margaret LaVelle Fitzpatrick
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "Funny Ladies" #8
Birth Date: June 20, 1911
Birthplace: Birmingham, Alabama
Height: 5' 7"
Film Debut: If I Had a Million (1932)
Academy Awards: none
Katie Awards: Best Supporting Actress (1936) (My Man Godfrey)
Three More To See: Stage Door, My Favorite Wife, Love Crazy

The winner of this match-up will face the winner of:

Jean Arthur
Birth Name: Gladys Georgianna Greene
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "Funny Ladies" #4
Birth Date: October 17, 1900
Birthplace: Plattsburgh, New York
Height: 5' 3"
Film Debut: Cameo Kirby (1923)
Academy Awards: 1 nomination, 0 wins
Katie Awards: Best Actress (Comedy/Musical) (1937) (Easy Living)
Three More To See: Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, The More the Merrier

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Margaret Sullavan
Birth Name: Margaret Brooke Sullavan Hancock
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "Funny Ladies" #5
Birth Date: May 16, 1909
Birthplace: Norfolk, Virginia
Height: 5' 2½"
Film Debut: Only Yesterday (1933)
Academy Awards: 1 nomination, 0 wins
Katie Awards: Best Actress (Drama) (1938) (Three Comrades)
Three More To See: Little Man, What Now?, The Good Fairy, The Shop Around the Corner

Another Carole Lombard Banner

I don't know if you guys are having any fun, but I obviously am ...

Barbara Stanwyck Banner #1

I see we have a Barbara Stanwyck fan in the house. For the Monkey's latest follower, StanwyckFan ...

For KC

I fiddled around with different font sizes and taglines—hopefully one will work for you!

For Mister Muleboy

"Calling All Movie Fans" Banner

Joan Crawford versus Norma Shearer Banner

Another Banner

Collect 'em all, trade 'em with your friends!

Looking Ahead: Monty's March Madness Favorite Actress Tournament #4

A look ahead at the Monty's March Madness Favorite Actress Tournament, part of which we'll be hosting here at the Monkey.

Voting begins March 5.

Marlene Dietrich
Birth Name: Marie Magdalene Dietrich
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "Tough Broads and Pre-Code Babes" #2
Birth Date: December 27, 1901
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Height: 5' 6"
Film Debut: So sind die Männer (The Little Napoleon) (1923)
Academy Awards: 1 nomination, 0 wins
Katie Awards: Best Actress (Drama) (1930-31) (Morocco) and Best Actress (Comedy/Musical) (1948) (A Foreign Affair)
Three More To See: Shanghai Express, Destry Rides Again, Witness for the Prosecution

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Elsa Lanchester
Birth Name: Elizabeth Lanchester Sullivan
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "Tough Broads and Pre-Code Babes" #7
Birth Date: October 28, 1902
Birthplace: London, England
Height: 5' 4½"
Film Debut: The Scarlet Woman (1925)
Academy Awards: 2 nominations, 0 wins
Katie Awards: Best Supporting Actress (1935) (Bride of Frankenstein)
Three More To See: The Private Life of Henry VIII, Witness for the Prosecution, Bell Book and Candle

The winner of this match-up will face the winner of:

Joan Crawford
Birth Name: Lucille Fay LeSueur
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "Tough Broads and Pre-Code Babes" #3
Birth Date: March 23, 1905
Birthplace: San Antonio, Texas
Height: 5' 5"
Film Debut: Pretty Ladies (1925)
Academy Awards: 3 nominations, 1 win (Best Actress, 1945) (Mildred Pierce)
Katie Awards: Best Actress (Drama) (1945) (Mildred Pierce)
Three More To See: Grand Hotel, The Women, Humoresque

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Norma Shearer
Birth Name: Edith Norma Shearer
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "Tough Broads and Pre-Code Babes" #6
Birth Date: August 10, 1902
Birthplace: Montreal, Quebec
Height: 5' 1"
Film Debut: The Star Boarder (1919)
Academy Awards: 5 nominations, 1 win (Best Actress, 1929-30) (The Divorcee)
Katie Awards: Best Actress (Comedy/Musical) (1931-32) (Private Lives)
Three More To See: The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, A Free Soul, The Women

Rejected Banners #3

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Rejected Banners #1

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Collect Them All

Monty of All Good Things has created some banners to promote his March Madness Favorite Classic Movie Actress Tournament.


I liked those so much, I created some (unofficial) ones of my own.

Run none, run one, run them all on your blog—but whatever you do, vote, starting March 5th.

Looking Ahead: Monty's March Madness Favorite Actress Tournament #3

A look ahead at the Monty's March Madness Favorite Actress Tournament, part of which we'll be hosting here at the Monkey.

Voting begins March 5.

Barbara Stanwyck
Birth Name: Ruby Catherine Stevens
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "Tough Broads and Pre-Code Babes" #1
Birth Date: July 16, 1907
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York
Height: 5' 5"
Film Debut: Broadway Nights (1927)
Academy Awards: 4 nominations, honorary Oscar (1982)
Katie Awards: Best Actress (Comedy/Musical) (1941) (Ball of Fire and The Lady Eve) and Best Actress (Drama) (1944) (Double Indemnity)
Three More To See: The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Baby Face, Sorry, Wrong Number

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Miriam Hopkins
Birth Name: Ellen Miriam Hopkins
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "Tough Broads and Pre-Code Babes" #8
Birth Date: October 18, 1902
Birthplace: Savannah, Georgia
Height: 5' 2"
Film Debut: The Home Girl (1928)
Academy Awards: 1 nomination
Katie Awards: Best Supporting Actress (1931-32) (The Smiling Lieutenant and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
Three More To See: Trouble in Paradise, The Story of Temple Drake, Design for Living

The winner of this match-up will face the winner of:

Claudette Colbert
Birth Name: Emilie Claudette Chauchoin
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "Tough Broads and Pre-Code Babes" #4
Birth Date: September 13, 1903
Birthplace: Saint-Mandé, France
Height: 5' 4½"
Film Debut: For the Love of Mike (1927)
Academy Awards: 3 nominations, 1 win (Best Actress, 1934) (It Happened One Night)
Three More To See: Imitation of Life, Midnight, The Palm Beach Story

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Mary Astor
Birth Name: Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "Tough Broads and Pre-Code Babes" #5
Birth Date: May 3, 1906
Birthplace: Quincy, Illinois
Height: 5' 6"
Film Debut: Bullets or Ballots (1921)
Academy Awards: 1 win (Best Supporting Actress, 1941) (The Great Lie)
Katie Awards: Best Supporting Actress (1941) (The Great Lie and The Maltese Falcon)
Three More To See: Red Dust, Dodsworth, The Palm Beach Story

Looking Ahead: Monty's March Madness Favorite Actress Tournament #2

A look ahead at the Monty's March Madness Favorite Actress Tournament, part of which we'll be hosting here at the Monkey.

Voting begins March 5.

Mary Pickford
Birth Name: Gladys Marie Smith
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "They Had Faces" #2
Birth Date: April 8, 1892
Birthplace: Toronto, Canada
Height: 5' 0½"
Film Debut: The Heart of an Outlaw (1909)
Academy Awards: Best Actress (1928-29) (Coquette), honorary Oscar (1976)
Silent Oscars/Katie Awards: Best Actress (1917) (Poor Little Rich Girl and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), Best Actress (Comedy) (1927-28) (My Best Girl)
Three More To See: Stella Maris, Tess of the Storm Country, Sparrows

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Janet Gaynor
Birth Name: Laura Augusta Gainor
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "They Had Faces" #7
Birth Date: October 6, 1906
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Height: 5'
Film Debut: Cupid's Rustler (1924)
Academy Awards: 2 nominations, 1 win (Best Actress, 1927-28 for 7th Heaven, Street Angel and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans)
Silent Oscars/Katie Awards: Best Actress (Drama) (1927-28) (7th Heaven, Street Angel and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans)
Three More To See: Lucky Star, State Fair, A Star is Born

The winner of this match-up will face the winner of:

Lillian Gish
Birth Name: Lillian Diana Gish
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "They Had Faces" #3
Birth Date: October 14, 1893
Birthplace: Springfield, Ohio
Height: 5' 5½"
Film Debut: An Unseen Enemy
Academy Awards: 1 nomination, honorary Oscar (1971)
Silent Oscars/Katie Awards: Best Actress (1920) (Way Down East), Best Actress (Drama) (1928-29) (The Wind)
Three More To See: The Mothering Heart, Broken Blossoms, The Night of the Hunter

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Gloria Swanson
Birth Name: Gloria May Josephine Svensson
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "They Had Faces" #6
Birth Date: March 27, 1899
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois
Height: 5' 1"
Film Debut: The Misjudged Mr. Hartley (1915)
Academy Awards: 3 nominations, 0 wins
Silent Oscars/Katie Awards: Best Actress (1919) Don't Change Your Husband and Male And Female) and Best Actress (Drama) (1950) (Sunset Boulevard)
Three More To See: The Affairs of Anatol, Sadie Thompson, Queen Kelly