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franktangredi wrote:Game #159: The Screenplay’s the Thing

Identify the 45 movies in List A and the 45 actors in List B. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, form 58 pairs, each consisting of one movie and one actor, according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.

Two movies will be used twice, one will be used three times, and two will be used five times. Six actors will be used twice, one will be used three times, and one will be used seven times.

There are a few relatively obscure movies in this game – some I wasn’t even aware of until I started researching – but they are a minority.

LIST A: MOVIES

A-1. “You think you're God Almighty, but you know what you are? You're a cheap, lousy, dirty, stinkin' mug! And I'm glad what I done to you, ya hear that? I'm glad what I done!”

A-2. Crowd extras during the most famous sequence of this 1925 spectacle included the Barrymore brothers, the Gish sisters, Doug and Mary, Joan Crawford, Harold Lloyd, John Gilbert, Marion Davies, and Sam Goldwyn.

A-3. “This is a nice boy. This is a good boy. This is a mother's angel. And I want the world to know once and for all, and without any shame, that we love him. I'm going to teach you. I'm going to show you how to walk, how to speak, how to move, how to think. Together, you and I are going to make the greatest single contribution to science since the creation of fire.”

A-4. This film included the first rap song to win an Oscar.

Hustle and Flow?

A-5. “You know, I read of a case once. I think it would be a wonderful idea! I can take him out in the car, and when we get to a very lonely spot, knock him on the head with a hammer, pour gasoline over him and over the car, and set the whole thing ablaze! “
“And have to walk all the way home? Oh, no.”

A-6. “Freely adapted” from a classic 1850 novel, this act of literary vandalism won the 1995 Razzie for “Worst Remake or Sequel.”

A-7. “Some people may consider you a first-class officer. But as far as I'm concerned, you're a disorganized, undisciplined clown. I'm gonna' make it my business to run you out of this Army. “
“I owe you an apology, Colonel. I always thought that you were a cold, unimaginative, tight-lipped officer. But you're really quite emotional, aren't you?”

Sounds like it could be from M*A*S*H

A-8. This film contains one of the most iconic (I don’t use that word lightly) images of world cinema: an old man sitting on a park swing in the snow.

A-9. “You cad, you dirty swine! I never cared for you, not once! I was always makin' a fool of ya! Ya bored me stiff; I hated ya! It made me sick when I had to let ya kiss me. I only did it because ya begged me, ya hounded me and drove me crazy! And after ya kissed me, I always used to wipe my mouth! Wipe my mouth!”

A-10. The six protagonists of this film – called "a celebration of reading" by Roger Ebert – are all modeled on characters created by the same early 19th century novelist.

A-11. “He’s young, good-looking – ”
“He can’t dance for sure.”
“He can't dance for s**t, but that is teachable.”

A-12. This 1974 Canadian movie is now recognized as one of the earliest – and best – slasher films.

A-13. “Now, this is very important. I want the nominee to be dead two minutes after he begins his acceptance speech - depending on his reading time under pressure. You are to hit him right at the point that he finishes the phrase, ‘Nor would I ask of any fellow American in defense of his freedom that which I would not gladly give myself - my life before my liberty.’ Is that absolutely clear?”

So many possibilities. The Manchurian Candidate is my guess.

A-14. Set at fictional Coral Key Park, this 1964 sequel was even more successful than the original and paved the way for a popular television series later that same year.

Coral Key is in Florida, and I believe Flipper must be the series mentioned. Don't know the name of the sequel, though. Son of Flipper?

A-15. “You deliberately seduced him! You seduced his mind with your awful, tasteless, empty sauces! With your pitiful little squashed bits of garlic!”
“That is called subtlety of flavor. ”
“It's called meanness of spirit! If you have a spice, use it! Don't sprinkle it. Spoon it in! “

A-16. The creators of Buffy wrote the screenplay for this movie – which they described as a satire on torture porn – in only three days.

A-17. “What was his business?”
“He used to be a big shot.”

A-18. Adapted from the longest running thriller in Broadway history, this film is best remembered for a controversial kiss between two popular leading men.

Deathtrap

A-19. “War, terrible war. Widows, orphans, a motherless child. This was the uprising that rocked our land. Thirteen districts rebelled against the country that fed them, loved them, protected them. Brother turned on brother until nothing remained. And then came the peace, hard fought, sorely won. A people rose up from the ashes and a new era was born. But freedom has a cost.”

Must be one of the Hunger Games films. Probably the first one. Unless it's from the Japanese movie that Suzanne Collins stole the idea from.

A-20. The real-life conspiracy depicted in this film reached its disastrous culmination on July 20, 1944.

The Hitler thing. Don't remember the name of the movie.

A-21. “Now, I have no right in telling this to you. It's dangerous for you and it's dangerous for them, but I'm sorry, I just couldn't stop myself. You can do what you want to, you can tell your dad, anything, I don't care. I just needed you to know... I don't know what I'm doing, and I love you.”

A-22. The father of the heroine of this 1959 film personally wrote to Audrey Hepburn requesting her to play his daughter; she replied that she was honored, but felt she was too old for the role.

A-23. “Don't worry. You're small and you're weak. That'll make you less of a target! They'll see you as sick or insane and go after the more Viking-like teens instead.”

A-24. It took 36 years for any entry in the franchise that began with this movie to get an Oscar nomination for Best Picture – or anything else.

Dr. No?

A-25. “Is there any special country you wanna go to?”
“Wyoming.”

A-26. This 2002 vampire film was released six months after the untimely death of the performer who played the title character.

Love at First Bite?

A-27. “Hey, look! It's Enrico Pallazzo!”

A-28. This movie about a war criminal hiding in California was based on a novella by Stephen King.

A-29. “Was nothing real?”
“You were real. That's what made you so good to watch”

Is this Pleasantville?

A-30. This adaptation of a Ray Bradbury story was the last film released under the credit “Walt Disney Productions.”

Something Wicked This Way Comes, I believe. Or The Martian Chronicles.

A-31. “You have a little girl. She looks up to you. You're her oracle. You're her hero. And then the day comes when she gets her first permanent wave and goes to her first real party, and from that day on, you're in a constant state of panic.”

A-32. The brothers in this film were played by actors who had earlier played the brothers of Craig Sheffer, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Drew Barrymore.

A-33. “After very careful consideration, sir, I've come to the conclusion that your new defense system sucks.”

A-34. This movie tied the record set by The Aviator for garnering the most Oscars (5) and Oscar nominations (12) of any Martin Scorsese film.

A-35. “As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight. You breathe. Keep breathing. When there is a storm and you stand in front of a tree, if you look at its branches, you swear it will fall. But if you watch the trunk, you will see its stability.”

A-36. Leonard Bernstein boycotted this musical because it discarded almost all of the music he had written for the stage version.

A-37. “You see it, God. You see it. The innocent child's death, and my revenge. You allowed it. I don't understand You. I don't understand You. Yet, I still ask your forgiveness. I know no other way to live. I promise You, God... here on the dead body of my only child, I promise you that, to cleanse my sins, here I shall build a church. On this spot. Of mortar and stone... and with these, my hands.”

A-38. This acclaimed film was based on an unpublished autobiographical novel by a drug addict and career thief who was in prison at the time of the film’s release.

A-39. “We need to get off this merry-go-round sir. The next mistake our countries make could be the last one. We need to have the conversation our governments can't.”

Maybe Dr. Strangelove?

A-40. This prototypical swashbuckler was the first film released by United Artists.

A-41. “You can't fight her - no one ever got the better of her. Never, never. She was beaten in the end, but it wasn't a man, it wasn't a woman. It was the sea!”

A-42. The most widely-released film with an NC-17 rating, it was one of the main reasons the movie in Clue A-6 only won a single Razzie.

Showgirls

A-43. “I want to be near you. I want you to hold me. Oh! Hold me closer! Closer! Closer!”
“If I hold you any closer, I’ll be in back of you.”

Pretty sure that's a Groucho line

A-44. The poster for this film – which won an Oscar for its director – was deliberately modeled after the poster for Titanic.

A-45. “If it was anybody else, I'd say what's going to happen to you would be a lesson to you. Only you're going to need more than one lesson. And you're going to get more than one lesson.”

LIST B: ACTORS

B-1. “I am a teacher! I am a teacher, first, last, always! Do you imagine that for one instant I will let that be taken from me without a fight?”

Maggie Smith, from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

B-2. Born in China, this actor starred in a series of three films with actors born in New York, Michigan, Washington, England, and Sweden.

B-3. “You know, Mrs. Buckman, you need a license to buy a dog, or drive a car. Hell, you need a license to catch a fish! But they'll let any butt-reaming asshole be a father.”

B-4. On screen, he played two of the three stage roles most associated with Alfred Drake.

B-5. “For centuries alchemists tried to make gold from base metals. Today, we make microchips from silicon, which is common sand, but far better than gold. Now, for several years, we had a profitable partnership, you as manufacturers, while I acquired and passed on to you industrial information that made you competitive, successful. We are now on the unique position to form an international cartel to control not only production, but distribution of these microchips. There is one obstacle - Silicon Valley in San Francisco.”

B-6. In the 1940s, he starred in two consecutive Oscar winners for Best Picture.

Gregory Peck? Gary Cooper? Walter Pidgeon? My trouble is, I can't remember which of the films actually won.

B-7. “You call me insane. You are privy to a great becoming, but you recognize nothing. To me, you are a slug in the sun. You are an ant in the afterbirth. It is your nature to do one thing correctly. Before me, you rightly tremble. But, fear is not what you owe me. You owe me awe!”

B-8. During the 1930s, she appeared in the film versions of hit plays by – among others – Eugene O’Neill, Noel Coward, Robert E. Sherwood, Rachel Crothers, and Clare Boothe Luce.

B-9. “I see your Schwartz is as big as mine. Now let's see how well you handle it.”

It's the Darth Vader character in Spaceballs. Can't remember the little guy's name, though.

B-10. Since taking on his current TV role in 2009, he has won four People’s Choice awards as Favorite Dramatic TV Actor, but his own favorite role was on an earlier series created by Josh Whedon.

Is that the guy in Castle, who used to be in Firefly and Dr. Horrible? I really ought to remember more of these names.

B-11. “They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past.”

James Earl Jones

B-12. The Tony nomination she received this year was her first, but it marked the third time an actress had been nominated for that role.

This might be that play about the Queen of England.

B-13. “Thank you for a memorable afternoon. Usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of your stature.”

Sir John Gielgud

B-14. In 2001, he and Ben Affleck shared a Razzie nomination as Worst Screen Couple (and, no, it’s not who you think.)

Not Matt Damon? Then it must be that guy (here I go again) who was in Pearl Harbor with him.

B-15. “Nobody ever robs restaurants. Bars, liquor stores, gas stations... you get your head blown off sticking up one of them. Restaurants on the other hand, you catch with their pants down. They're not expecting to get robbed. Not as expectant anyway.”

B-16. At the Fort Bragg cemetery, this comedienne is the only civilian to receive full military honors each Veterans’ Day.

B-17. “You know what the problem with you bums is? You never leave a guy alone unless you're leaving him alone.”

B-18. He received an Oscar nomination for the film referenced in the preceding clue.

B-19. “This is where Dionne lives. She's my friend because we both know what it's like for people to be jealous of us.”

B-20. As far as I can determine, he is the only male underwear model with two Oscar nominations to his credit.

Mark Wahlberg?

B-21. “Do I look like a sex murderer to you? Can you imagine me creeping around London, strangling all those women with ties? That's ridiculous. For a start, I only own two.”

B-22. She and her husband are credited with being Hollywood’s first romantic team, starring in at least fourteen films together, but her career did not survive their divorce or the advent of sound.

B-23. “No, no, no. I'm not gonna be that guy. You know, the ‘biological father, who I see on the weekends, and I make small talk with him while he drives me places and buys me shit.’ No.”

B-24. His best-known stage role was played on screen by Wilfrid Hyde-White.

B-25. “I can't believe my Grandmother actually felt me up!”

Molly Ringwald

B-26. His was the marriage that was almost – but not quite – broken up by Addie Ross.

B-27. “Not a lot of people know what it feels like to be angry, in your bones. I mean, they understand, foster parents, everybody understands, for awhile. Then they want the angry little kid to do something he knows he can't do, move on. So after awhile they stop understanding. They send the angry kid to a boys’ home. I figured it out too late. You gotta learn to hide the anger, practice smiling in the mirror. It's like putting on a mask.”

B-28. This actor – whose mother appears earlier in this quiz – has played James Bond on the radio and a Bond villain on screen.

B-29. “I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me, but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life. You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry. You will someday.”

B-30. He was the youngest male actor to occupy the Calais Coach on a fateful film journey of 1974.

Yikes! That's a tough one. The film is Murder on the Orient Express, but which male? Anthony Perkins? Sean Connery? Maybe Albert Finney? The French guy?

B-31. “This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.”

B-32. The relationship between this Austrian-born stage and film star and a younger actress inspired the short story that eventually became All About Eve.

B-33. “Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.”

B-34. She had what was probably her best on-screen role as the corrupt widow of an even more corrupt cop in what was probably Fritz Lang’s best American film.

Is M considered an American film?

B-35. “You pompous, stuck-up, snot-nosed, English, giant, twerp, scumbag, f**k-face, d**khead, a**shole.”



B-36. Her film career included adaptations of novels by Charles Dickens, Sinclair Lewis, Lloyd C. Douglas, and James Agee.

B-37. “I believe. I believe. It’s silly, but I believe.”

B-38. Sixteen years after first winning fame on Nickelodeon, she announced her retirement from acting – at the age of 26.

B-39. “Every ten or eleven thousand years, I make a horrible mistake.”

B-40. He is an eighth cousin of the Prince of Wales and the younger brother of an actor in one of the preceding clues.

B-41. “Stand back! Be silent! Be still – that's it – and look upon this moment. Savor it! Rejoice with great gladness! Great gladness! Remember it always, for you are joined by it. You are One, under the stars. Remember it well, then, this night, this great victory. So that in the years ahead, you can say, 'I was there that night, with Arthur, the King!' For it is the doom of men that they forget.”

B-42. A visit to this actress in her Hollywood estate was arguably the emotional high point of the 1976 Academy Awards ceremony. (Today, it would be relegated to a spot off the regular program.)

B-43. “Follow that ostrich!”

B-44. Between 1948 and 1965, this actor starred in sixteen 16 films for his country’s best-known director – making him arguably the most iconic (I don’t use that word lightly) actor in world cinema for that period.

Toshiro Mifune? First instinct.

B-45. “Listen, Dentist: I hate dentists! And I hate you so much, that I'm not able to tell you how much I hate you in front of your wife!”

mellytu74 wrote: A-8. This film contains one of the most iconic (I don’t use that word lightly) images of world cinema: an old man sitting on a park swing in the snow.

The Kurosawa film about the dying bureaucrat who builds a playground


B-45. “Listen, Dentist: I hate dentists! And I hate you so much, that I'm not able to tell you how much I hate you in front of your wife!”

Some other film about an old guy who dies

mellytu74 wrote:Wednesday evening consolidation -- I think I have everything.

Game #159: The Screenplay’s the Thing

Identify the 45 movies in List A and the 45 actors in List B. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, form 58 pairs, each consisting of one movie and one actor, according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.

Two movies will be used twice, one will be used three times, and two will be used five times. Six actors will be used twice, one will be used three times, and one will be used seven times.

There are a few relatively obscure movies in this game – some I wasn’t even aware of until I started researching – but they are a minority.

LIST A: MOVIES

A-1. “You think you're God Almighty, but you know what you are? You're a cheap, lousy, dirty, stinkin' mug! And I'm glad what I done to you, ya hear that? I'm glad what I done!”

ON THE WATERFRONT

A-2. Crowd extras during the most famous sequence of this 1925 spectacle included the Barrymore brothers, the Gish sisters, Doug and Mary, Joan Crawford, Harold Lloyd, John Gilbert, Marion Davies, and Sam Goldwyn.

BEN HUR

A-3. “This is a nice boy. This is a good boy. This is a mother's angel. And I want the world to know once and for all, and without any shame, that we love him. I'm going to teach you. I'm going to show you how to walk, how to speak, how to move, how to think. Together, you and I are going to make the greatest single contribution to science since the creation of fire.”

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN

A-4. This film included the first rap song to win an Oscar.

8 MILE

A-5. “You know, I read of a case once. I think it would be a wonderful idea! I can take him out in the car, and when we get to a very lonely spot, knock him on the head with a hammer, pour gasoline over him and over the car, and set the whole thing ablaze! “
“And have to walk all the way home? Oh, no.”

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN?

A-6. “Freely adapted” from a classic 1850 novel, this act of literary vandalism won the 1995 Razzie for “Worst Remake or Sequel.”

THE SCARLET LETTER?

A-7. “Some people may consider you a first-class officer. But as far as I'm concerned, you're a disorganized, undisciplined clown. I'm gonna' make it my business to run you out of this Army. “
“I owe you an apology, Colonel. I always thought that you were a cold, unimaginative, tight-lipped officer. But you're really quite emotional, aren't you?”

THE DIRTY DOZEN

A-8. This film contains one of the most iconic (I don’t use that word lightly) images of world cinema: an old man sitting on a park swing in the snow.

A-9. “You cad, you dirty swine! I never cared for you, not once! I was always makin' a fool of ya! Ya bored me stiff; I hated ya! It made me sick when I had to let ya kiss me. I only did it because ya begged me, ya hounded me and drove me crazy! And after ya kissed me, I always used to wipe my mouth! Wipe my mouth!”

OF HUMAN BONDAGE

A-10. The six protagonists of this film – called "a celebration of reading" by Roger Ebert – are all modeled on characters created by the same early 19th century novelist.

A-11. “He’s young, good-looking – ”
“He can’t dance for sure.”
“He can't dance for s**t, but that is teachable.”

A-12. This 1974 Canadian movie is now recognized as one of the earliest – and best – slasher films.

A-13. “Now, this is very important. I want the nominee to be dead two minutes after he begins his acceptance speech - depending on his reading time under pressure. You are to hit him right at the point that he finishes the phrase, ‘Nor would I ask of any fellow American in defense of his freedom that which I would not gladly give myself - my life before my liberty.’ Is that absolutely clear?”

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIATE

A-14. Set at fictional Coral Key Park, this 1964 sequel was even more successful than the original and paved the way for a popular television series later that same year.

FLIPPER’S GREAT ADVENTURE

A-15. “You deliberately seduced him! You seduced his mind with your awful, tasteless, empty sauces! With your pitiful little squashed bits of garlic!”
“That is called subtlety of flavor. ”
“It's called meanness of spirit! If you have a spice, use it! Don't sprinkle it. Spoon it in! “

A-16. The creators of Buffy wrote the screenplay for this movie – which they described as a satire on torture porn – in only three days.

THE CABIN IN THE WOODS

A-17. “What was his business?”
“He used to be a big shot.”

THE ROARING TWENTIES

A-18. Adapted from the longest running thriller in Broadway history, this film is best remembered for a controversial kiss between two popular leading men.

DEATHTRAP

A-19. “War, terrible war. Widows, orphans, a motherless child. This was the uprising that rocked our land. Thirteen districts rebelled against the country that fed them, loved them, protected them. Brother turned on brother until nothing remained. And then came the peace, hard fought, sorely won. A people rose up from the ashes and a new era was born. But freedom has a cost.”

THE HUNGER GAMES

A-20. The real-life conspiracy depicted in this film reached its disastrous culmination on July 20, 1944.

VALKYRIE

A-21. “Now, I have no right in telling this to you. It's dangerous for you and it's dangerous for them, but I'm sorry, I just couldn't stop myself. You can do what you want to, you can tell your dad, anything, I don't care. I just needed you to know... I don't know what I'm doing, and I love you.”

A-22. The father of the heroine of this 1959 film personally wrote to Audrey Hepburn requesting her to play his daughter; she replied that she was honored, but felt she was too old for the role.

THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK

A-23. “Don't worry. You're small and you're weak. That'll make you less of a target! They'll see you as sick or insane and go after the more Viking-like teens instead.”

A-24. It took 36 years for any entry in the franchise that began with this movie to get an Oscar nomination for Best Picture – or anything else.

DR. NO? MAD MAX

A-25. “Is there any special country you wanna go to?”
“Wyoming.”

DOG DAY AFTERNOON

A-26. This 2002 vampire film was released six months after the untimely death of the performer who played the title character.

QUEEN OF THE DAMNED

A-27. “Hey, look! It's Enrico Pallazzo!”

THE NAKED GUN

A-28. This movie about a war criminal hiding in California was based on a novella by Stephen King.

APT PUPIL

A-29. “Was nothing real?”
“You were real. That's what made you so good to watch”

THE TRUMAN SHOW

A-30. This adaptation of a Ray Bradbury story was the last film released under the credit “Walt Disney Productions.”

SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES

A-31. “You have a little girl. She looks up to you. You're her oracle. You're her hero. And then the day comes when she gets her first permanent wave and goes to her first real party, and from that day on, you're in a constant state of panic.”

THE FATHER OF THE BRIDE

A-32. The brothers in this film were played by actors who had earlier played the brothers of Craig Sheffer, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Drew Barrymore.

A-33. “After very careful consideration, sir, I've come to the conclusion that your new defense system sucks.”

WAR GAMES

A-34. This movie tied the record set by The Aviator for garnering the most Oscars (5) and Oscar nominations (12) of any Martin Scorsese film.

THE DEPARTED?

A-35. “As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight. You breathe. Keep breathing. When there is a storm and you stand in front of a tree, if you look at its branches, you swear it will fall. But if you watch the trunk, you will see its stability.”

A-36. Leonard Bernstein boycotted this musical because it discarded almost all of the music he had written for the stage version.

ON THE TOWN

A-37. “You see it, God. You see it. The innocent child's death, and my revenge. You allowed it. I don't understand You. I don't understand You. Yet, I still ask your forgiveness. I know no other way to live. I promise You, God... here on the dead body of my only child, I promise you that, to cleanse my sins, here I shall build a church. On this spot. Of mortar and stone... and with these, my hands.”

A-38. This acclaimed film was based on an unpublished autobiographical novel by a drug addict and career thief who was in prison at the time of the film’s release.

A-39. “We need to get off this merry-go-round sir. The next mistake our countries make could be the last one. We need to have the conversation our governments can't.”

BRIDGE OF SPIES

A-40. This prototypical swashbuckler was the first film released by United Artists.

CAPTAIN BLOOD?

A-41. “You can't fight her - no one ever got the better of her. Never, never. She was beaten in the end, but it wasn't a man, it wasn't a woman. It was the sea!”

REBECCA

A-42. The most widely-released film with an NC-17 rating, it was one of the main reasons the movie in Clue A-6 only won a single Razzie.

SHOWGIRLS

A-43. “I want to be near you. I want you to hold me. Oh! Hold me closer! Closer! Closer!”
“If I hold you any closer, I’ll be in back of you.”

A-44. The poster for this film – which won an Oscar for its director – was deliberately modeled after the poster for Titanic.

A-45. “If it was anybody else, I'd say what's going to happen to you would be a lesson to you. Only you're going to need more than one lesson. And you're going to get more than one lesson.”

CITIZEN KANE

LIST B: ACTORS

B-1. “I am a teacher! I am a teacher, first, last, always! Do you imagine that for one instant I will let that be taken from me without a fight?”

MAGGIE SMITH

B-2. Born in China, this actor starred in a series of three films with actors born in New York, Michigan, Washington, England, and Sweden.

B-3. “You know, Mrs. Buckman, you need a license to buy a dog, or drive a car. Hell, you need a license to catch a fish! But they'll let any butt-reaming asshole be a father.”

KEANU REEVES

B-4. On screen, he played two of the three stage roles most associated with Alfred Drake.

HOWARD KEEL

B-5. “For centuries alchemists tried to make gold from base metals. Today, we make microchips from silicon, which is common sand, but far better than gold. Now, for several years, we had a profitable partnership, you as manufacturers, while I acquired and passed on to you industrial information that made you competitive, successful. We are now on the unique position to form an international cartel to control not only production, but distribution of these microchips. There is one obstacle - Silicon Valley in San Francisco.”

B-6. In the 1940s, he starred in two consecutive Oscar winners for Best Picture.

WALTER PIDGEON

B-7. “You call me insane. You are privy to a great becoming, but you recognize nothing. To me, you are a slug in the sun. You are an ant in the afterbirth. It is your nature to do one thing correctly. Before me, you rightly tremble. But, fear is not what you owe me. You owe me awe!”

B-8. During the 1930s, she appeared in the film versions of hit plays by – among others – Eugene O’Neill, Noel Coward, Robert E. Sherwood, Rachel Crothers, and Clare Boothe Luce.

NORMA SHEARER

B-9. “I see your Schwartz is as big as mine. Now let's see how well you handle it.”

RICK MORANIS

B-10. Since taking on his current TV role in 2009, he has won four People’s Choice awards as Favorite Dramatic TV Actor, but his own favorite role was on an earlier series created by Josh Whedon.

NATHAN FILLION? DAVID BOREANAZ?

B-11. “They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past.”

JAMES EARL JONES

B-12. The Tony nomination she received this year was her first, but it marked the third time an actress had been nominated for that role.

B-13. “Thank you for a memorable afternoon. Usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of your stature.”

JOHN GIELGUD

B-14. In 2001, he and Ben Affleck shared a Razzie nomination as Worst Screen Couple (and, no, it’s not who you think.)

JOSH HARTNETT

B-15. “Nobody ever robs restaurants. Bars, liquor stores, gas stations... you get your head blown off sticking up one of them. Restaurants on the other hand, you catch with their pants down. They're not expecting to get robbed. Not as expectant anyway.”

B-16. At the Fort Bragg cemetery, this comedienne is the only civilian to receive full military honors each Veterans’ Day.

MARTHA RAYE

B-17. “You know what the problem with you bums is? You never leave a guy alone unless you're leaving him alone.”

JOHN TURTURRO

B-18. He received an Oscar nomination for the film referenced in the preceding clue.

PAUL SCOFIELD

B-19. “This is where Dionne lives. She's my friend because we both know what it's like for people to be jealous of us.”

ALICIA SILVERSTONE

B-20. As far as I can determine, he is the only male underwear model with two Oscar nominations to his credit.

MARK WAHLBERG

B-21. “Do I look like a sex murderer to you? Can you imagine me creeping around London, strangling all those women with ties? That's ridiculous. For a start, I only own two.”

B-22. She and her husband are credited with being Hollywood’s first romantic team, starring in at least fourteen films together, but her career did not survive their divorce or the advent of sound.

BEVERLY BAYNE?

B-23. “No, no, no. I'm not gonna be that guy. You know, the ‘biological father, who I see on the weekends, and I make small talk with him while he drives me places and buys me shit.’ No.”

B-24. His best-known stage role was played on screen by Wilfrid Hyde-White.

ROBERT COOTE?

B-25. “I can't believe my Grandmother actually felt me up!”

MOLLY RINGWALD

B-26. His was the marriage that was almost – but not quite – broken up by Addie Ross.

PAUL DOUGLAS

B-27. “Not a lot of people know what it feels like to be angry, in your bones. I mean, they understand, foster parents, everybody understands, for awhile. Then they want the angry little kid to do something he knows he can't do, move on. So after awhile they stop understanding. They send the angry kid to a boys’ home. I figured it out too late. You gotta learn to hide the anger, practice smiling in the mirror. It's like putting on a mask.”

B-28. This actor – whose mother appears earlier in this quiz – has played James Bond on the radio and a Bond villain on screen.

TOBY STEPHENS

B-29. “I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me, but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life. You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry. You will someday.”

THORA BIRCH?

B-30. He was the youngest male actor to occupy the Calais Coach on a fateful film journey of 1974.

ALBERT FINNEY? MICHAEL YORK?

B-31. “This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.”

LAURENCE FISHBURN

B-32. The relationship between this Austrian-born stage and film star and a younger actress inspired the short story that eventually became All About Eve.

ELISABETH BERGENER?

B-33. “Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.”

JAMES MCAVOY

B-34. She had what was probably her best on-screen role as the corrupt widow of an even more corrupt cop in what was probably Fritz Lang’s best American film.

B-35. “You pompous, stuck-up, snot-nosed, English, giant, twerp, scumbag, f**k-face, d**khead, a**shole.”

KEVIN KLINE

B-36. Her film career included adaptations of novels by Charles Dickens, Sinclair Lewis, Lloyd C. Douglas, and James Agee.

JEAN SIMMONS

B-37. “I believe. I believe. It’s silly, but I believe.”

NATALIE WOOD

B-38. Sixteen years after first winning fame on Nickelodeon, she announced her retirement from acting – at the age of 26.

AMANDA BYNES

B-39. “Every ten or eleven thousand years, I make a horrible mistake.”

B-40. He is an eighth cousin of the Prince of Wales and the younger brother of an actor in one of the preceding clues.

B-41. “Stand back! Be silent! Be still – that's it – and look upon this moment. Savor it! Rejoice with great gladness! Great gladness! Remember it always, for you are joined by it. You are One, under the stars. Remember it well, then, this night, this great victory. So that in the years ahead, you can say, 'I was there that night, with Arthur, the King!' For it is the doom of men that they forget.”

NICOL WILLIAMSON

B-42. A visit to this actress in her Hollywood estate was arguably the emotional high point of the 1976 Academy Awards ceremony. (Today, it would be relegated to a spot off the regular program.)

MARY PICKFORD

B-43. “Follow that ostrich!”

B-44. Between 1948 and 1965, this actor starred in sixteen 16 films for his country’s best-known director – making him arguably the most iconic (I don’t use that word lightly) actor in world cinema for that period.

CANTIFLAS? TOSHIRO MIFUNE?

B-45. “Listen, Dentist: I hate dentists! And I hate you so much, that I'm not able to tell you how much I hate you in front of your wife!”

B-20. As far as I can determine, he is the only male underwear model with two Oscar nominations to his credit.

MARK WAHLBERG

franktangredi wrote:I rechecked my facts and now I'm going to have to clarify something.

B-20. As far as I can determine, he is the only male underwear model with two Oscar nominations to his credit.

MARK WAHLBERG

I was pretty confident that this answer was wrong, because Mark Wahlberg was only nominated once as an actor (for The Departed.) But I overlooked the fact that he was also nominated as co-producer of The Fighter.

So, in order to be fair, I am forced to clarify that I'm looking for someone with two ACTING nominations.

Damn.

mellytu74 wrote:

franktangredi wrote:I rechecked my facts and now I'm going to have to clarify something.

B-20. As far as I can determine, he is the only male underwear model with two Oscar nominations to his credit.

MARK WAHLBERG

I was pretty confident that this answer was wrong, because Mark Wahlberg was only nominated once as an actor (for The Departed.) But I overlooked the fact that he was also nominated as co-producer of The Fighter.

So, in order to be fair, I am forced to clarify that I'm looking for someone with two ACTING nominations.

Damn.

The Blood Diamonds guy whose name I cannot come up with -- was he a Calvin model, too?