The polls have opened in the 2017 Favorite Classic Movie Actress Tournament. I'll be hosting the 1930s and 1950s brackets, the tournament's founder, Monty, will be hosting the 1940s and 60s here.
We're starting a day early because, well, it's March 5th somewhere.
This year there will be 64 contestants. (Past winners — Irene Dunne, Ginger Rogers, Carole Lombard, Bette Davis, Natalie Wood, Greer Garson and Doris Day — have been retired from competition.)
Half of the first round matches start today and run til Wednesday, the other half will start after that and run until next Saturday.
I think Deborah Kerr might be the only righty who's in the lead.
It's all coincidence. I didn't seed the actresses this year, just wrote them down as they occurred to me. That was Monty's idea, a way to shake things up a bit.
In the round that starts Wednesday, I see maybe four right-side actresses who I think will probably win.
Your best bet for Deborah Kerr might be The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp but maybe not -- she's was forever playing a nun or someone so starchy and good, sometimes it's focus on the fact that she was a redhead!
By the way, did you notice I finally abandoned the Harold Lloyd avatar and went with the photo you took outside Chipotle after lunch last year while we were waiting for Bellotto to finish whatever business he was finishing?
I figured at this point absolutely nobody would notice.
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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Am I right that as of this writing, the candidate on the left leads in each of the races?
You lefty!
typo - left out a comma
I think Deborah Kerr might be the only righty who's in the lead.
It's all coincidence. I didn't seed the actresses this year, just wrote them down as they occurred to me. That was Monty's idea, a way to shake things up a bit.
In the round that starts Wednesday, I see maybe four right-side actresses who I think will probably win.
I found choosing between Janet Leigh and Deborah Kerr like choosing between tooth removal and pink eye
Your best bet for Deborah Kerr might be The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp but maybe not -- she's was forever playing a nun or someone so starchy and good, sometimes it's focus on the fact that she was a redhead!
Make that "hard to focus" ...
By the way, did you notice I finally abandoned the Harold Lloyd avatar and went with the photo you took outside Chipotle after lunch last year while we were waiting for Bellotto to finish whatever business he was finishing?
I figured at this point absolutely nobody would notice.
but that's just yer typical Mule
[every other involved at least a considered look. . . .]
D. Rigg, Paula Prentiss, and the Mule were castaways on a deserted isle: hubba hubba!
The portrait of you shows up in a book of Mule Portraits currently being pressed and bound
I did not notice, but only because I am oblivious to most everything around me
PPPSSS
I *do* get Kerr, in that From Here to Eternity shows a hot-to-trot mama [non-mama] who is entirely believable.
But she doesn't hit the ol' core, as it were. . . .
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