Saturday, February 23, 2013

Sneak Preview: 2013 Favorite Classic Movie Actress Tournament: The 1960s Bracket #2

Voting starts March 3rd.

Julie Christie
Birth Name: Julie Frances Christie
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "British Invasion" #2
Birth Date: April 14, 1941
Birthplace: Chabua, Assam, India
Height: 5' 2"
Academy Awards: 4 nominations, 1 win (actress, Darling)
Signature Role: Lara (Doctor Zhivago)

versus

Diana Rigg
Birth Name: Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "British Invasion" #7
Birth Date: July 30, 1938
Birthplace: Doncaster, Yorkshire, England
Height: 5' 8½"
Academy Awards: none
Signature Role: Emma Peel ("The Avengers")

with the winner to take on the winner of

Jean Simmons
Birth Name: Jean Merilyn Simmons
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "British Invasion" #3
Birth Date: January 31, 1929
Birthplace: Crouch Hill, London, England
Height: 5' 6"
Academy Awards: 2 nominations
Signature Role: Sister Sharon (Elmer Gantry)

versus

Angela Lansbury
Birth Name: Angela Brigid Lansbury
Tourney Bracket and Seeding: "British Invasion" #6
Birth Date: October 16, 1925
Birthplace: Poplar, London, England
Height: 5' 8"
Academy Awards: 3 nominations
Signature Role: Mrs. Eleanor Shaw Iselin (The Manchurian Candidate)

Notes: Christie versus Rigg—an actress born in India versus one who grew up there. And Simmons and Lansbury first hit it big in the 1940s.

2 comments:

Who Am Us Anyway? said...

Rigg. It's either Diana Rigg or the Tournament and I are going to have a serious disagreement.

Diana Rigg is the Beatles to her opponents' Turtles. I love Flo & Eddie (seriously, I do) but they are not Lennon & McCartney. And through no fault of theirs.

But facts are facts. And they are also stupid things, I believe President Reagan once said.

Mythical Monkey said...

I'm with you, Who. I respect Julie Christie but I love Diana Rigg.