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 4 Wrap-up (Sweet Sixteen Round)

The Sweet Sixteen Round of the 2015 Favorite classic Movie Actress Tourney is now complete. Here are the final numbers in all four eras:

30'S ERA:
Myrna Loy defeated overall top seed Barbara Stanywck by the count of 79-58, marking Myrna's deepest run into a tourney yet as she moves on to the elite 8. Last year these two met in the 30's era finale and Babs won that one. But Myrna wasn't going to be denied this time. She will face Jean Arthur who just steamrolled Elsa Lanchester by the score of 81-37. Give props to Elsa though as she notched three wins over heavily favored competition before losing to Jean.

40'S ERA:
Rosalind Russell and Gene Tierney had a dandy of a match which finally saw Roz winning 49-44, marking Roz's best run in a tourney so far. She will face Greer Garson, who crushed perennial favorite Judy Garland 52-37 to pick up her 4th win. Greer came into this year's tourney with a losing record of 0-4, never winning a single match, now she has won four in a row. Somebody lit a fire under her.

50'S ERA:
One of last year's final four finalists, Audrey Hepburn cruised to another win after ripping through Eleanor Parker 47-18 while in the other match, Doris Day edged out Debbie Reynolds 33-31 in one of the tourney's more exciting matches. So Audrey and Doris will duke it out again after the pair met last year in the 50's era final which saw Audrey narrowly winning by the score of 65-60.

60'S ERA:
In one of the most notable upsets, Shirley MacLaine demolished last year's final four finalist Elizabeth Taylor 87-50, thus preventing Liz in a rematch with Natalie Wood. Natalie notched her 2nd straight 100 plus vote win by crushing Ann-Margret 119-25.

The Elite 8 matches will be posted tomorrow in each era to see which actress earns a trip to the final four!

Sweet Sixteen (Round 4) matches are now underway

Things get really interesting now that the Sweet Sixteen Round in the 2015 Favorite Classic Movie Actress Tourney is underway. Here are the two matches taking place right here on All Good Things.

 First up is the Song and Dance bracket winner Judy Garland

taking on European Lovelies winner Greer Garson

Then in the next match, the Femme Fatales bracket winner Gene Tierney

takes on the Box-Office Queen winner Rosalind Russell

These matches can be found on the sidebar to the right and will

run through Saturday afternoon.

Click on the link below to go vote on the other eras matches as well:

the 30's era

the 50's era

the 60's era

Round 3 wrap-up

March Madness, Classic Movie Actress Style, continues to roll on after the completion of round 3. Here are the complete results in all four eras.

30's era:
Barbara Stanwyck defeated Jean Harlow 49-28
Elsa Lanchester defeated Madeleine Carroll 39-31
Myrna Loy defeated Shirley Temple 57-18
Jean Arthur defeated Margaret Sullavan 57-15

The lone upset occurred when Elsa Lanchester took down British Ladies top seed Madeleine Carroll, while the other three matches were blow-outs won easily by the favorites.















40's era:
Greer Garson defeated Olivia de Havilland 43-37
Rosalind Russell defeated Katharine Hepburn 46-37
Judy Garland defeated Esther Williams 45-39
Gene Tierney defeated Lauren Bacall 44-40

A pair of upsets took place in this era, with the biggest one being Greer Garson beating one of this top 4 overall tourney seeds, Olivia de Havilland. Olivia was one win away last year from going to the final four so she was heavily favored this year to achieve that feat and perhaps win the whole tourney. But the red hot Greer Garson notched her third straight win to deny Livvie. And what's more shocking is that entering this year's tourney, Greer had never won a single match in her four previous tries. Wow! And the other upset which is a mild one as no. 1 Katharine Hepburn lost to no. 2 Rosalind Russell in the box-office queens bracket, marking the furthest Roz has ever gone into a tourney!






50's era:
Debbie Reynolds defeated Judy Holliday 46-5
Eleanor Parker defeated Anne Baxter 30-21
Audrey Hepburn defeated Grace Kelly 34-24
Doris Day defeated Janet Leigh 30-26

Debbie Reynolds rolled over Judy Holliday while Doris Day had quite the close match with Janet Leigh that she was able to pull out. Meanwhile the Audrey/Grace rivarly is now even at 2-2 with Audrey taking care of Princess Grace. The two have battled 4 times in tourney history and are now even after Audrey has won the last two.

60's era:
Elizabeth Taylor defeated Claudia Cardinale 59-20
Shirley MacLaine defeated Anne Bancroft 45-32
Natalie Wood defeated Julie Andrews 104-35
Ann-Margret defeated Julie Newmar 44-27

Natalie Wood racked up 104 votes, the most by any actress in the tourney so far, as her fan base continues to show up in big numbers. If she wins her next match against Ann-Margret and Liz beats Shirley, then we will have a rematch from last year between the two legendary and iconic 60's actresses.  Oh boy!












So we are headed to the Sweet 16 round as these 16 actresses are still in the mix:
Barbara Stanwyck
Elsa Lanchester
Myrna Loy
Jean Arthur
Judy Garland
Greer Garson
Rosalind Russell
Gene Tierney
Doris Day
Audrey Hepburn
Eleanor Parker
Debbie Reynolds
Elizabeth Taylor
NatalieWood
Shirley MacLaine
Ann-Margret

Round 4 matches will begin tomorrow and run through next Saturday.

Round 3 Bracket Finals Matches

We move into round 3 of the 2015 Favorite Classic Movie Actress Tourney and this is the round with the bracket finals matches to see which actress moves on to the sweet sixteen round.

EUROPEAN LOVELIES FINAL MATCH

BOX-OFFICE QUEENS FINAL MATCH

SONG AND DANCE FINAL MATCH

FEMME FATALES FINAL MATCH

These matches have just begun and the polls can be found on the sidebar to the right.
The polls will be up through Saturday evening.

Click on the links below to go vote on the other eras:
the 30's era

the 50's era

the 60's era

Round 2 final results

Here are the final numbers for round 2 in the 40's era of the 5th Annual
Favorite Classic Movie Actress Tourney

Gene Tierney defeated Ava Gardner 45-41
Lauren Bacall defeated Rita Hayworth 53-32
Judy Garland defeated Ann Miller 66-17
Esther Williams defeated Betty Grable 44-36
Rosalind Russell defeated Teresa Wright 53-29
Katharine Hepburn defeated Ida Lupino 54-32
Greer Garson defeated Ingrid Bergman 59-32
Olivia de Havilland defeated Maureen O'Hara 55-33

Round 3 matches will begin tomorrow afternoon and I will have a post about what matches will be taking place

Round 2 Matches of the 5th Annual Favorite Classic Movie Actress Tourney are now underway...

Here are the 8 matches in the 40's era portion for round 2 of the 5th Annual Favorite Classic Movie Actress Tourney.

First in the European lovelies bracket:

1 OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND VS 5 MAUREEN O'HARA

2 INGRID BERGMAN VS 6 GREER GARSON

Then comes the Box-Office Queens bracket

1 KATHARINE HEPBURN VS 5 IDA LUPINO

2 ROSALIND RUSSELL VS 3 TERESA WRIGHT

Then comes the SONG AND DANCE bracket

1 JUDY GARLAND VS 4 ANN MILLER

2 ESTHER WILLIAMS VS 3 BETTY GRABLE

Then comes the Femme Fatales bracket

 1 LAUREN BACALL VS 4 RITA HAYWORTH

2 AVA GARDNER VS 3 GENE TIERNEY

The polls are on the right sidebar and the matches will run through Saturday afternoon. Here are the links to go vote in the other respective eras as well:

the 30's era

the 50's era

the 60's era

First round action in the 40's era brackets is now complete

Here are the final numbers for the eight matches that just concluded in the 40's era portion of the 2015 Favorite Classic Movie Actress Tourney.

First off, top seed in the 40's era and last year's final four finalist Olivia de Havilland got off to a great start in ripping Hedy Lamarr by the count of 53-9. Meanwhile Maureen O'Hara squeaked by Vivien Leigh 35-31 in one thrilling match. 2nd seed Ingrid Bergman had little trouble with Margaret Lockwood with a 47-17 win. And former winless actress Greer Garson got her first win ever in tourney play...and it was an impressive win, taking down Joan Fontaine 50-17. Wow. All those matches took place in the European Lovelies bracket.

In the Box office queens bracket, top seed Katharine Hepburn cruised to a 51-12 victory over Virginia Mayo. A mild upset occurred as 5th seed Ida Lupino defeated 4th seed Jane Wyman 36-24. Recent screwball comedy queen tourney winner Rosalind Russell crushed her co-star from The Women Paulette Goddard 50-14. And in the closest match of this round, Teresa Wright beat Ann Sheridan 33-31, as she rallied late in the day to send Ann packing.

OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND 53 HEDY LAMARR 9
MAUREEN O'HARA 35 VIVIEN LEIGH 31
INGRID BERGMAN 47 MARGARET LOCKWOOD 17
GREER GARSON 50 JOAN FONTAINE 17

KATHARINE HEPBURN 51 VIRGINIA MAYO 12
IDA LUPINO 36 JANE WYMAN 24
ROSALIND RUSSELL 50 PAULETTE GODDARD 14
TERESA WRIGHT 33 ANN SHERIDAN 31

Round 2 matches will begin tomorrow afternoon...