Game #152: Subtitles
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 11:56 am
Game #152: Subtitles
Identify the 65 movies in List A and the 100 actors in List B. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, form 78 triples, each consisting of one movie and two actors, according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.
7 movies and 28 actors will be used twice.
3 movies and 14 actors will be used three times.
There’s a lot here, but I think I can predict exactly which movie or actor will unlock the Tangredi.
Oh, and there’s one movie on here that nobody has seen, but I think you’ll get it anyway.
LIST A: MOVIES
A-1. Arguably the single most iconic image in all of 1950s cinema is that of Bengt Ekerot in this film.
A-2. “You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite! Hannah, can you hear me?”
A-3. This romantic classic was remade with a different title 18 years after its release and with its original title 55 years after its release.
A-4. “I'm not sure George is wrong about automobiles. With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization. May be that they won't add to the beauty of the world or the life of the men's souls, I'm not sure. But automobiles have come and almost all outwards things will be different because of what they bring. They're going to alter war and they're going to alter peace. And I think men's minds are going to be changed in subtle ways because of automobiles. And it may be that George is right. May be that in ten to twenty years from now that if we can see the inward change in men by that time, I shouldn't be able to defend the gasoline engine but agree with George - that automobiles had no business to be invented.”
A-5. This movie was MGM’s biggest musical hit of 1939 – which is rather astonishing, considering the other MGM musical released the same year with the same leading lady.
A-6. “Can I borrow your odorant?”
“Yeah, I got, uh, Smelly Garbage or Old Dumpster.”
A-7. The subject of this biopic played for the Chicago Cubs from 1934 to 1938. (The reason he didn’t play longer is what the movie is about.)
A-8. “It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.”
A-9. This movie featured the only performance directed by John Sayles to receive an Oscar nomination.
A-10. “I saw then that my father's only fear was that his son would follow the same road. And that was the last time I ever held a gun. People always thought I grew up on a farm. And I guess, in a way, I did. But I lived a lifetime before that, in those six weeks on the road in the winter of 1931.”
A-11. In this musical remake, the actor in clue B-83 attempted to step into the size 14 shoes of Coop.
A-12. “Daddy! Oh, Daddy! It is you! I found you! I found you! They said you were dead, but I knew you weren't! I knew you'd come back! Oh, Daddy, hold me, hold me close. You won't ever go away again, will you? Will you, Daddy? What's the matter, Daddy? Why don't you talk to me?”
A-13. This complicated caper flick shares a major plot point – and not much else – with the film Fourteen Hours.
A-14. “But don't get her drunk. If you get her drunk, she loses control.”
“Ted, are we talking a loss of inhibitions here, or does she pee on the floor?”
A-15. This western is the earliest John Ford film selected for preservation by the National Film Registry.
A-16. “Go ahead, make my day.”
A-17. For the first hour of this film – the third teaming of one of the great screen duos – the leading man’s face is never fully seen: all shots are either from his point of view or show his face covered in bandages.
A-18. “See, that’s the trouble, it’s exotic, but it’s not honest. I mean, it’s fancy, but it’s not real. I mean, this is honest food. There’s no lying in that beef. There’s no insincerity in those potatoes. There’s no deceit in the cauliflower. This is a totally honest meal. You don’t know what a pleasure it in this day and age to sit down and eat a meal you can believe in.”
A-19. Robert Altman’s Thieves Like Us was based on the same novel as this cult classic released 26 years earlier.
A-20. “I'm willing to meet my creator and answer for every shot that I took.”
A-21. Unlike the stage version – which had a score written by the same team that wrote the score for the stage version of the musical referenced in clue A-5 – this movie musical needed just two actors to play the four leading roles.
A-22. “Well, that's the whole point of the holidays, Paul. So you and your sister can mope around the house, and your mother and I can wait on you hand and foot, while the two of you occasionally grunt for more food from behind the hair in your faces. Believe it or not, we actually enjoy it.”
A-23. There is some dispute as to whether or not this 2007 movie was a remake of Working Girl, but there is no disputing the fact that it was a Grade A dud –it opened at eight theatres in Texas and averaged $48 per screen for a total box office of $384.
A-24. “We'll have a line of low-priced furniture, a new and different line - as different from anything we're making today as a modern automobile is different from a covered wagon. That's what you want Walt, isn't it - what you've always wanted? Merchandise that will sell because it had beauty and function and value - not because the buyers like your scotch or think that you're a good egg. The kind of stuff that you, Jesse, will feel in your guts when you know it's coming off your production line. A kind of product that you will be able to budget to the nearest hundredth of a cent, Shaw, because it will be scientifically and efficiently designed. And something you will be proud to have your name on, Miss Tredway.”
A-25. The first woman to receive a Saturn Award for Best Director did so for this 1995 movie. (It also earned one of its stars a Saturn for Best Actress, but I refuse to mention that person’s name.)
A-26. “One day, my wife explained to me that, for the past fifteen years, my output as a poet had dealt entirely with the part of our lives in which we discovered each other.”
“Are you a poet?”
“Was. And so, to give me something new to write about, she left me. A very noble woman, my wife - she left me for the good of literature. And remarkably it worked.”
“What, you wrote a lot of good stuff, did ya?”
“No, I stopped writing altogether.”
A-27. This Randolph Scott flick shares its name with the 17th largest city in the United States.
A-28. “What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.”
A-29. If you want to see Gracie Allen and Bela Lugosi in the same movie, this will surely be your only chance.
A-30. “If only my life could be more like the movies. I want an angel to sweep down to me like it does to Jimmy Stewart in It’s a Wonderful Life and talk me out of suicide. I've always waited for that one moment of truth to set me free and change my life forever, but he won’t come, it doesn’t happen that way. All the drugs, all the therapy, fights, anger, guilt, rage, suicidal thoughts, all of that was part of some slow recovery process. The same way I went down, I came back up, gradually – and then suddenly. The pills weren’t the cure at all, God knows, but they gave me breathing space which allowed me to start writing again, only this time it was not as if my life depended on it.”
A-31. This anthology was the fourth film in what is sometimes referred to as the “Poe-Corman” cycle.
A-32. “But then you go to the police. That's what innocent people do. They go to the police.”
“Sure. And that young man who was just here, he'd believe me over the President, wouldn't he?”
A-33. Francois Truffaut once said he would have given up all his own movies to have directed this two-part classic, filmed during the Nazi occupation of France.
A-34. “Listen. No one could teach you to dance in a million years. Take my advice and save your money!”
A-35. The star of the previous film received a Golden Turkey nomination for Worst Performance as a Historical Figure for her role as a First Lady in this film. (She couldn’t beat John Wayne’s Genghiz Khan, though.)
A-36. “Hello? Hey, don't get shy on me all of a sudden, f**k-face. This is the one about the babysitter, right? She's getting those scary and harassing phone calls and when she traces them back, they are coming from inside the house. But ass-wipe, aren't you forgetting something? I'm not babysitting any kids!”
A-37. The subject of this Oscar-winning 1979 documentary is now over 80 years old and living in a group home.
A-38. “In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.”
A-39. This film version of a British play featured a gay actor playing a gay public school student who would grow up to become a real-life gay spy.
A-40. “Hey, Pastor Dan? Mr. Self-righteous? I'm hanging on by a thread here. I lost my sister, my social life, my disposable income, my ability to fit into a size 2, and - this just in - my job. Pretty much the only two things that haven't disappeared are my nicotine fits and a few pounds that have recently taken up residence on my ass. So forgive me if I'm not too thrilled about being lectured, in Queens, about being a lousy legal guardian to three kids who maybe shouldn't have been given to me in the first place.”
A-41. Once considered a lost film, this crime drama marked the screen debut of an actress who would become much better known for her next role – seven years later – as a sinister housekeeper.
A-42. “I won't read the word!”
“I'm your father and I'm telling you to read the word. Cause I can tell you to because I'm your father.”
“I'm stupid.”
“You are not stupid!”
“Yes, I am!”
“No, you are not stupid 'cause you can read that word.”
“I don't wanna read it if you can't.”
“No, because it makes me happy! It makes me happy hearing you read. Yeah, it makes me happy when you're reading.”
A-43. This film earned its director/writer his 24th – and most recent – Oscar nomination.
A-44. “If you're edged 'cause I'm weazin all your grindage, just chill. 'Cause if I had the whole Brady Bunch thing happenin' at my pad, I'd go grind over there, so don’t tax my gig so hard-core cruster.”
A-45. To prepare for his role in this film, Al Pacino spent a lot of time hanging around with Rudy Giuliani.
A-46. “Our survival hinges on one thing - finding someone who not only can fly this plane, but didn't have fish for dinner.”
(No, not that movie! I want the movie that this line came from originally!)
A-47. This 1940 screen version of what is generally considered to be one of the five Great American Plays was harder to adapt to film than any of the others due to its unusual setting and narrative structure.
A-48. “When I go back in that house, it will be with my son in my arms. I'll have a red coat on him – and red flower trousers – and a hat with a gilded Buddha and tiger-faced shoes, and I'll go into the kitchen where I spent my days as a slave and into the great hall where the old mistress sits with her pipe, and I'll show myself and my son to all of them.”
A-49. The most famous line in this movie – uttered by one of the title characters when he meets the other – was, in real life, spoken on October 27, 1871. (The reply, by the way, was “Yes.”)
A-50. “The firing power inside my crater is enough to annihilate a small army. You can watch it all on TV. It's the last program you're likely to see.”
“Well, if I'm going to be forced to watch television, may I smoke?”
A-51. This western marked the official screen debut of a young man that director Raoul Walsh had discovered in the props department; the rest is history.
A-52. “Come on, group hug! You too, Anger."
“Don’t touch me.”
A-53. This movie starred my favorite actor in one of his hammiest roles – a role he would later reprise for the actors in clue B-13.
A-54. “Well, I want to die because I feel that a life for me, in this state, has no dignity. I understand that other quadriplegics may take offense to my saying there's no dignity in this, but I'm not trying to judge anyone. Who am I to judge those who choose life? So don't judge me or anyone who wants to help me die.”
A-55. The character of the alcoholic film producer in this 1932 movie was reportedly based on the alcoholic actor who played the role.
A-56. “Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against?”
“Whadda you got?”
A-57. In addition to a number of other firsts, this was the first talking film shot outdoors.
A-58. “I got scruples too, you know. You know what that is? Scruples?”
“No, I don't know what it is, but if you got 'em, it's a sure bet they belong to somebody else!”
A-59. Among the weird characters in this film are a woman who never leaves her bed, a man who never speaks directly to his wife, a woman who always lies, a voodoo priest, and the lead singer of a new wave band. (Only the latter is real.)
A-60. “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
A-61. Hitchcock’s last British film before coming to America, it earned him a listing in The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.
A-62. “You love me so much you gotta kill my f**king girlfriend, huh? Speak you f**kin' freak, or I will f**king kill you! Katie. Say it! Say it or you die!”
A-63. This wartime revue featured three of the actresses included on List B – all playing themselves.
A-64. “Nature all looks alike. Frontiers are an invention of man.”
A-65. This lovely work of docufiction is the nexus where Nanook of the North meets Four Saints in Three Acts meets John D. Rockefeller.
LIST B: ACTORS
B-1. “You know what I believe I'd like? A chocolate fudge sundae with whipped cream and a cherry on top.”
B-2. Notoriously shy and prone to bouts of stage fright, she made only two movies after her contract with Columbia Pictures expired in 1944 and no movies at all after 1953 – but her last movie was one of the all-time greats.
B-3. “Remarkable boy. I do admire your courage. I think I'll eat your heart.”
B-4. This one-time star of the Ziegfeld Follies was portrayed onscreen by his own son.
B-5. “I don't fear you Michael, I just dread you.”
B-6. Hard to believe, but this actor was originally offered the tv role that was subsequently play by the actor quoted in clue B-97.
B-7. “We don't really move. I mean, we'd like to, but – my mom is sort of attached to the house. Attached is, I guess, not the right word. She's pretty much wedged in.”
B-8. She and her brother were the first pair of siblings to each receive an Oscar.
B-9. “There's no way I can repay you for all you've done for me, so rather than try, I'm just going to ask you to do something else for me: find the joy in your life. You once said you're not everyone. Well, that's true, you're certainly not everyone, but everyone is everyone. My pastor always says our lives are streams flowing into the same river towards whatever heaven lies in the mist beyond the falls. Find the joy in your life, Edward. My dear friend, close your eyes and let the waters take you home.”
B-10. In two unrelated films made 20 years apart, this actor played men who shaped the life and career of Marilyn Monroe.
B-11. “Men should be explorers, no matter how old they are. I don't know about anybody else, but I'm going.”
B-12. Best known for solving crimes on tv, this actress has twice been named “Sexiest Vegetarian” by PETA.
B-13. “I know there's no such person as Dracula. You know there's no such person as Dracula.”
“But does Dracula know it?”
B-14. This actress has the same number of Oscar nominations as her father, but one less than her mother.
B-15. “You see, Mr. Milton, in the Army I've had to be with men when they were stripped of everything in the way of property except what they carried around with them and inside them. I saw them being tested. Now some of them stood up to it and some didn't. But you got so you could tell which ones you could count on. I tell you this man Novak is okay. His 'collateral' is in his hands, in his heart and his guts. It's in his right as a citizen.”
B-16. His movie career might have ended on a higher note if his manager had not insisted on too high a salary as well as top billing over Barbra Streisand – or if his manager had not insisted on too high a salary as well as top billing over John Wayne.
B-17. “You don't understand how I feel! I'm standing there with my pants down and my crotch hung out for the world to see and three guys are sticking it to me, a bunch of other guys are yelling and clapping and you're standing there telling me that that's the best you can do. Well, if that's the best you could do, then your best sucks! Now, I don't know what you got for selling me out, but I sure as s**it hope it was worth it!”
B-18. Directing a climactic scene in Death Valley, he reportedly told the two actors involved, “Fight! Fight! Try to hate each other as you both hate me.”
B-19. “Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man... June 8th. My life has taken another turn again. The days can go on with regularity over and over, one day indistinguishable from the next. A long continuous chain. Then suddenly, there is a change.”
B-20. This Oscar-winning actress was later nominated for five Soap Opera Digest awards in the categories Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role and Outstanding Villainess in a Prime Time Serial.
B-21. “I always look well when I'm near death.”
B-22. Oscar-wise, she completes the following list: Woody Allen, Matt Damon, John Huston, Billy Bob Thornton, Orson Welles.
B-23. “I feel sorry for you. What it must feel like to want to pull the switch! Ever since you walked into this room, you've been acting like a self-appointed public avenger. You want to see this boy die because you personally want it, not because of the facts! You're a sadist!”
B-24. This actor, known for his ptosis, served as host/narrator for the second revival of my all-time favorite television series.
B-25. “Hey, listen, I want somebody good - and I mean very good - to plant that gun. I don't want my brother coming out of that toilet with just his d**k in his hands, alright?”
B-26. In 2010, this actor was inducted into the same Hall of Fame as Mayor Jimmy Walker and the Marquess of Queensberry.
B-27. “I got so used to things as they were: Everything so prim, the geranium in the window, the smell of mama's medicines. And then he walked in, and it was different! He clomped through the place like he was still outdoors. There was a man in the place and it seemed good!”
B-28. This actress never had any children with her only husband, but she did have one by a noted dancer and two more by a noted playwright.
B-29. “I got a weal wed wagon!”
B-30. This actor turned down the lead in Ben-Hur because he was an atheist and the lead in Patton because of his antiwar sympathies.
B-31. “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
B-32. His screen career included adaptations of works by Eugene O’Neill, Euripides, Franz Kafka, Joseph Heller, Agatha Christie, and Ellery Queen.
B-33. “I'm sorry, your time's run out! What do we have for the losers, judge? Well, for our defendants, it's a lifetime at exotic Fort Leavenworth!”
B-34. This international star has also had a busy music career that has included recording the theme songs for most of his films, as well as the official one-year countdown song to the 2008 Olympics.
B-35. “You know what I'm realizing? My life is just going to go. Like that. This series of milestones. Getting married. Having kids. Getting divorced. The time that we thought you were dyslexic. When I taught you how to ride a bike. Getting divorced – again. Getting my masters degree. Finally getting the job I wanted. Sending Samantha off to college. Sending you off to college. You know what's next? Huh? It's my f**king funeral! Just go, and leave my picture!”
B-36. Oscar-wise, he completes the following list: Woody Allen, Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, John Huston, Robert Redford.
B-37. “I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before Me. Out of my way, a**hole.”
B-38. Though he first won popularity in a series a comic films, this actor went on to build a distinguished career in prestige productions, such as the film version of a novel by Thomas Mann.
B-39. “Thank you. I've never been called a son of God before. I've been called a son of a you-know-what plenty of times, but I've never been called a son of God.”
B-40. After a seven-year film career, this British-Australian actor hanged himself in a Las Vegas hotel room at the age of 25.
B-41. “I'll give ya somethin' to dream about, Mister. Wanna kiss me, ducky?”
B-42. Though he never won an Oscar (or any other award) for his acting, this swashbuckler did pick up a few trinkets for his service during World War II – including the Legion of Merit and Silver Star from the United States, the Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre from France, and the Distinguished Service Cross from Britain.
B-43. “I blow a hole in your face and then I go in the house – and I sleep like a baby. You can count on that. We used to stack f**ks like you five feet high in Korea. Use ya for sandbags.”
B-44. She was the only Dame Commander of the British Empire to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.
B-45. “It seems it always happens. Whenever we get too high-hat and too sophisticated for flag-waving, some thug nation decides we're a push-over all ready to be blackjacked. And it isn't long before we're looking up, mighty anxiously, to be sure the flag's still waving over us”
B-46. After coming to the United States, this future Oscar winner trained at the Joffrey Ballet School until a knee injury ended her dream of becoming a ballerina.
B-47. “He came in to demand an answer and I told him the truth. That I have fought with myself over that night, one half of me swearing blind that I tied a simple slipknot, the other half convinced that I tied the Langford double. I can never know for sure.”
B-48. At the time of his death, this actor was making plans to star in a dream project – a biopic about Fatty Arbuckle. (Somebody should still make that movie.)
B-49. “You don't know what I can do! You don't know what I can do, what I'm gonna do, or what I'm gonna be! I'm good! I have good things and you don't know about! I'm gonna be something! I am! And don't f**king tell me I'm not!”
B-50. He was the first of only two actors to win an Oscar for a role he had originally performed on television. (The other one is lurking elsewhere among these clues.)
B-51. “I didn't bring your breakfast, because you didn't eat your din-din!”
B-52. At age 80, she became the oldest winner of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. (And high time, too!)
B-53. “You brought music back into the house. I had forgotten.”
B-54. Though often cast as vampires or sadists, this Dutch actor is known off-screen for his humanitarian work, such as founding an AIDS research foundation.
B-55. “We're not talking about his trainer, sweetheart! We're talking about his manager. That's me!”
B-56. In 1988, this singer took on a role that had previously been played by – among others – Telly Savalas, Hurd Hatfield, Arthur Kennedy, Jean Marais, Basil Rathbone, and Jean Gabin.
B-57. “Playwrights teach us nothing about love. They make it pretty, they make it comical, or they make it lust, but they cannot make it true.”
B-58. In 2008, this actor – best known for completing a different kind of adventure – became the first person ever to cross Victoria Falls on ropes.
B-59. “This is a $4,000 sofa, upholstered in Italian silk. This is not just a couch.”
B-60. Before this week, she had been the only Dame Commander of the British Empire to have won the Tony, the Emmy, and the Oscar.
B-61. “Would ya just watch the hair. Ya know, I work on my hair a long time and you hit it. He hits my hair.”
B-62. On or off screen, he was no fan of the Nazis. During World War II, he deserted the Deutsche Wehrmacht and went into hiding in the Vienna Woods with his Jewish wife. In his first American film, he played a German officer recruited to spy for the Allies.
B-63. “All right, I'm in. 'Cause there's some next level s**t going on and I'm OK with that. But before y'all go beaming me up there's one thing you gotta remember: You chose me, so you recognized the skills, so I don't want nobody calling me son or kid or sport or nothing like that, cool?”
B-64. When MGM bought the rights to the play Angel Street,, they insisted that all existing prints of the earlier British version starring this actress be destroyed. (They weren’t.)
B-65. “Back to the ship, huh? Just huddle together, until the lights burn out? 'Til you can't see what's eating you? Is that the big plan?”
B-66. With his final film, he became one of only two actors to have been directed by both Alfred Hitchcock and Quentin Tarantino. (The other is the father of someone lurking elsewhere in this puzzle.)
B-67. “I'm poor, black, I might even be ugly, but dear God, I'm here! I'm here!”
B-68. In 1939, this reliable British character actor – who was once married to an Indian princess – appeared in seven films, including those referenced in Clues A-12 and A-49.
B-69. “I just met a wonderful new man. He's fictional but you can't have everything.”
B-70. In 1974 – the year he appeared in a hit disaster movie – he became the highest-paid movie star in the world … and immediately took a four-year hiatus from acting.
B-71. “In those moments where you're not quite sure if the undead are really dead, don't get all stingy with your bullets. I mean, one more clean shot to the head, and this lady could have avoided becoming a human Happy Meal. Woulda, coulda, shoulda.”
B-72. She was the first African American actress to sign a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio, but found greater success in Europe, where she was dubbed “The Black Garbo.”
B-73. “You cheated! Cheated! I hate you! I refuse to accept! I won't win any way but my way! You've ruined my reputation, do you hear? You I hate! You and your hair that's always combed, your suit that's always white, your car that's always clean! I refuse to accept!”
B-74. One of the high points of his long Hollywood career was playing the title role in Alfred Hitchcock’s second American feature.
B-75. “Let me tell you something, my two fine bedfellows, you're so dumb, there's nothin' to compare ya with, you're dumber than the dumbest jackass! Look at each other, will ya? Did you ever see anything like yourself for bein' dumb specimens? You're so dumb, you don't even see the riches you're treadin' on with your own feet!”
B-76. During her nearly 60-year movie career, she has worked under the direction of – among many others – Roger Vadim, Roman Polanski, Luis Bunuel, Claude Chabrol, Tony Scott, Agnes Varda, and Francois Truffaut.
B-77. “You once said you liked me just as I am and I just wanted to say likewise. I mean there are stupid things your mum buys you, tonight's another – classic. You're haughty, and you always say the wrong thing in every situation and I seriously believe that you should rethink the length of your sideburns. But, you're a nice man and I like you. If you wanted to pop by some time that might be nice. More than nice.”
B-78. She made her film debut in 1917, spent the next 37 years in feature films, moved on to series television for a decade – then, after a 23-year hiatus, popped up in three tv movies between 1986 and 1994.
B-79. “Settle down, are you kidding? I'm at the top of my game! I'm right up there with the big dogs! Girls, come on! Leave the saving of the world to the men? I don't think so!”
B-80. Oscar-wise, she completes the following list: Anne Bancroft, Shirley Booth, Patty Duke, Eileen Heckart, Judy Holliday, Josephine Hull, Barbra Streisand.
B-81. “On a farm, when a pig is born small like that, it's called schtumpig, a runt.”
B-82. After the failure of her Hollywood museum in the 1990s, she ended up auctioning off most of her legendary memorabilia collection – including more than 4,000 costumes. (But she’s still holding on to a Maltese Falcon.)
B-83. “And why do I sew each new chapeau/With a style they must look positively grim in?/Strictly between us, entrez-nous/I hate women.”
B-84. Shortly after Four Star Productions was founded in 1952, this actress replaced the actor in Clue B-74 as one of the Four Stars.
B-85. “I'm talking about the playing around that's going on. I'm talking about the young girls. I'm talking about the cookies. I'm talking about keeping our pants zipped and our wicks dry around here!”
B-86. He made his film debut in 1991 playing the guitarist for an Irish soul band.
B-87. “If only I could find her, so she could see me with such lovely friends here now, perhaps she could love me as I am. I've tried so hard to be good.”
B-88. Because her fourth husband was the son of her second husband, her first child was both the half-brother and uncle of her third and fourth children. Got that?
B-89. “I just wanted to congratulate you on stealing the pyramid. That was you, wasn't it? Or was it a villain who's actually successful?”
B-90. This strong-jawed leading man got an early career boost because he was ineligible for military service, having injured his back while taking dance lessons from Martha Graham. (The studio claimed it was a college rowing injury because – you know – strong-jawed leading men don’t take dance lessons from Martha Graham.)
B-91. “The war between the sexes is over. We won the second women started doing pole dancing for exercise.”
B-92. Actors Studio co-founder Robert Lewis called the last ten years of this actor’s life “the longest suicide in history,” while Marilyn Monroe described him as "the only person I know who is in worse shape than I am.”
B-93. “I found out the way your mind works and the kind of man you are. I know your plans and expectations - you've burbled every bit of strategy you've got. I know exactly what you will do, and exactly what you won't, and I've told you exactly nothing. To these aged eyes, boy, that's what winning looks like!”
B-94. Frank Capra’s last feature film was her first feature film – thus making the combined span of their careers 94 years and counting.
B-95. “Lord, I'd just like to thank You for that waitress in South Bend. You know who she is - she kept calling Your name.”
B-96. He was the first Welsh-born actor to win an Oscar, and the only Oscar-winning actor whose acceptance “speech” did not include a single word.
B-97. “Serpentine, Shelly. Serpentine!”
B-98. This actor has another five months to go before his shelf life as Sexiest Man Alive expires.
B-99. “Dear Lord, We've come to the end of our journey, and in a little while we'll stand before you. I pray for you to be merciful. Judge us not for our weaknesses, but for our love and open the doors of heaven for Charlie and me.”
B-100. This star served as first president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Identify the 65 movies in List A and the 100 actors in List B. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, form 78 triples, each consisting of one movie and two actors, according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.
7 movies and 28 actors will be used twice.
3 movies and 14 actors will be used three times.
There’s a lot here, but I think I can predict exactly which movie or actor will unlock the Tangredi.
Oh, and there’s one movie on here that nobody has seen, but I think you’ll get it anyway.
LIST A: MOVIES
A-1. Arguably the single most iconic image in all of 1950s cinema is that of Bengt Ekerot in this film.
A-2. “You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite! Hannah, can you hear me?”
A-3. This romantic classic was remade with a different title 18 years after its release and with its original title 55 years after its release.
A-4. “I'm not sure George is wrong about automobiles. With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization. May be that they won't add to the beauty of the world or the life of the men's souls, I'm not sure. But automobiles have come and almost all outwards things will be different because of what they bring. They're going to alter war and they're going to alter peace. And I think men's minds are going to be changed in subtle ways because of automobiles. And it may be that George is right. May be that in ten to twenty years from now that if we can see the inward change in men by that time, I shouldn't be able to defend the gasoline engine but agree with George - that automobiles had no business to be invented.”
A-5. This movie was MGM’s biggest musical hit of 1939 – which is rather astonishing, considering the other MGM musical released the same year with the same leading lady.
A-6. “Can I borrow your odorant?”
“Yeah, I got, uh, Smelly Garbage or Old Dumpster.”
A-7. The subject of this biopic played for the Chicago Cubs from 1934 to 1938. (The reason he didn’t play longer is what the movie is about.)
A-8. “It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.”
A-9. This movie featured the only performance directed by John Sayles to receive an Oscar nomination.
A-10. “I saw then that my father's only fear was that his son would follow the same road. And that was the last time I ever held a gun. People always thought I grew up on a farm. And I guess, in a way, I did. But I lived a lifetime before that, in those six weeks on the road in the winter of 1931.”
A-11. In this musical remake, the actor in clue B-83 attempted to step into the size 14 shoes of Coop.
A-12. “Daddy! Oh, Daddy! It is you! I found you! I found you! They said you were dead, but I knew you weren't! I knew you'd come back! Oh, Daddy, hold me, hold me close. You won't ever go away again, will you? Will you, Daddy? What's the matter, Daddy? Why don't you talk to me?”
A-13. This complicated caper flick shares a major plot point – and not much else – with the film Fourteen Hours.
A-14. “But don't get her drunk. If you get her drunk, she loses control.”
“Ted, are we talking a loss of inhibitions here, or does she pee on the floor?”
A-15. This western is the earliest John Ford film selected for preservation by the National Film Registry.
A-16. “Go ahead, make my day.”
A-17. For the first hour of this film – the third teaming of one of the great screen duos – the leading man’s face is never fully seen: all shots are either from his point of view or show his face covered in bandages.
A-18. “See, that’s the trouble, it’s exotic, but it’s not honest. I mean, it’s fancy, but it’s not real. I mean, this is honest food. There’s no lying in that beef. There’s no insincerity in those potatoes. There’s no deceit in the cauliflower. This is a totally honest meal. You don’t know what a pleasure it in this day and age to sit down and eat a meal you can believe in.”
A-19. Robert Altman’s Thieves Like Us was based on the same novel as this cult classic released 26 years earlier.
A-20. “I'm willing to meet my creator and answer for every shot that I took.”
A-21. Unlike the stage version – which had a score written by the same team that wrote the score for the stage version of the musical referenced in clue A-5 – this movie musical needed just two actors to play the four leading roles.
A-22. “Well, that's the whole point of the holidays, Paul. So you and your sister can mope around the house, and your mother and I can wait on you hand and foot, while the two of you occasionally grunt for more food from behind the hair in your faces. Believe it or not, we actually enjoy it.”
A-23. There is some dispute as to whether or not this 2007 movie was a remake of Working Girl, but there is no disputing the fact that it was a Grade A dud –it opened at eight theatres in Texas and averaged $48 per screen for a total box office of $384.
A-24. “We'll have a line of low-priced furniture, a new and different line - as different from anything we're making today as a modern automobile is different from a covered wagon. That's what you want Walt, isn't it - what you've always wanted? Merchandise that will sell because it had beauty and function and value - not because the buyers like your scotch or think that you're a good egg. The kind of stuff that you, Jesse, will feel in your guts when you know it's coming off your production line. A kind of product that you will be able to budget to the nearest hundredth of a cent, Shaw, because it will be scientifically and efficiently designed. And something you will be proud to have your name on, Miss Tredway.”
A-25. The first woman to receive a Saturn Award for Best Director did so for this 1995 movie. (It also earned one of its stars a Saturn for Best Actress, but I refuse to mention that person’s name.)
A-26. “One day, my wife explained to me that, for the past fifteen years, my output as a poet had dealt entirely with the part of our lives in which we discovered each other.”
“Are you a poet?”
“Was. And so, to give me something new to write about, she left me. A very noble woman, my wife - she left me for the good of literature. And remarkably it worked.”
“What, you wrote a lot of good stuff, did ya?”
“No, I stopped writing altogether.”
A-27. This Randolph Scott flick shares its name with the 17th largest city in the United States.
A-28. “What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.”
A-29. If you want to see Gracie Allen and Bela Lugosi in the same movie, this will surely be your only chance.
A-30. “If only my life could be more like the movies. I want an angel to sweep down to me like it does to Jimmy Stewart in It’s a Wonderful Life and talk me out of suicide. I've always waited for that one moment of truth to set me free and change my life forever, but he won’t come, it doesn’t happen that way. All the drugs, all the therapy, fights, anger, guilt, rage, suicidal thoughts, all of that was part of some slow recovery process. The same way I went down, I came back up, gradually – and then suddenly. The pills weren’t the cure at all, God knows, but they gave me breathing space which allowed me to start writing again, only this time it was not as if my life depended on it.”
A-31. This anthology was the fourth film in what is sometimes referred to as the “Poe-Corman” cycle.
A-32. “But then you go to the police. That's what innocent people do. They go to the police.”
“Sure. And that young man who was just here, he'd believe me over the President, wouldn't he?”
A-33. Francois Truffaut once said he would have given up all his own movies to have directed this two-part classic, filmed during the Nazi occupation of France.
A-34. “Listen. No one could teach you to dance in a million years. Take my advice and save your money!”
A-35. The star of the previous film received a Golden Turkey nomination for Worst Performance as a Historical Figure for her role as a First Lady in this film. (She couldn’t beat John Wayne’s Genghiz Khan, though.)
A-36. “Hello? Hey, don't get shy on me all of a sudden, f**k-face. This is the one about the babysitter, right? She's getting those scary and harassing phone calls and when she traces them back, they are coming from inside the house. But ass-wipe, aren't you forgetting something? I'm not babysitting any kids!”
A-37. The subject of this Oscar-winning 1979 documentary is now over 80 years old and living in a group home.
A-38. “In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.”
A-39. This film version of a British play featured a gay actor playing a gay public school student who would grow up to become a real-life gay spy.
A-40. “Hey, Pastor Dan? Mr. Self-righteous? I'm hanging on by a thread here. I lost my sister, my social life, my disposable income, my ability to fit into a size 2, and - this just in - my job. Pretty much the only two things that haven't disappeared are my nicotine fits and a few pounds that have recently taken up residence on my ass. So forgive me if I'm not too thrilled about being lectured, in Queens, about being a lousy legal guardian to three kids who maybe shouldn't have been given to me in the first place.”
A-41. Once considered a lost film, this crime drama marked the screen debut of an actress who would become much better known for her next role – seven years later – as a sinister housekeeper.
A-42. “I won't read the word!”
“I'm your father and I'm telling you to read the word. Cause I can tell you to because I'm your father.”
“I'm stupid.”
“You are not stupid!”
“Yes, I am!”
“No, you are not stupid 'cause you can read that word.”
“I don't wanna read it if you can't.”
“No, because it makes me happy! It makes me happy hearing you read. Yeah, it makes me happy when you're reading.”
A-43. This film earned its director/writer his 24th – and most recent – Oscar nomination.
A-44. “If you're edged 'cause I'm weazin all your grindage, just chill. 'Cause if I had the whole Brady Bunch thing happenin' at my pad, I'd go grind over there, so don’t tax my gig so hard-core cruster.”
A-45. To prepare for his role in this film, Al Pacino spent a lot of time hanging around with Rudy Giuliani.
A-46. “Our survival hinges on one thing - finding someone who not only can fly this plane, but didn't have fish for dinner.”
(No, not that movie! I want the movie that this line came from originally!)
A-47. This 1940 screen version of what is generally considered to be one of the five Great American Plays was harder to adapt to film than any of the others due to its unusual setting and narrative structure.
A-48. “When I go back in that house, it will be with my son in my arms. I'll have a red coat on him – and red flower trousers – and a hat with a gilded Buddha and tiger-faced shoes, and I'll go into the kitchen where I spent my days as a slave and into the great hall where the old mistress sits with her pipe, and I'll show myself and my son to all of them.”
A-49. The most famous line in this movie – uttered by one of the title characters when he meets the other – was, in real life, spoken on October 27, 1871. (The reply, by the way, was “Yes.”)
A-50. “The firing power inside my crater is enough to annihilate a small army. You can watch it all on TV. It's the last program you're likely to see.”
“Well, if I'm going to be forced to watch television, may I smoke?”
A-51. This western marked the official screen debut of a young man that director Raoul Walsh had discovered in the props department; the rest is history.
A-52. “Come on, group hug! You too, Anger."
“Don’t touch me.”
A-53. This movie starred my favorite actor in one of his hammiest roles – a role he would later reprise for the actors in clue B-13.
A-54. “Well, I want to die because I feel that a life for me, in this state, has no dignity. I understand that other quadriplegics may take offense to my saying there's no dignity in this, but I'm not trying to judge anyone. Who am I to judge those who choose life? So don't judge me or anyone who wants to help me die.”
A-55. The character of the alcoholic film producer in this 1932 movie was reportedly based on the alcoholic actor who played the role.
A-56. “Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against?”
“Whadda you got?”
A-57. In addition to a number of other firsts, this was the first talking film shot outdoors.
A-58. “I got scruples too, you know. You know what that is? Scruples?”
“No, I don't know what it is, but if you got 'em, it's a sure bet they belong to somebody else!”
A-59. Among the weird characters in this film are a woman who never leaves her bed, a man who never speaks directly to his wife, a woman who always lies, a voodoo priest, and the lead singer of a new wave band. (Only the latter is real.)
A-60. “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
A-61. Hitchcock’s last British film before coming to America, it earned him a listing in The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.
A-62. “You love me so much you gotta kill my f**king girlfriend, huh? Speak you f**kin' freak, or I will f**king kill you! Katie. Say it! Say it or you die!”
A-63. This wartime revue featured three of the actresses included on List B – all playing themselves.
A-64. “Nature all looks alike. Frontiers are an invention of man.”
A-65. This lovely work of docufiction is the nexus where Nanook of the North meets Four Saints in Three Acts meets John D. Rockefeller.
LIST B: ACTORS
B-1. “You know what I believe I'd like? A chocolate fudge sundae with whipped cream and a cherry on top.”
B-2. Notoriously shy and prone to bouts of stage fright, she made only two movies after her contract with Columbia Pictures expired in 1944 and no movies at all after 1953 – but her last movie was one of the all-time greats.
B-3. “Remarkable boy. I do admire your courage. I think I'll eat your heart.”
B-4. This one-time star of the Ziegfeld Follies was portrayed onscreen by his own son.
B-5. “I don't fear you Michael, I just dread you.”
B-6. Hard to believe, but this actor was originally offered the tv role that was subsequently play by the actor quoted in clue B-97.
B-7. “We don't really move. I mean, we'd like to, but – my mom is sort of attached to the house. Attached is, I guess, not the right word. She's pretty much wedged in.”
B-8. She and her brother were the first pair of siblings to each receive an Oscar.
B-9. “There's no way I can repay you for all you've done for me, so rather than try, I'm just going to ask you to do something else for me: find the joy in your life. You once said you're not everyone. Well, that's true, you're certainly not everyone, but everyone is everyone. My pastor always says our lives are streams flowing into the same river towards whatever heaven lies in the mist beyond the falls. Find the joy in your life, Edward. My dear friend, close your eyes and let the waters take you home.”
B-10. In two unrelated films made 20 years apart, this actor played men who shaped the life and career of Marilyn Monroe.
B-11. “Men should be explorers, no matter how old they are. I don't know about anybody else, but I'm going.”
B-12. Best known for solving crimes on tv, this actress has twice been named “Sexiest Vegetarian” by PETA.
B-13. “I know there's no such person as Dracula. You know there's no such person as Dracula.”
“But does Dracula know it?”
B-14. This actress has the same number of Oscar nominations as her father, but one less than her mother.
B-15. “You see, Mr. Milton, in the Army I've had to be with men when they were stripped of everything in the way of property except what they carried around with them and inside them. I saw them being tested. Now some of them stood up to it and some didn't. But you got so you could tell which ones you could count on. I tell you this man Novak is okay. His 'collateral' is in his hands, in his heart and his guts. It's in his right as a citizen.”
B-16. His movie career might have ended on a higher note if his manager had not insisted on too high a salary as well as top billing over Barbra Streisand – or if his manager had not insisted on too high a salary as well as top billing over John Wayne.
B-17. “You don't understand how I feel! I'm standing there with my pants down and my crotch hung out for the world to see and three guys are sticking it to me, a bunch of other guys are yelling and clapping and you're standing there telling me that that's the best you can do. Well, if that's the best you could do, then your best sucks! Now, I don't know what you got for selling me out, but I sure as s**it hope it was worth it!”
B-18. Directing a climactic scene in Death Valley, he reportedly told the two actors involved, “Fight! Fight! Try to hate each other as you both hate me.”
B-19. “Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man... June 8th. My life has taken another turn again. The days can go on with regularity over and over, one day indistinguishable from the next. A long continuous chain. Then suddenly, there is a change.”
B-20. This Oscar-winning actress was later nominated for five Soap Opera Digest awards in the categories Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role and Outstanding Villainess in a Prime Time Serial.
B-21. “I always look well when I'm near death.”
B-22. Oscar-wise, she completes the following list: Woody Allen, Matt Damon, John Huston, Billy Bob Thornton, Orson Welles.
B-23. “I feel sorry for you. What it must feel like to want to pull the switch! Ever since you walked into this room, you've been acting like a self-appointed public avenger. You want to see this boy die because you personally want it, not because of the facts! You're a sadist!”
B-24. This actor, known for his ptosis, served as host/narrator for the second revival of my all-time favorite television series.
B-25. “Hey, listen, I want somebody good - and I mean very good - to plant that gun. I don't want my brother coming out of that toilet with just his d**k in his hands, alright?”
B-26. In 2010, this actor was inducted into the same Hall of Fame as Mayor Jimmy Walker and the Marquess of Queensberry.
B-27. “I got so used to things as they were: Everything so prim, the geranium in the window, the smell of mama's medicines. And then he walked in, and it was different! He clomped through the place like he was still outdoors. There was a man in the place and it seemed good!”
B-28. This actress never had any children with her only husband, but she did have one by a noted dancer and two more by a noted playwright.
B-29. “I got a weal wed wagon!”
B-30. This actor turned down the lead in Ben-Hur because he was an atheist and the lead in Patton because of his antiwar sympathies.
B-31. “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
B-32. His screen career included adaptations of works by Eugene O’Neill, Euripides, Franz Kafka, Joseph Heller, Agatha Christie, and Ellery Queen.
B-33. “I'm sorry, your time's run out! What do we have for the losers, judge? Well, for our defendants, it's a lifetime at exotic Fort Leavenworth!”
B-34. This international star has also had a busy music career that has included recording the theme songs for most of his films, as well as the official one-year countdown song to the 2008 Olympics.
B-35. “You know what I'm realizing? My life is just going to go. Like that. This series of milestones. Getting married. Having kids. Getting divorced. The time that we thought you were dyslexic. When I taught you how to ride a bike. Getting divorced – again. Getting my masters degree. Finally getting the job I wanted. Sending Samantha off to college. Sending you off to college. You know what's next? Huh? It's my f**king funeral! Just go, and leave my picture!”
B-36. Oscar-wise, he completes the following list: Woody Allen, Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, John Huston, Robert Redford.
B-37. “I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before Me. Out of my way, a**hole.”
B-38. Though he first won popularity in a series a comic films, this actor went on to build a distinguished career in prestige productions, such as the film version of a novel by Thomas Mann.
B-39. “Thank you. I've never been called a son of God before. I've been called a son of a you-know-what plenty of times, but I've never been called a son of God.”
B-40. After a seven-year film career, this British-Australian actor hanged himself in a Las Vegas hotel room at the age of 25.
B-41. “I'll give ya somethin' to dream about, Mister. Wanna kiss me, ducky?”
B-42. Though he never won an Oscar (or any other award) for his acting, this swashbuckler did pick up a few trinkets for his service during World War II – including the Legion of Merit and Silver Star from the United States, the Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre from France, and the Distinguished Service Cross from Britain.
B-43. “I blow a hole in your face and then I go in the house – and I sleep like a baby. You can count on that. We used to stack f**ks like you five feet high in Korea. Use ya for sandbags.”
B-44. She was the only Dame Commander of the British Empire to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.
B-45. “It seems it always happens. Whenever we get too high-hat and too sophisticated for flag-waving, some thug nation decides we're a push-over all ready to be blackjacked. And it isn't long before we're looking up, mighty anxiously, to be sure the flag's still waving over us”
B-46. After coming to the United States, this future Oscar winner trained at the Joffrey Ballet School until a knee injury ended her dream of becoming a ballerina.
B-47. “He came in to demand an answer and I told him the truth. That I have fought with myself over that night, one half of me swearing blind that I tied a simple slipknot, the other half convinced that I tied the Langford double. I can never know for sure.”
B-48. At the time of his death, this actor was making plans to star in a dream project – a biopic about Fatty Arbuckle. (Somebody should still make that movie.)
B-49. “You don't know what I can do! You don't know what I can do, what I'm gonna do, or what I'm gonna be! I'm good! I have good things and you don't know about! I'm gonna be something! I am! And don't f**king tell me I'm not!”
B-50. He was the first of only two actors to win an Oscar for a role he had originally performed on television. (The other one is lurking elsewhere among these clues.)
B-51. “I didn't bring your breakfast, because you didn't eat your din-din!”
B-52. At age 80, she became the oldest winner of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. (And high time, too!)
B-53. “You brought music back into the house. I had forgotten.”
B-54. Though often cast as vampires or sadists, this Dutch actor is known off-screen for his humanitarian work, such as founding an AIDS research foundation.
B-55. “We're not talking about his trainer, sweetheart! We're talking about his manager. That's me!”
B-56. In 1988, this singer took on a role that had previously been played by – among others – Telly Savalas, Hurd Hatfield, Arthur Kennedy, Jean Marais, Basil Rathbone, and Jean Gabin.
B-57. “Playwrights teach us nothing about love. They make it pretty, they make it comical, or they make it lust, but they cannot make it true.”
B-58. In 2008, this actor – best known for completing a different kind of adventure – became the first person ever to cross Victoria Falls on ropes.
B-59. “This is a $4,000 sofa, upholstered in Italian silk. This is not just a couch.”
B-60. Before this week, she had been the only Dame Commander of the British Empire to have won the Tony, the Emmy, and the Oscar.
B-61. “Would ya just watch the hair. Ya know, I work on my hair a long time and you hit it. He hits my hair.”
B-62. On or off screen, he was no fan of the Nazis. During World War II, he deserted the Deutsche Wehrmacht and went into hiding in the Vienna Woods with his Jewish wife. In his first American film, he played a German officer recruited to spy for the Allies.
B-63. “All right, I'm in. 'Cause there's some next level s**t going on and I'm OK with that. But before y'all go beaming me up there's one thing you gotta remember: You chose me, so you recognized the skills, so I don't want nobody calling me son or kid or sport or nothing like that, cool?”
B-64. When MGM bought the rights to the play Angel Street,, they insisted that all existing prints of the earlier British version starring this actress be destroyed. (They weren’t.)
B-65. “Back to the ship, huh? Just huddle together, until the lights burn out? 'Til you can't see what's eating you? Is that the big plan?”
B-66. With his final film, he became one of only two actors to have been directed by both Alfred Hitchcock and Quentin Tarantino. (The other is the father of someone lurking elsewhere in this puzzle.)
B-67. “I'm poor, black, I might even be ugly, but dear God, I'm here! I'm here!”
B-68. In 1939, this reliable British character actor – who was once married to an Indian princess – appeared in seven films, including those referenced in Clues A-12 and A-49.
B-69. “I just met a wonderful new man. He's fictional but you can't have everything.”
B-70. In 1974 – the year he appeared in a hit disaster movie – he became the highest-paid movie star in the world … and immediately took a four-year hiatus from acting.
B-71. “In those moments where you're not quite sure if the undead are really dead, don't get all stingy with your bullets. I mean, one more clean shot to the head, and this lady could have avoided becoming a human Happy Meal. Woulda, coulda, shoulda.”
B-72. She was the first African American actress to sign a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio, but found greater success in Europe, where she was dubbed “The Black Garbo.”
B-73. “You cheated! Cheated! I hate you! I refuse to accept! I won't win any way but my way! You've ruined my reputation, do you hear? You I hate! You and your hair that's always combed, your suit that's always white, your car that's always clean! I refuse to accept!”
B-74. One of the high points of his long Hollywood career was playing the title role in Alfred Hitchcock’s second American feature.
B-75. “Let me tell you something, my two fine bedfellows, you're so dumb, there's nothin' to compare ya with, you're dumber than the dumbest jackass! Look at each other, will ya? Did you ever see anything like yourself for bein' dumb specimens? You're so dumb, you don't even see the riches you're treadin' on with your own feet!”
B-76. During her nearly 60-year movie career, she has worked under the direction of – among many others – Roger Vadim, Roman Polanski, Luis Bunuel, Claude Chabrol, Tony Scott, Agnes Varda, and Francois Truffaut.
B-77. “You once said you liked me just as I am and I just wanted to say likewise. I mean there are stupid things your mum buys you, tonight's another – classic. You're haughty, and you always say the wrong thing in every situation and I seriously believe that you should rethink the length of your sideburns. But, you're a nice man and I like you. If you wanted to pop by some time that might be nice. More than nice.”
B-78. She made her film debut in 1917, spent the next 37 years in feature films, moved on to series television for a decade – then, after a 23-year hiatus, popped up in three tv movies between 1986 and 1994.
B-79. “Settle down, are you kidding? I'm at the top of my game! I'm right up there with the big dogs! Girls, come on! Leave the saving of the world to the men? I don't think so!”
B-80. Oscar-wise, she completes the following list: Anne Bancroft, Shirley Booth, Patty Duke, Eileen Heckart, Judy Holliday, Josephine Hull, Barbra Streisand.
B-81. “On a farm, when a pig is born small like that, it's called schtumpig, a runt.”
B-82. After the failure of her Hollywood museum in the 1990s, she ended up auctioning off most of her legendary memorabilia collection – including more than 4,000 costumes. (But she’s still holding on to a Maltese Falcon.)
B-83. “And why do I sew each new chapeau/With a style they must look positively grim in?/Strictly between us, entrez-nous/I hate women.”
B-84. Shortly after Four Star Productions was founded in 1952, this actress replaced the actor in Clue B-74 as one of the Four Stars.
B-85. “I'm talking about the playing around that's going on. I'm talking about the young girls. I'm talking about the cookies. I'm talking about keeping our pants zipped and our wicks dry around here!”
B-86. He made his film debut in 1991 playing the guitarist for an Irish soul band.
B-87. “If only I could find her, so she could see me with such lovely friends here now, perhaps she could love me as I am. I've tried so hard to be good.”
B-88. Because her fourth husband was the son of her second husband, her first child was both the half-brother and uncle of her third and fourth children. Got that?
B-89. “I just wanted to congratulate you on stealing the pyramid. That was you, wasn't it? Or was it a villain who's actually successful?”
B-90. This strong-jawed leading man got an early career boost because he was ineligible for military service, having injured his back while taking dance lessons from Martha Graham. (The studio claimed it was a college rowing injury because – you know – strong-jawed leading men don’t take dance lessons from Martha Graham.)
B-91. “The war between the sexes is over. We won the second women started doing pole dancing for exercise.”
B-92. Actors Studio co-founder Robert Lewis called the last ten years of this actor’s life “the longest suicide in history,” while Marilyn Monroe described him as "the only person I know who is in worse shape than I am.”
B-93. “I found out the way your mind works and the kind of man you are. I know your plans and expectations - you've burbled every bit of strategy you've got. I know exactly what you will do, and exactly what you won't, and I've told you exactly nothing. To these aged eyes, boy, that's what winning looks like!”
B-94. Frank Capra’s last feature film was her first feature film – thus making the combined span of their careers 94 years and counting.
B-95. “Lord, I'd just like to thank You for that waitress in South Bend. You know who she is - she kept calling Your name.”
B-96. He was the first Welsh-born actor to win an Oscar, and the only Oscar-winning actor whose acceptance “speech” did not include a single word.
B-97. “Serpentine, Shelly. Serpentine!”
B-98. This actor has another five months to go before his shelf life as Sexiest Man Alive expires.
B-99. “Dear Lord, We've come to the end of our journey, and in a little while we'll stand before you. I pray for you to be merciful. Judge us not for our weaknesses, but for our love and open the doors of heaven for Charlie and me.”
B-100. This star served as first president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.