It would seem the fine folks over at FilmClassics are holding a review writing contest. The subject is classic screwball comedy and the prizes are sure to be galore. Hearing this, loving the screwball genre and being a rather competitive person in nature, yours truly here decided to enter said contest. Opting to go with a lesser known work of screwball madness (everyone and their brother, sister and second cousin has written on Bringing Up Baby and His Girl Friday and The Lady Eve and so forth) I chose the little-seen 1938 classic The Mad Miss Manton - starring the best damn actress ever, the great Barbara Stanwyck.
Now lo and behold, it seems as if there are only two of us in this contest (c'mon people where are all those classic fans with there classic entries!?) and even stranger than that, we both decided to write on The Mad Miss Manton (apparently my competition is a huge Miss Stanwyck fan as well - as well we all should be!). I suppose our writing on the same subject makes this particular contest a true blue contest indeed - a stone cold stand-off if you will. Yeah yeah, I know, it's all in fun, but winning is always the most fun.
Anyway, you can read my Review Contest Entry Post and let me know what you think by clicking on the button at the end of said post, which will take you to the contest site where one can then vote. You can also jump to FilmClassics right now (where you will find links to both mine and my adversary's reviews - and to be fair, please do read both) and vote as well. I suppose the main point one should take away from this is to vote vote vote. Vote early and vote often. Actually you can only vote once per IP address, but you get the idea.
2 comments:
Hello there,
I love how you described the contest, and I think it's fantastic that both reviews are on "The Mad Miss Manton" - I never would've thought that would happen. ;)
Until Later On~
That is quite strange indeed - but Stanwyck deserves all this and much much more.
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