ALL GOOD THINGS: January 2014

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Round 2 of the Favorite Silent Actress Tourney is in the books

8 matches wrapped up the 2nd round of the Favorite Silent Actress Tourney and half of them were blow-outs. Here are the results from all 8 matches.

DESIREE BRACKET
Clara Bow defeated Alla Nazimova 15-5
Mary Pickford defeated Dolores Costello 12-10

STEPHEN BRACKET
Louise Brooks defeated Lillian Gish 14-8
Bebe Daniels defeated Edna Purviance 12-9

JOSIE BRACKET
Greta Garbo defeated Colleen Moore 12-2
Janet Gaynor defeated Pola Negri 9-5

MARIA BRACKET
Norma Shearer defeated Olive Borden 13-2
Gloria Swanson defeated Marion Davies 8-6

Norma Shearer, Greta Garbo, Louise Brooks and Clara Bow all flexed their muscles and won quite easily.
Three of the matches were double digits wins for the respective ladies. Meanwhile the other four matches were quite close, with two of them being decided by only 2 votes. Mary Pickford, the tourney's top seed squeaked by for the second week in a row by edging out Dolores Costello 12-10. It won't get any easier for Mary as she faces the It Girl, Clara Bow in round 3. I will have the complete match-ups posted by tomorrow.

Saturday, January 25, 2014

Round 2 of The Favorite Silent Actress Tourney begins tonight

Things get tougher as we begin round 2 of the favorite silent actress tourney hosted by me and my friend Catherine. This round features 8 matches, four of them taking place here and four more taking place over at Catherine's blog Plucked From Obscurity. Here are the matches below for the All Good Things portion:

Stephen Bracket:

3 LILLIAN GISH

10 LOUISE BROOKS

13 BEBE DANIELS

26 EDNA PURVIANCE

Desiree Bracket:

1 MARY PICKFORD

25 DOLORES COSTELLO

6 CLARA BOW

11 ALLA NAZIMOVA

The polls are on the right hand sidebar and will run through Thursday. Go here to see the matches taking place on Catherine's blog...http://obscurecinemamagic.wordpress.com/

Thursday, January 23, 2014

First round action in The Favorite Silent Actress Tourney comes to a close...

The first round of the The Favorite Silent Actress Tourney comes to a close today and for the most part it was business as usual but top seeded Mary Pickford received quite a scare from 17th seeded Brigitte Helm, and held on to win by two votes. Here are the complete scores from all the matches....

THE STEPHEN BRACKET:
LOUISE BROOKS defeated PEARL WHITE 21-3
LILLIAN GISH defeated CARMEL MYERS 22-2
EDNA PURVIANCE defeated MABEL NORMAND 17-7
BEBE DANIELS defeated THELMA TODD 13-10

THE DESIREE BRACKET:
ALLA NAZIMOVA defeated THEDA BARA 12-10
CLARA BOW defeated NORMA TALMADGE 18-5
DOLORES COSTELLO defeated RENEE ADOREE 13-9
MARY PICKFORD defeated BRIGITTE HELM 12-10

From the Josie Bracket:

Winners are in bold face

Janet Gaynor vs. Alice Terry
Pola Negri vs. Corinne Griffith
Colleen Moore vs. Eleanor Boardman
Greta Garbo vs. Dorothy Gish

From the Maria Bracket:

Norma Shearer vs. Constance Talmadge
Olive Borden vs. Jobyna Ralston
Gloria Swanson vs. Vilma Bánky
Marion Davies vs. Marie Prevost

Round 2 matches will begin on Sunday, January 26th. Thanks to everyone who took the time to vote and spread the word as the fun continues!

Sunday, January 19, 2014

The SILENT ACTRESS TOURNEY is underway...

Here we go...the start to our Favorite Silent Actress Tourney. It was my friend Catherine Bellamy who came up with the idea and we will be hosting this event together. She will handle the Josie and Maria brackets while I will take care of the Desiree and Stephen brackets. And if you're wondering, she named the brackets after some of her friends. She will begin her matches a little later this afternoon. Here's the link to her wonderful blog to go cast your votes when the time comes: http://obscurecinemamagic.wordpress.com/

To vote here, the polls are in the usual location, on the right hand sidebar. And remember it is one vote per match and this first round will run through Thursday evening. Let's have some fun! In the match-ups below I tried to list the film in which the actress is most known for.

The Desiree Bracket

1. Mary Pickford (Coquette,1929)

17. Brigitte Helm (Metropolis, 1927)

25. Dolores Costello (The Sea Beast, 1926)

18. Renée Adorée (The Big Parade, 1925)

29. Norma Talmadge (Smilin' Through, 1922)

6. Clara Bow (It, 1927)

11. Alla Nazimova (Salome, 1923)

7. Theda Bara (Cleopatra, 1917/Salome, 1918)

The Stephen Bracket

12. Thelma Todd (Fascinating Youth, 1926)

13. Bebe Daniels (Monsieur Beaucaire, 1924)

26. Edna Purviance (The Kid, 1921)

4. Mabel Normand (Caught in a Cabaret, 1914)

3. Lillian Gish (Broken Blossoms, 1919)

30. Carmel Myers (Ben Hur, 1925)

10. Louise Brooks (Pandora's Box, 1929)

19. Pearl White (The Perils of Pauline, 1914)

Sunday, January 12, 2014

A new tourney begins next week...THE SILENT ACTRESS TOURNEY

March Madness is right around the corner and the 4th Annual Favorite Classic Movie Actress Tourney will soon be upon us. But before that event hits, we have a smaller tourney that will take place beginning next week. One of my best friends, Catherine Bellamy, that I met on FB wanted to do a tourney concentrating solely on the top silent actresses of the day. Because to be fair they did kind of get shafted during the regular tourney. So Catherine came up with a list of 32 actresses who were the most popular and well known during the silent era and broke them down into four brackets. She named the brackets after four of her friends. Here are the brackets and first round matches that will begin on Sunday, January 19th. You will notice that Catherine ranked all 32 actresses over the four brackets instead of the usual breakdown per bracket, which I think is a cool idea. I will host the Desiree and Stephen brackets here on All Good Things while Catherine will host the Josie and Maria brackets on her blog located here: http://obscurecinemamagic.wordpress.com/

The Josie Bracket

5. Janet Gaynor

27. Alice Terry

20. Pola Negri

32. Corinne Griffith

21. Eleanor Boardman

31. Colleen Moore

15. Dorothy Gish

8. Greta Garbo

The Maria Bracket

16. Norma Shearer

22. Constance Talmadge