Problem with 1950s era Voting

There was a problem with the site used for voting in the 1950s era, and unfortunately, it has started over as of today until Wednesday with a new link. So if you could vote again in this era with the updated link, that would be great.

So sorry that this happened! However, you will still be able to vote in the 1930s, 1960s, and 1940s here on my blog in Round 2 on time.

Thanks, everyone!

Final Results of Round 1!

Hello, everyone!

Unfortunately, our girl Roz didn't make it through Round 1, Maureen O'Hara receiving twice as many votes! But good luck to her in the rest of the tournament. Better luck next time, Roz! Here are the full results for the 1940s era of the Classic Movie Actress Tournament!

SOPHISTICATES

Rita Hayworth beat Eve Arden 27-21

Loretta Young beat Hedy Lamarr 36-19

Maureen O'Hara beat Rosalind Russsell 38-19

Lucille Ball beat Betty Grable 29-19

FILM NOIR FEMMES

Gene Tierney beat Carole Landis 33-8

Lauren Bacall beat Linda Darnell 29-26

Ida Lupino beat Veronica Lake 38-15

Claire Trevor beat Jane Greer 30-25

DRAMA QUEENS

Bette Davis beat Jane Wyman 55-4

Vivien Leigh beat Joan Fontaine 49-15

Ingrid Bergman beat Greer Garson 45-14

Olivia de Havilland beat Katharine Hepburn 43-25

ALL-AMERICAN GIRLS

Judy Garland beat Margaret O'Brien 51-8

Ann Miller beat Donna Reed 37-28

Teresa Wright beat June Allyson 43-10

Virginia Mayo beat Jeanne Crain 35-27

Congratulations to all the actresses who made it through Round 1! :) Round 2 will start up tomorrow evening.

1950s Era Part 2

For those of you who have already voted, I updated the 1950s button to go to the new survey link... happy voting :)

Polls are open! SOPHISTICATES and FILM NOIR FEMMES competing!!

Here are the matches that will appear tonight in the polls on my sidebar to the right:

SOPHISTICATES

Rita Hayworth Born 1913 Known for: Gilda	VS	Eve Arden Born 1908 Known for: Anatomy of a Murder
Loretta Young Born 1913 Known for: The Bishop's Wife	VS	Hedy Lamarr Born 1913 Known for: Samson and Delilah
Rosalind Russell Born 1907 Known for: His Girl Friday	VS	Maureen O'Hara Born 1920 Known for: Miracle on 34th Street
Lucille Ball Born 1911 Known for: The Big Street	VS	Betty Grable Born 1916 Known for: How to Marry a Millionaire

FILM NOIR FEMMES

Gene Tierney Born 1920 Known for: Laura	VS	Carole Landis Born 1920 Known for: I Wake Up Screaming
Lauren Bacall Born 1924 Known for: The Big Sleep	VS	Linda Darnell Born 1923 Known for: A Letter to Three Wives
Ida Lupino Born 1918 Known for: High Sierra	VS	Veronica Lake Born 1922 Known for: Sullivan's Travels
Jane Greer Born 1924 Known for: Out of the Past	VS	Claire Trevor Born 1910 Known for: Murder, My Sweet

FINAL RESULTS of Round 1 for DRAMA QUEENS and ALL-AMERICAN GIRLS

And... these are the winners of Part 1 of Round 1!

First the DRAMA QUEENS...

BETTE DAVIS won 55-4 against Jane Wyman (what a LANDSLIDE)

VIVIEN LEIGH won 49-15 against Joan Fontaine

INGRID BERGMAN won 45-14 against Greer Garson

OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND won 43-25 against Katharine Hepburn

And the ALL-AMERICAN GIRLS...

JUDY GARLAND won 51-8 against Margaret O'Brien (another LANDSLIDE)

ANN MILLER won 37-28 against Donna Reed (one of our close matches)

TERESA WRIGHT won 43-10 against June Allyson

VIRGINIA MAYO won 35-27 against Jeanne Crain (another of our closer matches)

CONGRATULATIONS to all the actresses who won and we will start Part 2 of this Round later tonight with SOPHISTICATES and FILM NOIR FEMMES competing... 

I will post the matches for that as soon as possible, so... until then! :)

Link to the webpage I made for the "Auntie Mame" post

This is mostly about layout and learning more about it, but I needed some kind of content to put in there...

http://gc.palomar.edu/32741/32741dcolson1132/project%203/project3_home.html

I want an "Auntie Mame"!

“AUNTIE MAME”

Where can I start on talking about the best movie of all time (in my opinion)? My experience with this particular film started when I caught the movie by accident on Turner Classic Movies because I had heard it was a funny movie. Suffice to say, I couldn’t stop laughing from the incredible kaleidoscope opening titles to the end about two and a half hours later, when Auntie Mame says, “I’m going to open doors for you, doors you never even dreamed existed. Oh, what times we’re going to have. What vistas we’re going to explore together. We’ll spend a day at an ancient Hindu temple. The head monk is a friend of Auntie Mame’s. And perhaps he’ll let you ring the temple bells that bring the monks to prayer. And then on the highest tower, you can see the Taj Mahal. Beyond that is a beautiful…” as her words fade into the glittery rhinestones that spell out “The End.” There is something unbelievably magical about this film and this is THE film that brought Rosalind Russell the actress into my view.

Not long after enjoying this movie for the first time, I received the book it is based upon, Auntie Mame: The Irreverent Escapade, which in turn introduced me to the marvelous comic writing talent of Patrick Dennis. Anyone who has seen this film has probably noticed that the little boy who Auntie Mame has taken charge of is named Patrick Dennis. Well, the boy is loosely based on Patrick Dennis the author (whose real name was Edward Everett Tanner III). Long story short, I could not put this book down because it was just brilliant and so darn witty. As soon as I started reading it, I could see Roz as Auntie Mame. Once I finished that book and saw the film again, I knew Roz was Auntie Mame. There was just no comparison between her and anyone else who may have played the part on stage or on film in the comedy or the musical version. (P.S. If you didn’t know it already, Roz originated the role on Broadway just a couple years before she did the film version, being replaced by the great Greer Garson while she filmed the movie).

Now, let’s talk best scenes. I personally could say I just adored every scene and was entertained by everything, but to pick a few favorites isn’t hard.

A favorite scene of mine involves Auntie Mame getting a very small part in her best friend Vera Charles’ play “Midsummer Madness.” Now, Auntie Mame’s best friend Vera is a piece of work, let me tell you. First of all, she is from Pittsburgh, but speaks with a pretentious British accent. As the following conversation between Auntie Mame and young Patrick proves, what else was she to do?

Patrick Dennis: Is the English lady sick, Auntie Mame? 

Auntie Mame: She's not English, darling... she's from Pittsburgh. 
Patrick Dennis: She sounded English. 
Auntie Mame: Well, when you're from Pittsburgh, you have to do something. 

She is the star of this play and acts like a star through and through. Auntie Mame, on the other hand, having a very small part, decides to bring some very flashy and very noisy bracelets to make herself stand out in the thankless part. This only causes trouble, as one can deduce… She causes so much of a ruckus with her bracelets that she ruins the entire play and even gets her gaudy bracelets stuck to the back of Vera’s cape. This is what I call funny physical comedy and I enjoy it every time I watch it.

"I'm stuck!"

Another favorite scene of mine occurs after the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and she gets a job as a switchboard operator. This is where Rosalind Russell’s amazing verbal comedy comes into play. Roz fans all know that if there’s one thing she’s known for, it’s her rapid, sometimes biting line delivery. In this scene, she gets tongue-tied and confused by all the plugs on the switchboard

 A case in point:

Auntie Mame:

Widdicome, Gutterman, Applewhite, Bibberman and Black. You want to talk to Mr. Gutterman? One moment, sir. I'll connect you. Widdicome, Gutterman, Applewhite, Bibberman and Black. Oh, yes Mr. Bibberman. You'd like to talk with Mr. Applewhite? Oh, yes, sir, he's in. I'll connect you. Widdicome, Gutterman, Applewhite, Bib-bib-bib-blib-bibman and Black? Oh yes, long distance, how are you? Oh. Mr Widdecome? I have your San Francisco call for you. Yes, Mr. Bibberman? Oh. Did I connect you to Mr. Gutterman instead of Mr. Applewhite? I'm sorry Mr. Bibbicome, Bibbibibbib…

Mind you, anyone would get tongue-tied trying to say names like Widdicome and Bibberman, but we don’t have to say them. We just have to watch Auntie Mame get tongue-tied and laugh our heads off.

While there are so many specific scenes I could keep talking about, I have to end with probably my favorite scene. I call it “Auntie Mame and the Horse Capers.” After she has fallen in love with Beau, she mistakenly lets an ex-girlfriend of his know that she knows how to ride a horse (of course she cannot), and so she’s got herself stuck at a fox hunt “riding to the hounds” with the rest of the southern family and friends. In my opinion, this could not get funnier, as she is wearing riding boots that she can’t even put her whole feet inside, and then is given an evil horse from hell named “Meditation.” Once she finally ends up on the horse, it goes riding off in the opposite direction, trampling over flowers, passing the hounds and even the fox, in the end jumping over the veterinarian’s truck. Auntie Mame lands in a bush, holding the steering wheel and the fox nestled under her jacket.

"I caught the brass ring!"

I have to mention a character who doesn’t even come until the second half of the movie named Agnes Gooch. This character was not nearly as funny in the book as Peggy Cass made her out to be. The woman should be applauded for making such a hilarious character come to life.

This is one of my favorite quotes from the movie between her and Auntie Mame:

[Pouring Agnes a drink] 
Mame: This will calm you down. 

Agnes Gooch: Oh, no! Spirits do the most horrible thing to me. I'm not the same person! 
Mame: What's wrong with that? 
Agnes Gooch: Will it mix with Dr. Pepper? 
Mame: He'll love it! Drink! 

Ha! I have repeated that line everywhere from my home to the supermarket (after all, there is Dr. Pepper there). I can’t get enough of it. I could obviously go on and on about this magical movie that is about the only thing that’ll make me happy when I am having a really depressing day (I walk away from it smiling every time), but then this post might never end. I actually started writing this for a little website I am making for a class (I needed content to add), but this has been fun and the full article is going here on my blog and not on the website, obviously.

I’ve had fun finally writing about my favorite movie of all time and I hope you enjoyed reading about it…

And of course, I should end with this:

Auntie Mame:

Yes! Live! Life's a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death! 

Cheers!

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