Discuss & vote: AdSense or not AdSense, that is the question

What do you think about AdSense? I've been tempted to add it to my blog, but I have some doubts. 

For you as a reader, is it too distracting to see commercial links in blogs?
I know that some sites display them everywhere and there are more ads than content, but I've also noticed that lots of serious blogs show them in areas where is not really annoying, which I promise to do, in case I activate this service.

If you have installed it, did it work? Did you really earn some bucks?

So, please vote in the poll placed on the sidebar/comment, because I really want to know your opinion before I make a decision:

(Video) Poll Results: Irene Dunne is the funniest gal around...

The poll about the actresses that make you laugh the most is closed. Here's the countdown to #1, I embedded and linked funny scenes from each participant (you don't have to find the scene in the videos, I added a code to make them start in the relevant part). Enjoy:

# 11 (TIE)  Barbara Stanwyck (0%)

No votes for Miss Stanwyck? I mean, haven't you seen Christmas in Connecticut? Or this one?:

# 11 (TIE) Rita Hayworth (0%)

I couldn't find her hilarious job interview from Cover Girl, but she's really funny in this clip:

#10 (TIE) Paulette Goddard (4%)

I haven't seen many movies from her, plus there are not many videos with her scenes on Youtube and the ones available like the catfight from The Women can't be embedded, so I chose a tribute to her films with Charlie Chaplin:

#10 (TIE) Marlene Dietrich (4%)

 I couldn't find any clip from The lady is willing in which she's simply hilarious. I'm embedding a scene from Golden Earrings:

#9 (TIE) Claudette Colbert (6%)

I thought Claudette would get more votes, after all she was in one of the most famous comedies ever, It happened one night. I love most of her comedies with Fred MacMurray & Ray Milland. In the next scene from Arise, My love she pretends to be Ray's wife to save his life:

#9 (TIE) Marion Davies (6%)

You know my opinion about her terrific skills for comedy. So I'll just leave you with a clip from The Patsy:

#8 Una Merkel (8%)

It was a great and positive surprise to see Una getting so many votes. Youtube doesn't do her justice, there aren't many clips from her. I uploaded a bit from Evelyn Prentice:

#7 Jean Arthur (13%)

Maybe a scene from The More The Merrier? Or maybe the pig scene from Easy Living? Or maybe Jean just being funny in The talk of the town? I'll go with the discussion about percentages in Easy Living, I love when she says "You don't have to get mad just because you're so stupid"

#6  Ginger Rogers (12%)

There are hundreds of hilarious lines and moments from all the films she did with Fred, like the kiss scene from Swing Time. Ginger was so funny: maybe you love how she played a little girl in The Major and The Minor? Or her drunk scene from Stage Door? Or a funny remark from Bachelor Mother? Well, the one I chose was the catfight from Vivacious lady:

#5 (TIE) Katharine Hepburn (15%)

Again, too many funny scenes, from this one to this one. But one of my favorites is how she tries to prepare a breakfast in Woman of the Year:

#5 (TIE) Myrna Loy (15%)

I know you all have your favorite funny scene from Miss Loy. Maybe a witty line from "The Thin Man", maybe her instructions for painting the house in "Mr. Blandings build his dream house" or even her secondary role in the overall dull  Love me tonight. So I tried to choose a more unknown part, the scene where her character goes out with Clark Gable in Test Pilot (watch until they go to the cinema):

#4 Eve Arden (17%)

Wow, fourth position! I haven't seen her tv show,  but her secondary characters in Mildred Pierce, Cover Girl & One Touch of Venus were great. This clip is from the latter:

#3 (TIE) Rosalind Russell (19%)

Roz always makes me laugh. She was hilarious in The Women or practically every film she was in, from My sister Eileen to The Trouble with Angels, and obviously her performance as Hildy Johnson is one of the funniest ever. But I'm embedding a scene from Auntie Mame (when she hears the kid talking about drinks, she seems to be embarrassed but in the next second she makes a proud gesture with her face, lol):

#3 (TIE) Carole Lombard (19%)

She was so funny! I almost prefer her outtakes to the actual movies :) What did I choose? A clip from Mr. and Mrs. Smith? Or maybe from My Man Godfrey, Nothing Scared or To have and have not? No, the clip is Lombard pretending to be an annoying phone operator in Hand across the table:

# 2  Lucille Ball (37%)

Does she need any explanation? I couldn't decide what clip to choose, I had like a million in my head. One of my favorites is the Vitameatavegamin scene, but it was too long. I also love the restaurant scene with William Holden or every time she has problems with Spanish (that clip has one of the bests punch- lines ever : 'yeah, well that's what we're having'). Anyway, I finally picked this one:

#1  Irene Dunne (38%)

Finally the number one: Irene Dunne was just great at everything. Her comedies were hilarious and of course, my favorites are the ones she made with Cary Grant. In this clip from The awful truth she pretends to be an uneducated woman just to annoy Cary (my favorite part is when she says: 'don't anybody leave this room, I've lost my purse!')

And here's the official data:

 I'd love if you could leave a link to your favorite comedy scenes from these girls (or describe them) ^^

New Poll: actresses that make you laugh the most?

This is my post # 200, so I decided to choose a joyful subject for my next poll.

I'd like to know which of the next actresses make you laugh the most (you can choose more than one option on the sidebar):

Carole Lombard
Lucille Ball
Ginger Rogers
Myrna Loy
Una Merkel
Jean Arthur
Rosalind Russell
Barbara Stanwyck
Marlene Dietrich
Rita Hayworth
Irene Dunne
Katharine Hepburn
Paulette Goddard
Marion Davies
Claudette Colbert
Eve Arden

I added people that are not mainly known for their comedy skills (like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth); people who generally played secondary characters (Eve Arden, Una Merkel); and left out some actresses like Marilyn Monroe, the Bennett sisters, Miriam Hopkins, Judy Holliday, etc, because it was too crowded already :) But you can comment and give them kudos.  

Poll Results: guess which director won :)

I wonder if my readers received any kind of pressure from Team Hitchcock.

"Hitchcock is going to win this one, hands down. His style was so unique, that most of his films wouldn't even need to have his name on them to recognize who the director was." 

So next time you need to bet on something, ask Emm. She wrote that comment right after I opened the poll.
First of all, THANKS, this is the first time a poll in my site has so many votes (34). About the results: I really thought that John Ford, John Huston and David Lean would get at least one vote, but no, but no. George Cukor and Ernst Lubitsch beat Howard Hawks by just one vote. Capra's delightful movies and style almost tied him with master Billy Wilder, but remained third. There was a point were Wilder and Hitch were very close in popularity, but then Hitch took off unbeatably, reaching the 38% of the votes.

So the guy Miss Bergman is pointing won this one...

...and he want to thank all his supporters....

...with a (very creepy) dinner.

Poll Results (Roman Holiday) + New Poll

If my readers had helped Dalton Trumbo with the ending of "Roman Holiday", the last scene would have been something like this:

DAY

JOE'S APARTMENT (@ VIA MARGUTTA 51) 

ANN, no longer a princess, but happier than ever plays cards with JOE on a sunny morning. They seem to be relaxed, enjoying the moment...like there's no place they want to be but there.

Ok, ok, you didn't say exactly that. That's my cheesy ending totally ripped off from "The apartment" now that I think of it. But you do wanted them to stay together:

So you romantic guys keep changing epic endings :) I'm gonna vary a bit the next poll. It's mean but I really want to know:  

Which of these directors do you prefer?  

Vote on the sidebar. Below you can go to their filmographies (in case you need them):

Billy Wilder
Alfred Hitchcock
Howard Hawks
George Cukor
John Ford
John Huston
Frank Capra
David Lean
Ernst Lubitsch

If you just can't pick one, I'd appreciate if you could leave a message explaining why, or making a ranking, or saying who's your least favorite, etc.

Poll Results: Ilsa stays with Rick :)

I know, I know, this poll was closed like a week ago, but I'm so lazy that I didn't comment the results. The complete options and their votes percentages:

a) Hold back your tears and go with Victor Laszlo (44%)
b) To hell with the cause, you stay with Rick (55%)
c) To hell with both, you start a new friendship with Captain Renault (0%)

...so this times love triumphs over moral commitments and Ilsa stays with Rick. Yay...?

NEW POLL!: You're Princess Ann from "Roman Holiday", you:

a) Abdicate and stay with Joe Bradley
b) Remain as Princess and leave Joe

Remember to vote on the sidebar.

Poll: So you're Ilsa Lund...

This my new super duper ingenious poll. 

The other day I watched "Casablanca" again and I thought: "If I was Ilsa, would I go with Victor Laszlo?". 

And then I thought "Hey, that's a good question to ask in my new super duper ingenious poll!". 

You're Ilsa Lund...you're standing in the airport... the plane has to go...Victor, your (kind of dull) husband is waiting...Rick is "thinking for both" and telling you you gotta go forever...So, you:

a) Hold back your tears and go with Victor Laszlo.

b) To hell with the cause, you stay with Rick.

c) To hell with both, you start a new friendship with Captain Renault.

Please, choose your answer in the SIDEBAR. Your comments/arguments are welcome.

PS: Remember, why are you writing your next piece of work using the same old Times New Roman or Arial, when you can use classy Ingrid Bergman's Handwriting Font?

Crazy Poll Results: it wasn't Marlene, it was Carole Lombard people!

So, whose feet were these? One reader (16%) thought they belong to Myrna Loy, one (16%) chose Irene Dunne, three (50%) thought that they were Marlene Dietrich's and just one (16%) clicked the correct answer: Carole Lombard. 

Nobody got extra kudos for naming the movie: "Love before breakfast" (1936). Wanna check? Here's the complete clip:

Crazy poll: Whose feet are these?

The first poll at Via Margutta. The feet on the picture belong to:

a) Myrna Loy
b) Rosalind Russell
c) Ginger Rogers
d) Irene Dunne
e) Carole Lombard
f) Marlene Dietrich

Choose an actress on the sidebar. Name the movie for extra kudos. I still haven't decide what's the point of this poll. Maybe if the most of the voters answer correctly...my readers are really attentive. Whatever.