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Classic Actress Tournament has returned! Here is what I have in store for you!

greta garbo jeanette macdonald myrna loy barbara stanwyck
Graphic by Josie Miller
For the first time since I’ve been co-hosting this tournament (this is my third year), I will be doing the magnificent, magical 1930s decade! And here are the ladies who will be competing this Sunday, March 2nd… The next batch of actresses will compete the following Thursday, 3/6. The polls should be up by late morning, Pacific Standard Time.

THEY HAD FACES


Greta Garbo
Born 1905
Known for: Ninotchka
VS
Fay Wray
Born 1907
Known for: King Kong

Kay Francis
Born 1905
Known for: Trouble in Paradise
VS
Miriam Hopkins
Born 1902
Known for: Trouble in Paradise

Ruth Chatterton
Born 1892
Known for: Dodsworth
VS
Sylvia Sidney
Born 1910
Known for: Sabotage

Ann Dvorak
Born 1912
Known for: Scarface

VS

Anita Page
Born 1910
Known for: The Broadway Melody

FUNNY LADIES

Myrna Loy
Born 1905
Known for: The Best Years of Our Lives

VS

Marie Dressler
Born 1868
Known for: Dinner at Eight

Constance Bennett
Born 1904
Known for: Topper

VS

Margaret Dumont
Born 1882
Known for: Duck Soup

Jean Arthur
Born 1900
Known for: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

VS

Maureen O’Sullivan
Born 1911
Known for: Tarzan the Ape Man

Jean Harlow
Born 1911
Known for: The Public Enemy

VS

Una Merkel
Born 1903
Known for: 42nd Street