Friday, March 11, 2011

1940's Era Semi-Final Matches are set...

The top 4 seeds all made it through to the semi-final matches, thus validating their deserved rankings. 1st seed Bette Davis, 2nd seed Katherine Hepburn, 3rd seed Ingrid Bergman, and 4th Vivien Leigh. Their matches were all close up until late yesterday evening when they all pulled away. Bette defeated 8th seed Rita Hayworth 30-24; Hepburn defeated 7th seed Gene Tierney 35-17 ; 3rd seed Bergman defeated Olivia de Havilland 29-25 in what what was the closest match ; and 4th seed Leigh overcame 5th seed Lauren Bacall 29-23. So unlike the 30's era bracket where only 4th seed Carole Lombard was the lone low seed to make it to the semi-finals, all 4 top seeds here  advanced. The most impressive win was by Hepburn who after a slow start rolled over Tierney and beat her by 18 points, which makes Kate the favorite to win this bracket. But anything can happen in March Madness, which should make for an exciting week-end. Only two women can move onto the final...who will it be. Here are the matches (with the actresses in their most beautiful dresses) which will begin Friday morning at 7am EST and run until 8pm Saturday night. Can't wait to get the matches going.

MATCH 1

1 BETTE DAVIS

VS

4 VIVIEN LEIGH

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MATCH 2

2 KATHERINE HEPBURN
VS

3 INGRID BERGMAN

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2 comments:

  1. Patti March 11, 2011 at 5:52 PM

    Well, Monty, this round showed me that I am quite out of step with many of the others. The one actress of the 8 that I really don't like AT ALL is the one who had the greatest margin of victory. And the one I love the most (Bette), whom I think is the best actress to ever come down the pike, did not have an overwhelming victory. I'm a little worried that she will be falling to Katharine, causing me the same feeling of devastation that I felt when the Packers won the Super Bowl.

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  2. montyMarch 11, 2011 at 9:45 PM

    I actually think Bette can beat Kate. But we'll see. Let's first see if those two will even make it to the final. I think Vivien and Ingrid might have something to say about that. Should make for an exciting weekend.

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