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After being close on day one, the match between Grace Kelly and Ingrid Bergman has opened up. Grace is now leading by a comfortable 17-10 margin with today and tomorrow left. It's looking good now for Grace to earn her first ever tourney championship after coming so close so many times before. The read more

Errol looking dapper as can be..for you Becky! read more

Looks like by switching to Zoomerang/Survey Monkey, the poll is now working just fine. Wanted to share an update on it right quick. Grace Kelly holds a slim 2 vote margin, 7-5 over Ingrid Bergman. But it is still early. We have all weekend to go so we'll see how this will turn out. Thanks to every read more

So apparently Blogger is having problems with their poll feature. Because my match between Grace Kelly and Ingrid Bergman is showing Ingrid leading by 4-0. Which is wrong because I know I voted for Grace as did another blogger who left a comment on my post. So I am canceling that poll and setting u read more

Every time I have one of these tournaments, something goes wrong with the voting. Either it lets people vote more than once or wipes away all the votes or some other crazy thing. After three days of voting, almost four, I checked on the numbers to see what the matches looked like and it had reset t read more

How's this for a title match...Grace Kelly vs Ingrid Bergman for Favorite Hitchcock Leading Lady. Here are some stats on the two women for what is sure to be an exciting match. GRACE KELLY Name: Grace Patricia Kelly Birth Date: November 12, 1929 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Films made f read more

I know I am late starting my Fall photo series. It's where I post pics of classic stars in the fall weather..outdoors, in coats or sweaters...just a little series I started last year. Some just wearing fabulous clothing. I begin this year with Binnie Barnes. Happy Fall everyone! The mesmerizi read more

As expected Grace Kelly is rolling over Janet Leigh by the count of 16 to 8 votes in match one. While over in match two, Ingrid Bergman is starting to distance herself from Joan Fontaine by the count of 15-10. But there are still three more days to cast your vote if you haven't done so already.&nbs read more

Combining my love of golf's match play and classic stars once again, I will have a new event beginning next month. Still working on the details but I can share some info. One..this won't be a regular tourney. More like match play, where it's individual matches instead of a mammoth type to read more

Just a quick note that round 3 of the favorite Hitchcock Leading Lady tourney has started. Match 1 features top seed Grace Kelly taking on 5th seed Janet Leigh while 2nd seed Joan Fontaine battles 3rd seed Ingrid Bergman. I think Grace will blow the doors off of Janet but Joan and Ingrid will be a read more

So round 2 is officially in the books and three of the top four women are going on. Overall top seed Grace Kelly continues on her path to win her first ever tourney after always reaching the final four and coming up just short. She dominated Teresa Wright 31-18, winning 63% of the votes. Second see read more

Round 2 has heated up big time with two of the four matches being very close. Top seed Grace Kelly is pulling away from Teresa Wright by the count of 25-12. This match was relatively close on day one. That same score is also featured in my girl Carole Lombard's match against 3rd seed Ingrid Bergman read more

After a full day of voting, the second round is yielding more closer matches. Well three of the four are. My girl Carole is getting killed by Ingrid Bergman 19-11. Top seed Grace Kelly is slowly pulling away from upstart Teresa Wright 18-11. 4th seed Kim Novak is losing to 5th seed Janet Leigh 17-1 read more

We move on to round 2 where things will get very exciting. Here are the matches scheduled with the remaining actresses vying to win the crown of Favorite Leading Lady in a Alfred Hitchcock Film. 1 GRACE KELLY VS 8 TERESA WRIGHT ---------------------------------------------------- read more

First round of the Favorite Alfred Hitchcock Leading Lady Tourney is in the books and there was just two upsets as all the other top seeds won their respective matches. Grace Kelly, who is seeded number 1, rolled to an easy 34-5 victory over last seed Tallulah Bankhead. 2nd seed Joan Fontaine blew read more

The  lovely Veronica Every October I spotlight some of the women made world famous by their participation in Hammer Studios Films of the 50's thru the 70's. Last year I wrote about Ingrid Pitt and Valarie Gaunt to name a few. This year I begin with Veronica Carlson. Born Veronica Mary Glaz read more

As expected most of the matches are blow-outs. Top seed Grace Kelly leads last seed Tallulah Bankhead 26-3. Teresa Wright leads Margaret Lockwood 20-10. Kim Novak is crushing Doris Day 22-8. Janet Leigh is all over Vera Miles 22-7 in a battle of the Psycho film sisters. 2nd seed Joan Fontaine is up read more

The tourney to decide who is the favorite leading lady of Sir Alfred Hitchcock films is now underway. First round action will run through Friday October 12th at 8 pm EST. There are 8 matches featuring the top 16 actresses that was selected based on appearances, awards, and recognition. Grace Kelly read more

Everyone knows that Carole Lombard is my favorite actress of all time! Today marks what would be her 104th birthday. Carole died at the very young age of 33 in that tragic plane crash delivering war bonds. Her mother was with her on that fateful plane as well. When it comes to screwball comedies, C read more