Alternate Best Actress Of 1940

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

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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

The Katie-Bar-The-Door Awards (1938)

If you don't like Katharine Hepburn and you see Holiday and you still don't like her, you officially have my permission to give up.

PICTURE (Drama)
winner: The Adventures Of Robin Hood (prod. Jack L. Warner and Hal B. Wallis)
nominees: Angels With Dirty Faces (prod. Samuel Bischoff); The Lady Vanishes (prod. Edward Black)

PICTURE (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Bringing Up Baby (prod. Howard Hawks)
nominees: Holiday (prod. Everett Riskin); Pygmalion (prod. Gabriel Pascal); You Can't Take It With You (prod. Frank Capra)

PICTURE (Foreign Language)
winner: Alexander Nevsky (prod. Igor Vakar)

ACTOR (Drama)
winner: Errol Flynn (The Adventures of Robin Hood)
nominees: Charles Boyer (Algiers); James Cagney (Angels With Dirty Faces); Robert Donat (The Citadel); Jean Gabin (La Bête Humaine)

ACTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Leslie Howard (Pygmalion)
nominees: Cary Grant (Bringing Up Baby and Holiday); Tyrone Power (Alexander's Ragtime Band); Mickey Rooney (Love Finds Andy Hardy); The Three Stooges (The Columbia Pictures Short Comedies)

ACTRESS (Drama)
winner: Margaret Sullavan (Three Comrades)
nominees: Bette Davis (Jezebel); Margaret Lockwood (The Lady Vanishes)

ACTRESS (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Katharine Hepburn (Bringing Up Baby and Holiday)
nominees: Constance Bennett (Merrily We Live); Wendy Hiller (Pygmalion)

DIRECTOR (Drama)
winner: Alfred Hitchcock (The Lady Vanishes)
nominees: Michael Curtiz and William Keighley (The Adventures Of Robin Hood); Michael Curtiz (Angels With Dirty Faces); Sergei M. Eisenstein (Alexander Nevsky)

DIRECTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Howard Hawks (Bringing Up Baby)
nominees: Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard (Pygmalion); Frank Capra (You Can't Take It With You); George Cukor (Holiday)

SUPPORTING ACTOR
winner: Basil Rathbone (The Adventures Of Robin Hood)
nominees: Lew Ayres (Holiday); Lionel Barrymore (You Can't Take It With You); Claude Rains (The Adventures Of Robin Hood); Ralph Richardson (The Citadel)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
winner: Billie Burke (Merrily We Live)
nominees: Fay Bainter (Jezebel); Spring Byington (You Can't Take It With You); Hattie McDaniel (Saratoga); Dame May Whitty (The Lady Vanishes)

SCREENPLAY
winner: George Bernard Shaw (scenario and dialogue), Cecil Lewis and W.P. Lipscomb (scenario), from the play by George Bernard Shaw (Pygmalion)
nominees: Norman Reilly Raine and Seton I. Miller (The Adventures Of Robin Hood); Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde, from the story by Hagar Wilde (Bringing Up Baby); Donald Ogden Stewart and Sidney Buchman, from the play by Philip Barry (Holiday); Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder (The Lady Vanishes)

SPECIAL AWARDS
Sol Polito and Tony Gaudio (The Adventures Of Robin Hood) (Cinematography); Carl Jules Weyl (The Adventures Of Robin Hood) (Art Direction-Set Decoration); C.A. Riggs (The Adventures Of Robin Hood) (Sound); Erich Wolfgang Korngold (The Adventures Of Robin Hood) (Score); Milo Anderson (The Adventures Of Robin Hood) (Costumes); George Hively (Bringing Up Baby) (Film Editing)