HOT VINTAGE POLL

i make polls about all those hot dead guys from old movies

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Welcome to the HOT AND VINTAGE MOVIE STARS poll blog! This blog runs tournaments based on hot vintage movie stars from between 1910-1970. We are currently between tournaments.

All polls—including ongoing polls, previous rounds, The Hot Movie Men Tournament, the Hot Movie Women Tournament, the Scrungly Little Guy contest, the Horror Hotties mini tournament, the various shadow brackets, the Dracula Daily polls, fun mini polls, etc.—can be found in the #hotvintagepoll tag.

FAQs:

"Define vintage?" I only post about people who were in movies made before 1970. My knowledge is mostly classic Hollywood, but I've been trying to expand out to showcase international vintage hotties too (thank you to everyone who contributes!)

“Who won the last few tournaments?” Toshiro Mifune is the Hottest Movie Man, Eartha Kitt is the Hottest Movie Woman, Elsa Lanchester is the Scrungliest Little Guy, Diahann Carroll & Sidney Poitier are the Hottest Movie Couple, and Akihiko Hirata and Duane Jones TIED as the ultimate Horror Hotties. Look here for the Dracula casting polls and here for the Pride and Prejudice ones.

"What are you doing between tournaments?" Hanging out. Thinking of which old dead guys I'd like to fuck. You're welcome to come chat in my asks about old movies, hot people, and whether you would fuck the Scarecrow from the 1939 Wizard of Oz.

"How do I submit propaganda? What propaganda do you boost?" you can send propaganda to my ask box, tag me in it, or reply to the poll post with it. I don't boost everything I see, but I try to boost the cream of the crop. If you have more than five photos to submit, please send a few asks instead of one long one. I watch every video I receive so I can add trigger warnings, so please don't send long videos—I don't have time to review them.

If I see repetitive, trolling, or bigoted remarks in the comments, I will block you from the bracket. If you want to point out a competitor’s problematic aspects in the replies, that’s fine, but if I see bad-faith trolling, you will be blocked. I will also block if you start harassing other people voting on the polls. If you really hate that someone is winning, please post positive propaganda for their opponent instead.

The views expressed in the propaganda are not my own. I don’t submit my own propaganda, and I don’t change what’s submitted beyond fixing spelling mistakes. If you hate a poll bio or a pic, let me know and send me something I can use instead. Complaining about the poll photo without offering alternatives gets blocked.

"Has [name of hottie] ever been in a tournament?" Please search for their tag (ie put #toshiro mifune in my search bar) before asking me.

"Hey! Some of these people sucked and they shouldn't be here!" Yes, some of these people sucked. I agree with you. For reasons I've gone into before, I don't exclude anyone from the contest for moral reasons, even if I personally think they were garbage. I do this because I cannot responsibly research and vet every competitor's background and legacy, and I'm not comfortable being the moral barometer for everyone, even in cases where I think it's really obvious. You are welcome to vote against people for moral reasons, but as mod I don’t post or boost negative propaganda about anyone.

“My FAQ isn’t on here :(” send me an ask! I love hearing from you guys—just please check these basics first.

Thank you for being here! Enjoy the hotties.

current schedule:

Ongoing: nothing. We are between tournaments! I will still be posting mini polls occasionally. You can find those here.

Now finished: Hot Men Tournament, Hot Women Tournament, Dracula Daily casting polls, the Hot Couples Mini Tournament, and the Scrungly Little Guys [gender neutral] Contest, and the Pride and Prejudice fancast, and the Horror Hotties mini tournament

TBD: Ultimate Hottie Tournament (top brackets of the hot men & hot women competing together)

Ongoing: Mini polls that pit sets of characters from the same movie together, like the Philadelphia Story or Seven Brides for Seven Brothers ones (these can usually be found in the #minis tag, along with a bunch of other silly polls)

If you have an idea for a bracket, feel free to submit to my asks!

good tags to know:

#hotvintagepoll—all polls

#minis—polls not connected to full tournaments, usually involving hot movie casts

#silly times—non-poll shenanigans or VERY silly polls that aren't part of a bracket. block this tag if you are only here for tournaments

#housekeeping—admin posts, like this one. do not block this tag pls

hot man polls are organized #round 1, #round 2, etc

hot woman polls are organized #ladies 1, #ladies 2, etc

scrungly little guy polls are #scrungly 1, #scrungly 2, etc

all the dracula polls are under #dracula casting

the narnia debacle is under #why would you ask us a hotvintagepoll blog this

pride and prejudice is under #pride and prejudice casting

the would you fuck the scarecrow debate is under #the wizard of oz

horror hotties are under, what do you know, #horror hotties

occasionally i have open ask box nights where we all hang out and chitchat. those are under #coffee night

when people share propaganda that involves their families—ie Sidney Poitier Drove My Dad to the Hospital Once or My Grandma Was Obsessed with Tyrone Power—I tag it #family lore. i love this propaganda please send me more of it

if you send in pics of a pet named after a movie star I tag it #hollywood creatures

i take mod neutrality seriously but in between tournaments i sometimes recommend movies. those can be found under #recs

if i have a long meditation or a bit of film criticism it gets tagged #hotvintagethoughts

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Spider-Noir black and white cinematography so good it’s unfortunately got me fan casting hot vintage superheroes and/or reimagining other IPs as classic cinema AUs

hey have they talked about how they did that? because I was under the impression you had to light black and white differently than color (to get it to work more than a generic filter), but there’s no way they shot that twice.

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let's play a mini game!

here is a clip from Flower Drum Song, starring Reiko Sato. without looking it up, let's figure out who is dubbing her based on another part the same voice actor played!

who is singing for Reiko Sato?

Rosie from Bye Bye Birdie

Eliza from My Fair Lady

Aurora from Sleeping Beauty

Perdita from 101 Dalmations

Carmen Jones from Carmen Jones

Voting ended onJun 13

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#i was wrong but WOW WHAT A NUMBER (via @dying-suffering-french-stalkers)

every time reiko sato gets praised it adds one bajillion years to my life span

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i hate sending asks to people because they never answer but here's an idea for a poll, to celebrate pride month: queer off with ur personal choice of the gayest (or lesbian, bisexual, ace, etc) from old hollywood? id run it on my dandy blog but knowing me i wouldnt get any participants. lmk what u think!

I’ve thought about doing this before but tbh I always run into the problem of 1) we don’t know how vintage people would define themselves in modern terms and 2) because so many had to stay in the closet to protect themselves we’d inevitably end up excluding people who belong. like I would not be comfortable presenting an actor in a poll specifically around queerness and defining their identity for them when they might have called themselves bi or pan or trans or something else if given the option to pick, and it similarly feels cruel to assume I can guess who does and doesn’t belong in a pride poll when so many people had to hide. would hate to exclude somebody who belonged just because they couldn’t come out, you know? not for me to decide for them where and how they fit in modern terms.

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I love that these voice actor polls are being tagged as "voice actor violence" because HOH BOY, LEMME TELL YA...the amount of times I've been victimized by a voice actor's IMDB page is *staggering*. Reading them can be like getting hit repeatedly with a wet pool noodle as you realize they've been Where's Waldo-ing throughout your entire childhood, whether you knew it then or not, so your tag is VERY appropriate!

yes!! correct mental image. I was picturing violence like the voice actors bashing their way out through their recording booths demanding to be finally recognized, but I’m adding a pool noodle into this image now as well

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I think they should remake How to Marry a Millionaire but this time they call it How to Bury a Billionaire and it’s about Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe, and Betty Grable murdering the oligarch class

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#and Betty Grable still dreams of the sandwich (via @mako-mahko)

AND BETTY GRABLE STILL DREAMS OF THE SANDWICH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I cannot believe I didn't recognize my GOAT Paul frees.

he isn't the man of a thousand voices for nothing!

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breaking news for the hot vintage poll community: toshiro mifune loses his first poll

(correct me if i'm wrong, but i think he's won every poll he's been in except the voice actor quiz)

he actually has lost once before, in the hot couples tourney (him+yoshiko yamaguchi could not fend off the combined hotness of sidney poitier + diahann carroll).

and you guys are not going to believe this but check what the result on that voice actor poll was.

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let's play a mini game!

here is a clip from Some Like It Hot, starring Tony Curtis (the one in the tub). though Curtis did his own dialogue for some of the movie, he was dubbed whenever he had to speak in falsetto. without looking it up, let's figure out who is dubbing him based on another part the same voice actor played!

Who is dubbing Tony Curtis?

Bugs Bunny from the Looney Tunes

Daphne, played by Jack Lemmon, from Some Like It Hot

John Lennon from Yellow Submarine

Toshiro Mifune from Grand Prix

Snow Miser from The Year Without a Santa Claus

Voting ended onJun 13

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the results are in! and. well.

Toshiro Mifune is the right answer. Or rather, the man voicing Toshiro Mifune's character in Grand Prix—I didn't put the character name because no one would know who that is.

This is the voice of Paul Frees, known (along with Mel Blanc) as "The Man of a Thousand Voices." Along with his work in Some Like It Hot and Grand Prix, he also did Boris Badenov on the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, the Fruit Loops mascot Toucan Sam (allegedly basing that voice on Ronald Colman), John Lennon and George Harrison on the Beatles' TV cartoon, several Rankin-Bass Christmas specials, and countless other bit parts in film and TV. On top of that, he was also the original Ghost Host for the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland and Disneyworld!

Thank you Paul! We know your voice, if not your face.

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let's play a mini game!

here is a clip from Flower Drum Song, starring Reiko Sato. without looking it up, let's figure out who is dubbing her based on another part the same voice actor played!

who is singing for Reiko Sato?

Rosie from Bye Bye Birdie

Eliza from My Fair Lady

Aurora from Sleeping Beauty

Perdita from 101 Dalmations

Carmen Jones from Carmen Jones

Voting ended onJun 13

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just to clarify Reiko Sato is doing her own speaking. It is only the singing that is dubbed.

[emilysidhe]

I had the Original Broadway Cast recording of Bye Bye Birdie on CD because I when my high school put it on, I was in the pit orchestra, so I wanted a recording of the show. I remember seeing the movie some time before that, when I was a kid - I remember Ann-Margaret, Dick Van Dyke, and the changed ending - but I don't remember Rosie particularly so my brain just kind of filled in the idea that she had also (like Albert with Van Dyke) been played by her Broadway actress reprising her role. (My memory of how all the songs sound comes from the cast recording, not the movie.)

Then I read this poll and went, "Surely they would have let Chita Rivera do her own singing?" So while I did not look at the voice actress for the dubbing, I did check Wikipedia and - Janet Leigh?! They recast Chita Rivera with Janet Leigh?! In a part written for a Latina actress, where one of the problems her character faces is that her white boyfriend's disapproving mom is doing microaggressions against her?! I'm retroactively really mad???

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let's play a mini game!

here is a clip from Some Like It Hot, starring Tony Curtis (the one in the tub). though Curtis did his own dialogue for some of the movie, he was dubbed whenever he had to speak in falsetto. without looking it up, let's figure out who is dubbing him based on another part the same voice actor played!

Who is dubbing Tony Curtis?

Bugs Bunny from the Looney Tunes

Daphne, played by Jack Lemmon, from Some Like It Hot

John Lennon from Yellow Submarine

Toshiro Mifune from Grand Prix

Snow Miser from The Year Without a Santa Claus

Voting ended onJun 13

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two hours left and it's a dead sprint between the top three options!

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let's play a mini game!

here is a clip from Flower Drum Song, starring Reiko Sato. without looking it up, let's figure out who is dubbing her based on another part the same voice actor played!

who is singing for Reiko Sato?

Rosie from Bye Bye Birdie

Eliza from My Fair Lady

Aurora from Sleeping Beauty

Perdita from 101 Dalmations

Carmen Jones from Carmen Jones

Voting ended onJun 13

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just to clarify Reiko Sato is doing her own speaking. It is only the singing that is dubbed.

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I think they should remake How to Marry a Millionaire but this time they call it How to Bury a Billionaire and it’s about Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe, and Betty Grable murdering the oligarch class

[hotvintagepoll]

let's play a mini game!

here is a clip from Flower Drum Song, starring Reiko Sato. without looking it up, let's figure out who is dubbing her based on another part the same voice actor played!

who is singing for Reiko Sato?

Rosie from Bye Bye Birdie

Eliza from My Fair Lady

Aurora from Sleeping Beauty

Perdita from 101 Dalmations

Carmen Jones from Carmen Jones

Voting ended onJun 13

[hotvintagepoll]

let's play a mini game!

here is a clip from Some Like It Hot, starring Tony Curtis (the one in the tub). though Curtis did his own dialogue for some of the movie, he was dubbed whenever he had to speak in falsetto. without looking it up, let's figure out who is dubbing him based on another part the same voice actor played!

Who is dubbing Tony Curtis?

Bugs Bunny from the Looney Tunes

Daphne, played by Jack Lemmon, from Some Like It Hot

John Lennon from Yellow Submarine

Toshiro Mifune from Grand Prix

Snow Miser from The Year Without a Santa Claus

Voting ended onJun 13

[littlehorrorshop]

Josephine Baker in Zouzou (1934)

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let's play a mini game!

here is a clip from Some Like It Hot, starring Tony Curtis (the one in the tub). though Curtis did his own dialogue for some of the movie, he was dubbed whenever he had to speak in falsetto. without looking it up, let's figure out who is dubbing him based on another part the same voice actor played!

Who is dubbing Tony Curtis?

Bugs Bunny from the Looney Tunes

Daphne, played by Jack Lemmon, from Some Like It Hot

John Lennon from Yellow Submarine

Toshiro Mifune from Grand Prix

Snow Miser from The Year Without a Santa Claus

Voting ended onJun 13

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I have more planned, and yes you can look up voice samples—I would discourage people from going straight to IMDb or Wikipedia to find out the name, but looking up voice clips on YouTube to help with the guess is totally fine. Happy listening!