The other day I ran across the program to a private film festival my friend Monica and I held at her place on Shotwell Street in San Francisco some time in 1994. It was called "Nearly the 100th Anniversary of Going to the Movies" and we screened 15 movies in one day, with a half hour break in the middle to bestow Agnes Moorehead with the first (and only) Lifetime Achievement Award for Hollywood's Scandalously Neglected. The award was to have been forever after known as "The Aggie" and we never did it again, which in itself is scandalous.

It is time to set things right. I am hereby resurrecting the Aggie Awards, since it is Oscar Season and they've stopped parading the Hollywood Elders Miraculously Still Alive on the actual show.  Date and details to follow once I've had a chance to gin up interest.

Meanwhile, I'll start the ball rolling with two lists of contenders for Scandalously Neglected Actor and Scandalously Neglected Actress — and a chance for you to throw a name in the ring.

Now the boys...

Here is the program that started it all. Looking back, I'm pretty impressed with how many studios and eras we covered. It was a 12-hour extravaganza with two rooms going at once: one for features (the first seven pictures in the slideshow) and one for diversions. There may have been some drinking.

Who was the classic Hollywood actress best at playing bad? These are the girls you decided you'd never take home to mother:

1. Bette Davis
2. Barbara Stanwyck
3. Gloria Grahame
4. Joan Crawford
5. (5-way tie) Joan Blondell, Claire Trevor Greta Garbo, Susan Hayward, and Jean Harlow

Write-ins: Gene Tierney and Ida Lupino. Apparently, none of you thought Marlene Dietrich was all that bad.

 You can still take the poll for another week or so. Thanks for playing!

You've got your B-Girls, your Floozies, your Party Girls, your Molls, your Caged Women — everything from remorseless sinners to girls led desperately astray.

Choose which classic movie actress was the best at playing the worst, either by making a career of portraying bad girls or giving that one great hussy performance.

Testing the poll feature. Give it a whirl!