It was a tight race for the MD Poll title of "Favorite Classic Comedy Couple", but in the end, Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau came out on top.The original Odd Couple (who co-starred in nine other movies together, including The Fortune Cookie, The Front Page and Grumpy Old Men) surged ahead in the final voting past strong contenders William Powell & Myrna Loy and Katharine Hepburn & Cary Grant. In fact, for a while there it looked like there would be a three-way tie for the number one spot.
For the complete stats on this week's poll, see the comments section below.
UPDATE: TCM's Movie Morlocks takes their own look at classic comedy pairs.
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Who is your favorite classic comedy couple?
ReplyDelete109 votes total.
1. Lemmon and Matthau - 14.7%
2. Powell and Loy - 13.8
3. Hepburn and Grant -12.8
4. Hope and Crosby - 11.0
5. Astaire and Rogers / Martin and Lewis - 10.1
7. Abbott and Costello / Laurel and Hardy - 9.2
9. Hepburn and Tracy - 5.5
10. Day and Hudson - 3.7