With just over seven hours remaining to vote in Round One (Part One) of Monty's Favorite Classic Movie Actress Tourney, Mary Pickford and Janet Gaynor are deadlocked at 42 votes apiece.
Each actress has asked for valuable blog space to make a last ditch appeal. In the interests of democracy, we here at the Monkey now turn the internet over to them. Mary Pickford is the higher seeded candidate and will go first:
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?
4 comments:
Probably the cutest picture of Mary Pickford I've seen yet
alright, quit fucking around, people
Go, Mary, GO !
Or as the silent intertitles might have put it, "Golly! I sure hope Mary wins!"
Probably the cutest picture of Mary Pickford I've seen yet
She was quite a beautiful woman -- no wonder she got tired of playing little girl roles.
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