COMPLETED: Game #165: Who's on First?

[franktangredi]

In case we have used Life with Father too many times, we also have THIS possibility

A-73. CAROLE LOMBARD (My Man Godfrey) with Alice Brady (B-46. IN OLD CHICAGO)

There is a reason why this alternate doesn't work.

Of course it doesn't ... Alice Brady isn't Godfrey.

I just realized why it wouldn't work

That wouldn't be a problem. It doesn't work because In Old Chicago wasn't the first disaster movie nominated for Best a Picture.

[mellytu74]

There is a reason why this alternate doesn't work.

Of course it doesn't ... Alice Brady isn't Godfrey.

I just realized why it wouldn't work

That wouldn't be a problem. It doesn't work because In Old Chicago wasn't the first disaster movie nominated for Best a Picture.

OK. I was thinking of your using a description like that in a previous puzzle to get to Alice Brady.

I will review.

[mellytu74]

Of course it doesn't ... Alice Brady isn't Godfrey.

I just realized why it wouldn't work

That wouldn't be a problem. It doesn't work because In Old Chicago wasn't the first disaster movie nominated for Best a Picture.

OK. I was thinking of your using a description like that in a previous puzzle to get to Alice Brady.

I will review.

AND, DUH!!!!!

A-24. NELSON EDDY (I Married an Angel) with Jeannette MacDonald, star of the first disaster movie nominated for Best Picture...

B-46. SAN FRANCISCO!!!

[franktangredi]

Of course it doesn't ... Alice Brady isn't Godfrey.

I just realized why it wouldn't work

That wouldn't be a problem. It doesn't work because In Old Chicago wasn't the first disaster movie nominated for Best a Picture.

OK. I was thinking of your using a description like that in a previous puzzle to get to Alice Brady.

I will review.

That was probably a clue about the first actor in a disaster movie to win an Oscar.

[mellytu74]

That wouldn't be a problem. It doesn't work because In Old Chicago wasn't the first disaster movie nominated for Best a Picture.

OK. I was thinking of your using a description like that in a previous puzzle to get to Alice Brady.

I will review.

That was probably a clue about the first actor in a disaster movie to win an Oscar.

I am thinking that's what it was. But, I think it's fixed now

[jarnon]

I haven’t been able to contribute much, but at least I can post a consolidation:

Identify the 80 actors in List A and the 50 movies in List B. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, form 90 pairs, each consisting of one movie and one actor, according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.

Seven actors will be used twice and one will be used four times.

Nineteen movies will be used twice, six will be used three times, and three will be used four times.


LIST A: ACTORS

*A-1. JIMMY STEWART
*A-2. CLAUDETTE COLBERT
*A-3. DANIEL DAY-LEWIS
A-4. FRANCES DEE

A-5. “And it's really starting to piss me off, Dave! She's my own little daughter, and I can't even cry for her!”

A-6. EDWARD G. ROBINSON
*A-7. MAE WEST
A-8. LEONARDO DICAPRIO
A-9. SPENCER TRACY
A-10. ALEC McCOWEN
*A-11. SYLVESTER STALLONE
*A-12. MICHAEL LANDON
A-13. WILL FERRELL
*A-14. VICTOR MATURE
A-15. JOAQUIN PHOENIX
*A-16. FREDRIC MARCH
A-17. WILL SMITH
*A-18. JUDY GARLAND
*A-19. WENDY HILLER
**A-20. SUSAN HAYWARD
*A-21. GENE HACKMAN
*A-22. JUDY DAVIS
*A-23. JULIA ROBERTS
*A-24. NELSON EDDY

A-25. “True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend.”

A-26. PATTY DUKE
A-27. PAUL MUNI
*A-28. GEORGE GOBEL
*A-29. MIKE MYERS
*A-30. MICHAEL CRAWFORD

A-31. “If a guy tells you how many girls he's hooked up with, it's not even close to that. You take that number and divide it by three, then you get the real total. OK, so if Kevin is saying it's been three girls, it's more like one or none.”

A-32. This Oscar-winning actor once served in the Royal Horse Guards and won the Bisley rifle shooting match.
SEAN CONNERY?

*A-33. EDDIE MAYEHOFF
*A-34. CHRIS MAKEPEACE
*A-35. ETHEL MERMAN
A-36. FRANKIE MUNOZ
*A-37. EDDIE REDMAYNE
A-38. LARAINE DAY
*A-39. RICK MORANIS

A-40. After this actor’s death, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences appropriately renamed their photo archive in his honor.

*A-41. CARY GRANT

A-42. DURABLE HOLLYWOOD MARRIAGES, PART THREE: From 1962 until his death in 2001, she was married to the first male actor to win Oscars for both a leading and supporting role; she herself recently made her first film appearance in 22 years.
FELICIA FARR?

*A-43. BARBARA BEL GEDDES
A-44. HOWARD KEEL

A-45. “Maybe I should get me a gun and rob the Foodway so they'd send me home. I could shoot the manager while I was at it, sort of like a bonus. I guess I'm too old for that sort of nonsense any more. I don't like it here. I'm tired of being afraid all the time.”
JAMES WHITMORE or MORGAN FREEMAN?

*A-46. MARK LINN BAKER
A-47. DEBBIE REYNOLDS

A-48. Only a handful of movies that have won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film were also nominated for Best Picture; this actor starred in two of them, 42 years apart.
MAX VON SYDOW or MARCELLO MASTROIANNI?

*A-49. WALLACE SHAWN
*A-50. ALAN KING

A-51. “The last time I flew here from LA, George Clooney was sitting two seats in front of me. With those cuff links, and that ridiculous chin. We ended up flying through this really bad storm. The plane started to rattle and shake, and everyone on board was crying, and praying. And I just sat there. Sat there thinking that when Sam opened that paper it was going to be Clooney's face on the front page. Not mine. Did you know that Farrah Fawcett died on the same day as Michael Jackson?”

A-52. He played the leading man in a fair number of silent films and early talkies, but his greatest contribution to Hollywood was discovering Marilyn Monroe.

A-53. MARSHA MASON
*A-54. JOHN GARFIELD
A-55. DUSTIN HOFFMAN

A-56. In a modernized version of a Shakespearean tragedy, she played a role that had earlier netted my favorite actress her first Oscar nomination.
EMMA THOMPSON?

*A-57. GENE KELLY
A-58. LILI TAYLOR

A-59. “Widdicome, Gutterman, Applewhite, Bibberman and Black. You want to talk to Mr. Gutterman? One moment, sir. I'll connect you. Widdicome, Gutterman, Applewhite, Bibberman and Black. Oh, yes Mr. Bibberman. You'd like to talk with Mr. Applewhite? Oh, yes, sir, he's in. I'll connect you. Widdicome, Gutterman, Applewhite, Bib-bib-bib-blib-bibman and Black? Oh yes, long distance, how are you? Oh. Mr Widdecome? I have your San Francisco call for you. Yes, Mr. Bibberman? Oh. Did I connect you to Mr. Gutterman instead of Mr. Applewhite? I'm sorry Mr. Bibbicome, Bibbibibbib. Oh Mr. Applewhite, what are you doing in that hole with Mr. Gutterman? Yes Mr. Widdicome? Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'll try to reconnect you again with San Francisco. Let me see, Mr. Bibibib is in there talking to Mr. Bubbawhite. Where on earth is Mr. Applewhite?”
ROSALIND RUSSELL?

A-60. DURABLE HOLLYWOOD MARRIAGES, PART FOUR: When this actor memorably appeared on a gigantic revolving wedding cake, he was already three years into a 61-year marriage that ended with his death
DENNIS MORGAN?

A-61. “I dated this girl for a while. She was really a – nasty freak. She just loved to get down with sex all the time. It was like – any time of day, she was like, ‘Yeah, let's go! I'm so nasty!’ And I'd be nailing her and she'd be like, ‘Oh, you're nailing me! Cool!’”

*A-62. GLORIA TALBOT
*A-63. RALPH MACCHIO

A-64. During World War I, this Oscar-winning actor served in the same volunteer infantry regiment as Claude Rains, Herbert Marshall, Cedric Hardwicke, and Basil Rathbone.

*A-65. FRED MacMURRAY
A-66. JESSICA WALTER
*A-67. JIM CARREY
*A-68. GARY CONWAY
A-69. DON CHEADLE
*A-70. RICHARD BURTON
*A-71. PAUL NEWMAN
A-72. ASHTON KUTCHER
*A-73. CAROLE LOMBARD
A-74. JILL CLAYBURGH
*A-75. MICHAEL J. FOX
A-76. BOB HOPE
*A-77. W.C. FIELDS
A-78. HELEN HAYES

A-79. “This is a good country for sheep and it's not bad for men, but it's hard on us women. The men come here because of the sheep, and we come here because of the men, and most of us finish up looking like the sheep. Wrinkled faces, knotty hair, and not even much of a mind of our own.”

*A-80. AL JOLSON


LIST B: MOVIES

**B-1. THE WIZARD OF OZ

B-2. It received more Oscar nominations than any other film made in Brazil.

B-3. BIG
*B-4. LAURA
B-5. THE DARK KNIGHT
**B-6. THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON
*B-7. SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS

B-8. Principal photography for this film began in March 2015, in the actual town for which the film is named.
SELMA or MANCHESTER BY THE SEA?

B-9. TRAINSPOTTING
**B-10. LIBEL
*B-11. THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR
*B-12. A KID FOR TWO FARTHINGS

B-13. The very first thing we do is find out who we're talking about. I mean, we don't even know where to find him.”
“How are we gonna find him?”
“Well it appears to me that there can't be too many guys driving around this valley with an ape.”
EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE or ANY WHICH WAY YOU CAN?

B-14. GUADALCANAL DIARY
B-15. DINER
B-16. BLADE

B-17. “I just don't know how we got here. Our entire relationship, I have gone above and beyond for you, for us. I've cooked, I've picked your s**t up off the floor, I've laid your clothes out for you like you're a four year old. I support you, I supported your work. If we ever had dinner or anything I did the plans, I take care of everything. And I just don't feel like you appreciate any of it. I don't feel you appreciate me. All I want is to know, is for you to show me that you care.”

*B-18. NORA PRENTISS
B-19. THE PROFESSIONALS
*B-20. THE STOOGE
*B-21. MASK
*B-22. THERE’S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS

B-23. “If you could see my inside, or whatever you want to name it; my spirit, that's what I fear. I think I'm ruined. They kept trying to put me in the ground but I wasn't ready. But if I had – if I had goodness, I lost it. If I had anything tender in me, I shot it dead! How could I write to you after what I'd done? What I'd seen?”
ATONEMENT?

*B-24. LADY FROM SHANGHAI
B-25. FINAL DESTINATION
*B-26. HOME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW YORK
***B-27. LIFE WITH FATHER
**B-28. SUPERGIRL
*B-29. A HARD DAY'S NIGHT
B-30. TOVARICH
*B-31. GIDGET
B-32. THE HURRICANE
B-33. 12 YEARS A SLAVE
*B-34. COLONEL BLIMP
B-35. JURASSIC PARK
B-36. COUSIN, COUSINE
B-37. FREAKY FRIDAY
B-38. THE FABULOUS DORSEYS
B-39. THE CHINA SYNDROME
B-40. THE STORY OF RUTH

B-41. “Slap some bacon on a biscuit and let's go! We're burnin' daylight!”

*B-42. THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
*B-43. SHREK
B-44. CAT PEOPLE
B-45. MURDER BY DEATH
*B-46. SAN FRANCISCO

B-47. “I'm a woman. Women are obliged to be far more skillful than men. You can ruin our reputation and our life with a few well-chosen words. So, of course, I had to invent, not only myself, but ways of escape no one has ever thought of before. And I've succeeded because I've always known I was born to dominate your sex and avenge my own.”

B-48. THE 39 STEPS
**B-49. MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE
*B-50. WEST SIDE STORY


TANGREDI: Actor in List A plays a character who’s the antecedent of a first-person singular pronoun (I, Me, My or Mine) in the title of a movie; another actor in that movie also appears in a movie in List B.


MATCHES:

A-41. CARY GRANT (My Favorite Wife) with Irene Dunne (B-27. LIFE WITH FATHER)
A-43. BARBARA BEL GEDDES (I Remember Mama) with Irene Dunne (B-27. LIFE WITH FATHER)
A-35. ETHEL MERMAN (Call Me Madam) with Donald O'Connor (B-22. THERE’S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS)
A-73. CAROLE LOMBARD (My Man Godfrey) with William Powell (B-27. LIFE WITH FATHER)
A-23. JULIA ROBERTS (My Best Friend's Wedding) with Cameron Diaz (B-43. SHREK)
A-28. GEORGE GOBEL (I Married a Woman) with Diana Dors (B-12. A KID FOR TWO FARTHINGS)
A-46. MARK LINN BAKER (My Favorite Year) with Peter O'Toole (B-28. SUPERGIRL)
A-33. EDDIE MAYEHOFF (That My Boy) with Jerry Lewis (B-20. THE STOOGE)
A-12. MICHAEL LANDON (I Was a Teenage Werewolf) with Whit Bissell (B-6. THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON)
A-68. GARY CONWAY (I Was a Teenaged Frankenstein) with Whit Bissell (B-6. THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON)
A-1. JIMMY STEWART (Take Her She's Mine) with Sandra Dee (B-31. GIDGET)
A-2. CLAUDETTE COLBERT (The Egg and I) with Fred MacMurray (B-11. THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR)
A-7. MAE WEST (I'm No Angel) with Cary Grant (B-49. MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE)
A-16. FREDRIC MARCH (I Married a Witch) with Veronica Lake (B-7. SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS)
A-49. WALLACE SHAWN (My Dinner with Andre) with Andre Gregory (B-42. THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST)
A-50. ALAN KING (Just Tell Me What You Want) with Myrna Loy (B-49. MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE)
A-20. SUSAN HAYWARD (My Foolish Heart) with Dana Andrews (B-4. LAURA)
A-63. RALPH MACCHIO (My Cousin Vinny) with Joe Pesci (B-26. HOME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW YORK)
A-19. WENDY HILLER (I Know Where' I'm Going) with Roger Livzsey (B-34. COLONEL BLIMP)
A-57. GENE KELLY (For Me and My Gal) with Judy Garland (B-1. THE WIZARD OF OZ)
A-80. AL JOLSON (Hallalujah, I'm a Bum!) with Frank Morgan (B-1. THE WIZARD OF OZ)
A-75. MICHAEL J. FOX (The Secret of My Success) with Helen Slater (B-28. SUPERGIRL)
A-54. JOHN GARFIELD (They Made Me a Criminal) with Ann Sheridan (B-18. NORA PRENTISS)
A-30. MICHAEL CRAWFORD (How I Won the War) with John Lennon (B-29. A HARD DAY'S NIGHT)
A-20. SUSAN HAYWARD (I Want to Live) with Simon Oakland (B-50. WEST SIDE STORY)
A-14. VICTOR MATURE (My Gal Sal) with Rita Hayworth (B-24. LADY FROM SHANGHAI)
A-70. RICHARD BURTON (My Cousin Rachel) with Olivia DeHaviland (B-10. LIBEL)
A-18. JUDY GARLAND (I Could Go on Singing) with Dirk Bogarde (B-10. LIBEL)
A-11. SYLVESTER STALLONE (Stop or My Mom Will Shoot) with Estelle Getty (B-21. MASK)
A-24. NELSON EDDY (I Married an Angel) with Jeannette MacDonald (B-46. SAN FRANCISCO)


PARTIAL MATCHES:

A-34. CHRIS MAKEPEACE (My Bodyguard)
A-29. MIKE MYERS (So I Married an Ax Murderer)
A-39. RICK MORANIS (Honey I Shrunk the Kids)
A-62. GLORIA TALBOT (Married a Monster from Outer Space)
A-71. PAUL NEWMAN (Somebody Up There Likes Me)
A-3. DANIEL DAY-LEWIS (My Left Foot)
A-22. JUDY DAVIS (My Brilliant Career)
A-37. EDDIE REDMAYNE (My Week with Marilyn)
A-65. FRED MacMURRAY (Follow Me Boys)
A-21. GENE HACKMAN (I Never Sang for My Father)
A-77. W.C. FIELDS (My Little Chickadee)
A-67. JIM CARREY (Me, Myself and I)

[silverscreenselect]

Filling in a couple of blanks here.

Sam Neill (Jurassic Park) was in My Brilliant Career.

Jill Clayburgh did a movie I'm Dancing As Fast As I can.

Bob Hope did a film called Call Me Bwana. His primary co-stars were Anita Ekberg and Edie Adams. In fact, a giant billboard for this movie is a prop for a key scene in From Russia with Love:

[silverscreenselect]

A-52. He played the leading man in a fair number of silent films and early talkies, but his greatest contribution to Hollywood was discovering Marilyn Monroe.

I got this one from working back from the film and doing a lookup to find the actor's name.

The movie is I Cover the Waterfront with Claudette Colbert (Tovarich), and the actor, who I confess to looking up was Ben Lyon. I guessed he was the answer to this question, and, it turned out I was right.

[silverscreenselect]

A-79. “This is a good country for sheep and it's not bad for men, but it's hard on us women. The men come here because of the sheep, and we come here because of the men, and most of us finish up looking like the sheep. Wrinkled faces, knotty hair, and not even much of a mind of our own.”

D'oh.

The most obvious film in this category has to be The King and I.

And looking down the list of remaining clues, this one jumped out. It's Deborah Kerr from The Sundowners, and the link is with Rita Moreno of West Side Story.

[Pastor Fireball]

A-32. This Oscar-winning actor once served in the Royal Horse Guards and won the Bisley rifle shooting match.
SEAN CONNERY?

Sean Connery was in the Royal Navy, not the Horse Guards, so this is a wrong guess.

Working backward, this has to be RAY MILLAND, who was in Arise My Love with Claudette Colbert--second usage of B-30.

[mellytu74]

A couple more

A-59. ROSALIND RUSSELL (My Sister eileen) with Janet blair (B-38. THE FABULOUS DORSEYS)
A-27. PAUL MUNI (I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang) with Preston Foster (B-14. GUADALCANAL DIARY)
A-36. FRANKIE MUNIZ (My dog skip) with Kevin Bacon (B-15. DINER)

[silverscreenselect]

Vera Miles, who was Fred MacMurray's wife in The Absent Minded Professor, served the same function in Follow Me Boys.

[mellytu74]

A-5. “And it's really starting to piss me off, Dave! She's my own little daughter, and I can't even cry for her!”

SEAN PENN, star of I Am Sam

A-5. SEAN PENN (I Am Sam) with Laura Dern (B-21. MASK)

A-64. During World War I, this Oscar-winning actor served in the same volunteer infantry regiment as Claude Rains, Herbert Marshall, Cedric Hardwicke, and Basil Rathbone.

How about RONALD COLMAN, star of If I Were King? Timing would be about right.

[mellytu74]

A-5. “And it's really starting to piss me off, Dave! She's my own little daughter, and I can't even cry for her!”

SEAN PENN, star of I Am Sam

A-5. SEAN PENN (I Am Sam) with Laura Dern (B-21. MASK)

A-64. During World War I, this Oscar-winning actor served in the same volunteer infantry regiment as Claude Rains, Herbert Marshall, Cedric Hardwicke, and Basil Rathbone.

How about RONALD COLMAN, star of If I Were King? Timing would be about right.

OK I just realized that Frances Dee was in If I Were King. SO, there's a Ronald Colman movie or Basil Rathbone movie on List B

[SportsFan68]

Vera Miles, who was Fred MacMurray's wife in The Absent Minded Professor, served the same function in Follow Me Boys.

Far be it from me to disagree with SSS about movies, but I'll still bet money that was Nancy Olson.

[mellytu74]

Vera Miles, who was Fred MacMurray's wife in The Absent Minded Professor, served the same function in Follow Me Boys.

Far be it from me to disagree with SSS about movies, but I'll still bet money that was Nancy Olson.

Even if Vera Miles wasn't in both, Elliott Reid was

[mellytu74]

HOW did I miss this one??

A-6. EDWARD G. ROBINSON (All MY Sons) with Burt Lancaster (B-19. THE PROFESSIONALS)

B-2. It received more Oscar nominations than any other film made in Brazil.

How about KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN?

I am not sure what William Hurt, Raul Julia and Sonia Braga gets us but it's an idea

[franktangredi]

HOW did I miss this one??

A-6. EDWARD G. ROBINSON (All MY Sons) with Burt Lancaster (B-19. THE PROFESSIONALS)

B-2. It received more Oscar nominations than any other film made in Brazil.

How about KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN?

I am not sure what William Hurt, Raul Julia and Sonia Braga gets us but it's an idea

Mistake on my part here. (There had to be one.) I was thinking of Brazilian movies and forget Spider Woman because it was in English.

[mellytu74]

A couple of partials:

A-9. SPENCER TRACY (I Take This Woman)
A-26. PATTY DUKE (Me, Natalie)
A-58. LILI TAYLOR (I Shot Andy Warhol)
A-78. HELEN HAYES (My Son John)

And one full one

A-53. MARSHA MASON (Only When I Dance) with James Coco (B-45. MURDER BY DEATH)

[mellytu74]

A-76. BOB HOPE (My Favorite Blonde) with Madeline Carroll (B-48. THE 39 STEPS)

And completing a few

A-65. FRED MacMURRAY (Follow Me Boys) with Elliott Reid (B-11. THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR)
A-21. GENE HACKMAN (I Never Sang for My Father) with Melvyn Douglas (B-49. MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE)

[mellytu74]

B-23. “If you could see my inside, or whatever you want to name it; my spirit, that's what I fear. I think I'm ruined. They kept trying to put me in the ground but I wasn't ready. But if I had – if I had goodness, I lost it. If I had anything tender in me, I shot it dead! How could I write to you after what I'd done? What I'd seen?”

I knew we had to have a Renee Zellweger movie in here.

COLD MOUNTAIN

A-67. JIM CARREY (Me, Myself and I) with Renee Zellweger (B-23. COLD MOUNTAIN)

A-77. W.C. FIELDS (My Little Chickadee) with Margaret Hamilton (B-1. THE WIZARD OF OZ)

[mellytu74]

SO I says to myself I says, gee, too bad there's not a Dorothy Lamour movie here so we could have Bob Hope with Blonde and Brunette.

DUH

A-76. BOB HOPE (My Favorite Brunette) with Dorothy Lamour (B-32. THE HURRICANE)

[silverscreenselect]

B-2. It received more Oscar nominations than any other film made in Brazil.

How about KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN?

I am not sure what William Hurt, Raul Julia and Sonia Braga gets us but it's an idea

Sonia Braga won't get you anywhere, but her niece Alice was in CITY OF GOD, which is the answer to this question

and also in I AM LEGEND with Will Smith.

[silverscreenselect]

Jessica Walter was in Play Misty for Me with Clint Eastwood (the ape movie).

[silverscreenselect]

Tom Tryon was the monster in I Married a Monster from Outer Space and he was also in The Story of Ruth.