Natalie vs Liz: A Friendly Competition Final Match

Here we go with the match between Nat and Liz...From Here to Eternity vs The Sandpiper

Natalie vs Liz: A Friendly Competition (Match 10)

The penultimate match between Nat and Liz. Nat has technically won this event as her record is 6-2-1 but we still have 2 matches to go to see if Liz can at least finish strong.

Natalie vs Liz: A Friendly Competition Match 9

Here we go with match 9 of 11. Natalie leads 5-2-1.

Natalie vs Liz: A Friendly Competition Match 8

Here we go with match 8:

Natalie vs Liz: A Friendly Competition Match 7

Here we go with match 7 in our contest between Natalie Wood and Elizabeth Taylor

Natalie vs Liz: A Friendly Competition Match 6

This match features our gals and their performances in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Liz played the role first in 1958, then Natalie did the TV version in 1976. Choose the performance you like more.

Natalie vs Liz: A Friendly Competition Match 5

Here we go with match 5 in the Natalie Wood vs Elizabeth Taylor friendly competition series..

Natalie vs Elizabeth: A Friendly Competition Rd 4

Here we go with rd 4:

Natalie vs Liz: Friendly Competition Rd 3

Round 3 of friendly competition between Nat and Liz

Natalie vs Liz: Friendly Competition Round 2

Here we go with round 2 in our little competition tourney between Natalie Wood and Elizabeth Taylor

It's Natalie Wood vs Elizabeth Taylor in some friendly competition

Natalie Wood and Elizabeth Taylor had similar career paths. Starting out in children's roles in the 1940's before moving onto young adult roles in the 50's then full adult roles in the 60's where they both had stellar careers. Ten films have been chosen for each actress and will be paired up for 10 rounds. Here we go with the first match.

Natalie Wood is crowned Fashion Icon after a terrific tourney run...

Hello everyone..The Fashion Icons has wrapped up and we have a winner....Natalie Wood, three-time Final four finalist and 2015 Favorite Classic Movie Actress Tourney champion. Even though she tied my girl Carole Lombard in the final match at 39 votes, Natalie clinched the Fashion Icons title with an 8-1-1 record, one better than 2nd place finalist Esther Williams, who put on quite a display herself. With the win, Starla Miller receives 50 1st place points and holds the top spot after the first tourney is in the books. With 7 more tourneys scheduled through out the year, this is gonna be fun to see who will walk away as champion for the year. Below are the complete results and updated point standings...

Natalie Wood 39-39 tie with Carole Lombard
Grace Kelly 49-33 over Barbara Stanwyck
Esther Williams 46-19 over Bette Davis with the highest vote % at 71
Irene dunne 55-54 over Audrey Hepburn in one nail biter of a match
Myrna Loy 32-25 over Rosalind Russell

Final rankings
1. Natalie Wood (Starla Miller) 8-1-1
2. Esther Williams (Katrina Selby) 7-3
3. Carole Lombard (monty) 6-3-1
4. Irene Dunne (Tracy Leigh Strube) 6-4
5. Audrey Hepburn (Josie Michelle Miller) 5-5
5. Myrna Loy (Erin Marsee Irby) 5-5
6. Grace Kelly (Virginie Saia Pronovost) 4-6
7. Bette Davis (Gillian Thomson) 3-7
7. Rosalind Russell (Desiree Michele Colson) 3-7
8. Barbara Stanwyck (Jessica Ellen Rowe) 2-8

Updated points standings
1. Starla Miller 50 points
2. Katrina selby 25 points
3. Monty 15 points
4. Tracy Leigh Strube 10 points
4. Erin Marsee Irby 10 points
4. Josie Michelle Miller 10 points
4. Virginie Saia Pronovost 10 points
8. Jessica Ellen Rowe 5 points
8. Desiree Michele Colson 5 points
8. Gillian Thomson 5 points

Remember 1st place receives 50 points
2nd place receives 25 points
3rd place receives 15 points
4th thru 6th place receives 10 points
7th and higher receive 5 points
The next tourney, classic film couples will begin on Sunday.

Congrats again to Starla and natalie and hope everyone enjoyed playing 😊

Third time's the charm for Natalie as she is crowned Favorite Classic Movie Actress of 2015

It took three Final Four trips but Natalie Wood finally won the Favorite Classic Movie Actress Tourney. She defeated Myrna Loy 323-173 to secure her place in the winners circle. She joins an elite company of Irene Dunne, Ginger Rogers, Carole Lombard and Bette Davis, who won previously. And Natalie set records while doing it. First she notched her 23rd victory, placing her #1 all-time most winning actress, one win above Grace Kelly who has 22. Next she accumulated 1416 votes in the 7 matches she competed in for this year's tourney. She blew away the previous record of 1093 votes set by Ginger back in 2012. Natalie also holds the records for most matches competed in with 28. So congratulations to Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko on becoming the Favorite Classic Movie Actress of 2015. Thanks to Desiree, Virginie and John for helping me with the tourney this year and hope everyone had a fun time! See you next March!

It will be Myrna Loy vs Natalie Wood for the crown of 2015 Favorite Classic Movie Actress

After falling behind in their respective matches earlier during the week, Myrna Loy and Natalie Wood stormed back to win and now will face each other in the championship match. Myrna Loy defeated Audrey Hepburn 305-234 while Natalie Wood defeated the red hot Greer Garson 543-318. Yep you read those final numbers right. The amount of votes logged were record-setting thanks to several fan-bases spreading the word about their favorites. From Blogger to Facebook to Tumblr to Twitter, word got around fast to produce some huge numbers. Now Natalie Wood after two previous final four trips, finally broke through to appear in her first championship match. While Myrna Loy will be trying to become the 4th actress from the 30's era to hoist the trophy as Favorite Classic Movie Actress. She would join Irene Dunne, Ginger Rogers and Carole Lombard in that achievement. Here are the stats for the two women that will start their match tomorrow morning.

#2 NATALIE WOOD  

60'S ERA CHAMPION 

Tourney record: 22-5

Number of final fours: 3

How she got here:

defeated Rita Moreno 94-20

defeated Paula Prentiss 92-10

defeated Julie Andrews 104-35

defeated Ann-Margret 119-25

defeated Shirley MacLaine 141-29

defeated Greer Garson 543-318

total votes accumulated so far 1093

What's at stake for her: Natalie has appeared in three final fours and

this is her first championship match. If she ever wanted to win the

crown, then this is it.

VS

#3 MYRNA LOY  

30'S ERA CHAMPION

Tourney record: 16-4

Number of final fours: 1st time

How she got here:

defeated Virginia Weidler 61-6

defeated Eleanor Powell 79-8

defeated Shirley Temple 57-18

defeated Barbara Stanwyck 79-58

defeated Jean Arthur 57-39

defeated Audrey Hepburn 305-234

total votes accumulated so far 638

What's at stake for her: to continue the dominance of 30's era actress champions,

as 3 of the 4 past tourney champions have come from the 

30's era

The championship match begins tomorrow morning and will

run through next Saturday! Good luck to both Natalie and Myrna!

The Final Four Matches are now underway...

Here are the two matches that have just begun....you can vote on the sidebar to the right.
Matches will run through Saturday afternoon! Good luck ladies! Please note that the records associated with each actress is their total wins/losses over the course of five tourneys. And that the seeds of the actresses are their overall ranking in their respective eras.

MATCH 1

#3 MYRNA LOY (15-4) 

Myrna's 1st Final Four appearance

VS

#1 AUDREY HEPBURN (18-5)

Audrey's 2nd Final Four appearance

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MATCH 2

#2 NATALIE WOOD (21-5)

Natalie's 3rd Final Four appearance

VS

#6 GREER GARSON (5-4)

Greer's 1st Final Four appearance

The FINAL FOUR is now set

The Elite Eight round is now complete and we have our finalists for this year's final four! In the 30's era, it was Myrna Loy defeating Jean Arthur 57-39, marking Myrna's first trip to a final four. In the 40's era, it was red hot Greer Garson staging a late rally to overtake Rosalind Russell and win 89-71. That gives Greer her 5th win this tourney, as previously she had no wins prior from the first four tourneys. In the 50's era, it was a rematch from last year between Audrey Hepburn and Doris Day with the same results as Audrey defeated Doris 35-20. Only difference was last year it ended on Doris Day's birthday. And finally in the 60's era, it was Natalie Wood crushing Shirley MacLaine 140-29, sending Natalie back to the final four for a 3rd time. So the match-ups in the final four as tradition states will be the 30's era winner vs the 50's era winner which is Myrna Loy vs Audrey Hepburn. And the 40's era winner vs the 60's era winner, Greer Garson vs Natalie Wood. Audrey is the only  #1 seed to make it to final four. And Audrey is only the 4th actress to be in consecutive final fours. She joins Bette Davis, Grace Kelly and Natalie Wood in that distinction. The other three # 1 seeds were Barbara Stanwyck, Olivia de Havilland and Elizabeth Taylor that failed in their bid to reach the final four.Greer is the long shot, ranked #6. Matches will begin tomorrow morning and take place here on All Good Things. 

The Elite Eight Round

We have now made it to round 5 of the 2015 Favorite Classic Movie Actress Tourney, aka The Elite Eight. This round will decide which of the eight actresses will move on to the final four. Here are the matches that will be taking place in each era. Click on the link under each photo to go to the site to cast your vote:

30'S ERA FINAL MATCH

30's era finale

40'S ERA FINAL MATCH

40's era finale

50'S ERA FINAL MATCH

 50's Era Finale

60'S ERA FINAL MATCH

60's era finale

Matches will run through Saturday afternoon!

Round 5 (THE ELITE EIGHT) begins on Sunday

My oh my...we have come down to the elite 8 actresses left in the 2014 Favorite Classic Movie Actress Tourney. This round features the final matches of each respective era with the winner moving on to the final four. Matches start tomorrow and will run through Thursday evening. Below are the match-ups with each actress complete tourney record over the past 4 years since we first started doing this! And also other match play events that they may have competed in!

30'S ERA CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

BARBARA STANWYCK (10-3) vs MYRNA LOY (10-3)

Go here to cast your vote once the polls are open: http://www.rozrussell.com/

40'S ERA CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

BETTE DAVIS (15-3) vs OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND (8-3)

Go here to cast your vote once the polls open: http://journeysinclassicfilm.com/

50'S ERA CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

DORIS DAY (14-3) vs AUDREY HEPBURN (12-4)

Go here to cast your vote once the polls open: http://mythicalmonkey.blogspot.com/

60'S ERA CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

 NATALIE WOOD (16-4) vs ELIZABETH TAYLOR (8-3) 

Which will take place right here on ALL GOOD THINGS

Good luck to all these amazing women!

ROUND 3 begins tomorrow (The Brackets Finals Matches)

Tomorrow begins round 3 of the 2014 Favorite Classic Movie Actress Tourney and we move into the final matches for the brackets of each era.

Two actresses competing in each category in each era to see who will move on to the sweet sixteen round next week. Here are the match-ups

scheduled to begin on Tuesday in each era. Since I am hosting the 60’s era portion I will  begin with the match-ups taking place here. There are

three top seeds left in this era after Diana Rigg got shown the exit door last round. Natalie Wood, Catherine Deneuve and Anne Bancroft.

But they all will have some tough competition to face. In the song and dance category, Natalie Wood faces Shirley MacLaine, which should give

Natalie her toughest challenge so far. In the Foreign Affair bracket, top seed Catherine Deneuve squares off against 2nd seed Romy Schneider,

which might be the best match of all four. In the All-American Girls bracket, Anne Bancroft takes on 3rd seed Lee Remick, which should be an

interesting match. And finally 2nd seed Elizabeth Taylor looks to continue her winning ways since coming from the 50’s era bracket, takes on the

lowest seed remaining in 5th seed Jean Simmons. Matches will run through Sunday evening!

A FOREIGN AFFAIR BRACKET

SONG AND DANCE BRACKET

BRITISH INVASION BRACKET

ALL-AMERICAN GIRLS BRACKET

Here are the links to the other blogs to cast your votes in the other eras:

The 30's era:
http://www.rozrussell.com/

The 40's era:
http://journeysinclassicfilm.com/

The 50's era:
http://mythicalmonkey.blogspot.com/

Round 2 (Song and Dance/A Foreign Affair Brackets)

Here are the match-ups for the song and dance/a foreign affair brackets) which will conclude round 2. And it will be the top 4 actresses competing in these particular brackets, and no dark horses this time around. In the Song and Dance bracket, top seed Natalie Wood will face 4th seed Ann-Margret, who survived last round's back and forth match with Barbra Streisand. Then the second match will feature the Shirleys as 2nd seed Shirley Jones squares off against 3rd seed Shirley MacLaine in a rematch from last year, which saw Jones win. Over in the Foreign Affair bracket, top seed Catherine Deneuve will face 4th seed Claudia Cardinale while 2nd seed Romy Schneider will battle 3rd seed Anna Karina. Matches will run through Sunday night.

SONG AND DANCE

A FOREIGN AFFAIR BRACKET

And here are the links to the other sites to vote on the other era's matches:

30's era

 http://www.rozrussell.com/

40's era

http://journeysinclassicfilm.com/

50's era

http://mythicalmonkey.blogspot.com/