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In honor of Gloria's birthday today, TCM is honoring her with a host of her movies. Beginning at 7am eastern time and including The Big Heat (1953) with Glenn Ford and Macao (1952) with Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell. Other films include Crossfire (1947) with Mitchum again, A Woman's Secret (19 read more

Denzel is grateful for a victory to give Team Modern a rare win and point Finally, Team Modern had something to smile about after a good showing during the final week of The Lombard Cup. They split the six matches with three victories and finished with 4 and a 1/2 points. It allowed them to s read more

Princess O'Rourke is a breezy little comedy that stars Olivia de Havilland as Maria, a foreign princess visiting America who falls in love with a pilot named Eddie O'Rourke (played by Robert Cummings). The catch is Eddie doesn't know she is a princess and thinks she is just a regular gi read more

This week of the final six matches is really just perfunctory as Team Classic has already wrapped up the cup with a thorough beat down of Team Modern. But it will be interesting to see if Team Modern can snag a few more victories this final week. They have only won one match..that was whe read more

Successful businessman Walter Whirtle (Alan Hale, yes the dad of the Skipper from Gilligan's Island) and his wife Vivian (Irene Manning) have a hard time keeping servants in their employ. Enter private detective Jerry Curtis (played by Jack Carson) who has been fired for arresting the Dis read more

My guest this month is none other than blogger extraordinaire Stacia of She Blogged By Night. Check out her blog sometime for a most wonderful time. Here's the link:  shebloggedbynight.com 1. What made you start blogging?Stacia: For years I posted to Usenet movie groups, but Usen read more

William Powell enjoys some down time after an impressive victory Three weeks into this four week event and Team Classic has improved every single week to get a sweep of all five matches this time. They get 5 more points and now their lead grows to 13 1/2 to 1 1/2 over Team Modern. Basically th read more

Two of the five matches are blow-outs and are pretty much over. One match is starting to look that way too. While the two last matches are actually pretty close. But with that being said, Team Classic leads in every single one of them. Looking to sweep this week and take total control of the cup. B read more

Ready...aim..fire...The Doughgirls are in town! Coming out at the tail end of the screwball comedy genre is this wonderful and entertaining film, The Doughgirls. Featuring an all-star cast of Ann Sheridan, Jane Wyman, Jack Carson, Eve Arden, Charlie Ruggles and Alexis Smith. The story centers read more

Just a quick little post to let everyone know that I have started this week's matches in The Lombard Cup. They will be open through Friday evening. Good luck to all the actors involved. Looks like Team Modern will need some..big time! Leo looks considerably worried...as his team is down by 7 poi read more

Team Modern is down by 7 full points after two weeks to Team Classic. They need to win a lot of matches...quickly to get back in it. Let's see what will happen this week. Match 11: Gary Cooper vs Gary Oldman The battle of the Garys. Coop takes on the very popular Gary Oldman. Gary Cooper is on read more

Lynda as Wonder Woman OK you knew eventually I would be talking about Lynda Carter as one of my childhood crushes. I mean, who can forget Wonder Woman. And it's not because she looked unbelievably beautiful and sexy and great in that unforgettable costume. Or that she was portraying one o read more

Bogie shares a celebratory drink with Ingrid Team Classic 8 1/2 points Team Modern 1 1/2 points Five matches and four wins by Team Classic over Team Modern to increase their lead in the first ever Lombard Cup. Team Modern did manage to tie them in one match to split a point. But now after two read more

Two days later and the same results: Team Classic leads in the same four matches. Humphrey Bogart leads Al Pacino 16-5. Sidney Poitier is taking care of Russell Crowe 15-6. Gregory Peck is easily beating Liam Neeson 15-6. And Burt Lancaster has a 13-7 point advantage over George Clooney. The sole m read more

Another week but the same results...so far. Team Classic leads in four of the five matches. The one match they trail is John Wayne down to Robert Downey Jr by 2 votes. Humphrey Bogart leads Al Pacino 10-4. Sidney Poitier is crushing Russell Crowe 12-2. Gregory Peck leads Liam Neeson 9-5. And Burt read more

I was supposed to start the week 2 matches of my Lombard Cup last night but the site I use, Poll Daddy, which is awesome, only allows 200 responses per month at no charge. Anymore than that and you have to pay for their services. And everyone knows Blogger's features are kind of iffy. I ran into a read more

Today would have been Grace's 83rd birthday today. What a talented and remarkable woman she was. Starring in three of Alfred Hitchcock's best films and later on became Princess of Monaco after marrying Prince Rainier. She is one of my top twenty favorite actresses of all time. Think it will be read more

Jane looking a tad bothered in Larceny, Inc A delightful comedy with my classic goddess of the month, Jane Wyman. It stars perennial tough guy Edward G. Robinson as 'Pressure Maxwell', an ex-con just released from prison with his pal Jug Martin (played by Broderick Crawford). Once out, Pressur read more

Here we go with the second week of Lombard Cup action, pitting classic era actors against their modern counterparts. Team Classic leads 4-1 after a dominating first week of play. Let's see if the modern guys can do better this week. Match 6: John Wayne vs Robert Downey, Jr. The Duke squares off read more

2012   LOMBARD CUP Team                                                                        Team Classic read more