Best Actress of 1940

I started putting these polls together a while back, got busy, forgot. Think I'll revive them in the run up to the Favorite Classic Mov...

Who Am Us writes to tell us that he finally saw his first Bette Davis movie, All About Eve , and that he loved it. And a good choice it wa...

The final contest seesawed back and forth for days, but in the end, Bette Davis defeated Barbara Stanwyck, 49-47, to win the 2014 Favorite C...

The final round of Monty's Favorite Classic Movie Actress Tournament has started over at All Good Things. Barbara Stanwyck versus Bette...

No, not Florida, Kentucky, et al. Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor. The voting starts Saturday at All Go...

The final four is set in the 2013 Favorite Classic Movie Actress Tournament—three favorites and a longshot, any one of whom would make a wor...

(Read part one here .) Best Heartstring-Tugging Child Let's just go back to the first truly great child performance in movies, Jackie...

Margaret Talbot, author of The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century , will be introducing the best of her fat...

I have to admit, when the galley proof of The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century by Margaret Talbot arrive...

age 16 age 30 (from her Oscar-winning performance in Jezebel , 1938) age 79, by Alistair Morrison

The Monkey has been tagged as the next participant in what is being called " The Ten: Best Actresses of All Time Relay Race. " Al...

Learned something interesting today. What do you get when you combine the forehead of Myrna Loy ... the eyes of Bette Davis ... the nose of...

I won a major award last November for my thoughts on Citizen Kane which you can read here . I won't rehash any of that now except to s...