This is just a quick update on the Leading Lady Tournament. I find myself at an impasse, and I’m hoping that the readers can help out on short notice. I have seven nominees for each decade, but in look at the list I’m A) feeling I have a few too many nominees and B) that the large amount has forced me to place some actresses in decades that they don’t belong in simply to include them. I’ve included the list of nominees as they stand right now, in the decades I’ve placed them in. Between now and the 13th, I’d love some feedback on if I should condense to five nominees a decade, and who you feel should be eliminated/placed in a different category. I was hoping to make things work with seven, but I’m not sure. What do you think? Remember you can also leave comments on Twitter (@Journeys_Film) or via Facebook (Facebook.com/JourneysinClassicFilm). Thanks!
1930s
Jean Harlow
Greta Garbo
Bette Davis
Claudette Colbert
Ginger Rogers
Carole Lombard
Vivien Leigh
1940s
Myrna Loy
Barbara Stanwyck
Joan Crawford
Judy Garland
Katharine Hepburn
Ingrid Bergman
Veronica Lake
1950s
Lana Turner
Grace Kelly
Marilyn Monroe
Eva Marie Saint
Audrey Hepburn
Elizabeth Taylor
Debbie Reynolds
1960s
Natalie Wood
Shirley Maclaine
Julie Andrews
Barbra Streisand
Lee Remick
Janet Leigh
Shelley Winters
1970s
Diane Keaton
Jodie Foster
Liza Minnelli
Ellen Burstyn
Jane Fonda
Faye Dunaway
Carrie Fisher
1980s
Sally Field
Meryl Streep
Goldie Hawn
Sigourney Weaver
Jamie Lee Curtis
Glenn Close
Molly Ringwald
1990s
Julia Roberts
Whoopi Goldberg
Kathy Bates
Sharon Stone
Nicole Kidman
Sandra Bullock
Kate Winslet
2010s
Reese Witherspoon
Angelina Jolie
Natalie Portman
Kristen Stewart
Scarlett Johansson
Michelle Williams
Anne Hathaway
Kristen
You spelled her name wrong again…
Fixed.
Are you planning to have matches between two actresses at a time? or just choose from the 7 listed per era and most votes wins that respective era? Then pit the era’s top winner against another era’s winner? The only reason I ask is because if you want it to come out evenly and easier, you could add one extra actress per era to make it 64 and things would work out pretty evenly. But that’s adding another person which I understand you are trying to streamline it now. If that’s the case I would make it 5 per era..just gotta decide on who doesn’t make the cut. These tourneys are so much fun but do take some time, effort and patience. Believe you me! I posted a promo for our tourney in March btw. It will be here before you know it.
I did narrow it down to five, seemed easier. I have seen the ads! I’ll wait for the official Monty-made ones lol.