Re: Game #196: Box Office Poison
Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2020 2:34 pm
We still don't know the wrong definite, do we? or the wrong question mark.
MATCHES COMING SHORTLY
Identify the 100 actors below. (The first two clues are an exchange between two actors in the same movie; every other clue after that is a quotation.) Then, match them into 52 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Three actors will be used twice, each time in a different capacity. One actor will be matched with herself.
1. LAUREN BACALL
2. WENDY HILLER
3. DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR.
4. “Look, you shoot off a guy's head with his pants down, believe me, Texas is not the place you wanna get caught.”
SUSAN SARANDON
5. RITA HAYWORTH
6. DICK POWELL
7. KATY JURADO
8. GLADYS COOPER
9. MAUREEN O’SULLIVAN
10. RIP TORN
11. JOANNE WOODWARD
12. BARBARA O'NEIL
13. VIRGINIA CHERRILL
14. MADONNA
15. Her film career included adaptations of works by Joseph Conrad, Theodore Dreiser, Victor Hugo, Agatha Christie, Elmer Rice, and Sidney Kingsley.
SYLVIA SIDNEY?
16. TIMOTHY HUTTON
17. ALLA NAZIMOVA
18. MAUREEN O'HARA
19. She was the only Oscar-winning actress to direct an Oscar-winning documentary.
20. JOHN PAYNE
21. EMMA THOMPSON
22. JOEL McCREA
23. ALICE BRADY
24. ANNE BANCROFT
25. BRIAN AHERNE
26. TERESA WRIGHT
27. MERCEDES McCAMBRIDGE
28. “Why should I think about reality in this stink hole? That's like ‘Why should I get more depressed that I already am?’"
WILLIAM HURT (kiss of the Spider Woman) - gives us Mary Beth Hurt.
29. ELIZABETH ASHLEY
30. ANNETTE BENING
31. GLENN FORD
32. KATHLEEN TURNER
33. AVA GARDNER
34. “'Unknown.' That's the key word. 'Unknown.' When we become involved in a supernatural event, we're scared out of our wits just because it's unknown. The night cry of a child. A face on the wall. Knockings, bangings. What's there to be afraid of? You weren't threatened. It was harmless, like a joke that doesn't come out.”
RICHARD JOHNSON - gives us Kim Novak for Betty Field in Picnic
35. GLORIA GRAHAME
36. DIANNE WIEST
37. BOBBY DARIN
38. DOROTHY McGUIRE
39. GRAND DAMES, PART ONE: She is the only 20th century actress interred in Westminster Abbey.
PEGGY ASHCROFT?
40. JAMIE BELL
41. RHEA PERLMAN
42. ALI McGRAW
43. MARION LORNE
44. ELLEN BURSTYN
45. JOHN AGAR
46. PHOEBE CATES
47. This Irish actress appeared in only ten films, including a blockbuster in which she played Charlie Chaplin’s mother-in-law … sort of.
48. ANGELINA JOLIE
49. JERRY STILLER
50. GREER GARSON
51. RONALD REAGAN
52. RICHARD BURTON
53. MARY ASTOR
54. “You can't fight her - no one ever got the better of her. Never, never. She was beaten in the end, but it wasn't a man, it wasn't a woman. It was the sea!”
JUDITH ANDERSON (Stanwyck's mom in Martha Ivers)
55. KAY KENDALL
56. JANE ALEXANDER
57. ROBERT WAGNER
58. “Joanna! How could you do a thing like that? How could you do a thing like that? How could you do a thing like that? When I was just going to give you coffee. When I was just going to give you coffee! When I was just going to give you coffee! I thought we were friends! I thought we were friends! I was just going to give you coffee! I was just going to give you coffee! I thought we were friends. I thought we were friends. I thought we were friends. How could you do a thing like that? I thought we were friends.”
PAULA PRENTISS - give us RIchard Benjamin
59. JULIE CHRISTIE
60. JAMES BROLIN
61. CARROLL BAKER
62. FRANK SINATRA
63. UNA MERKEL
64. ANGELA LANSBURY
65. BETTY FIELD
66. SAM ELLIOTT
67. EDNA MAY OLIVER
68. BARBARA STANWYCK
69. AGNES MOREHEAD
70. ANNE RAMSEY
71. ETHEL BARRYMORE
72. SHIRLEY MacLAINE
73. STEWART GRANGER
74. “A man can afford to have noble sentiments and poses, but a woman only has the man she married. That's her truth. And if he's no good, that's still her truth. I married a man who was a liar, a thief and a coward. He was a drunkard and unfaithful. He only married me to get this ranch and then he deserted Johnny and me for good. And that's your fine truth for you. Could I bring Johnny up on that?”
GERALDINE PAGE
75. LANA TURNER
76. HOLLY HUNTER
77. MARJORIE RAMBEAU
78. CLARK GABLE
79. SPRING BYINGTON
80. TOM CRUISE
81. MARJORIE MAIN
82. MILLIE PERKINS
83. She was the first performer on a list that would later include Barry Fitzgerald, Jessica Lange, Sigourney Weaver, Al Pacino, Julianne Moore, Jamie Foxx, Cate Blanchett, and the actors in Clues #21, #26, and #76.
84. HANK AZARIA
85. IDA LUPINO
86. “Like that morning, when you walked out of that old house and you were, you were eighteen, and maybe I was nineteen. I was nineteen years old, and I'd never seen anything so beautiful. You, coming out of a glass door in your early morning, still sleepy. Isn't it strange, the most ordinary morning in anybody's life? I'm afraid I can't make it to the party, Clarissa.
ED HARRIS
87. BARBARA RUSH
88. CLORIS LEACHMAN
89. SEAN CONNERY
90. NATALIE WOOD
91. SARAH JESSICA PARKER
92. CLAIRE TREVOR
93. GRAND DAMES, PART II: She and opera singer Nelly Melba were the first entertainers to be named Dame Commanders of the British Empire.
DAME MAY WHITTY?
94. MALCOLM McDOWELL
95. SUZANNE PLESHETTE
96. DEBBIE REYNOLDS
97. BRENDA BLETHLYN
98. LAURENCE OLIVIER
99. JENNIFER JONES
100. PAUL NEWMAN
MATCHES COMING SHORTLY
Identify the 100 actors below. (The first two clues are an exchange between two actors in the same movie; every other clue after that is a quotation.) Then, match them into 52 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Three actors will be used twice, each time in a different capacity. One actor will be matched with herself.
1. LAUREN BACALL
2. WENDY HILLER
3. DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR.
4. “Look, you shoot off a guy's head with his pants down, believe me, Texas is not the place you wanna get caught.”
SUSAN SARANDON
5. RITA HAYWORTH
6. DICK POWELL
7. KATY JURADO
8. GLADYS COOPER
9. MAUREEN O’SULLIVAN
10. RIP TORN
11. JOANNE WOODWARD
12. BARBARA O'NEIL
13. VIRGINIA CHERRILL
14. MADONNA
15. Her film career included adaptations of works by Joseph Conrad, Theodore Dreiser, Victor Hugo, Agatha Christie, Elmer Rice, and Sidney Kingsley.
SYLVIA SIDNEY?
16. TIMOTHY HUTTON
17. ALLA NAZIMOVA
18. MAUREEN O'HARA
19. She was the only Oscar-winning actress to direct an Oscar-winning documentary.
20. JOHN PAYNE
21. EMMA THOMPSON
22. JOEL McCREA
23. ALICE BRADY
24. ANNE BANCROFT
25. BRIAN AHERNE
26. TERESA WRIGHT
27. MERCEDES McCAMBRIDGE
28. “Why should I think about reality in this stink hole? That's like ‘Why should I get more depressed that I already am?’"
WILLIAM HURT (kiss of the Spider Woman) - gives us Mary Beth Hurt.
29. ELIZABETH ASHLEY
30. ANNETTE BENING
31. GLENN FORD
32. KATHLEEN TURNER
33. AVA GARDNER
34. “'Unknown.' That's the key word. 'Unknown.' When we become involved in a supernatural event, we're scared out of our wits just because it's unknown. The night cry of a child. A face on the wall. Knockings, bangings. What's there to be afraid of? You weren't threatened. It was harmless, like a joke that doesn't come out.”
RICHARD JOHNSON - gives us Kim Novak for Betty Field in Picnic
35. GLORIA GRAHAME
36. DIANNE WIEST
37. BOBBY DARIN
38. DOROTHY McGUIRE
39. GRAND DAMES, PART ONE: She is the only 20th century actress interred in Westminster Abbey.
PEGGY ASHCROFT?
40. JAMIE BELL
41. RHEA PERLMAN
42. ALI McGRAW
43. MARION LORNE
44. ELLEN BURSTYN
45. JOHN AGAR
46. PHOEBE CATES
47. This Irish actress appeared in only ten films, including a blockbuster in which she played Charlie Chaplin’s mother-in-law … sort of.
48. ANGELINA JOLIE
49. JERRY STILLER
50. GREER GARSON
51. RONALD REAGAN
52. RICHARD BURTON
53. MARY ASTOR
54. “You can't fight her - no one ever got the better of her. Never, never. She was beaten in the end, but it wasn't a man, it wasn't a woman. It was the sea!”
JUDITH ANDERSON (Stanwyck's mom in Martha Ivers)
55. KAY KENDALL
56. JANE ALEXANDER
57. ROBERT WAGNER
58. “Joanna! How could you do a thing like that? How could you do a thing like that? How could you do a thing like that? When I was just going to give you coffee. When I was just going to give you coffee! When I was just going to give you coffee! I thought we were friends! I thought we were friends! I was just going to give you coffee! I was just going to give you coffee! I thought we were friends. I thought we were friends. I thought we were friends. How could you do a thing like that? I thought we were friends.”
PAULA PRENTISS - give us RIchard Benjamin
59. JULIE CHRISTIE
60. JAMES BROLIN
61. CARROLL BAKER
62. FRANK SINATRA
63. UNA MERKEL
64. ANGELA LANSBURY
65. BETTY FIELD
66. SAM ELLIOTT
67. EDNA MAY OLIVER
68. BARBARA STANWYCK
69. AGNES MOREHEAD
70. ANNE RAMSEY
71. ETHEL BARRYMORE
72. SHIRLEY MacLAINE
73. STEWART GRANGER
74. “A man can afford to have noble sentiments and poses, but a woman only has the man she married. That's her truth. And if he's no good, that's still her truth. I married a man who was a liar, a thief and a coward. He was a drunkard and unfaithful. He only married me to get this ranch and then he deserted Johnny and me for good. And that's your fine truth for you. Could I bring Johnny up on that?”
GERALDINE PAGE
75. LANA TURNER
76. HOLLY HUNTER
77. MARJORIE RAMBEAU
78. CLARK GABLE
79. SPRING BYINGTON
80. TOM CRUISE
81. MARJORIE MAIN
82. MILLIE PERKINS
83. She was the first performer on a list that would later include Barry Fitzgerald, Jessica Lange, Sigourney Weaver, Al Pacino, Julianne Moore, Jamie Foxx, Cate Blanchett, and the actors in Clues #21, #26, and #76.
84. HANK AZARIA
85. IDA LUPINO
86. “Like that morning, when you walked out of that old house and you were, you were eighteen, and maybe I was nineteen. I was nineteen years old, and I'd never seen anything so beautiful. You, coming out of a glass door in your early morning, still sleepy. Isn't it strange, the most ordinary morning in anybody's life? I'm afraid I can't make it to the party, Clarissa.
ED HARRIS
87. BARBARA RUSH
88. CLORIS LEACHMAN
89. SEAN CONNERY
90. NATALIE WOOD
91. SARAH JESSICA PARKER
92. CLAIRE TREVOR
93. GRAND DAMES, PART II: She and opera singer Nelly Melba were the first entertainers to be named Dame Commanders of the British Empire.
DAME MAY WHITTY?
94. MALCOLM McDOWELL
95. SUZANNE PLESHETTE
96. DEBBIE REYNOLDS
97. BRENDA BLETHLYN
98. LAURENCE OLIVIER
99. JENNIFER JONES
100. PAUL NEWMAN