A new tourney begins next week...THE SILENT ACTRESS TOURNEY

March Madness is right around the corner and the 4th Annual Favorite Classic Movie Actress Tourney will soon be upon us. But before that event hits, we have a smaller tourney that will take place beginning next week. One of my best friends, Catherine Bellamy, that I met on FB wanted to do a tourney concentrating solely on the top silent actresses of the day. Because to be fair they did kind of get shafted during the regular tourney. So Catherine came up with a list of 32 actresses who were the most popular and well known during the silent era and broke them down into four brackets. She named the brackets after four of her friends. Here are the brackets and first round matches that will begin on Sunday, January 19th. You will notice that Catherine ranked all 32 actresses over the four brackets instead of the usual breakdown per bracket, which I think is a cool idea. I will host the Desiree and Stephen brackets here on All Good Things while Catherine will host the Josie and Maria brackets on her blog located here: http://obscurecinemamagic.wordpress.com/

The Josie Bracket

5.  Janet Gaynor

27.  Alice Terry

20.  Pola Negri

32.  Corinne Griffith

21.  Eleanor Boardman

31.  Colleen Moore

15.  Dorothy Gish

8.  Greta Garbo

The Maria Bracket

16.  Norma Shearer

22.  Constance Talmadge

28.  Olive Borden

23.  Jobyna Ralston

2.  Gloria Swanson

14.  Vilma Bánky

24.  Marie Prevost

9.  Marion Davies

The Desiree Bracket

1.  Mary Pickford

17.  Brigitte Helm

25.  Dolores Costello

18.  Renée Adorée

29.  Norma Talmadge

6.  Clara Bow

11. Alla Nazimova

7.  Theda Bara

The Stephen Bracket

12.  Thelma Todd

13.  Bebe Daniels

26.  Edna Purviance

4.  Mabel Normand

3.  Lillian Gish

30.  Carmel Myers

10.  Louise Brooks

19.  Pearl White