smilergrogan wrote:I think I got it, at bottom.
franktangredi wrote:Among the actors, three of the definite answers are wrong -- and, for once, none of them is my fault! One is a case of attributing a quote to the wrong character in the right scene. One is a very understandable error made by several people, but does not fit the clue in all particulars. The third is the logical red herring to a trick question that at least one person did answer correctly.
Among the movies, correct answers given by somebody to two questions were missed.
NellyLunatic1980 wrote:Early morning consolidation time!
Identify the 65 actors indicated in List A and the 40 movies indicated in List B. (In each list, every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match each movie on List B with two actors from List A according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. There will be a total of 40 triples. Fifteen actors will be used twice, each in two different capacities.
LIST A: ACTORS
A-1. KATHARINE HEPBURN
A-2. He often stated that his decision to star in a big-budget Hemingway remake – which forced him to turn down leading roles in two Oscar-winning films – was the worst mistake of his career.
Bill Murray?
A-3. MORGAN FREEMAN
A-4. GLORIA GRAHAME
A-5. MICHAEL PALIN
A-6. I can’t swear that he was the only star who had his best role in an adaptation of a novel by Harold Robbins, but he was certainly the biggest.
A-7. FOREST WHITAKER
A-8. The only reason she decided to use her middle name professionally was so that casting directors would not confuse her gender. (Her current boyfriend obviously had no such concerns.)
A-9. SAMUEL L. JACKSON
A-10. ANTHONY PERKINS
A-11. ED HARRIS
A-12. A flamboyant silent film star in the grand manner, this Russian actress also had solid stage credentials as an interpreter of Ibsen and the original star of one of O’Neill’s greatest plays.
A-13. ED BEGLEY, JR.
A-14. VANESSA REDGRAVE
A-15. WHOOPI GOLDBERG
A-16. HERBERT MARSHALL
A-17. CHRISTIAN SLATER
A-18. ELSA LANCHESTER
A-19. RICHARD BURTON
A-20. ROD TAYLOR
A-21. ANTONIO BANDERAS
A-22. GINGER ROGERS
A-23. CHRISTINA RICCI
A-24. He first gained attention in one of Spielberg’s non-sci-fi films, but achieved his greatest popularity in a series of non-Spielberg sci-fi films.
Vin Diesel?
A-25. JOHNNY DEPP
A-26. SAM SHEPARD
A-27. AL PACINO
A-28. ROBERT SEAN LEONARD
A-29. MARLENE DIETRICH
A-30. She won an Oscar for the third Oscar-winner for Best Picture in which she appeared..
A-31. RENEE ZELLWEGER
A-32. MAX VON SYDOW
A-33. ERIC VON STROHEIM
A-34. This Oscar-winning actor made his stage debut at the age of 12 in New York’s Yiddish theatre.
A-35. JASON LEE
A-36. JACK NICHOLSON
A-37. MARK WAHLBERG
A-38. This actor’s career received an early boost when he was to play a U.S. President – by that President himself.
Cliff Robertson?
A-39. ALAN LADD
A-40. Still going strong at 78, this reliable character actor received his only Oscar nomination for playing a foul-mouthed but principled private investigator.
A-41. EDMUND O'BRIEN
A-42. WILLIAM HOLDEN
A-43. PETER FALK
A-44. This star’s myriad fans do not include the people who insure movies: he has broken his nose three times, his ankle once, most of the fingers in his hand, both cheekbones, and has a permanent hole in his skull.
Jackie Chan?
A-45. CHARLES GRODIN
A-46. SCARLETT JOHANNSON
A-47. ALBERT FINNEY
A-48. LUISE RAINER
A-49. LAURENCE OLIVIER
A-50. This one-time intern for a teen fashion magazine has starred in some of the most disturbing independent films of the last two decades.
A-51. VICTOR McLAGLEN
A-52. Her husband, an Oscar-winning director, did not direct any of her three Oscar-nominated performances – in fact, he has never directed her at all.
Annette Bening?
A-53. KEVIN COSTNER
A-54. He made 20 films in the 1930s, 21 films in the 1940s, one film in the 1950s, two films in the 1960s, two films in the 1970s … then, after a thirteen years hiatus, eleven films in the last twelve years of his life.
A-55. GRETA GARBO
A-56. He was one of the most popular stars of his day – and, for a while, the highest paid – but even he didn’t have enough box office clout to attract audiences to Faulkner or Ibsen.
A-57. CLAUDE RAINS
A-58. He introduced exactly half as many Oscar-winning songs as his most frequent screen partner.
Bob Hope?
A-59. SPENCER TRACY
A-60. This fondly-remembered character actress – well, fondly remembered by me (and by Melly, I’m sure) – received two Emmy nominations in support of one of the few old Hollywood character actresses even sweeter than she, but her best screen moment came as a lonely spinster whose existence is temporarily brightened by an actor in one of the preceding clues.
A-61. ALBERT BROOKS
A-62. URSULA ANDRESS
A-63. FRED ASTAIRE
A-64. She received her first Oscar nomination at a younger age than any other two-time Oscar winner.
A-65. HUMPHREY BOGART
LIST B: MOVIES
B-1. AMERICAN BEAUTY
B-2. From the tagline – ‘A Story to Storm Your Heart! Drama at the top of the world ... where winds of the exotic past sweep men and women to strange and fascinating adventure’ – you would never imagine that this is a movie about nuns. (At least, I hope you would never imagine that….)
B-3. RADIO DAYS
B-4. IN OLD ARIZONA
B-5. BEING THERE
B-6. This movie about the movie business was probably the best feature made by the actress who is credited with throwing the screen’s first custard-pie-in-the-face.
B-7. MARATHON MAN
B-8. RUMBLE FISH
B-9. MONSTERS, INC.
B-10. Among the actresses considered for the female lead in this film were Gloria Swanson, Lotte Lenya, and Leni Riefenstahl – but in the end it went to a total unknown.
"The Blue Angel"?
B-11. BACHELOR PARTY
B-12. Some of the dialogue from this film was repeated verbatim in another film 23 years later – but somewhere in translation, they had become screamingly funny.
B-13. “Democracy shtunken!”
B-14. WHITE ZOMBIE
B-15. THE STRAIGHT STORY
B-16. For her performance of a First Lady in this movie, one of the actresses in List A earned a Golden Turkey nomination for Worst Portrayal of a Historical Figure.
B-17. THE LITTLE PRINCESS
B-18. INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
B-19. TRUE GRIT
B-20. This 1940 adaptation of a Broadway hit was the first film based on Shakespeare’s first play, though not under that name and with more than a few liberties.
B-21. WAYNE'S WORLD
B-22. SWING TIME
B-23. EXECUTIVE SUITE
B-24. And now, riding into a Tangredi game for the first time on his horse Champion, comes one of the most popular screen cowboys of all time, in a little opus that includes a performance of that campfire favorite “Ave Maria.”
B-25. LOGAN'S RUN
B-26. Often considered the unofficial precursor to a movie made five years later, this film was directed by the same man who, 22 years later, would also direct a musical remake of the second movie.
B-27. SUDDEN IMPACT
B-28. Directed by one-half of a famous comedy team, it starred the director’s daughter and one of the actors in List A.
B-29. THE ROAD TO PERDITION
B-30. The tag line of this movie promised viewers something that very few people actually would want in their lap.
B-31. BLIND DATE
B-32. This movie marked the first teaming of my favorite fat actor and my favorite fat director.
"Citizen Kane"?
B-33. KNOCKED UP
B-34. One of the first Hollywood films to deal in any way with Nazi anti-Semitism, it reunited two stars who, earlier the same year, had appeared opposite one another in a classic romantic comedy.
It has to be THE MORTAL STORM--both it and "The Shop Around the Corner" starred Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullivan
B-35. THE QUIET MAN
B-36. This was the first great western directed by the man who gave us more great westerns than anyone else, although he received no screen credit for it.
B-37. PAPER MOON
B-38. In preparing for this film, one of the actors in List B spent a lot of time hanging out with one of this year’s unsuccessful presidential candidates.
"Swing Voter"?
B-39. BLUE VELVET
B-40. LA GRANDE ILLUSION (GRAND ILLUSION)
B-1 AMERICAN BEAUTY + A-10 ANTHONY PERKINS + A-24 CHRISTIAN BALE = AMERICAN PSYCHO
B-21 WAYNE'S WORLD + A-15 WHOOPI GOLDBERG + A-46 SCARLETT JOHANSSON = GHOST WORLD
B-39 BLUE VELVET + A-32 MAX VON SYDOW + A-6 ELVIS PRESLEY = BLUE HAWAII
B-8 RUMBLE FISH + A-? Somebody in BIG + A-47 ALBERT FINNEY = BIG FISH
Michael Palin + Laurence Olivier + The Boys from Syracuse = The Boys from Brazil.
Herbert Marshall + Peter Falk + Monsters, Inc. = Murder, Inc.
Greta Garbo + Rod Taylor + Grand Illusion = Grand Hotel
If the answer to A-8 is Jamie Lee Curtis (however, she is married to Christopher Guest, which might make the bit about a "current boyfriend" inaccuarate unless Frank is privy to some inside information), then she would go with Mark Wahlberg and The Mortal Storm for The Perfect Storm.
A-54 is Don Ameche, who goes with Charles Grodin and Logan's Run for Midnight Run.
B-36 is The Iron Horse, which goes with Vin Diesel and Rock Hudson for The Iron Giant.
