Game #217: A Star Is Born
Posted: Mon May 06, 2024 11:51 am
Game #217: A Star Is Born
Identify the 75 actors in the clues below. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match them into 40 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.
Five actors will be used twice.
1. “And then what did he do? Did he train you? Did he rehearse you? Did he tell you exactly what to do, what to say? You were a very apt pupil too, weren't you? You were a very apt pupil! Well, why did you pick on me? Why me?”
2. He himself was half-Irish and half-Mexican, but his film roles included Russians, Italians, Greeks, Arabs, and a variety of Native Americans
3. “Oh, no, sir. I'm sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children and definitely not for me.”
4. In a Hitchcock film, he recreated a role that had previously won him a Tony award.
5. “From what I've heard, your singing career was almost non-existent, and your married lover wants you dead. If you're fooling anyone, it is only yourself. God has brought you here. Take the hint.”
6. She recently received her first Oscar nomination in 29 years.
7. “Happy! Ward, you tell me the definition of happy. But first you better make sure your kids are good and safe, that they haven't fallen of a horse, been hit by a car, or drown in that swimming pool you're so proud of! Then, you come and tell me how to be happy!”
8. His real-life roles have included a pope, a Roman general, and a Southeast Asian monarch.
9. “You're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!”
10. He played the lead in a horror movie that Roger Ebert expressed a desire to "flush . . . down the toilet to see if it also grows into something big and fearsome."
11. “Eve would ask Abbott to give her Costello.”
12. She was the third actress in a seven-year period to win an Oscar playing opposite Laurence Harvey.
13. “You know what I find interesting about that, Annie? It's interesting to me that you have absolutely no friends. Do you know why that's interesting? Here's a friend standing directly in front of you, trying to talk to you, and you choose to talk about having no friends.”
14. He managed to complete his final film role - that of a Chinese mandarin - with the aid of oxygen tanks and a nurse.
15. “We're the victims of a foul disease called social prejudice, my child. These dear ladies of the Law and Order League are scouring out the dregs of the town. Come on. Be a proud, glorified dreg like me.”
16. In addition to her Oscar, she shared a Gold Record with her stepson.
17. “You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!”
18. Two decades after ending his television run as a famous fictional crimefighter, he was sworn in as a real-life reserve police officer in Idaho.
19. “I went to work when I was 12 years old. I been workin' ever since. I'll tell you my first job. It was a paper route. I bought another kid out with a swift kick in the kiester.”
20. She was the earliest Oscar-winning actor to fall victim to the infamous Red Channels blacklist.
21. “I saw this widow and she's a wreck. She has just lost the person she loved the most in this world and I realized we're all going to lose the people we love. That's the way it is, but not me. Not right now. Because the person I love the most is standing right here and I'm not ready to lose you yet.”
22. Except for Marilyn Monroe, she was the biggest star ever to have appeared in a Marx Brothers movie.
23. “Old McDonald had a farm/Ee-i-ee-i-o/And on that farm he shot some guys/Badda-boom-badda-bing-bang-boom.”
24. He played the brother of Gary Cooper, the husband of Grace Kelly, and the father of Ryan O’Neal.
25. “So you have chosen ... death.”
26. In 1941, he played a heroic role that would be played again 78 years later by Zachary Levi.
27. “I can't believe I have a bunch of dead people watching videos in my living room.”
28. As of the posting of this game, she is the last surviving cast member of IAMMMMW.
29. “You're that secret agent! That English secret agent! From England! You're chasin' somebody. Who you got this time, boy? Commies? Let's go get 'em! I'm with you all the way!”
30. In the movie that made John Wayne a major star, he was billed below this actress.
31. “Look, right across the board: eleven, eleven, eleven ….”
32. For 23 years, this Oscar-winning actor was related by marriage to Post Cereals and the Wall Street firm of E.F. Hutton.
33. “You wanna run me down, go ahead. You can be as mean and hurtful as you want, but this is the last time you will ever hit me! You do it again, one of us is goin' to the boneyard!”
34. In two different films, this Jamaican actress played the wife of the actor whose ancestor she had played in a television miniseries.
35. “God, she's beautiful. She's got the prettiest eyes. She looks so sexy in that sweater. I just want to be alone with her and hold her and kiss her and tell her how much I love her and take care of her. Stop it you idiot, she's your wife's sister.”
36. She was the second actress in a seven-year period to win an Oscar playing opposite Laurence Harvey.
37. “It must have been hard on your mother, not having any children.”
38. It took her a record 48 years to complete the Triple Crown of Acting. (Between her Emmy and Tony wins, she was busy doing other things.)
39. “It happens to everyone ... men, I mean. We're lucky ... women, I mean … we can fake it if we have to. Oh, oh, don't get me wrong I never have with you! Faked it, I mean. With you it's like ... pow, pow, pow, like the fourth of July, every time! But just tonight, cause you couldn't ... up to now, it's been grand, Pooky, really, really grand, but if there's one thing I know for sure, you can't let it get you, you should excuse the expression, down. You can't think about it, you just gotta put it out of your mind! The more you think about it, the more you worry. The more you worry, the more you think … think, worry, worry, think.... It just gets like a vicious cycle! And then, before you know it … you are impudent!”
40. This actor/director said of his never-seen, never-completed 1972 film, “I was embarrassed. I was ashamed of the work, and I was grateful that I had the power to contain it all, and never let anyone see it. It was bad, bad, bad.”
41. “I am more interested in the Rock of Ages than I am in the age of rocks.”
42. She is the only Oscar-winning actress to have a memorial plaque in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey.
43. “I've come to see lots of nice people who hate it and deplore it and protest their own innocence, then help it along and wonder why it grows. People who would never beat up a Jew. People who think anti-Semitism is far away in some dark place with low-class morons. That's the biggest discovery I've made. The good people. The nice people.”
44. He played opposite Shirley Temple in her first three starring roles.
45. “Was that cannon fire, or is it my heart pounding?”
46. She gave up acting due to her marriage to a rising politician - who gave up politics due to his affair with a young model.
47. “I'm old fashioned. I don't believe in extra-marital relationships. I think people should mate for life - like pigeons or Catholics.”
48. He played the first murderer outwitted by Peter Falk’s Lieutenant Columbo.
49. “I don't want no volunteers, I don't want no mates, there's just too many captains on this island. $10,000 for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing.”
50. He co-created a TV series with Mel Brooks and co-directed a movie with Warren Beatty.
51. “He's making violent love to me, mother!”
52. He received an Oscar nomination for playing the real-life husband of an actress in one of the preceding clues.
53. “It's not a monster, it's just a doggy….”
54. In a classic comedy directed by Jean Renoir, he played a role that would later be Americanized by Nick Nolte.
55. “We're not talking about killing people. Herb's talking about killing me and I'm talking about killing him.”
56. They appeared in three films together - including a 1932 horror classic - and zero films separately.
57. “This is humiliating and I'm pregnant and incapable of bullsh*t. Where is our offer from Arizona? I don't know what you do for your four percent but my husband has a whole plan, an image and when you put him in a waterbed warehouse commercial you're making him common, when you know he deserves the big four: shoes, cars, clothing line, soft drink. I know about the four jewels of the celebrity endorsement dollar. I majored in marketing and so did my husband. We came to play."
58. His real-life roles included an American gangster, a British-American comedian, an Italian dictator, and the emperor of France.
59. “Don't be so inquisitive. The gentleman died because he drank some wine with poison in it.”
60. He was Hollywood’s first genuine western star, with a career dating all the way back to The Great Train Robbery.
61. “You're gonna have an amazing story to tell your friends. If not, you'll have a tag on your toe. You decide. Hurry up. Let's go. Ma'am, would you be quiet? Sir, get down, please. Thank you. Just stay there. Just get real comfortable. Hey, uh, throw in some bottles of Wild Turkey, too, will you?”
62. Many scoffed when this wise-cracking orchestra leader wed a popular musical comedy star, but they had the last laugh: their marriage lasted 54 years until his death.
63. “I'm just the crazy slut with a dead husband! F*ck you!”
64. On film, she has worked under the direction of Woody Allen, Steven Soderbergh, Brian DePalma, Barbra Streisand - but not her first husband.
65. “Wait! Where are you going? I was going to make Espresso!”
66. He played one real-life role that would later be reprised by Jason Schwartzmann, and another that would later be reprised by Jim Broadbent.
67. “I'd have to be pretty stupid to write a book about killing and then kill him the way I described in my book.”
68. In a television series, his father played a great American fictional detective; in a later series, he played the legman of another great American fictional detective.
69. “If you arrest all the men who get intoxicated in Atlanta, you must have a good many Yankees in jail, Captain.”
70. Her second and third husbands were Hollywood directors, her fourth a popular bandleader.
71. “Susan, I speak French, but that doesn't make me Joan of Arc.”
72. She has received more Oscar nominations than any other Black actress.
73. “You know how I stayed alive this long? All these years? Fear. The spectacle of fearsome acts. Somebody steals from me, I cut off his hands. He offends me, I cut out his tongue. He rises against me, I cut off his head, stick it on a pike, raise it high up so all on the streets can see. That's what preserves the order of things. Fear.”
74. She very much wanted to star opposite her husband in two prestige films of the early 1940s, but the roles ended up going to Joan Fontaine and Greer Garson.
75. “There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society ... outside of a kennel.”
Identify the 75 actors in the clues below. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match them into 40 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.
Five actors will be used twice.
1. “And then what did he do? Did he train you? Did he rehearse you? Did he tell you exactly what to do, what to say? You were a very apt pupil too, weren't you? You were a very apt pupil! Well, why did you pick on me? Why me?”
2. He himself was half-Irish and half-Mexican, but his film roles included Russians, Italians, Greeks, Arabs, and a variety of Native Americans
3. “Oh, no, sir. I'm sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children and definitely not for me.”
4. In a Hitchcock film, he recreated a role that had previously won him a Tony award.
5. “From what I've heard, your singing career was almost non-existent, and your married lover wants you dead. If you're fooling anyone, it is only yourself. God has brought you here. Take the hint.”
6. She recently received her first Oscar nomination in 29 years.
7. “Happy! Ward, you tell me the definition of happy. But first you better make sure your kids are good and safe, that they haven't fallen of a horse, been hit by a car, or drown in that swimming pool you're so proud of! Then, you come and tell me how to be happy!”
8. His real-life roles have included a pope, a Roman general, and a Southeast Asian monarch.
9. “You're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!”
10. He played the lead in a horror movie that Roger Ebert expressed a desire to "flush . . . down the toilet to see if it also grows into something big and fearsome."
11. “Eve would ask Abbott to give her Costello.”
12. She was the third actress in a seven-year period to win an Oscar playing opposite Laurence Harvey.
13. “You know what I find interesting about that, Annie? It's interesting to me that you have absolutely no friends. Do you know why that's interesting? Here's a friend standing directly in front of you, trying to talk to you, and you choose to talk about having no friends.”
14. He managed to complete his final film role - that of a Chinese mandarin - with the aid of oxygen tanks and a nurse.
15. “We're the victims of a foul disease called social prejudice, my child. These dear ladies of the Law and Order League are scouring out the dregs of the town. Come on. Be a proud, glorified dreg like me.”
16. In addition to her Oscar, she shared a Gold Record with her stepson.
17. “You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!”
18. Two decades after ending his television run as a famous fictional crimefighter, he was sworn in as a real-life reserve police officer in Idaho.
19. “I went to work when I was 12 years old. I been workin' ever since. I'll tell you my first job. It was a paper route. I bought another kid out with a swift kick in the kiester.”
20. She was the earliest Oscar-winning actor to fall victim to the infamous Red Channels blacklist.
21. “I saw this widow and she's a wreck. She has just lost the person she loved the most in this world and I realized we're all going to lose the people we love. That's the way it is, but not me. Not right now. Because the person I love the most is standing right here and I'm not ready to lose you yet.”
22. Except for Marilyn Monroe, she was the biggest star ever to have appeared in a Marx Brothers movie.
23. “Old McDonald had a farm/Ee-i-ee-i-o/And on that farm he shot some guys/Badda-boom-badda-bing-bang-boom.”
24. He played the brother of Gary Cooper, the husband of Grace Kelly, and the father of Ryan O’Neal.
25. “So you have chosen ... death.”
26. In 1941, he played a heroic role that would be played again 78 years later by Zachary Levi.
27. “I can't believe I have a bunch of dead people watching videos in my living room.”
28. As of the posting of this game, she is the last surviving cast member of IAMMMMW.
29. “You're that secret agent! That English secret agent! From England! You're chasin' somebody. Who you got this time, boy? Commies? Let's go get 'em! I'm with you all the way!”
30. In the movie that made John Wayne a major star, he was billed below this actress.
31. “Look, right across the board: eleven, eleven, eleven ….”
32. For 23 years, this Oscar-winning actor was related by marriage to Post Cereals and the Wall Street firm of E.F. Hutton.
33. “You wanna run me down, go ahead. You can be as mean and hurtful as you want, but this is the last time you will ever hit me! You do it again, one of us is goin' to the boneyard!”
34. In two different films, this Jamaican actress played the wife of the actor whose ancestor she had played in a television miniseries.
35. “God, she's beautiful. She's got the prettiest eyes. She looks so sexy in that sweater. I just want to be alone with her and hold her and kiss her and tell her how much I love her and take care of her. Stop it you idiot, she's your wife's sister.”
36. She was the second actress in a seven-year period to win an Oscar playing opposite Laurence Harvey.
37. “It must have been hard on your mother, not having any children.”
38. It took her a record 48 years to complete the Triple Crown of Acting. (Between her Emmy and Tony wins, she was busy doing other things.)
39. “It happens to everyone ... men, I mean. We're lucky ... women, I mean … we can fake it if we have to. Oh, oh, don't get me wrong I never have with you! Faked it, I mean. With you it's like ... pow, pow, pow, like the fourth of July, every time! But just tonight, cause you couldn't ... up to now, it's been grand, Pooky, really, really grand, but if there's one thing I know for sure, you can't let it get you, you should excuse the expression, down. You can't think about it, you just gotta put it out of your mind! The more you think about it, the more you worry. The more you worry, the more you think … think, worry, worry, think.... It just gets like a vicious cycle! And then, before you know it … you are impudent!”
40. This actor/director said of his never-seen, never-completed 1972 film, “I was embarrassed. I was ashamed of the work, and I was grateful that I had the power to contain it all, and never let anyone see it. It was bad, bad, bad.”
41. “I am more interested in the Rock of Ages than I am in the age of rocks.”
42. She is the only Oscar-winning actress to have a memorial plaque in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey.
43. “I've come to see lots of nice people who hate it and deplore it and protest their own innocence, then help it along and wonder why it grows. People who would never beat up a Jew. People who think anti-Semitism is far away in some dark place with low-class morons. That's the biggest discovery I've made. The good people. The nice people.”
44. He played opposite Shirley Temple in her first three starring roles.
45. “Was that cannon fire, or is it my heart pounding?”
46. She gave up acting due to her marriage to a rising politician - who gave up politics due to his affair with a young model.
47. “I'm old fashioned. I don't believe in extra-marital relationships. I think people should mate for life - like pigeons or Catholics.”
48. He played the first murderer outwitted by Peter Falk’s Lieutenant Columbo.
49. “I don't want no volunteers, I don't want no mates, there's just too many captains on this island. $10,000 for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing.”
50. He co-created a TV series with Mel Brooks and co-directed a movie with Warren Beatty.
51. “He's making violent love to me, mother!”
52. He received an Oscar nomination for playing the real-life husband of an actress in one of the preceding clues.
53. “It's not a monster, it's just a doggy….”
54. In a classic comedy directed by Jean Renoir, he played a role that would later be Americanized by Nick Nolte.
55. “We're not talking about killing people. Herb's talking about killing me and I'm talking about killing him.”
56. They appeared in three films together - including a 1932 horror classic - and zero films separately.
57. “This is humiliating and I'm pregnant and incapable of bullsh*t. Where is our offer from Arizona? I don't know what you do for your four percent but my husband has a whole plan, an image and when you put him in a waterbed warehouse commercial you're making him common, when you know he deserves the big four: shoes, cars, clothing line, soft drink. I know about the four jewels of the celebrity endorsement dollar. I majored in marketing and so did my husband. We came to play."
58. His real-life roles included an American gangster, a British-American comedian, an Italian dictator, and the emperor of France.
59. “Don't be so inquisitive. The gentleman died because he drank some wine with poison in it.”
60. He was Hollywood’s first genuine western star, with a career dating all the way back to The Great Train Robbery.
61. “You're gonna have an amazing story to tell your friends. If not, you'll have a tag on your toe. You decide. Hurry up. Let's go. Ma'am, would you be quiet? Sir, get down, please. Thank you. Just stay there. Just get real comfortable. Hey, uh, throw in some bottles of Wild Turkey, too, will you?”
62. Many scoffed when this wise-cracking orchestra leader wed a popular musical comedy star, but they had the last laugh: their marriage lasted 54 years until his death.
63. “I'm just the crazy slut with a dead husband! F*ck you!”
64. On film, she has worked under the direction of Woody Allen, Steven Soderbergh, Brian DePalma, Barbra Streisand - but not her first husband.
65. “Wait! Where are you going? I was going to make Espresso!”
66. He played one real-life role that would later be reprised by Jason Schwartzmann, and another that would later be reprised by Jim Broadbent.
67. “I'd have to be pretty stupid to write a book about killing and then kill him the way I described in my book.”
68. In a television series, his father played a great American fictional detective; in a later series, he played the legman of another great American fictional detective.
69. “If you arrest all the men who get intoxicated in Atlanta, you must have a good many Yankees in jail, Captain.”
70. Her second and third husbands were Hollywood directors, her fourth a popular bandleader.
71. “Susan, I speak French, but that doesn't make me Joan of Arc.”
72. She has received more Oscar nominations than any other Black actress.
73. “You know how I stayed alive this long? All these years? Fear. The spectacle of fearsome acts. Somebody steals from me, I cut off his hands. He offends me, I cut out his tongue. He rises against me, I cut off his head, stick it on a pike, raise it high up so all on the streets can see. That's what preserves the order of things. Fear.”
74. She very much wanted to star opposite her husband in two prestige films of the early 1940s, but the roles ended up going to Joan Fontaine and Greer Garson.
75. “There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society ... outside of a kennel.”
