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Congratulations Kristen dear girl...you are the winner! I want to thank all those who took the time to participate in my first giveaway here on All Good Things. There were a lot of high numbers tossed out as to how many of the 72 films Cary Grant made that I had seen. And only one person hit t read more

Jane making her wish list... read more

The four bracket final matches started yesterday and two of the remaining top three seeds are currently leading their respective matches after day one. Overall top seed Bringing Up Baby is crushing To Be Or Not To Be 14-5. My Man Godfrey leads Ball Of Fire 13-6. But the last remaining top seed It H read more

I decided to start round three of the Favorite Screwball Tourney match today instead of waiting tomorrow. Here are the four scheduled matches that sees what film wins their respective brackets: Capra, Lubitsch, Hawks and Sturges. The matches will run through Thursday. Of note, my two favorite stars read more

A lot more closer matches this round as three of them were decided by 5 points or less. Two of the three top seeds rolled to easy victories, none more so than It Happened One Night Night. It hammered Merrily We Live 46-1. And Live just picked up that single vote on Thursday after 4 days of tourney read more

Three of the eight matches are so close that you couldn't shine a light between them. The other five matches are starting to separate the leaders from their competitors. My Man Godfrey leads The Awful Truth 23-19. The Lady Eve leads My Favorite Wife 21-19. And the closest match is going on between read more

So now there are only three close matches after day 2. Yesterday there was five matches that had leads of fewer than 5 votes. All that changed today. The Thin Man has twice as many votes over The Palm Beach Story, leading now 20-10. Yesterday it led by only 3 votes. My Favorite Wife has a slender 3 read more

Five of the eight matches are very close, within 2-3 votes of each other. There are two matches that have a comfortable lead and one definite blow-out. The blow-out comes courtesy of a top seed in It Happened One Night, rolling over Merrily We Live 24-0. That's right...it's a shut-out so far. Live read more

Here are the next round of matches scheduled to begin on Sunday. Since there are only 8 matches left, I have decided to hold the rest of the tourney here on All Good Things to make it more convenient. As this blog gets way more traffic than Screwball Cinema. As we get into the meat of the tourney n read more

I had some time tonight to start round 2 of the favorite screwball film tourney instead of waiting until Sunday morning. So the matches are over on the right hand side and will be up through Friday evening. And all eight matches will take place here on this blog to make it even easier. The matches read more

The first round of The Favorite Screwball Film Tourney is in the books and with the exception of three upsets, most of the expected winners are moving on to round 2. The upsets included one of the four major top seeds..Trouble in Paradise losing to My Favorite Wife 23-15. Paradise made a gallant co read more

My guest this month is my good friend from Facebook, Alicia Garbo. We've been friends for almost 2 years and she is a great gal. She has several wonderful pages on Facebook that you should check out as she will talk about during her stint as my guest. Here's the link to one of them:  British-B read more

My first ever screwball film tourney got off to a fantastic start on Sunday with about 20 fans voting on the first round matches on average. Three of the four top seeds are rolling early, and there are some back and forth matches taking place as well. Here are the breakdowns on yesterday's exciting read more

Just a reminder that there are 8 matches going on over at my other blog, Screwball Cinema. Don't won't those matches to get left behind. Here's the link to take you straight there: screwballcinema.blogspot.com read more

I've got all the first round matches up and going for my screwball comedy tourney. So please stop by to cast your votes. Note that the tourney is spread between my two blogs, here and over at Screwball Cinema. Here's the link to make things simple and easy:  screwballcinema.blogspot.com Yo read more

Judging by the number of votes logged over at Screwball Cinema, I believe everyone may not know that there are matches taking place over there too. I know Page doesn't as she commented here at All Good Things, that she was wondering where Bringing Up Baby was. Baby's match between it and Jean Harlo read more

I have made the selections for the 32 films that will be competing in my Favorite Screwball Tourney. I have four brackets which I have named in honor of four of the most honored directors of the genre: Preston Sturges, Frank Capra, Ernst Lubitsch, and Howard Hawks. Two of the brackets action will read more

I gotta hand it to TCM..when it comes to honoring classic film stars on their birthdays, they don't hold back. The other day it was Gloria Grahame. Today it is Virginia Mayo. The actress will be honored with several films including Smart Girls Don't Talk (1948), White Heat (1949), The Girl From read more

Almost made it through another year and what a ride. In December I will bring back my daily holiday cheer pic series of classic film stars in holiday poses. There is also the screwball tourney I am doing between here and my sister blog Screwball Cinema, which should be fun. My guest for the mont read more

Janet getting a head start on unwrapping some Christmas gifts..with some help read more